About languages (apie kalbas)

My native language is Lithuania. So he must know its

fourth form I began to learn the English language. From

history, grammar, literature spelling. When I was on the

the very first days I understood that it is very difficult to

learn. English, as it has different pronunciation and

spelling. If you want to learn new words, grammar, how

to form the sentence. It is necessary to know the history,

culture, traditions of the country which language, you

study. It is very difficult to llearn any foreign language

when you do not hear it in the street at house. The film

which we see on TV are translated into native language

and we can’t hear the English language. The English

language is very popular in the world and what country

you visit you can communicate in England. The role of

the foreign languageshas inereased in the last years, as

Lithuanian keeps good relations with other European

countries and is going to biome a member of European

Union and NATO. So every young person mmust think

about his future and the use of the foreign language.

The European Union(apie europos sąjungą)

The European Union is the European supranational

organization dedicated to increasing economic

integration and strengthening co-operation among

its member states. The European Union was established

on November one, nineteen nninety three. The treaty on

European Union was ratified by the twelve members of

the European community. They were Belgium, Denmark,

France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy,

Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. The

citizen of the European Union countries received the

right to immigrate From owe country to another and

they got a greater freedom to live, work or study in

any of the member states and there were no borders

to travel from are European Union State to another.

The main body of the European Union is the European

Parliament, which is elected by the citizens of the

European Union States. The main body works in

Strasburg, but most work of its committee is done

in Brussels. Finland, Austria and Sweden joined the

European Union in nineteen ninety five. In this year

May ffirst day Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia will become

the members of the European Union. There are seven

other countries which will become the members of the

European union. They are: Poland, Cheek, Cyprus,

Malta, Hungary, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

About myself(apie save)

My name is Justina and surname is Šaučiūnaitė. I

live in Anykščiai in Stoties street No eleven. I was

born on the fiveof march nineteen eighty

six in Anykščiai. I am eighteen, I am the citizen

of Lithuania. I am a schoolgirl and I learn in the twelve

form oof Antanas Baranauskas secandary school. So I am a

school-leaver.I live with my family: father, mather, I have

one sister and one brother. All my Familymembers are

cathalics.We the memders of our family are very friendly.

We celebrate all Lithuanian holidays together. My favourite

group is B‘avarija. My favourite singer is Andrius

Mamontovas and also every yang person has a favourite

pop graup.

Mass media in Lithuania(apie žiniasklaidą)

TV, radio, newspapess or magazines ore very popular in

Lithuania, as there are a lot of TV channels so the young

people mostly like LNK, TV3, TV4 channels, as there are

more interesting films, more music, various games. Radio

is also very popular among yang people. They like to listen

to pop music. Of course our taste in music personal. I think

that music is not horn. It effects positive on every person.

Every teenager has his favorite singer. My favorite singer is

Andrius Mamontovas and also every yang person has a

favorite pop groups. My favorite pop group is B‘avarija.

My favorite music group is Naktinės personos. There is a

great veriely of press in Lithuania nowadays. The most

popular newspaper in Lithuania is „Lietuvos rytas“. It is

popular not only among young, at al to about older people

there we find what is happening in Lithuania and in the world.

We find articles oon political events, sports, the life of interesting

people and so on. There are also many other newspapers and

magazines. Our newspaper “Anykšta” gives much material about

the life of the people in our district.

Education and school(švietimas mokykloje)

My school is A. Baranauskas secondary school. It is in Salomėjos

Nėries street. The schoolchildren get a secondary education at our

school. There are about seventy teachers and one thousand one

hundred pupils. The school-year begins on the first of September

and ends on the first of June. We have autumn, winter, spring and

summer holidays. Our summer holidays are the longest about three

months. We go to school five days in a week. Saturdays and Sundays

are the days off. Junior pupils have five-six lessons in a day and

senior pupils have six-seven or even eight lessons in a day. Our

intervals last from ten to twenty minutes. During the intervals we

listen to music. We study Lithuanian, English, Russian, Germany,

French, Mathematics, History, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Music,

Art, Sports. Our classes are equipped with computers, CD players,

tape-recorders. We have library reading room, where we can use

internet, canteen, sports hall. Often classes we can take part in

various clubs. We have various competitions, parties. The pupils

of the eleven and twelve forms get a profile education and so tthey

are prepared for their future profession.

My favorite dish(mano mėgstamiausias patiekalas)

Every family has its favorite dish. Some families like meat dishes,

some fishes dishes, some vegetable dishes, some flour dishes and

potatoes dishes. The Lithuanian national dish is cepelinai. Every

family know how to prepare it. You need potatoes. The first thing

you have to do is washing of the potatoes, peeling them, washing

them once more. After that you grate potatoes and drain that mass.

Then we prepare meat. We take a piece of pork, cut it and put

everything into this meat mass and mix with a spoon or a hand.

Thirdly you take potatoes mass, make balls and put that prepared

meat inside the ball. Fourthly we take a pot, pour some water, put

same salt and put it on the stove. When the water begins to ball, we

put cepelinai into it and boil about half an hour them we take them

out of the pot and eat with a same made of fat or butter, onion and

cream.

Hobbies and leisure time(hobis ir laisvalaikis)

Every person is interested in it his or her hobby from childhood.

Same young people are keen on doing crossword puzzles, because

many magazines and papers are full of them but this hobby requires

much knowledge in ever

sphere of life. The boys usually like

watching TV, vide making, fishing and especially now playing

computer games, television. The most popular TV programs are TV3,

TV4, LNK. On weekends the young people go to discos. Some boys

and go in for sports. They attend various sports clubs – basketball,

swimming, water sports – skating, skiing. There are very few young

people especially schoolchildren, who like reading books. Same girl

like knitting, drawing, music. Many pupils after lessons go to music

school, art school, where they learn to pplay any instrument, to draw.

My flat(mano butas)

I live in Stoties street number eleven . my flat is on the second floor.

Our flat consists of three rooms, a kitchen, a hall a bathroom and a

toilet. We have all conveniences in our flat – control heating, cold

and hot running water, gas. The biggest room is a sitting room. There

a two windows and therefore it is very light. There are daily and

blind curtains on the windows. On one side of the room tthere is a big

table with six chairs round in and there is a wall stand for books and

dishes. On the other side there is a little table, a sofa, two armchairs

a TV set, where our family rests after work. There aare a lot of pictures

on the walls and many flowers. In the bedroom we have two beds a

wardrobe, a mirror, two chairs. The third room is my room, where I

have a sofa, a desk with computer on it, a bookshelf, a CD player,

two chairs. In the kitchen we have a cupboard, a table with four chairs,

refrigerator, a gas stove. In the bathroom there is a bath, a washing

machine. We also have a balcony and a cellar.

Holidays in Lithuanian(atostogos Lietuvoje)

There are a lot of holidays in Lithuanian. The most holidays are

Christmas, New Year, Easter. These holidays are celebrated in my

family Christmas, the ancient holiday of the return of the sun, was

known in most European nations. In Lithuanian people spend Christmas

with tthe Christmas Eve supper. Food is prepared specially for supper

and for the first day of Christmas. The whole family sits at the table

and there are twelve traditional dishes on the table. You must taste them

all. When the supper is ever, people go to church. The food is left to

stand overnight for the visiting spirits to last it. In the morning

Children

find some Christmas presents under, the Christmas tree. The food usually

consists of fish, haring, fruit, cokes, nuts, honey, compote, paste. For

Easter hholiday we paint eggs, take cokes, horn.

Smoking is an unhealthy habit(apie rūkimą)

It is side that about seventy interest young people smoke or have tread

smoking. There are a lot of illnesses which are caused by smoking. In

our days the children begin to smoke even in primary forms. So it has

a very big negative effect their learning. They became habitual smokers

by the time they are sixteen . I think it happens so, that the parents

doesn’t control their children, they do not interest where the children put

money which they give for lunch or dinner at school I think that there

are such adults who encourage young people to smoke. They give then

cigarettes to try to smoke for the first time, then children ask those

adults

to buy cigarettes to them, as the shop assistants have no right to sell for

children. Many children smoke at school during internals. If you want to

be healthy you mustn’t smoke, mustn’t drugs, alcohol. You must eat

good food and in for sports.

Places(lankytinos vietos)

There are many interesting places in Lithuanian. They Palanga, Šventoji,

Druskininkai, Birštonas, and also our native Anykščiai. The place which

Lithuanian people like most, is Palanga, because it is the biggest resort

near the Baltic sea. If guest comes from any EEuropean country, I first of

all will show my native town with its wonderful nature, museums, the river

Šventoji and lakes. I will tell him about local traditions, economical

situation,

festivals. Anykščiai is such a place, which attracts tourists by its

wonderful

nature. All my life from childhood up till now I spent in my native town. I

think that Lithuanian is such a country where the life is interesting and

active.

Shopping(apsipirkinėjimas)

My mother does the shopping every day. I help her as the purchases are some

times heavy enough to carry home. Most often we visit the supermarket

Saulutė

where different departments are provided with various goods to anyone’s

choice

and taste. We take a supermarket trolley and enter the first department

where

you can find veal, beef, pork and sausages. A little further the

fishmonger’s

section attracts your eyes with tins of any fish. You can buy some cottage

cheese, butter and cream in the dairy products department. The

greengrocer’s

section gives a great variety of vegetables and fruit. There are pots,

jars,

knives, forks, plates, frying-pans and other things in the household

articles

department. Sometimes we are dissatisfied with goods we have bought in

the shops. In short it is better to buy things that are expensive but of a

high

quality. There are lots of other shops in the town. The footwear, cosmetics

and pperfumery, ready-made clothes, haberdashery, textiles, sports goods

and some others. When each season goes to an end, the prices on goods

are reduced and everyone can buy his necessary things cheaper. You saved

money can be spent easily. On the whole, shopping requires much money.

NATO

The Baltic States admission NATO is currently the most pressing topic in

the Baltic. NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It’s a

military alliance of Western nations for the purpose of collective defense.

It was established in nineteen forty nine. NATO’s member States are:

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Island, Italy,

Luxemburg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, UK, USA.

Poland and Czech were admitted this year. In the Baltic States support

the program-“Partnership for Peace” to the Fullest extent, they will be

admitted

as well. Baltic military forces take part in NATO maneuvers and it’s a

concrete

benefit, as Baltic States want to be admitted as full members. There are

lots of

different opinions on what is better for a small country: to be a member of

a

military organization or to be a neutral country. There are various

advantages

of both. It’s said, that preparation of Lithuania to join NATO requires

from

eighth to ten millions Litas. That is why it would be more beneficial to

modernize

the economics of Lithuania, than to spend

huge sums of money on joining

NATO.

Moreover some people say, that the threat of war in only our imagination.

For

example, during the period 1944-1953 lots of men were killed, but it was

impossible

to confirm the act of independence. Meanwhile, in 1990 the independence was

restored

without any war or guns. So, it would be better to spend money on solving

social

and economical problems than on joining NATO. In conclusion the opponents

of “Lithuanian in NATO” consider, that Lithuania should seeks to be a

neutral

country. The proponents of “Lithuania iin NATO” suggest that joining NATO

would confirm the stability of Lithuania. Lithuania is tiny country and the

enemies can be too strong and powerful to fight with. So, NATO could help

in case in the threat of war.

Klausiamieji žodeliai

kada kaip kelias kiek(skaič) kiek(nesk) kieno koks kol kur

when how way how many how much whose what while where

kuris kas ką kam kodėl

which who what whom why

Pagalbiniai žodeliai

Am, is, are, was, were, do, does, did, have, has, had, will, would.

kantinijas laikai