My best friend Michael is in his early teens. He is a stout handsome boy with a good sense of humor. He has an oval face with a pointed chin, close-cropped thick dark hair and a long straight nose. He has small but expressive eyes with short eyelashes. He is lucky to have even white teeth and a charming smile.
I think Michael is a good friend as he never lets me down. To my mind, Michael is very responsible and I can trust him. Moreover, he is very energetic because he likes preparing different activities. Besides, Michael is rather ambitious and he wants to be successful in life. I consider him to be very intelligent as he understands difficult subjects quickly and easily. Michael is also very determined; he knows what he wants in life and does all he can to get it. Mike tends to be reserved as he doesn’t like showing his feelings or expressing his opinion. He also likes to be in the centre of events. Michael loves risk and adventure. To my mind, he can be quick-tempered and impatient. Besides, he tends to be rather stubborn and isn’t tolerant to other people’s points of view.
He sometimes tends to be rather bossy as he likes telling other people what to do. It goes without saying that I like Mike with all his positive and negative features of character and I admire him a lot.
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SPORTS AND GAMES
It goes without saying that one of the most important tasks today is to bring up a healthy generation. That is why most governments pay special attention to sport and physical education. A lot of schools have well-equipped gyms, swimming pools and tennis courts, where students can develop physically and get all the necessary skills and habits. Sport helps people keep fit, be healthy and strong. It also helps to cope with stress and gives a break from studying.
Teenagers participate in a great number of sports events. They include indoor and outdoor sports such as football, volleyball, swimming, tennis, athletics, horse- riding, chess and many other sport activities. Every school, college or university has sport teams and groups. They are formed to compete with other schools and clubs.
Nowadays there are large sports and leisure centers which have excellent facilities for sport and fitness. Though they are not free, and people have to pay, children and grown-ups attend them willingly. People can do sports all the year round. In winter, for example, people enjoy speed and figure skating, skiing, hockey, free style and so on. In summer people are fond of playing basketball, volley-ball, tennis, badminton, football, swimming, rowing, and hiking. You can go in for gymnastics, wrestling, boxing, weight-lifting in a gym all the year round.
There are different sports clubs and societies in Russia: Spartak, Zenit, Dinamo and others. Russian athletes take part in European and world championships in different kinds of sports and they have set many records in the Olympic Games and always win gold, silver and bronze medals.
A lot of people like watching sports competitions on TV or at the stadium, they also listen to sports news or read about them in newspapers. There are also people who don’t go in for sports at all. They prefer just watching sports on TV. But I think that you shouldn’t only watch sport on TV. If you don’t go in for sports you become unhealthy and weak. That’s why our classes of PE are really important. We have PE lessons three times a week. We do different sports there. We play basketball and volley-ball, run and jump; we have different sports competitions. Some pupils of our class attend sports sections after school in their free time.
As for me, I go in for.... (swimming, tennis, wrestling, sport dancing, basketball...). I like this sport very much and I think that it will help me become healthy and strong.
