What questions can you ask your friend about the best shopping places in his/ her native city?

Is there any shopping centre in your city?

What shops would you recommend to visit?

Is there a market place in your city?

What is the best hi-fi shop in your city?

What can you advise a teenager who wants to buy a birthday present for his/ her friend?

First I should say, buying gifts for teens is not easy. Secondly, I advise you to find out as much as possible about his or her hobbies, interests, likes and dislikes. Nowadays teens are much into communication so an inexpensive gadget will be a good idea.

At the same time teenagers like surprises so if you are a creative person think of something unusual.

Be practical!

Parents usually give pocket money to their children. But some people think they shouldn’t do it as teenagers don’t work. What do you think about it?

I think parents should give their children pocket money because in this way they will learn how to budget. It is important because if they learn to budget, they can learn to save and plan their expenses. In this way children will become more responsible. To my mind pocket money can give good experience. Children should understand that they can’t always have everything right away – sometimes they have to save up for things that they would like to buy.

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1. Let`s talk about your leisure time. What do you do in your free time?

2. Do you find it useful to read books? Why (not)?

3. What questions can you ask a British friend about his\her free time?

4. Give me some advice on what to do in my free time.

5. Many parents often complain that teenagers don`t want to spend their free time with them. What do you think about this?

1. Let`s talk about your leisure time. What do you do in your free time?

Tastes differ. Different people like different things, different people like different hobbies.

Everybody sometimes has a free time. Somebody prefer only to sleep in their leisure time, but the largest part of us prefer to do a great amount of things which are pleasant and interesting for us. It may be reading, a various types of sport game, watching TV, listening music and others.

I love music, I think people cannot live without it.

I enjoy listening to music it reflects my moods and emotions. Very often when I’m blue, I play my favourite songs and feel much better. As for music I prefer pop, country and RnB. I don’t like electronic music, it sounds so unnatural. And also I like to sing. People say that I’ve got a beautiful voice. I often took part in school concerts.

A book is one of the greatest wonders of world. We try to look like the characters of your favourite books: to be brave, honest, not to be silly and greedy, to be real friends.

If I have got time I like to spend it with my favourite book. I like to read books on science. You can learn many things from books. I am sure that books play a very important role in my life.

Do you find it useful to read books? Why (not)?

The world of books is full of wonders. Reading books you can find yourself in different lands, countries, seas, oceans. Together with the characters of the book you go by ship in the stormy sea, you climb high mountains, you fly into space, you have a lot adventures. By reading we develop our imagination, logical thinking and broaden the outlook.

Books give us necessary information and a clever book is a good friend with whom you can discuss a lot. Books include interesting photos, biographical details and statistics, a lot of unknown facts. Books help us to solve our problems, to discover new things and to escape from routine every day life. A good humorous book is an entertaining reading.

What questions can you ask a British friend about his/her free time?

- Are you fond of collecting anything?

- Do you like going to the cinema?

- Would you rather go to the disco or to the art gallery?

- What do you think about extreme kinds of sport?

Give me some advice on what to do in my free time.

The simplest is to find something interesting to do. Here are some variants of activities to choose:

- Decide on making candles, knitting, cross snitching - in one word, create something new you can be proud of;

- Photography, drawing, painting, playing musical instruments are very special activities that you can do as a cure fore boredom;

- Read something exiting, encouraging, or anything that will enrich your knowledge;

- Join a health club or gum where you will be able to feel happy and keep fit;

- Try new recipes;

- Set your aims and keep a diary.

Following these simple advices you will never have a time to think about such problem as boredom.

5. Many parents often complain that teenagers don`t want to spend their free time with them. What do you think about this?

Family is very important for every person, because it gives you a sense of stability and tradition, a feeling of having support and understanding.Nowadays my parents and I are usually very busy during the weekdays and we seldom have a chance to spend time together. My parents spend as much time with me as possible but I think we would all love more time together.

We have some family traditions. All our family traditions are connected with some holidays. There are family holidays like birthdays, weddings and anniversaries. During these holidays all my relatives gather to spend time together.

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1. Now let`s talk about Belarusian customs and traditions. What can you tell me about your favorite holiday in Belarus?

2. Are you proud of our national holidays and traditions?

3. What questions can you ask a British teenager about good manners in their country?

4. Which holiday celebration in Belarus will you recommend your British friend?

5. Do you think it is important to follow our grandparents`traditions? Why?

1. Now let`s talk about Belarusian customs and traditions. What can you tell me about your favorite holiday in Belarus?

My favourite holidays are the New Year.

New Year Day is the most exciting time of the year for the children and the adults. New Year has three marvellous aspects — both giving and receiving presents, making beautiful decorations and preparing the most wonderful food. The central decoration for New Year must be the fur tree decorated with toys and lights. Long before the New Year Eve people begin to buy New Year cards, toys and presents. Most families see the New Year in at home. A lot of delicious food is cooked for the night meal which usually starts at 10 o'clock. This day is a traditional family reunion day and a special day for children.

Are you proud of our national holidays and traditions?

Like other countries Belarus has its own holidays. They are of two kinds – traditional national holidays and religious holidays. National holidays are both – a public celebration and a personal event in the family.

We have some special holidays. For example, Kupalle, it is the most loved and celebrated pagan holiday in Belarus.People jump over the fire, bath in the river, roll in the grass dew. They dance in karagods, compet in strength and look for a blossoming fern flower – “paparats kvetka”.

Another interesting holiday is Belarusian Kalyady.Orthodox Christmas comes a week after the New Year and this week in Belarus is called Kalyady. During the Christmas week street festivals of all kinds take place in the cities and towns of Belarus. For religious people this holiday is of special meaning. So they go to churches and take part in different religious celebrations.