Life in Great Britain. Englishmen are very polite.
When you visit GB, you are pleasantly surprised by the natural politeness of people of all classes. People are never tired of saying "Thank you.", "I'm sorry.", "Excuse me" or "I beg your pardon". Whenever a gentleman accompanies a lady along the street, he walks between her and the road full of traffic. A gentleman always rises his hat to a lady but seldom to a man. People do not shake hands so often as on Continent.
Life in the future. - the world is controled centrally following a nine year war between the super powers which led to economic collapse. - there is total social stability - world population is about two thousand million - English is the only language, all others are dead - there is no religion - history and literature are censored - everyone is happy - babies are born in test-tubes - and by careful use of chemicals and conditioning. Babies are taught in their sleep. People are designed to
M. Night Shyamalan: biography Director, screenwriter, actor. Born Manoj Night Shyamalan, on August 6, 1970, in Pondicherry, India. His family moved to the United States when Shyamalan was still a young boy, settling in the suburbs of Philadelphia. The son of two physicians, he dreamed of becoming a filmmaker; he was given a camera at age 10 and made no fewer than 45 short films by the time he was 15. Shyamalan, who was raised a Hindu, attended a Catholic private school and Philadelphia’s Episcopal Academy before becoming a film major a
Marco Polo In about half a 13. century there were two brothers in Venice in Italy. Their names were Nicolo Polo and Maffeo Polo, they both were businessmen and the first Europeans that traveled to China. They hoped to find there new markets. When they reached China they were welcomed by the emperor and they stayed there for some time before returning home. 11 years later they made the second journey to China. Nicolo Polo took this time his son Marco with him. Marco was 17 and while they were travelling to China, he kept a diary in which
The communication media/press, broadcasting and TV are among the most influential in the world.
NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES A high number of readers supports development of newspaper industry. There are a lot of papers in the world. The most prestigious are The Times of London, The Guardian (in Great Britain), the largest daily newspapers published in the U.S.A. are The New York Times and The Washington Post. In our country are the most favourite The New
My best friend is called Michal. He is sixteen years old. We met nine years ago at school. We sat at the same desk. We were together every day until we left primary school. Then I went to Business academy in Považská Bystrica and he went to grammar-school. At school he hated biology and maths, but he likes chemistry and physics. Now we meet only at weekend. When we are together, we play basketball, football, tennis or we learn a computer programme. We often go out with my other friends.
Before holidays begins I got a lot of plans for it,but when their comes I doesn't known what to do. I like christmas for only two things. I needn't go to school. I can sleep to a 9 o'clock. In our family Christmas are the most famous feast of the year. However, I don't like Christmas. People are nervous and bored. At Christmas Eve we don't eat so much. The main meal is served in the evening. We have cabbage soup and fish every year. I don't know why. At the morning of this
MY COUNTRY The Czech Republic is a sovereign, united and democratic state with the president as a head of state. The area of the Czech Republic is about 80,000 square kms. The number of inhabitants is more than 10 million people.
The Czech Republic lies in the middle of Europe. It borders with Germany, Poland, Slovakia and Austria. The major nationalities living here are Czech, but there are minority groups such as the Roms, the Poles, the Germans, the Ukrainians and the Russians.
My daily routine. I wake up at six o clock every mornings It is all the same. The alarm beginsring, I try to unseal eyes and turn it off. I get up very hard from the bedand point to the bathroom. I reject the exercises at morning. It is the wasteof time. As soon as, I wash up, I go again to the room to dress up . I have todo the unpleasant case . Wake up my brother. It is a very , but very one-wayticket , because my brother like sleeping. The breakfast is my main food ofthe day. Therefore the preparation is very long . After the deep bre
There are so many beautiful places and towns in the world. We can see some of them but we don't have a chance to visit all of them. So lot of people watch documentary films about these countries or read some books. They are interested more in those countries they can't see. My home town is very interesting but I would like to speak about London because it's more attractive for me. Sometimes in the future I would like to visit it. London, the capital of E
The head of the family is my father. His name is Juraj Bystrický. He was born in Trenčín. For four years he visited the Building High School in Trenčín, passed his graduation examinations and was accepted at the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava in Building Faculty. He acquired the title Ing. and Auditor of static. Now he work in him company of authorised engineers. My father very like sleeping and watching TV in his free time . My father play table games: table tennis and chess. If the weather is goo
My Family Me: My name is Blanka Kurková and I have one brother, mother and stepfather. I have been studying Grammar school in Hodonín. I was born on 12th May 1978. I am quite tall and not fat. I have brown hair, round face with brown eyes and small nose. I was wearing glasses but I was on operation, so I don't need them now. When I was a child, I was very cheeky and naughty. On primary schools I used to bring home notes from my teacher: "She fights on pauses." "She broke the window. Come and repair it, please
My family Likes and Dislikes Every day after the work my mother, father and sister have a few hours that they can spend as they like. They travel by to all element of world in the holidays
My mother have one very great hobby - drawing but she has not time to do it.
Before she go to the bed she likes reading a detectives or love - stories. She likes watching TV. Her favourite program is „My house my castle“ and programs about fashion. My mother dislikes are all kinds of house works because she have to do it
He is a new Slovak tennis genius discovered by Miroslav Mečír a few years ago. Now he is his coach.
Karol has about 20 years old. He is seventh in the world ATP classification.
This year he is on the best place in his life and he is very happy for it. This year he won many tournaments. For example world-famous tournament Australian open when he knock out the world one-Pete Sampras. His later accomplishment is a tournament in Vienna, when he was in a second place and in fi
My name is Juraj Bystrický. I was born in Trenčín in 1983. I study on the Building High School second class. Among my hobbies belong Tennis, books, music, programming and computer games.
Tennis is mostly an open air game but tennis is played in the hall too. Two or four players usually play this game in many different surfaces. Millions people in the world play tennis because it is very interesting game but it is very hard for condition most for legs. Tennis is most popularly in managers, bankers a
Our family live in a block of flats. It is situated in the centre of a city housing development.
A many Slovak families don’t own their houses and flats in which they live. In order to buy a house a family in Slovakia need all money. We live in second floor in a three-room apartment. We have a small hall, the kitchen, the child-room, the bedroom, the living room the lavatory, the bathroom, the larder, the cellar and the garage. Our family consists of four members. My brother and myself use to live to
MY PLANS FOR THE FUTURE When I was a child I had never thought about my future career. Every girl in kindergarten wanted to be a teacher, a nurse or a singer. But I had not liked this ideas. It hasn t attracted me. Anyway I can t remember what I wanted to be in kindergarten. At the age of 14 I began to think about my future more seriously. Since I have read many books about law, both fact literature and novels, so I started to think about law faculty and I think about it till these days. That is why I have applied to the Law Faculty of C
Trenčín is situated in a valley of the Vah river surrounded by mountains Biele Karpaty, Strážovské vrchy and Považský Inovec.
Vah is the longest river of Slovakia. Its length is 378 km. The highest mountain of Považský Inovec is Inovec 1042 m high.
The Trenčín region is best know for its Roman inscription which dates back to the year 179 A.D, hewn to the castle rock at Trenčín by military officer Maximiamus.
Was born on July 21 in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. It is a subberb of Chicago. His father, a doctor was devoted to hunting and fishing. His mother liked music and was devotly religious. As a boy Ernest liked box and he played high-school football. He composed light verses and short stories for the school paper.
At the age of 17 he was eager to go to war, but was repeatedly rejicted (odmietnutý) by the army. He lied about his age to get a job as a reporter on the Cansas City Star. Finally he got to the army as a honorary lientenan