They are going to expand the airport near where we live! We should do something! You are unhappy about a plan to make your local airport bigger and increase the number of flights. You live near the airport. Write a letter to your local newspaper. In your letter: • explain where you live • describe the problem • give reasons why you do not want this development. Here is the letter. Good day I probably have good material for your newspaper. Not more than two weeks ago I saw a piece of news in your newspaper about our local government's plans to extend our airport. Having read that I was completely disappointed about this situation. I live in Gvardeysk which is just five miles from the airport. Our problems started five years ago in 2011. At that time the airport was used in military means therefore there were relatively few flights conducted at the airport. Since 2011 the number of flights conducted increased many times. The residents of the town have been complaining to our local authorities about this problem ever since then but without any results. Even with the current number of flights we have experienced huge inconveniences. Babies can't fall asleep because they are constantly being awakened by the noise of the airplanes flying over. When a plane is flying over the town the walls and window of the housed are literally trembling. And now they are planning to expand it, despite all our objections and complaints. I think you should throw light upon the problem which could be in turn be of help to us. Thank you

I can't start the job in time! You are due to start a new job next week but you will not be able to because you have some problems. Write a letter to your new employer. In your letter: • explain your situation • describe your problems • tell him/her when you think you can start. Here is the letter. Hello I have some family problems. As you probably know, we have a three old baby. At the moment he is not able to go to the kindergarten because he has caught a cold. My wife was going to look after him, but yesterday she all of a sudden was taken to the hospital with acute pain in her back. Her doctor said that she would have to stay at the hospital at least until the end of the week. So I will have to take care of my son for the time my wife will be staying at the hospital. I am not sure whether I am able to start working on the task that we have recently discussed or not. I remember that I have promised you to start the task on this Monday, but I think that, the earliest I would be able to start is the next Monday. During this week I will try to start working as much as it would be possible in this situation, but I can't promise you anything. I hope for your understanding. Thank you

My suitcase was lost! You travelled by plane last week and your suitcase was lost. You have still heard nothing from the airline company. Write to the airline and explain what happened. Describe your suitcase and tell them what was in it. Find out what they are going to do about it. Here is the letter. Hello It has been almost the whole week since my suitcase was lost during the flight U527 on February 9th and I haven't yet heard any news from your company. On the day it was lost, one of the representatives of your company assured me that its searching wouldn't take long. He said that lost baggage usually was found on the same day. Please, let me know what your company has been doing to find my suitcase. I left the details of what had happened to my suitcase in written form to the representative, but just in case that they might have been lost, I write them once again here. On February 9th I checked in my suitcase for the flight U527 from Paris to New York. The suitcase is a black and blue one. It had rounded corners. There was a small orange label attached to the handle of the suitcase which was read "not your bag". In the suitcase i kept some important documents which I needed for my work. Now the fact that I can't use them is causing some significant problems at work. Having arrived to New York I tried to receive my suitcase from the baggage carousel, but I found that it had been lost. I addressed to one of the officials of your company which recommended that I write a complaint about what had happened and leave it to him, which is exactly what I did. I hope that you will be able to solve the problem as soon as possible. Thank you

A letter to the library You borrowed some books from your school or college library. Unfortunately you have to go away to visit a sick relative and cannot return the books in time. Write a letter to the library. Explain what has happened and tell them what you want to do about it. Here goes the letter. Hello Two weeks ago I borrowed some books from your library which I'm supposed to return in three days. Unfortunately, it seems that I won't be able to return the books in time. My sick aunt who lives in the South suddenly felt much worse and I had to immediately leave to see and help her. I'm sorry but I was in such a hurry when I learned about her current condition that I couldn't return the books before I left. Now that I'm at her, it seems that taking care of her might take much more time than I expected. Could you advise what I'm supposed to do in this situation? I have an idea about how I might make up for the inconveniences that I've caused. I have got a great geography encyclopedia at home. When I return you could borrow it from me for free for some time. If you have any other ideas, please suggest! Thank you

Describing a picture. The picture is from a famous tale Alice In Wonderland. It shows us the very beginning of the tale. Alice is sitting on a bench of a wide brown tree with her back against the trunk of the tree. She seems to be completely busy making a wreath tumblr of camomiles for herself. Alice is a young girl about six or seven years old. She has long golden hair with a black strip in them. Her eyes are big and black. She is wearing a blue dress. Her cat Diana is sitting next to her. It's a beatiful brown cat with a stain of white under her neck. It has a violet bow on her back which looks like a flower. Alice's mother is sitting under the tree holding a red book in her hand. As we all know she is reading (aloud?) to Alice her history lesson. She has long brown hair covered with a turquoise handkerchief which is tied around her neck. She is wearing a wide violet dress. She also looks very busy reading the book and seems to pay much attention to it. In the background we can see a nice view with a turquoise lake surrounded by thick green trees. The picture makes me cozy and comfortable reminding me about my childhood.

Describing a photo. I assume that the photo was taken somewhere in one of the areas of Ukraine where the hostilities have been lately conducted. There is a pretty damaged brick apartment house in the photo's background. We can see broken glasses and black stains caused by explosions of artillery shoots all over the building. There is a little blue swing in front of the building with a boy sitting on it. The boy doesn't seem to have fun. Even more he look pretty bored. He is just sitting on the swing hunching and looking at the building. He is wearing a yellow T-shirt, white and dark blue shorts and dark blue slippers. We can see a military vechile next to the boy on the left. It seems to be a track-vehicle to transport infantaries with a short barrel.

The proposal. There is a famous Russian play called "The proposal" by Anton Chekhov. I'll try to describe it shortly or in other words give you the highlights. The action took place in late nineteenth century. The main characters are a landlord Chubukov, his daughter Natasha and their neighbor Lomov. One day Lomov came in Chubukov's house wearing very official dress. He was very excited and rather nervous. Chubukov was very surprised to see him in that way and he asked him what had been the purpose of his visit. But Lomov was so excited that he could hardly say a word. At first Chubukov thought that Lomov had come to borrow some money since he had done that before. But it turned out that Lomov came to make a proposal to Chubukov's daughter. Chubukov was very happy to hear it and immediately went to call his daughter. When Lomov was left alone in the room he started thinking about his future wife and his future marriage. He thought that she was a good choice for him. She was a good housekeeper, well-educated and not bad-looking. And he was already 35 years old and he was afraid of that if he wouldn't marry someone in near future then he wouldn't marry anyone at all. Then Chubukov's daughter came in and they started to talk to each other. It seemed that Chubukov hadn't told her the purpose of Lomov's visit since she was pretty calm. And the problem was that Lomov was very frightened of the probability of being turned down. So he didn't hurry to tell her about his intentions and they talked to each other for a while on different subjects. Soon they came across a disputable subject about their lands. There was a land that both of them thought to be theirs. It was called Oxen Meadows. Lomov insisted that this land had belonged to his family for many years. He told her a story according to which some of his late relatives had let the Chubukov's peasants to work on this land and in return they had to bake bricks for Lomov's family. But Natasha didn't agree with him. In fact, she even didn't want to listen to his explanations. Soon their arguing grew into severe quarreling. Chubukov heard loud voices and came in to find out what was the matter. Lomov tried to get support from him in the dispute. But Chubukov's opinion was the same as his daughter's was. Well, it seems that I've reached the limit of 2500 symbols. To be continued :)

Describing a photo. In the photo we can see a man crossing a pool filled with water. There are big rubber cubes floating on the surface of the pool. They are tied to each other with ropes. It looks like it's a sort of competition. We can see the label with the number 032 on the man's T-shirt. At this very moment he is falling into the water. It was only the one last cube that he couldn't cope with.

Describing a photo. The photo was taken at the place of A320 disaster in Egypt. As we can see it happened in a desert. In the photo we can see the passengers' luggage. Many bags are piled on the ground. There is a barbwire fence around it. Two Egyptian soldiers are guarding it standing near by the fence.