9й клас Білет № 13 Sport in our life

                                              Sport in our life
People all over the world are fond of sports and games. Sport makes people  healthy, keeps them  fit, more organized and better disiplined.Some people go in for sport for their health and some with professional aims.Practically all kinds of sport are popular in our country, but football, gimnastics, figure skating and boxing enjoy the greatest popularity. A lot of people are fond of jogging. In the morning and in the evening we can see people jogging inthe parks, stadiums and even in the streets.My favorite kind of sport is...
Everyone should do all he can to stay healthy. All sort of exercises are very helpful to make our bodies strong. If we want to keep ourselves fit, we have to do sport and play games. One more important thing: sport teaches us to lose and to win, give a person confidens in his own  strength and abilities. Regular phisical  exercises give us more energy, make us feel and look better.
Sport is an object for competition. But only small group of people can always win. And sport is not a hobby for them,but a hard work.Unfortunatly  many sportsmen are not realy healthy people. In my opinion sport is thing for relaxing and rest. I think it is mainly for you and your health but not for the competitions.   

9й кл. Білет №40 Holidays in Ukraine

We have many holidays in Ukraine but I would like to tell about my favorite ones. There are some dates which are holidays in my country. The first holiday of the year begins with the New Year Day on the first of January. On the eve of the New Year Day, that is at night of the thirty first of December, we are usually at home with our family or with our friends near a New Year tree. It is decorated with our bright and toys. At 12 o'clock we wish each other "Happy New Year!". We give presents to our friends and to all the family. I like this holiday very much, because my winter vacation begins with the New Year day and last two weeks. I have a lot of fun then. My friends and I dance and sing round a New Year tree with Father Frost and Snow Maiden. During the winter vacation we  do not study, we can play hockey, skate, ski and others.

The New Year is my favorite holiday. It is merry to decorate the New Year Tree, to dance near it and to receive presents.

Then in a week there is Christmas. In Ukraine it is an old and popular holiday. In the morning boys go from house to house, from flat to flat, sing traditional holiday songs and wish everything good to the people they visit. The people give them sweets, cakes and money.

My most favorite holidays are the New Year Day and Christmas.

9й клас. Білет№83 Kiev

Kiev (or Kyiv) is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The name Kiev is derived from the name of Kiy, one of four legendary founders of the city.

By the ancient legend Kiev was founded by three brothers Kiy, Schek, Khoriv and their sister Lybid. They were surprised by the beauty of Dnieper’s hills, stopped to settle here and called the town in honour of the eldest brother-Kiev.

Kiev stretches for the space of more than 20 km along the picturesque banks of the biggest Ukrainian river — Dnieper. Its square consists 827 sq.km. The population of Kiev is about 3 millions people.

Kiev is one of the oldest Slavic centres, “Mother of Russian towns” so it was called in olden times, its age is more than 1500 years. 

During the time of Vladimir the Great (980-1015) government our city begins to develop especially rapidly. In order to consolidate Kiev Russ and to increase its international influence the prince Vladimir baptised the Russ in 988. Christianity and became that impulse for further development of written language and culture.

Today Kiev is an important industrial, scientific, educational and cultural centre of Eastern Europe. It is home to many high-tech industries, higher education institutions and world-famous historical landmarks. The city has an extensive infrastructure and highly developed system of public transport, including the Kiev Metro.There are a lot of interesting places in the capital which are worth seen.

The capital of Ukraine has got great cultural potential. There are more that 30 museums, about 200 unique architectural monuments, 33 theatres, art exhibitions. Kiev is one of the greenest cities of the world, it has more that 60 parks. In spring and summer the city resembles one huge park.

There are many historical places in Kiev. For example, St Sophia Cathedral, which was built in the 11th century, Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra that was founded in the 11th century, St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery, which was ruined and recently completely restored, St. Andrew’s chirch in baroque style?

The monument to Taras Shevchenko, the great Ukrainian poet, is in front of the University, named after him. The monument to Bohdan Khmelnitsky, famous hetman of Ukraine, stands in the square opposite to St Sophia Cathedral.

Kiev is the centre of cultural life of Ukraine. Fans of theatre, cinema, music, painting and other arts can find there many interesting for themselves. There are lots of museums in Kiev: the Museum of Ukrainian Arts, the Historic Museum, the Taras Shevchenko Museum, the Lesya Ukrainka Museum, the museum of M. Bulgakov and others.