MY DAY OFF (1)

          When a school-girl I always envied those students who went to school five but not six days a week, as we did. So you may guess, I had the only day off — Sunday. On Sunday, I didn’t have to hurry anywhere, that’s why, I got up at nine or ten o’clock. I wasn’t an early riser. I did my bed, washed myself and went to the kitchen. In the kitchen the table had already been laid and I always had something tasty on Sunday: fried potatoes, meat salad or my favourite apple-pies.

         After breakfast, if the weather was sunny, I usually didn’t stay indoors, I went to see my friends. We often played volley­ball or basket-ball in the yard and in winter if there was much snow out-of-doors we went skating and skiing in the woods.

         But sometimes the day happened to be rainy and gloomy. I preferred to be in watching TV, listening to the music, rea­ding books, speaking over the phone or just lying on the sofa idling away the time. Some of my classmates could watch all TV-programmes from morning till night, but I think it’s ra­ther boring, and I always felt sorry for those TV-addicts. It’s much more interesting to play a game of chess with your grand­father, or help your mother about the house, or argue with your father about the latest events at home and abroad.

           In the evening, when all the family were together, we had some tea with a cake or biscuits, we listened to my younger sister playing the piano, sometimes we sang folk songs.

          Every Sunday, when I went to bed, I was thinking that the day had flashed past and the next week would bring new prob­lems and their solution.

QUESTIONS:

1.  What day was your day off?

2.  When did you get up on Sunday?

3.  Were you an early riser?

4.  What did you have for breakfast on Sunday?

5.  What did you do if the weather was sunny?

6.  Did you like to stay indoors when the day was rainy and gloomy?

7.  Do you think to watch TV from morning till night is rather boring?

8.  What did you do in the evening?

VOCABULARY:

to envy — завидовать

to guess — догадываться

I didn’t have to hurry — мне не нужно было торопиться

an early riser — человек, поднимающийся рано

to wash oneself — умываться

to lay the table — накрывать на стол

tasty — вкусный

favourite — любимый

pie — пирог

to go skating and skiing — кататься на коньках и лыжах

to happen — случаться

gloomy — мрачный

to speak over the phone — разговаривать по телефону

boring — утомительный, скучный

to feel sorry for smb. — жалеть кого-нибудь

to feel — чувствовать

TV-addicts — «телеманы»; люди, проводящие много времени перед телевизором

to play a game of chess — сыграть партию в шахматы

to argue — спорить 

we listened to my younger sister playing the piano (Com­plex Object) — мы слушали, как моя младшая сестра играет на пианино