Introductory text My Biography

My first name is Boris. My full name is Boris Smirnov. I am seventeen years old. I live in Kazan. I was born in 1995 in Bugulma in the family of the sportsmen. My father is a footballer. He played in football team “Rubin”. My mother is a tourist manager. She works in the travel agency. My parents have been married for 26 years. They have much in common.

When I was in the eleventh form I made up my mind to enter the Volga State Academy of the Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism and become a tourist manager.

The term of study lasts five years. Educational program is made up of general and professional subjects. We master fundamentals of the tourism. We study Culture, Foreign Language, History, Russian and others.

My family is not large. I have a brother and a sister. My elder brother is ten years older than I. He is 27 years old. He graduated from Kazan State University. He is an accountant. He is married. His wife is a fourth-year student of the Teachers’ Training Institute. She has a great talent for languages. She speaks English very well and she knows French and German, too. My sister is 25 years old. She is an interpreter. She is single.

I want to become a successful tourist manager. I’d like to get deep knowledge of tourism and learn foreign languages.

Compare

I am seventeen. - I was born in 1995 in Bugulma.

We are students of the Volga Region Academy of the Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism. – We were happy and friendly.

Exercise 1. Tell your fellow students about yourself using the following questions.

1. What is your name?

2. How old are you? (What is your age?)

3. Where were you born?

4. What are you? (What do you do?)

5. Where do you study?

6. What course do you study on?

7. What subjects do you study?

8. Is your family large?

9. What are your parents? (What do your parents do?)

10. What is your mother (father, sister, brother)?

11. How old are your parents?

12. Do your parents have much in common?

13. Do you have any sisters or brothers?

14. How old is your sister (brother)?

Remember!

1900 (nineteen hundred) - 1900 год

1987 (nineteen eighty seven) – 1987 год

in the year of 2000 (in the year of two thousand ) - в 2000 году

2003 – two thousand and three OR twenty oh three

Exercise 2. Find out mistakes in this letter.

I called Sasha Frieda. I am manager. I have 25 years and I am living in Kazan. I am born in Bogulma. My nationality is Tatar. I am the responsible. I work in the company “Vamin”. You have a large plant and much offices. My hairs are fair and I am very big. I like swim and play tennis.

Exercise 3. Read and translate the following Curriculum Vitae.

Exercise 4. Find out any English words about family, personal data and occupation.

singlemarriedwidowwidowerdivorcedbachelorpartnerretiredemployedfulltimeparttimetemporaryseasonalcontractcolleagueworkmateworkeraacountantmarketcivilservanthousewifeunemployedbeetweenjobs

Exercise 5. Write the following composition “About myself”.

Exercise 6. Make up your own Curriculum Vitae.

Unit 3. Volga State Academy of the Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism