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Анна Царик, 3 ступень

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Overcoming the Fear of English
(Преодолевая страх английского)

3 months of a wonderful, carefree and full of happy events holiday has finished. The time to come back to our English lessons has come. You can’t think about it with regret -- you think about it with fear. You go to the class and realize you remember nothing from what you learned at the previous lessons , you had no practice in English during your vacation, you fear you will not understand your teacher, your fellow-students, who, you think, had more opportunities to practice English during the break.

You come into the classroom, the lesson starts. It’s impossible to stay silent. The structure of the lesson does not allow you to sit without a word: you have to speak. But your tongue doesn’t obey you, it seems to be very fat to pronounce English words. You realize you don’t remember grammar, your vocabulary has become poor and you don’t know how to express your thoughts… You start to panic a little. It reminds your feeling at the first lesson on the first step: language barrier. But you have no choice -- you should fulfill the task your teacher gave you: you should talk about the most remarkable event this summer. You start to speak. You need only 5 minutes in order to remember all you have learned before. You feel happiness that you can speak right, that everybody can understand your speech, and the teacher praises you after you have finished your speech. The lesson ends. You have a good mood because now you know you will be able to speak in any situation, after even a long break. You shout mentally: “I can speak English therefore I exist!” At the same time, you realize you must have some practice to support your English on a proper level.

Проба пера. Проза.
Рассказ по графическому наброску с натуры О.Сениной, студентки отделения «Изобразительное искусство»
Анна Царик, 3 ступень

A sleeping man

It’s a very strange story about a strange man.

Everybody from a small town knew this man, but nobody knew neither his name nor his age. Everybody saw him at the bus stop every morning and every evening, but nobody knew where he went. But one thing was interesting for everybody: why this man always looked so sleepy (his eyes were always closed). He fell asleep (for a while) at the bus stop, waiting for a bus; on the bus, on the underground train, going somewhere from somewhere. He always looked tired and unhappy.

Once, late in the evening this man was walking somewhere and heard a loud cry. He ran into the darkness and saw a woman who had fallen into an open well. It took a lot of time and effort to take her out of it. It was the best award for him to hear her words of thanks. He liked her. It was attraction from the first sight. He accompanied the women to her house. He was happy and smiled (probably for the first time lately). At that moment, he realized that he had found all he needed: the woman who he would like to live all his life with.

In some days, everybody knew about this event. Very soon this man’s mystery revealed. According to the rescued by him woman he turned out to be a rescuer. He helped to save people in different troubles and difficult situations. Every time people saw him - in the early morning or late in the evening- he was in a hurry to rescue somebody. That’s why he always looked tired and wanted to sleep.

Now all the citizens of this town could be proud of him. Now they knew if anything happened, there was a man who would help them in this small town.