One of the most difficult problems a young person faces is deciding what to do about a career.
There are individuals, of course, who from the time they are six years old "know" that they want to be doctors or pilots or fire fighters, but the majority of us do not get around to making a decision about an occupation or career.....
Many, many years ago a town cryer ran through the streets and shouted out all the news. But now we live in the Atomic Age. Too many things happen too quickly for us to learn about them in the old-fashioned way. That is why we have to read more and more in order td find out what is happening in the world. Reading is rarely a waste of time.
Have you ever thought about the kind of books people used long ago? It is only in the last 500 years that books have been printed on paper. Before that time the only way of making books was to write them out by hand. No one knows when writing first began, but we have found drawings on the walls of caves and scratchings on bones which are at least 25,000 years old.
Nowadays it's almost impossible to imagine our life without books. Perhaps, there are more books on our planet than men alive.
Long before the invention of printing people valued books as treasure troves of the human knowledge and experience. Hand — written manuscripts took months of writing and were collected by and kept in monasteries with utmost care. We can distinguish books between three classes of them.
Firstly, books on different branches of knowledge, works by brilliant minds of mankind. Secondly, textbooks, reference books and numerous dictionaries. And at last, books of all kinds and genres to read at leisure.
Libraries are very
important in the life of all people. We can't buy all the books we want to
read. That's why we take out books from libraries.
A lot of people go to
libraries on Saturdays. They have some time to spare, because Saturday is a day
off. They bring their books to the library and go home taking new books.
The librarians take books
from the people who come in and give them some new books to choose for reading
at home.
In a book there is a little
pocket and in this pocket there is a piece of paper. The librarian takes this
piece of paper out of the pocket in the book. She fills it in, that is, puts
the date on the piece of paper and on the right page of the book. Then she puts
the piece of paper in the person's reading card.
My family is not very big,
just a typical family: Dad, Mom, me, my brother and sister and our cat. My
Mummy is forty-one, she is a teacher of Spanish at the University. She is a
born teacher. She has teaching abilities. My Dad is forty-two, he is a
professional painter, he works for a design company. My parents both like their
work very much.
My elder sister Natasha is
nineteen, she goes to the University, she wants to be a teacher of history. She
is fond of reading books on history and fiction. My younger brother Igor is
only six years old, he goes to the kindergarten. He is very funny, I like to
spend my free time teaching him something. Igor likes to play with our cat.