School life

        The next topic I want to tell you about is my school life, because I'm spending my last year at my school. 

         My school is not very big. It's quite a modern three-storeyed building. It is a specialised school famous for its high-quality education and strict discipline. When the pupils come to school they leave their coats in the cloakroom on the ground floor. On the first floor there is a large assembly hall. We have our meetings there, and on some holidays parties are held there.



At the end of 9 form

      
 The classrooms for junior pupils are on the first floor, and for the seniors, on the second floor. In every classroom there are two or three rows of desks with the teacher's table in front. There is a blackboard and a bookcase. There are some pictures and maps on the walls. The language laboratory is equipped with tape-recorders for listening to English texts on tapes, a TV set and a video-player to watch teaching programmes.

         I go to school six days a week. Classes begin at half past eight in the morning, but I usually come to school ten minutes earlier. Each lesson lasts forty five minutes. After three or four lessons we have a twenty-minute break. During this break we go to the canteen to have lunch. Every day we have six lessons, and they are over at half past two in the afternoon.


I'm pretending listening to the teacher

          My favourite subject is English. I like to learn new words, and to dramatise texts and dialogues. I like it when we discuss something interesting to us, when we were taught to debate, and when we have small-group discussions or set up a role-play.
         I like my class. I always feel at home there. Everybody is so friendly and easy to get along with. I am on good terms with my classmates and we often spend our free time together.