Advantages: They are a safe way to spend your time.
Examples: If you are at home with your friends, your parents know where you are.
Disadvantages: Some games are very violent.
Games can distract you from other things.
Examples: They could change your personality or even encourage you to commit crimes.
You may fall behind with your homework.
2. 1. List points: Firstly, also.
2. Give examples: For example, for instance.
3. Introduce the opposite opinion: On the other hand, however.
4. Introduce a conclusion: All in all.
1) That is the most incredible story I have ever heard
2) It is not always the brightest students who do well in tests
3) Terylene shirts are harder-wearing, but cotton shirts are much more comfortable.
4) Which is deeper, Lake Michigan or Lake Superior?
5) She is much more self-confident than she used to be.
6) The tallest man among the guests is a basketball player.
7) I like both of them, but I think Kate is easier to talk to.
8) Most people are better-off than their parents were.
9) She has a lot to be thankful for - the saddest thing of all is hat she does not realize it.
10) I want to buy a car - the most powerful one you have.
11) You look a lot better than you did last time I saw you.
12) There is nothing more irritating than locking yourself out of your own house.
13) Both roads lead to the city center, but the left-hand one is probably a bit shorter and more direct.
14) As I get older, I notice that the policemen seem to be getting younger!
15) The boys in our school are much better-looking/more good-looking and a lot better at football than the boys in other schools in the town.
I learn English, because I understand that I can use it. For example, if I do to England I'll be able to speak English too. English is used not only in England, but also in other countries.
I learn English because I want to read foreign literature in the original. I know and like such English and American writers as Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and others. I understand that I must learn English. If I know English well, I'll be able to go to the library and take books by English and American writers in the original.
I like to travel. But it is difficult to visit countries, when you don't know the language of these countries. If I know the language of the country, where I am going to, it will be easy do travel there. If I want to ask something, I can do it in English.
I like to read books. And I like to read newspapers, too. If I know, for example, English I'll be able to read English newspapers and magazines. Knowledge of different countries to understand each other, to develop friendship among them. For example, we have a foreign exhibition in Moscow. If is easy for me to visit this exhibition. You can see a lot of advertisement, signboard, names in the streets. They are in foreign languages. Very often they are in English. If you know English, you can read and understand them.
Now we bay many clothes from other countries. If you know English well, you can read something about the size of this or that thing. It is clear for you what it is made of.
There are a lot of films in foreign languages. If you know them, you can understand films without any help.
There are international friendship camps in the world. If you can speak foreign languages, it will be easy for you to visit such camps and speak with the boys, girls, men, women who do not know Russian.
In short, I understand that I have to learn English in a proper way and I try to do it.