THE SCHOOL I WENT TO

My school is a three-storeyed building. It is quite big with sport ground behind it.

On the ground floor there are the classrooms for the primary-school pupils, workshops, library. The boys of our school have a woodwork room too. There is a room for manual works for girls.

Our library is nice and clean. There are many bookcases and bookshelves with a lot of books there.

There is a gymnasium on the ground floor as well. Our physical training lessons are held there.

Our school has many classrooms. The classrooms are light and spacious.

Each room has teacher's table, pupils' desks, blackboard, tables and charts on the wall, maps and portraits.

There are special classrooms for Chemistry, Physics, Biology, History, Geography, English, and Russian.

When I think about my school I don't remember its walls and desks; it is my teachers and school-mates who will be always with me. I am so thankful to our teachers for what they have done for us.

My Institute

MADI was founded in 1930. The main aim of the University is the preparation of highly qualified specialists.

Professors and lecturers of the University are the authors of a big amount of textbooks and tutorials. A lot of them are accepted by institutions of higher education in our country. Several of them are translated from Russian into foreign languages.

The training of personnel is led on 3 departments: day-time, evening and correspondence. MADI has 8 faculties, which provide preparation in 22 specialities with the common contingent about 10 000 people. The advanced students of the day-time department get grants.

The apprenticeship in day-time department is 5 years, in evening department - 5 years and 9 months.

Students studying for first level learn technical subjects, sciences and humanities, they have lectures and seminars. On the second level students get vocational training. Those who pass examinations successfully are given the Bachelor's degree. After that they can work or continue studying at the University. Those who complete the third level "are given the Engineer degree. Master's degree is the highest degree. It is given for some original research work, which is an important contribution to knowledge.

The institute is provided with such modern technical training aids as films, radio, television, computes and so on. Much attention is paid to the last achievements in the fields of electronics and automation.

MADI has a hostel, which is situated not far from the Institute. Many people from other countries and from different regions of Russia live there.

The cultural life of the Institute is very interesting. The students take part in amateur performances, they make different concerts and festivals, they go on trips and voyages.

I like my institute, I think it is interesting to study here.

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CITY TRAFFIC OF FUTURE

Truly speaking, it is very difficult to predict now what forms of city traffic will be eliminated in the future.

Let us take trams. Some 20 years ago trams seemed to be very uncomfortable kind of transport for big cities - they demand rather much space on the road, they are rather noisy and slow. But when the people faced the problem of pollution in big cities, trams turned to be one of the most ecologically clear kind of city transport.

But now we live at the age of high speeds, we are always in a hurry. So we need the suitable transport to reach a certain place in shortest possible time.

Underground is a very comfortable and quick transport, but one of the most dangerous, especially now. Moreover, there are a lot of other types of communications, laid under the surface and the construction of the underground (metro) cannot be endless.

There are great number of taxis in Moscow and other big cities - but it brings a lot of jams in rush hours. Buses and trolley-buses cannot solve the problem also. Maybe, future belongs to monorails, maybe, to helicopters - in cases of emergency it is the best transport for big and small cities, and even for villages that are situated far from civilization.

THE SCIENTIST I'D LIKE A NEW STREET TO BE NAMED AFTER

New inventions are appearing every day to make our life better. But only a few inventors design a new machine or product that becomes so well-known that the invention is named after its creator. And there are even less scientists who become a real hero, devoting all his life to his nation and science. To my mind, one of them is Lomonosov. And I am proud to live in Moscow, where one of the widest and most beautiful avenues is named after this great scientist.

M .V. Lomonosov was born in 1711 in the village of Denisovka near Arkhangelsk in the family of a fisherman. At the age of 17 he left his native village and began his studies so late in Moscow, at tlje Slavonic-Greek-Latin Academy. Then he studied at the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg. Later he studied metallurgy and mining abroad.

Lomonosov founded a new science that we call today physical chemistry. He also studied electrical phenomena in atmosphere of the Earth.

Lomonosov was a great scientist. His works in poetry had a great influence on Russian literature. Owing to his efforts, the first Russian University was founded in Moscow in 1755. The university named after him became the centre of knowledge and science in Russia.

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