My favourite writer is Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. In my opinion, he is the greatest Russian dramatist and short-story writer. I'm never tired of reading and rereading his plays and humorous stories.

Agatha Christie is known all over the world as the Queen of Crime. She wrote 78 crime novels, 19 plays and 6 romantic novels under the name of Mary Westmacott. Her books have been translated into 103 foreign languages.

Ernest Hemingway is one of the great 20th century American writers. His incredible career, and the legend which developed around his impressive personality, was that of a man of action, a devil-may-care adventurer, a brave war correspondent, an amateur boxer...

I've recently read a book which has made a very deep impression on me. It's called Gone with the Wind and it makes really unforgettable reading. The author of the book is Margaret Mitchell.

The State Tretyakov Gallery is one of the best-known picture galleries in Russia. It takes its name from its founder Pavel Tretyakov, a Moscow merchant and art connoisseur.

One of my favourite artists is Valentin Serov. When I first saw his famous pictures - - the Girl with Peaches and the Girl in the Sunlight - - in the Tretyakov Gallery, frankly speaking, I wasn't too impressed.

Tsaac Ilyich Levitan, the great Russian artist, became the first painter of the iRussian scenery, who revealed all its beauty. He is a real poet of the Russian countryside.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the greatest composers ever born. Like Shakespeare, he stands at the summit of human achievement.

My favourite singer is Michael Jackson. I like his songs very much because they are full of energy and very melodic. I also like the way he dances. There were nine children in Michael's family.

Can you imagine life without films or television, cinema's little sister? Today we can watch television 24 hours a day, we can go to the cinema or put a cassette into our video when we want. We can even make video films ourselves.

David Duchovny was born in New York City on the 7th of August, 1960. His father is a writer and his mother is a housewife. Before David was bom his parents had been English teachers.

Albert Einstein is known all over the world as a brilliant theoretical physicist and the founder of the theory of relativity. He is perhaps the greatest scientist of the 20th century.

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov, an outstanding scientist and public figure, was born on the 21st of May, 1921, into the family of teachers. He graduated from Moscow University in 1942.

Films and science fiction books have often played with the idea of reproducing exact copies of people. Today, science fiction has become science fact. We have our first real clones, though they are not human beings - yet!

The Olympic Games have a very long history. They began in 777 BC in Greece and took place every four years for nearly twelve centuries at Olimpia. They included many different kinds of sports: running, boxing, wrestling, etc.

The British are known to be great sports-lovers, so when they are neither playing, nor watching games, they like to talk about them. Many of the games we play now have come from Britain. One of the most British games is cricket.

Sport has always been popular in our country. There are different sporting societies and clubs in Russia. Many of them take part in different international tournaments and are known all over the world.

There are fewer public holidays in Great Britain than in other European countries. They are: Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year's Day, Good ' Friday, Easter Monday, May Day, Spring Bank Holiday and Summer Bank Holiday.

There are many national holidays in Russia, when people all over the country do not work and have special celebrations. The major holidays are: New Year's Day, Women's Day, May Day, Victory Day, and Independence Day.

Have you ever wondered how many people there are who speak English? It's quite a number! Geographically, English is the most widespread language on earth, and it is second only to Chinese in the number of people who speak it.

Other languages absorb English words too, often giving them new forms and new meanings. So many Japanese, French and Germans mix English words with their mother tongues that the resulting hybrids are called Japlish, Franglais and Denglish.

Can you imagine what our life will be like in the year 2050? What will our cities be like in the future? How will we live and behave? Will medical science win its battle against the terrible illnesses that mankind continues to suffer from?

Modern man appeared perhaps 70,000 years ago — a very short period of time if you consider that life has existed on earth for more than 3,000 mil­lion years.

Lors de la grande récession de 1934 au Brésil, mon père a abandonné notre foyer, et ma mère s'est retrouvée seule pour élever sa famille. Nous étions très pauvres.

Chaque matin, mon fils Jacques se réveille en premier et prend son petit-déjeuner à sept heures. Pour l'instant, la maison est encore calme. Puis, mon mari, Edgar, se lève. Dès qu' il entre dans la cuisine, il allume la radio parce qu'il aime écouter les actualités.

La jeunesse est une notion floue, qui se situe à cette période de la vie où l’on fait la transition entre le statut d’enfant et le statut d’adulte.

Le week-end est le meilleur moment de la semaine. Pas seulement pour moi, mais je pense pour tous. Même pour les non-étudiants, à mon avis. D'autant plus que le week-end arrive juste après le partiel du vendredi après-midi (pour moi).

Версия для печати Une tenue élégante est une tenue adaptée à une situation. L’élégance n’est pas forcément une affaire de mode, mais plutôt une adéquation harmonieuse du vêtement au circonstances, au style et à la personnalité de chacun.

En général, les bonnes résolutions que je prends à chaque rentrée, revenant de chez mes parents, consistent à faire la vaisselle après chaque repas, passer l'aspirateur au moins une fois par semaine, ranger le studio dès que deux minutes ne suffisent plus à trouver un objet pervers et caché, ... et ne tiennent pas longtemps.

La France est appelée "un pays gastronomique", c’est pourquoi la connaissance culinaire chez les Français est très élevée. Dans les repas, les Français accordent de l’importance à trois points suivants: le goût, l’apparence et le parfum.

A partir de la Mer Méditerranée, dans la légende des grandes aventures maritimes, la jonque va parcourir environ 10 000 km sur les canaux, fleuves et mers d’Europe. Elle s’arrêtera dans 18 villes et capitales et terminera son périple à Toulon après 10 mois de navigation.

Vous rêvez d'aventure? De grands espaces? Quoi de plus palpitant qu'une randonnée de cinq jours de trekking sur le circuit Santa Cruz au pied des grands glaciers andins! J'y suis allée sur deux semaines.

Je suis arrivée au Japon en pleine saison des pluies. A peine montée en voiture avec Mme Yamada, la personne qui m’hébergeait, j’ai redécouvert toute sortes de détails que j’avais oubliés depuis mon précédent voyage. Au Japon, les voitures roulent à gauche.

Comme la première fois "La Place de la Comédie" me touche très fort dès la première fois où je l'ai vue jusqu'à maintenant. Pourquoi? C'est un endroit historique. Elle constitue elle-même la plus vaste scène de spectacle de la ville.