We are a family of four; my mother, my father, my younger brother and I. 

My father’s name is Victor. He is 34. My father is a businessman. My Mother’s a teacher. She teaches English at school. My brother goes to kindergarten. We usually get together only at weekends. We go to the park or drive to the nearest lake to have a picnic. Also we go shopping together, especially when we buy things for our home. In the evenings we like to watch TV in the living-room and discuss what we have seen.

Like many other Ukrainian families we have breakfast every morning and help each other to serve it. Besides, we always try to have supper together too but, it is not easy because everyone comes home at different times.

I always wear jeans and T-shirt or a shirt. I think it is comfortable because I go to judo and need to change clothes very quickly. 

  Besides, jeans are suitable when I use a big bike or going for a walk. I wear trainers on my feet. I can run and jump in them. 

  On my head there is a cap. It has the colors of my favorite football team. I hate bracelets, skirts, dresses and necklaces. My girl-friends always tell me that I am not a real girl and that I’m a tom boy. 

  In winter I wear warm woolen gloves in the street . In summer I prefer cotton trousers or shorts. I have a thin silk blouse. My thin silk scarf is very nice. In autumn I go to school in a thick cotton jackets.  

In many schools in Britain pupils must wear uniforms. Schoolboys wear white shirts and ties with the colors of their schools. Over their shirts they wear school jackets; their school jackets are called blazers. The schoolboys have the school badges on the pockets of their blazers, they have the school badges on their caps too. English school girls wear blouses or shirts and skirts. In some schools the schoolgirls wear dresses and hats with coloured ribbons and badges. Girls usually wear black stockings or tights and shoes. At the PE lessons boys and girls wear T-shirts, shorts and trainers. 

We all prefer home-made food for breakfast, lunch and dinner. So we like to have our meals at home. But when we are at school, we usually go to the school canteen to have our lunch or dinner there. If we are very busy we have a quick sandwich with coke, tea or coffee. We may have soup or borsch, meat with potatoes and different vegetables. You can eat fried potatoes, fish, salads of tomatoes, cucumbers and cabbage. For dessert we can have ice cream with fruits, like bananas or oranges.

We use spoons and forks at home, but very rarely use knives. At restaurants we must remember about our table manners, use knives and napkins, keep our elbows off the table.

Kharkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine and the capital of the Kharkiv region. The generally accepted date of Kharkiv's founding is 1654/5 when Ukrainian Cossacks led by Ivan Karkach built a fortified settlement. 

From 1920 to 1934 it was the capital of Soviet Ukraine. The city is over 300 sq km in area and is divided into nine districts.

Today there are over 2500 streets and 26 squares in the city. There are 110 parks, the largest being Gorky Park, Shevchenko Garden with a zoo, Artem Park, the Forest Park, and some others.

  The population of the city is about 1.600.000 people. 

Kharkiv is one of the largest industrial cities in Ukraine with over 250 enterprises. Kharkiv is a major cultural and scientific centre of Ukraine, second only to Kiev. There are about 200 secondary schools and 40 post-secondary institutions, about 150 research and planning institutes. The city has a circus and six professional theatres.

The public enjoys the use of 23 cinemas, 250 libraries, a sports center, water sports center and some parks of culture and recreation.

Our planet is called the Earth. It moves around the Sun. It takes 365 days for our planet to go round the Sun. The Sun is a star. It gives us light and warmth. The sunshine passes through space and air and comes to our planet. Then one side of the Earth, which faces the Sun, has day. The other side has night. 

Besides the Earth, there are 8 other big planets which move around the Sun, Their names are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Mercury is the smallest planet and Jupiter is the biggest one. The Sun and all the planets make the Solar System.

Astronomers say, they have found a new planet in our Solar System. They call it Sedna, but some of them dispute if it's really a planet.

There are many other stars in space. But they are far away from our planet. You can see stars only at night when the sky is dark. Large groups of stars make galaxies. Our galaxy is called the Milky Way. Galaxies are all different in shape. The Milky Way Galaxy is a spiral. Some groups of stars have their own names, for example, the Great Bear, the Little Bear.