I see snow when i look out of the window. Snow falls very easily and naturally. Nearby children are running and playing in the snow. outside is trees, also outside i can see some buildings, im living in the city, so there is not very much nature, but i like the view from the window. Now the weather is so beautiful, but maybe a bit cold, but then you at home and just watching out og the window, you are nor cold and you can just enjoy the view.
I like New Year's Day, it is my favourite holiday. The 1st of January is a winter holiday and now it is the first day of the New Year.
Peter the First changed the Russian calendar in 1699. He made the 31st of December, 1699 the last day of the year. The first of January 1700 became New Year's Day.
The 1st of January is in the middle of winter. The weather is usually fine and there is a lot of snow everywhere. As the 1st of January is a holiday I don't go to school and my parents don't go to work.
We usually have got a very interesting New Year's party at school. We have got it on the 28th or 29th of December.
Our family prepares for this holiday beforehand. My father buys and brings home a beautiful New Year's tree at the end of December. Our family has a tradition to buy it. I like to decorate the New Year's tree with toys, little coloured lights, sweets and a beautiful star on the top.
My mother and grandmother prepare our holiday supper and lay the table. I make a cake.
All the members of our family clean the flat before this nice holiday and then each of us try to dress well. We like to see the New Year in at home with our relatives. They come to see us at 11 o'clock in the evening.
At 12 o'clock we are sitting at the table and we are glad to see the New Year in. We say, "Best wishes for the New Year!"
I hope that next year will be better than the last one.
The New Year's Day is always connected with our new hopes and dreams.
It is a pleasant moment to get presents on the New Year's Eve.
PAST PROGRESSIVE. 1. My father was watching an interesting programme on TV, while I was reading for the examination. 2. We were playing the chess when the telephone rang. 3. My parents were having an unpleasant conversation when I came into their room. 4. Yesterday I was trying to beat the computer at chess all evening. 5. In the zoo the lions were being fed from 8.00 till 8.30 in the morning. 6. While we were having a swim in the lake, Mary was preparing a pleasant surprise for us. 7. When we were playing football, I suddenly broke my leg. 8. My mother was sewing a dress when our plumber knocked at the door. 9. When we were hopelessly losing the match, she gave me a smile. 10. I was writing a newspaper article while my wife was having a rest in the garden. PAST SIMPLE. 1. We graduated from the Institute in 1987. 2. My friend went to England to work for a probationary period three months ago. 3. I was on holiday in Bulgaria two weeks ago. 4. A friend of mine wrote a new operating system two months ago. 5. I was fond of swimming two years ago. 6. Tom forgot to remind me of the forthcoming lecture at Moscow State University yesterday. 7. I ate an apple, drank a glass of lemonade and went to school. 8. I wrote three novels last year. 9. I saw a lion in the zoo yesterday. 10. She was my bride in 1999.
