School traditions

1. Let’s talk about education. What can you tell me about the place where you study? My school is a three-storeyed building. It is quite big with a sport ground behind it.

On the ground floor there are classrooms for the primary-school pupils, workshops. There are all kinds of tools and machines in the workshops. The boys of our school have a woodwork room too.

There is a room for manual works for girls. Teachers teach them how to cook, sew and design clothes. Our school library is nice and clean. Two librarians help pupils to find books they need. There are many bookcases and bookshelves with a lot of books there.

If you enter the school and turn left you see a big light dining-room. It is always busy and noisy, but it is clean. Here pupils and their teachers have their lunch. There are blue curtains on the windows and beautiful pictures on the walls.

There is a gymnasium on the ground floor as well. Our physical training lessons are held there. Pupils like to go there even after the lessons, because it has a lot of sport equipment. Our school has many classrooms. The classrooms are light and spacious. There are three large windows in each classroom with flower pots on the window sills.

Each room has teacher's table, pupils desks, blackboard, tables and charts on the wall, maps and portraits. There are special classrooms for Chemistry, Physics, Biology, History, Geography, English, and Russian. On the first floor there is a big nice assemble hall. A lot of meetings, concerts, festivals are held there.

Our classroom is on the second floor. Its windows face the school-yard. Our form-mistress is a teacher of Russian language and literature. We respect her very much, she is a kind and knowledgeable teacher. She teaches us Russian and is so fond of her subject, that each of us cannot help liking too.

When I think about my school I don't remember its walls and desks; it is my teachers and school-mates who will be always with me. I am so thankful to our teachers for what they have done for us.

2. Does your school have any traditions? There is a good tradition in our school. Every year people who graduated our school come here to meet their teachers and classmates. These meetings take place every first Saturday of February. Another traditional event is the ceremony of celebration of the best pupils of our school which is held on the 25th of January.

3. Ask me about my school life. What did you like best while studying at school? What was your favourite subject? Have you ever been to your school after finishing it?

4. What can you advise a student who is not very good at languages to do to achieve better results? I can advise him to listen to British radio programmes, to watch films and to read books in the original.

5. Nowadays some young people complain that they have lots of problems at school. Do you agree with them? Not to have such problems they should respect their teachers and classmates and work much harder.