Education in Moscow school

Generation of 90-th is really luckybecause it has new oportunities and great future. Ferreous curtain fell down,so now young people can travel all over the world, can consort to the people ofthe same age from different countries, can study culture of capitalistic nations. Certainly,it is impossible to do it if you don t speak foreign language. I suppose, thatthe most usefull language in modern world is

English. It is spoken in many countries, millions of people speak Englishbecause it is their own language, millions of people study it, because it isprobably impossible to make a good career in any branch if one doesn t speakEnglish. InRussia just few last generations realized the necessity of studing English. Ithink, it partly dependes of computerizing of our country.

Now computers areused everywhere in banks, offices, shops, hotels etc. Certainly, no one canlive without computers in present time. Also a lot of people can t imaginetheir life without using World Wide Web Internet. But using Internet andcomputers is connected with studing English, because English is mostly used inprogrammes.

Forexample I decided to study English when I had got a computer. Since that timeI ve been studing English at school. I had my first lessons of English in thefifth form. Those lessons interested me very much so I understood, that English- is what I m really fond of. As Iremember, our teacher of

English did everything to make us interested. She usedtoys and pictures, also we learned songs. Butsome months or probably a year had passed and our lessons became rathermonotone and alike. Day in day out we read similar stories about celebration ofdifferent holidays or about heroes of revolution. The strangest thing was, thatwe read topics about the USSR, which already didn t exist, and even the memoryabout that country gone away from our minds.

I think that communication withEnglish-speaking people is very importent and unvalued for pupils, who learnEnglish. Opportunity of comunication with English-speaking, was a real luck forme. And I d like to have meetings with guests from England in my own school. Myparents remember Even in soviet time we had meetings at our schools, where wecould talk to foreigners, though we lived far away from the capital . Now, whenRussia is opened for the

West, it is not really difficult to invite to schoolforeigner, isn t it? More over we live in Moscow, which is full of foreigners.I m sure, that such a meeting could be very interesting for pupils. Teachers of English in our school are great professionals. They speakEnglish perfectly. Certanly,they are always ready to teach and help us, but asthe matter

of fact they has no opportunity to do it. For example, my group evencan t use the same classroom. And we haven t got any tape-recorder and tapes.We use textbooks, which are far not new ones. Is it possible to study languagewith old textbooks, if the language changes as the water in the river? I do not think so. Besides, I suppose, that it is impossible to have a good pronunciationwithout listening to the speech of English-speaking people. The most of pupilshas no opportunity for travelling abroad

or talking to foreigners in theirmotherland. That s why it is really necessary to have a tape-recorder at thelessons. Inour school teachers,unfortunetly, have nothing ,exept old textbooks. It isclear, that there is the crisis in Russia, but the education is one of the mostimportant problem. The future and the well-being of our country depend on thequality of the education of our generation. That s why I think those problemsof education must be discussed and solved.

Certanly it is very important,because the solving of those problems will help teachers as much as pupils. English - is one of the most important lessons in school. If I speakEnglish, it is easy for me to read books of English writers. Reading oforiginals helps to understand the ideas of the novels, stories, etc. And I alsosuppose that it is very exiting to find something new in our favoritecharacters,such as

Tom Sawyer, Jane Eyre, Romeo and Juliet or Sherlock Holmes.The opportunity of communication, which English gives me is also a great thing.So I think that English will help me not only in my fiture life, but it helpsme now in my school life. My good marks in some subjects partly depend on mymarks in English lessons. In mycomposition I discussed some questions, which interest me very much.

I foundsome problems,but inspite of them I think I m really lucky because it ispossible in our country to get free education. And I am happy that I mstuding English. I suppose that everyproblem will be got over. I really think so!