My Dream Island
I dream about living on a tropical island. The weather there is usually good. The island is not very big. There are a lot of palm trees on it. There are not so many people there as in a city and there are no cars on this island. The islanders live in cosy bungalows and grow a lot of fruit and vegetables. People also go fishing every day. My favourite place on the island is a sandy beach.
Остров моей мечты
Я мечтаю жить на тропическом острове. Погода там обычно хорошая. Остров не очень большой. На нём много пальм. Там не так много людей, как в городе, и на этом острове нет машин. Островитяне живут в уютных бунгало и выращивают много фруктов и овощей. Также каждый день люди ловят рыбу. Мое любимое место на острове - песчаный пляж.
It was eight o'clock in the morning and time for me to go to work. I looked out of the window. It was raining hard. "You'll get wet through if you go out now," said my mother. "No, I won't," I answered, "I'll take an umbrella." We had five umbrellas in the house, but when I wanted to take one, I found that there was not one that I could use: they all were torn on broken. So I took them all and carried them to the umbrella maker, saying that I would call for the umbrellas on my way home in the evening. When I went to have lunch in the afternoon, it was still raining very hard. I went to the nearest cafe, and sat down at a table. A few minutes later a young woman came in and sat down at the same table with me. When I finished my lunch and was ready to leave, I absent-mindedly took her umbrella and started for the exit. She stopped me saying that I had taken her umbrella. I returned the umbrella with many apologies. In the evening I went to the umbrella maker, to take my five umbrellas and got on the tram to go home. It so happened that the woman I had met at the cafe was riding in the same tram. When she saw me with my five umbrellas, she said: "You've had a successful day today, haven't you?"