lyhyt teksti Kirill Usoltcev: Hei! Harjoitus 23 D, verbiryhmä 2: Hyvää päivää! Tässä on Matti Mäkelä, radio "Puhutaan Suomeksi!". Tänään on kaunis kesäinen päivä. Ulkona on ihana aurinkoinen kuuma ilma. Ihmiset kävelevät jäätelön kanssa. Katso! Tässä on Veijo perheensä kanssa. Hän tilaa jäätelöä. Kuunnellaan, mitä hän sanoo: - Hei! Ostan kolme palloa: yksi vanilja ja kaksi mansikkaa. - Ok. Tuleeko muuta? - Ei, kiitos. En tarvitse mitään. - Kuusi euroa, kiitos. Ja tässä ovat jäätelöt. - Ole hyvä ja kiitos. - Kiitos! Hei-hei! Veijon vaimo ja tytär odottavat penkillä. He eivät seiso vaan istuvat, koska he ovat vähän väsyneet. Julia ei opiskele tänään, koska on viikonloppu. Nyt tulee uutiset. Pysy kansamme!

Do you like art? As for me, I have a lifelong passion for art since I was a child. I studied in a special type of school, where all of us - pupils - had to study music, drawing, dancing or theatre. We were engaged in all these activities, but there was a single chosen one that was our "speciality". Mine was music and I loved it much! It was wonderful to study with other young musicians, artists and painters. I think it thought me to see a uniqueness and talent in everyone.

Sponsorship as an Advertisement Some companies sponsor sports as a way to advertise themselves. Some people think it's good, while others think there are disadvantages to this. To begin with, I'd like to note that I was engaged in such type of sport events where a company played as a sponsor. So, for me, as well as for others teammates of mine, it didn't matter much which company is sponsoring our rates (actually I can't recollect any). I believe that whether it gets support or complient, depends on how intrusive that advertisement is. I mean, how much people's attention is taken away from the actual event, and so one. Of course, it shouldn't affect judging anyhow! Unless it would not be sport because true sport and business are incompatible.

My Deja Vu Hi, everybody! My name's Kirill and I and my wife, we're living now with my sister in the US (for two months so far). She's divorced and has two children: a seven-years-old boy and a four-years-old-girl. They are fantastic creatures and everyone always loves them (well, almost always). Their father was abroad on business for six months and he returned yesterday. It was a big surprise for children! So much laugh, so much excitation! They were trying to enjoy every single moment with him. And I remembered myself when I was a child. I have the same situation: my parents divorced when I was about seven years old. I used to live with mom and dad came to us not so often. Every time it was a holiday for me when he came. I hoped he was going to stay with us but he always escaped. One day I resigned myself to the fact he never will come back. I'm not angry at the father for living. But I quite sure children need both of parents to feel themselves complete. I still remember a feeling of peaceful and confidence when whole my family was together. And I wish that every child in the world.

My Diary Day 2 Hello, everybody! Here we are. Today I am kind of set... Not really set, but I feel unsatisfied. Let me explain why. I and my wife were about to go to school to our ESL class. We enjoy these classes, they always very fun and useful, we find out many interesting things, many useful phrases and words. And what I appreciate most of all - the most important advantage of class I think - is an opportunity to listen and speak English! After class, I always feel more confident about English, my head is full of new words and sentences and I really enjoy it (I am addicted to it!). These days we don't have a car and school is quite far, so we need somebody from our classmates to take us. We also are able to ride our bikes, but it takes almost two hours in one way. We have three friends who help us usually but today no one did manage to go to class... They told us too late to go on bikes, so we had to skip... We're out of our schedule. And the next school day is going to be only on Monday. But on the other hand, we were able to play with my cousin's children (as you recall we are living with them now). So tomorrow's going be another day, see you!

My Diary Day 1 I've decided to write some short pieces of information about my daily events. I've just returned from school, I had an English class tonight (this is ESL program which means "English as a Second Language"). I study in a big class, there are many students from different countries around the world. Sometimes it's so hard to understand their accents! I've studied English for two months since I arrived in the US to visit my sister. It's a great opportunity to learn English here, it obviously much more effectively to learn English here than in Russia. Frankly speaking, I thought it's absolutely impossible to know English but now I don't think so. In other words, I used to think about English as about something unreachable to me. It is still hard to understand speech, to write, but the hardest thing for me is speaking, of course. Trying to explain my thoughts as natural as it possible... That's why I've decided to write my diary notes here. I will appreciate any help from English-people! Thank you and we'll see tomorrow!

My Present Perfect Training Hello, everybody! Right now I'm trying to understand the idea of the present perfect tense. Let me write a short story. I have gone to school two times this week. Everything is going well in school, I haven't had any problems so far. I've just finished my breakfast and now I'm exercising in grammar. It has been raining today's night and the ground is still wet. The weather is overcast, the sky's gray. This is the first time the rain has happened for the last month. This is very unusual winter: so dry and so warm. Many trees have blossomed early this year. I haven't remembered such winters since I was alive. Have you ever seen blooming trees in February? In the depth of winter!

Worlds apart Part 2 I think I don't like this sentence. Except speaking about stars and space in terms of science-fiction. In this case, it's at least exciting - to be worlds apart! You know, others unknown worlds, other life... This ignites my imagination! Do you know Isaak Asimov? He is a great fantasy-writer! I love him!