A story: A vocabulary challenge - Intermediate Once upon a time, there was a little girl with a delicate smile. She was an orphan brought up by a cruel woman who admired wealth and was envious with more successful and intelligent people than she was. She liked to have a walk in unknown places where she was able to be alone and thought about a handsome prince. While she was wandering around a beautiful lake one morning, she saw gorgeous swans swimming there. They were swimming gracefully on the surface of the lake and cleaning their feathers with their beaks. The little girl was looking at them when suddenly she heard a distant mutter. She was interested to know what it was. The girl went to the direction of the sound cautiously and despite the fact she was scared entered a mysterious forest with enormous trees. As she was going through that tremendous forest, she found an immense space with different kinds of ancient magical treasure lying everywhere. One of the toys could imitate different voices of animals, another thing could become different shapes and forms. She was able to find a mysterious package containing magical invisible powder. Suddenly she saw a wizard who asked her what she was doing there. She told him a story of her sad and miserable life. The wizard was so touched that she was given a flying carpet which was able to carry over her to a wonderful kingdom.

Young children watch too much television. Do you agree? Nowadays, no doubt, electronic devices such as TV sets, personal computers, mobile phones widely exist in our life. So children spend more and more leisure time watching television, playing computer games, surfing the internet. Many psychologists and scientists tell that it can be dangerous for children's mental health and brain development. I completely agree that watching television can negatively affect children. At first, it may cause damage to physical health, for example, eyesight and posture. как сидят Secondly, it leads to mental problems with children such as bad behaviour, difficulties with communication and concentration and consequently problems at school with learning. Our task as parents is to limit how much time our children spend on electronic gadgets. Sometimes it's convenient and easy for parents to give the children gadgets and free their time, but it can result in dangerous effects for their children. To sum up my thoughts, negative effects on TV outweigh positive effects and tv watching must be controlled by parents.

A story: A walk in the park Sue was walking in the park, when something unusual happened. It was a beautiful sunny day in the middle of the summer. The sun was shining, and Sue felt happy because she had a good mood. At that time, she was about 16, and she was a lovely shy girl with a pleasant smile and curly hair. That day she was wearing a nice blue skirt, a white blouse and a big round red hat. There wasn't any wind in the park but suddenly the storm came and blew her beautiful fashionable hat. She ran after it, but suddenly she saw a handsome man with a beautiful smile and bright blue eyes who was holding her hat.

An essay: What you do in your free time In my spare time, I study English. I like listening to English radio programmes and reading books. I play hockey on Friday evenings with my colleagues. In the evening I have a walk with my baby son. We read children's books and play games together.

A note: A party Leyla, I'm really sorry I couldn't come to your party yesterday. Unfortunately, my son Nikolay was ill. He's got a cold, and we had to go to the doctor. Did you have a great party? Who was there? Did you enjoy the party? I'm going to the park with my son next weekend. What about you? What are you going to do? I'll be pleased if you could go with us. Yours sincerely, Viktor.