"Shopping"
I would like to tell you aboutshopping in the United Kingdom. Marks & Spencer is Britain'sfavorite store. Tourists love it too. It attracts a great variety ofcustomers from house wives to millionaires. Princess Diana, DustinHoffman and the British Prime-minister are just a few of its famouscustomers. Last year it made a profit of 529 million pounds. Which ismore than 10 million a week. It all started 105 years ago when ayoung Polish immigrant Michael Marks had a stall in Leeds market. Hedidn't have many things to sell: some cotton, a little wool, lots ofbuttons and a few shoelaces. Above his stall he put the now famousnotice: "Don't ask how much - it's a penny." Ten yearslater he met Tom Spencer and together they started Penny stalls inmany towns in the North of England. Today there are 564 branches ofMarks & Spencer all over the world: in America, Canada, Spain,France, Belgium and Hungary. The store bases its business on 3principals: good value, good quality and good service. Also, itchanges with the times; once it was all jumpers and knickers. Now itis food, furniture and flowers as well. Top fashion designers adviceon styles of clothes. Perhaps, the most important key to its successis its happy well-trained staff. Conditions of work are excellent.There are company doctors, dentists, hairdressers, etc. And all thestaff can have lunch for under 40 pence. Surpassingly tastes in foodand clothes are international. What sells well in Paris, sells justas well in Newcastle and Moscow. Their best selling clothes are: forwomen - jumpers and knickers (M & S is famous for its knickers);for men - shirts, socks, pajamas, dressing gowns and suits; forchildren - underwear and socks. Best sellers in food include: freshchickens, vegetables and sandwiches, "Chicken Kiev" isinternationally the most popular convince food. Shopping in Britainis also famous for its Freshfood. Freshfood is a chain of food storesand very successful supermarkets which has grown tremendously in thetwenty years since it was founded, and now it has branches in theHigh Streets of all the towns of any size in Britain. In thebeginning the stores sold only foodstuffs, but in recent years theyhave diversified enormously and now sell clothes, books, records,electrical and domestic equipment. The success of the chain has beendue to an enterprising management and to attractive layout anddisplay in the stores. It has been discovered that impulse buyingaccounts for almost 35 per cent of the total turn over of the stores.The stores are organized completely for self-service and customersare encouraged to wander around the spaciously laid out stands.Special free gifts and reduced prices are used to tempt customersinto the stores and they can't stand the temptation.
Hobbies
Hobbiesdiffer like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby according to yourcharacter and taste you are lucky because your life becomes moreinteresting.Hobbies are devided into 4 large groups: doing, making,collecting and learning things. The most popular of all hobby groupsis doing things It includes gardening, travelling, playing games andso on. Making things includes drawing, painting, writing music. Mymain hobby is to collect compact disks. No matter what kind of hobbya person has, he always has the opportunity of learning from it. Byreading about the fthings he is interested in, he is adding to whathe knows. Learning things can be the most exciting aspect of a hobby.Hobbies
Every people on all over the world like travel.It’s oldest kind of resting people are contrive many ways of travelling by car, bus, ship, plane, aeronautic, on foots. And manyother ways.
Butthe oldest one is to travel on foots.
Mylive is not so long. But I travel all of this way . Each of this kindof travel good by its own way. To travel on your own foots forexample kind when you may take care about you health because you cango every there, in mountains, forest look in a beautiful views,breathe with clear saturation ozone air. Sitting near fire andlistening animals, nature and guitar.
Travellinglets people to meet the places of interest on over the world. Trydifferent foods, listening to different music. And in general to knowmany more about countries.
Youcan do it. Make your choice. Which kind of travelling do you chooseit’s no so important.
Season
Thereare four season in a year. Winter is the coldest part of the year. Itis time when ground and tress covered with a snow. The rivers andlakes breezed. People try to get on more warm close. It’s earlyget dark and sunrise is late. Sun is shine but not warm.
Butthere is and leisure side of this season people is skiing, skating,play hockey and other winter games.
Afterlong cold winter come long-awaited spring.
Thisis time of year when the trees cowered with a buds, ground with agreen grass and beautiful flowers. Girls began takes off theirwinters close and show their beautiful bodies.
Thangoes the most likely part of year for all people. It’s asummer. People goon vacations, to the country. Summer is the bestpart of the year for the students and scholars.
Aftersummer goes autumn. The weather is bad there are rainy and dryevenings. Dirty roads. Students and pupil begin learning. But onetime, one famous man said:” The nature doesn’t have badweather”.
Moscow
Moscow is thecapital of Russia, its political, economic, commercial and culturalcentre. It was founded 8 centurys ago by Prince Yuri Dolgoruky in1147. Graduallythe city becamemore and more powerfull. In the 13th century Moscow was the centre ofthe struggle of Russian lands for the liberation from the tartaryoke. In the 16th century under Ivan the Terrible Moscow became thecapital of the new united state. Though Peter the Great moved thecapital to St. Petersburg in 1712; Moscow remained the heart ofRussia. That's why it became the main target of Napoleon's attack.After the October revolution Moscow became the capital again. Now moscow is oneof the largest cities in Europe. Its total area is about nine hundredsquare kilometres. The population of the city is over 8 million.Moscow is one ofthe most beautiful cities in the world. The heart of Moscow is RedSquare. The Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral (Vasily Blazheny) aremasterpieces of encient Russian architecture. On the territory of theKremlin you can see old cathedrals, the Palace of Congresses, theTzar-Cannon and the Tzar-Bell, the biggest cannon and bell in theworld. St. Basil's Cathedral was built in the mid-16th century inmemory of the victory over Kazan.One of thewell-known Kremlin museums is the Armouty Chamber. The famous goldencap of Monomach, the first Russian imperial crown of Catherin thesecond and many other historical items are exhibited there.There are more than80 museums in Moscow. The Historical Museum, the Pushkin Museum ofFine Arts, the Tretyakov State Picture Gallery are world famous andthe largest.Moscow is famousfor its theatres. The best-known of them are Bolshoi, Maly and Arttheatres.Moscow is the seatof the Russian Parliament (the Duma) and the centre of political lifeof the country.
Great Britain
The United Kingdomof G.B. and Northen Irelands is situated on the British Isles/ TheBritish Isles consists of two large islands, G.B. and Ireland, andabout five thousand small islands. Their total area is over 244,000square kilometres.The UK is made upof four countries:England, Wales, Scotland and Northen Ireland. GBconsists of England, Scotland and Wales and doesn't include NorthenIreland. The capital of the UK is London.The British Islesare separated from European continent by the North Sea and theEnglish Channel. The western coast of GB is washed by the AtlanticOcean and the Irish Sea.The surface of theBritish Isles varies very much. The north of Scotland is mountainousand is called the Highlands, while the south, which has beautifulvalleys and plains, is called the Lowlands.There are a lot ofrivers in GB, but they are not very long. The Severn is the longestriver, while the Thames is the deepest and the most important one.The mountains, theAtlantic Ocean and the warm waters if Gulf Stream influence theclimate of the British Isles. The weather in GB is very changeable. Afine morning can change into a wet afternoon and evening and thewrong side out. The english people say:"Other countries have aclimate; in England we have weather." The English also say thatthey have three variants of weather: when it rains in the morning,when it rains in the afternoon or t\when it rains all day long.The weather is thefavourite conversational topic in GB. After they greet each otherthey start talking the weather.The best time ofthe year in GB is spring(of course, it rains in spring too). The twoworst months in britain are January and February. They are cold, dampand unpleasant. The best place in the world then is at home by thebig fire. Summer months are rather cold and there can be a lot ofrainy days. So most people who look forward to summer holidays, planto go abroad for the summer.The most unpleasantaspect of English weather is fog and smog. This is extremely bad inbig cities especially in London. The fog spreads everywhere so carsmove along slowly and people can't see each other. They try not to berun over by a car but still accidents are frequent in the fog.