На этой странице находится топик по английскому по теме MY SCHOOL
ТОПИК 1
My school years have been over and I should say that in general I have sweet memories of the 11 years I have spent at one and the same school.
When I’m talking now about my school I mean a whole complex of things, which made up my life there, influenced my views and outlook, formed my character to some degree and gave me pleasant feelings and emotions. I am absolutely sure that school plays an important role in every pupil’s life. School provides us not only with a certain amount of knowledge in science and humanities but renders assistance in facing the outside world. It’s also a place where we make friends, learn to value moral qualities in people and develop our talents and skills.
Here I’d like to say that my teachers were highly educated people. They were strongly devoted to their work. And what is no less important, their attitude to the pupils was always friendly and tolerant. At our school we set up a kind of an independent state, the so-called School Republic, with the elected president. The pupils’ administration was responsible for arranging extraclass activities like concerts, debate clubs, sports competitions, picnics and excursions. Those activities were popular with pupils and teachers and they helped to create a kind of a team spirit among us.
The school building itself is of a typical design with the same layout and the distribution of classrooms, administrative offices, canteens, gyms and libraries as you can see in most other schools.
The ground floor was given to junior children. During the breaks they ran along the corridors making a lot of noise to which everyone got used. We, senior pupils, had upper floors to ourselves.
On the third floor there were different classrooms and special studies with the required equipment. For instance, we’d got two computer classrooms, two language classrooms with tape-recorders and videos.
We were proud of our assembly hall, where all kinds of performances, concerts and meetings were held. It had comfortable seats and was nicely decorated.
I’d like to say once again that school meant a lot to me in many ways. First and foremost it provided a high level of education mainly in foreign languages and other humanities. It’s a specialized English school in the centre of Grodno. And with all grounds I can say that I was privileged to study there.
Now when I have finished school, my heart is full of gratitude to most teachers for the knowledge they gave me and to many of my friends who made my school life enjoyable.
At present like all school-leavers I am looking forward to a new stage in my life and to having more independence and freedom.
ТОПИК 2
I study at a small country school which is situated in a neighbouring village. It’s only two kilometres away from my house. So naturally I walk to and from school every day. As there aren’t many children in our area we have classes only in the morning and they begin at 9 o’clock. I don’t have to get up early in the morning to get to school on time. This year I finish school where I have spent eleven years.
Though situated in the village, our school looks nice and lovely. It’s a clean and attractive two-storeyed building. When you enter it you can see a large light entrance hall decorated with flowers, drawings and pictures made by pupils. The cloakroom, the canteen, the gym and the workshop are on the ground floor as well as the teachers’ room, the headmasters’ office and the classrooms for junior pupils. On the first floor there are classrooms for senior pupils and two laboratories. They are not very well-equipped and haven’t got many devices for making experiments in physics or chemistry, but we have two computers and several tape-recorders.
Near the school there is a big playground and a beautiful small forest where we like to play different games or ski in winter.
I like the friendly atmosphere at my school. We all know each other very well. We live close and work together in the field in autumn digging potatoes or doing other jobs to help our parents, most of whom are farmers. I can’t say I am good at all the subjects I study at school. I like Maths and History best of all.
In general I think I get good knowledge here in many subjects, especially such as languages, literatures, social studies and Maths though I have little interest in Biology, Physics and Chemistry.
I have very good teachers in these subjects. I like teachers who are patient, happy and do not shout. The Maths teacher is strict and gives a lot of homework. But I took part in the district maths competition this year and was one of the winners. Our history teacher arranges interesting discussions and we all take part in them. There are hardly any serious discipline problems at our school as there are practically no difficult children here. Some pupils, of course, are not hard-working and are not doing well in some subjects. They say they will go into practical jobs in future, so they don’t want to put much effort into learning those subjects.
Most pupils of our school take part in extra-class activities. We prepare concerts for the pupils and the parents on different holidays. New Year concerts are the best. I am a member of our school folk dance group.
Like any other pupil I have my favourite teachers and subjects, but in some points school is boring and not everything there is useful, so at times I feel fed up with school and want to be more independent and study only those subjects which I like. But I will always look back at my school years as the happiest in my life.
