Winter holidays are shorter than summer ones. They begin at the end of December and last about two weeks. It is so nice to have a rest from school.
During winter holidays we celebrate the New Year’s Eve and Christmas. There are New Year parties for children at schools and theatres. Cinemas show children films and cartoons.
It is usually very cold in winter, but frost and snow can’t keep children indoors. It’s so great to go skiing down a hill. Boys like to play hockey on the ice. Many children go to the skating-rinks to skate. Small children play snowballs and make snowmen, or ride on the sledges happily.
When the weather is bad, I stay at home and watch TV. There is always something interesting on during winter holidays. Sometimes my friends come to see me and we play computer games or listen to music. There is also more time for reading, drawing, making model planes and other hobbies.
Holidays pass quickly and soon it’s time to go to school again.
I am at my English class. I am reading a story about Thomas A. Edison. I am learning that his laboratories are in Orange, New Jersey. I am glad to read about such a man as Th.A. Edison. A young inventor is in Thomas Edison's laboratory. He is looking at an in vention that is in a glass case. It is an electrical invention. The young inventor's pencil is in his hand. He is drawing the part of the invention which he came there to study. An Englishman and his young son are in Edison's laboratory. They are looking at hundreds of inventions. Many of them are in glass cases. The man and his son are
interested in all Mr. Edison's inventions, they are most interested in the electrical ones. Many of those are in one room. Several tourists are in this room, and among them are the Englishman and his son. The man says to one tourist, «We are interested in electrical ones»