About myself. Let me introduce myself. My full name is Andrey Sergeevich IVanov

Let me introduce myself. My full name is Andrey Sergeevich Ivanov. I was born on April 8, 1987 in Astrakhan.

Our family is neither large nor small. There are four of us: my mother, my father, my brother and me. It is an average Russian family.

My father is 47 years old. He is a Civil engineer. He works at the Building Site. He is always busy. He has very little free time. He likes his job. My mother teaches foreign languages at the Astrakhan State University. She works a lot. She does her house-work and I always help her. My brother is 20 years old. He is a student of the Economics Faculty. He is not married yet and has no family of his own.

I am a first-year-student of the Astrakhan Engineer Building Institute. Last year I finished a secondary school and entered the Institute. I have various subjects at the Institute: high mathematics, drawing geometry, English, history of the world and national culture, physics, chemistry and many others. When I graduate from the Institute, I shall become a Civil engineer, like my father.

I have two grandmothers and one grandfather. I love them very much and often go to see them.

We have many relatives. My aunts, uncles and cousins live in different parts of Russia. On holidays they often come to our place. We have a very good time together.

At the week-ends we usually go to the country-side to ski in winter and to walk in the forest in summer. We are happy to be together.

Exercise 2.Vocabulary. Learn by heart the following words

to enter the Institute поступить в институт

to finish a secondary school- закончить среднюю школу

to graduate from (the Institute,

the University)- закончить (институт, университет)

a first-year student- студент первого курса

slim- adj стройная

fair- adj светлый

hair- n волосы

to listen- v слушать

everyday- adj повседневный, обычный

housewife- n домохозяйка