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The Liberty Bell

It’s a year 2010. All happened in Zhovkva village, that’s in Lviv region. The time is nine o’clock in the evening.

- Who is there?

- Can you help me?

- What?

- Can you speak English?

- Yes, I can.

- Oh-h-h-h, thanks God, you can!!!! Can I stay in your house just for one night?

- But who are you?

- Please, take me inside and I’ll tell you all what you want to know.

- OK, come in. So, who are you?

- I’m from Philadelphia. I run away, because it is very boring and hot there. My name is “The Liberty Bell”. But before this name I had three or four other names. My first name was “The Old State House”; the second was “The Bell of the Revolution” and the third was “Old Independence Bell”. In 1839 I was finally named “The Liberty Bell”.

- When were you born and where?

- I was born in 1751 in England.

- What is your weight?

- My weight is about two thousand pounds.

- What is it? (Shows to the crack)

- It is a crack. I cracked twice. At first I cracked when I rang at first. But I was recast in Philadelphia. At second I cracked in 1835 during the funeral services of Chief Justice John Marshall.

- Did you visit other towns in your country?

- Yes, I visited such towns as New Orleans, Chicago, Charleston, Boston, Atlanta, St. Louis, San Francisco, etc. And since 1915 I have been on permanent display in Philadelphia.

- Your story is very good, let’s continue our speaking at the table. OK?

- OK.

Grade 6, 2001

THE GROUP SURVEY

APRIL 2004

What are advantages and disadvantages of writing journals?

- Advantages: improving our English. Disadvantages: it takes free time out. (Danylo Zavgorodny)

- Writing journals is very useful and develops our level of knowledge in English. But it also has some disadvantages, because very often we write the same topics. It’s not very interesting. (Ira Los’)

- I think writing articles in journal is very important. It’s very interesting and it gives us more experience. In general I think there are no disadvantages in writing journals. (Lytvyn Vadym)

- I think that there is no disadvantages in writing journals, because we learn how to write articles on different themes. (Kravchuk Serhiy)

- I think there are no disadvantages, because writing journals is very useful for us. And it only develops and improves our knowledge of English. (Kolosiuk Artem)

- I think that there are no disadvantages in writing journals. It’s a very useful and interesting thing that deepens our knowledge of English. (Malaniak Andriy)

- I think disadvantages in writing journals are absent, because in journals we can show our thoughts. (Serbina Natalia)


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