My favourite holiday

Many great holidays and anniversaries are celebrated in our country. On the 1st of May there is May Day — the holiday of spring and labour. On the 8th of March there is Women's Day — the holiday of all women and girls. We celebrate Day of Independence of Russia on the 12th June and Day of Russian Constitution on the 12th of December. Now people celebrate some religious holidays such as Christmas and Easter. But my favourite holiday is New Year's Day, of course. It is a really wonderful holiday. People get ready for this holiday long before it. They buy New Year trees and decorate them. Every year a fairy-tale comes to every house and every family on New Year's Eve. Children and even grown-ups wait for this day because they believe that all their wishes and desires come true and different wonderful miracles happen on that day.

On New Year' s Eve people get together to see “the old year out and the new year in”. They eat tasty food, drink champagne, dance and have a good time together. They wish each other happiness and good luck in the new year and put the presents under the New Year tree. Children like this holiday very much. They wait for New Year presents, which, they believe, Father Frost bring to them. Everybody is merry on that day and wishes the next year to be good and happy and all one's troubles and disappointments to remain in the past.

Words and expressions

1. anniversary — годовщина

2. labour — труд

3. independence — независимость

4. religious — религиозный

5. Easter — пасха

6. Christmas — рождество

7. to get ready — готовиться

8. fairy-tale — сказка

9. grown-up — взрослый

10. wish — желание

11. desire — страстное желание

12. to believe — верить

13. to come true — сбываться

14. miracle — чудо

15. good luck — удача

16. trouble — тревога

17. disappointment — разочарование

SHOPPING

When we want to buy something, we go to the shop where it is sold. In the shop-window we see what is sold in the shop. Sugar, tea, coffee, salt, pepper, ham, bacon and so on are sold at the grocer's. Bread is sold at the baker's, meat at the butcher's. We go to the greengrocer's for vegetables and to the fruiterer's for fruit. Cakes and sweets are sold at the confectioner's. When we want to buy clothes, we go to the men and ladies outfitter's. We buy boots and shoes at the boot and shoe shop. We buy jewellery at the jeweller's. To buy tobacco and cigarettes we go to the tobacconist's. We buy books at the book-seller's.

The salesman or salesgirl stands behind the counter. The cashier sits at the cashdesk. The salesman or salesgirl weights the goods which we want to buy on the scales and tells us the price. Those who buy different filings in the shop are customers. Some shops have many departments. We can buy nearly everything we need there. They are called department stores or supermarkets. In some shops there are no salesmen or salesgirls, but only cashiers. The customers choose the goods they want to buy and pay at the cashdesk. They are called self-service shops.

Shops are very important in our life. People cannot do without them. Some people do not like to go shopping, but, as for me, I like to go shopping very much.

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