A short story

When I was a child I used to live in a small town. We had neighbours living next door, who had a son Alex.Me and Alex often played together with other children from our neighbourhood. He used to put people in trouble by throwing a ball to their windows. He didn't do it on purpose, not at all! It was occuring by accident because he was too active.But all our neighbours thought the opposite and always complained about that. They considered Alex a naughty boy.

One day we were playing outside. Suddenly it began to drizzle, and it quickly developed into a heavy downpour. We all rushed home. As the ground was slippery, I fell down.As soon as this happened I felt pain in my ankle.My friends saw this but they didn't stop and ran away.Only Alex made his way back to me and helped me stand on my feet and get home step by step.

This accident showed me what the real friendship was. No matter what people said about Alex, I knew he was a true friend!

How I was passing FCE exam. It happened that I needed to take an exam to prove my knowledge of English. I had only 2 months for preparing for my exam whereas it took almost 9 months to get the whole course. So I had to take a privet teacher. The teacher, a young girl, was coming to my place twice a week. I began to study with all intension. My day started and finished with English course books. But I really enjoyed the process of studying. I learnt lots of new things, improved my grammar and speaking skills. I wrote many essays, stories, emails to a pen friend, reports and so on. The exam lasted two days. First day we had writing, use of English, reading and listening parts. Every part had its own limit of time. The writing lasted 40 min and consisted of two parts: a letter to a friend and a story (they gave you first sentence and you had to compose a story using this sentence). I finished the first part quickly. But the second part took me almost all the time that was given. I was nervous because I couldn’t create a story. First we had to write it in a rough copy.I wrote about three versions of my story but didn’t like any of them. Eventually I created a totally different version of the story and wrote it down just before 1 min left until the end of the test. At that day I was desperate because I wasn’t satisfied with the writing part of the exam. I thought I would have a low mark. The next day we had a speaking test. The test was easy. We were discussing on different topics on our own and in pairs. My exam was over and I went home. I was still worried about my writing part but in a while I calmed down and forgot about it. In 1 month I got a result of my exam. And what do you think? I passed FCE at grade B! And guess what? From all 5 parts of exam my writing part was marked as the best. May be they were impressed by the fact that I was able to create 4 different stories in a such short period of time? Anyway,I will never find out it))))