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    MY FRIENDSIt is important to have friends. I have a lot of them. But my 
    best friend is my classmate Denis. He is fourteen. He is a tall 
    boy with an oval face and brown eyes. His hair is short and 
    brown. Denis lives not far from my house. We usually go for a 
    walk, play computer games and do our homework together. I really 
    like spending my time with him. Denis is a very good pupil. 
    Sometimes he helps me with this or that subject.
 Denis loves sport. His favourite winter sport is skiing. At 
    weekends we go to a nearby park and ski together. In summer we 
    cycle and go rollerblading in the park. Sometimes he goes with 
    my family to our country house and we swim in the river and pick 
    up mushrooms and berries in the forest.
 I have other friends, too. Katya is not my classmate, she is 
    older. She studies in the 10th form. She likes plants and has a 
    big collection of violets at home. She wants to be a biologist 
    and she knows many interesting things about flowers and plants. 
    Playing the piano is Katya's other hobby. She plays very well. 
    Her parents want her to be a musician, but she doesn't want it. 
    Sometimes I go to her place and listen to her playing.
 All of us like computer games. We play together online and have 
    fun. I think that my friends are very nice and I am glad to have 
    them.
 
      
    Vocabulary:
 classmate ['kla:smeit] одноклассник
 cycle [saikl] кататься на велосипеде
 nearby ['niabai] близлежащий
 oval ['auvl] овальный
 plant [pla:nt] растение
 rollerblade ['robbleid] кататься на роликах
 violet [Vaialit] фиалка
 
      
    Questions:
 1. Is it important to have friends?
 2. Do you have many friends?
 3. Do you have the best friend? What can you say about him/ her?
 4. What do you usually do when you meet with your friends?
 
 
    
 
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