Smoking is the largest single preventable cause of death in Europe today. In Britain it kills more people each year than road traffic accidents, heroin abuse or dangerous sports. It accounts for one in three of all deaths between 40 and 64. About 90% of lung cancers...
Many people believe that there are intelligent beings on other planets and we are not alone in the universe. During the last half of the century there have been created a lot of tales about newcomes from beyond the earth. They are usually described as small, green,...
Every man is the architect of his own future. Today many people are pessimist, they are dissatisfied with life, they think that everything is unjustly ,they always complain. But also many of people who are self-contented they achieve hapiness, they enjoy life, they...
The Republic of Poland (until December 1989 the Polish People's Republic) is situated in Eastern Europe, bounded to the north by the Baltic Sea and an enclave of Russia, to the north-east by Lithuania, to the east by Belarus, to the south-east by Ukraine, to the west...
Dear Sir/Madam. I’m writing to you concerning a CD player (model.) that I purchased several months ago from one of yours dealers here in Krakow: Mix Electronics Discount Audio. From your ads, I was led to believe that your audio equipment is the best available on...
Dear Mrs Grace Jansen I would like to apply for the position of power energetic engineer in the “Krakow Power System Corporation”. My experiences and education give me excellent qualifications for the position. First of all I studied at Technical Power Energetic...
My hobby is music. I listen to music all the time when I am at home, except when I am in the living room and the television is on. Most of all I like pop music and such pop singers as Prince, Tina Turner and groups such as Dire Straits, The Rolling Stones. I often...
My hobbies have changed in the last few years. In the past I collec¬ted postcards, stamps, badges, and different stickers but I have always been faithful to books. It is my great hobby: I never part with books, they have always been my best friends. Along with the...
I am rather fit and play sport almost every day my favourite sport is swimming I started going to the swimming pool with my mother when I was 4 years old. The water in the swimming pool seemed very cold to me then and I did not want to get into it. My mother was...
Most people like music. We can hear music everywhere - at home, at school, at the work, on a bus. We often wonder what is the role of music in our life? Why do people like it and what benefits do they have from listening music? There are a lot of kinds of music....
What should depress us most in the huge speed and scale of the change that human beings are inflicting on the world. Today we have so many environmental problems that it is quite difficult to point out the most important ones. The burning of fossil fuels and the...
I write to give an opinion on one of the TV programmes. It’s ‘Cooking is fun’ directed by a wellknown cook, Stiven Watson. It may not seem to be very interesting, but let me explain what a good this programme makes to people. Most of us doesn’t like to cook and...
After a long and tiring day at school I like to spend my free time in such away that I feel relaxed. The kinds of activity I choose depend upon the time of the year. When it is sunny and warm I go out. When it is cold, rainy and dull - I stay at home. In the summer I...
I live in Siedlce - a town in the east of Poland. There live about eighty thousand people . I wasn’t born in Siedlce - I was born in Warsaw but I have lived in Siedlce for sixteen years. I will try to describe my town a little. Siedlce is situated on the small...
The modern world isn’t easy and safe place to live. What we can observe is that the greater and more advanced development of civilization, technology and economy, the more dangerous it is to live. But what do we understand by danger of modern living? In my...
After an upbringing in New Zealand and a spell acting in her own country, Nyree Dawn Porter made London her home. Interview by Alan O’Kelly. Nyree Dawn Porter made her first stage appearance at the age of three. Playing the part of a ladybird in an amateur production...
The role of Poland in the united Europe depends not only on ourselves; however, we can exert some influence on it. Nevertheless, one thing is certain: if we continue to treat science and education as we have been doing for the last few years, i.e. if we think that we...
There are many sorts of entertainment in today’s life. One of them is watching films. Watching film is a very pleasant activity. If you watch a film you don’t have to think a lot - you only look at the screen. All ideas are presented in the film with the aid of...
Jim Barber is a centre forward for Glasgow Rangers football club. He talks to Paul Sullivan about a typical day in his life. I don’t usually get up till 8.30. On a match day I’ll get up even later. I’ll sit in bed, watch breakfast TV for a while, and then I’ll...
Spending holidays at the seaside in summer makes sense, as there are more things to do than in winter. We can spend our time in many different ways. Because it is usually hot and sunny, we stay whole days on the beach. When we want to take a cool break from the hot...
I suppose I will not be original if I say I have been living in Gdynia for fifteen years but it is true. I was born in Katowice in 1981 during hard times for our country. At first we were all living in my granny’s house but my parents decided to move to Gdynia. Now I...
Why do so many people move to big cities? There are very many reasons, which we ought to know. First of all in a big city there are more shops, restaurants, theatres and cinemas. People, who live in big cities hardly ever complain about boredom - they always can find...
KINDS OF ADDICTIONS There are three main addictions – drug taking, alcoholism and smoking cigarettes. CONSEQUENCE All of them cause illness, threaten our health and even bring about early death. Some of them ruin careers, happy family life and lead up to conflicts...