Work in pairs and prepare a conversation
about a problem at your school. Imagine you
are planning a protest. Answer the questions.
1 What is the problem?
2 What are the consequences?
3 How do the students and teachers feel
about this problem?
4 What do you want to achieve?
5 What actions could you take?​

I like drawing most of all. I have been drawing since I was very young. When my parents gave me the first markers, I was very happy. I immediately wanted to depict everything I see around me: trees, flowers, home, friends, animals. Everything around me began to play with new colors, as if I were inventing these colors. Since then, I and my drawing supplies have been inseparable.

My favorite hobby is drawing nature. I especially like flowers and various plants. Nature inspires people very much. Perhaps that's why we want to recreate it on paper or canvas. We imitate it, because it is an unknown and incomprehensible creation that cannot be explained. That's why they say that art is nature created by human hands.

I have a whole album where I drew the plants I saw. When we went to the greenhouse, to the Botanical garden, or just went to the country, I took this album with me and could look at one flower for hours. Thus, I have collected a whole collection of drawings that depict unique particles of nature.

1The Thames flows through central London.
2It is the longest river in England.
3It's the second longest river in the United Kingdom.
4It is one of the sights of London.
5The Thames contains both sea water and fresh water.
6It has a length of 346 kilometres.
7Its name probably means "dark" or "dark grey".
8Seven palaces line the banks of the river.
9Twenty-four bridges cross the Thames in London,the oldest is London Bridge.
10The River Thames provides two-thirds of London's drinking water.
11Thames is well-known for the various sports held on it. It includes fishing, rowing, and canoeing.