Many young people go to university after leaving school. However, a number of
school-leavers feel that university is not for
them and choose not to go.
What is your opinion? Do you agree
with this statement?
Write 200-250 words.
Unified State Exam Writing C2 pp196, 197

english:

every person has his own idea of a perfect house.

i usually have two or three meals a day on weekdays and four meals on my day off. i don't often have an opportunity to have a dinner when i'm at school. my meals are: breakfast, lunch, dinner and supper or tea.

some of my friends have a snack rather than a meal in the morning. but my breakfast is a full meal and i have it at 7 o'clock. it is usually bacon and eggs. afterwards come sandwiches with butter and cheese or sausages, or sometimes jam. then i drink tea or coffee.

i have lunch at about 12 o'clock. it starts with fruit juice. then i have a vegetable salad and sandwiches again or pies with tea.

dinner is at three or four o'clock. for dinner i have soup or borsch for starter, and meat or fish with a lot of vegetables for main course. for dessert i often have stewed fruit or jelly.

and at last supper. it is at seven or eight. my mother usually cooks fried fish and mashed potatoes, beefsteak and omelette. and salads, of course. then i prefer a glass of warm milk with biscuits. sometimes before going to bed i drink orange juice or eat an apple.

russian:

как правило, я кушаю два или три раза в день по будням и четыре раза по выходным. я не часто имею возможность пообедать, когда я в школе. мои приёмы пищи таковы: завтрак, ланч, обед и ужин или чай.

утром многие из моих друзей перекусывают, а не едят полноценно. но мой завтрак- полценный приём пищи. я завтракаю в 7 часов. как правило, это бекон и яйца. затем бутерброды с маслом и сыром или колбасой, а иногда и вареньем. потом я пью чай или кофе.

ланч у меня около 12 часов. он начинается фруктовым соком. затем я ем овощной салат и бутерброды или пироги с чаем.

обед в три или четыре часа. на обед у меня суп или борщ для начала, и мясо или рыба с большим количеством овощей в качестве основного блюда. на десерт я часто пью компот или кисель.

и, наконец, ужин в семь или восемь. моя мама обычно готовит жареную рыбу и картофельное пюре, бифштекс или омлет. и салаты, конечно. затем я предпочитаю стакан теплого молока с печеньем. иногда перед сном я пью апельсиновый сок или ем яблоко.

(если тупо всё спишешь не сделаешь ошибки, учительница засчитает как за списывание, написано грамотно).

Reading is the pleasant and useful part of our life. people like reading. i think so because a lot of books are bought and sold every day in different bookshops and in streets (or: outside) too. of course, radio and television are more popular among people but books still play an important role for us. reading enriches our mind. it can satisfy many different demands and literary tastes. it reveals to us its own world of life, which is sometimes cruel or sorrowful and sometimes is joyful or fantastic. speaking about reading i can’t help saying about my favourite writer. he is one of the most famous russian authors of the 19th century – mikhail yurievich lermontov. his life was momentary and blinding as a gleam of lightning in a stormy sky. not having lived till 27 years old, he passed the entire circle of life with flights of inspiration and bitterness of disappointments. he went through many troubles in his life: great success and two exiles, disappointments and love, smoke of battles and intrigues of a high society.. and died in thunderstorm… this is the entire circle. just two latest figures changed their places in the dates of his life. but how many emotions were experienced by him and what antagonism of ideas existed in his mind and soul! i like novels, stories and poems by mikhail lermontov very much. needless to say that the most part of the poems and almost all novels and stories are full of melancholy – this is the particularity of his works. no doubt, all of us have read his poems at school and of course have got acquainted with “the hero of our time”. in this novel through the heroes lermontov tried to express his own sense of time and events. the main character is grigoriy alexandrovich pechorin – an individualist with a conflict in his sole. he disdains a high society and searches for a real affair, where he could apply his skills and his talents, where he could put his soul. but he doesn’t find such an affair and suffers from it. pechorin is a deep character. he is like his author, a man who searches for real life, deep feelings, true love and feels useless in his time. lermontov never wrote non-fiction. all his compositions are made-up but a great part of them is connected with real events of the 19th and other centuries. there is no humor in his works, they are deep and full of the author’s thoughts. they reflect the problems of the society and make us think. that is why i like them very much and enjoy every minute, reading books by mikhail yurievich lermontov