Home Sweet Home

Introduction

In the following text, we are going to read about a British girl and her feelings about another
country. The world is big but the home is where the heart is.

Hello, my name is Cherry and I come from Britain. I visited Serbia 2 years ago. It was
interesting to see their habits. The most interesting thing that can happen is someone's
birthday party. People enjoy having fun, drinking, laughing, eating good food. But, if you want
to have a good birthday party you have to arrange everything at least two weeks before the
big day.

I was staying with some of my father's friends while I was visiting Serbia. At that time my
best friend was Iva. Iva was celebrating her 18th birthday. She had many good friends and
she invited everybody to the party. Here comes her plan. We were supposed to meet at the
corner of Jug Bogdanova Street at 1.00 pm. First I had to wait for some Iva's friends at the
bus stop. I had some problems with finding some streets and because of that I was late.
When I finally arrived at the bus stop Iva’s friends were waiting for me. At 12.30 we were in
Knez Mihailova Street but we couldn’t find the street where we were supposed to wait for Iva.
The street we were looking for was opposite the post office, next to the supermarket. But we
were very clumsy and we couldn’t find it. I remembered one more detail. That street should
be between a shop called "Industry" and a café on the corner. Finally, we found the street.
We were 35 minutes late and Iva got really mad. On the way to McDonald's we saw many
shops with very good clothes. I couldn’t believe it! At the bottom of every dress or T-shirt you
could see famous brands such as Versace, Calvin Klein…

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I enjoyed walking. People in Serbia like to go for a walk in the afternoon. It's the same in
England. In my wallet I found my mother's picture and I felt a little bit sad for a moment…

After a fifteen-minute walk we came to McDonald's. At the door I could see many people
waiting in a queue to get their food. Iva wanted to reserve the hall and to go home that very
minute. We were standing behind her, waiting. Finally, she booked the hall and we left Mc.

The party started at 8pm on Saturday night. Many interesting people came to the party. I
was talking about England and our customs. I was talking about every important event in
each month. My story started with January:

"We go back to school in January, after the Christmas holidays. Sometimes it snows and we
go sledging in the park. In February children have a week's holiday for half terms. March is a
boring month. The English don't do anything special. It rains a lot and it’s very windy. In April
everybody has two weeks' holiday for Easter. In May, at the end of the month, we have a
week's holiday for half term. The weather is warm and sunny in June. The summer holidays
start in the middle of July. No school for six weeks! In August I usually go to stay with my
cousin, Sophie, for two weeks. She doesn't live in England. She lives on a farm in Scotland. I
help on a farm and I really enjoy it. In September we go back to school after the summer
holidays. Sophie’s birthday is in September and I send her a present. My family members’
birthdays are in October. I have to buy presents for my mother, father and brother Edward.
Edward doesn't like having a birthday party. He says he is too old for parties (he's twenty –
five). He goes to the cinema with his friend instead.

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In October we have another half term holiday. I don't like November. It's cold and dark and
the days are very short. December is my favourite month. We have two weeks' holidays for
Christmas and I get lots of presents. We all adore presents. My cousin Sophie comes to our
house for Christmas with her parents and we have a good time. We have a big party at New
Year."

Iva's party finished at dawn. Everybody was absolutely perfect. I was talking about my
country and I enjoyed in it very much. While I was talking about London I realized how much
I love that city!

Vocabulary

Nouns (imenice): Verbs (glagoli):

habit – navika arrange – organizovati

corner – ugao get mad – pobesneti
custom – običaj wait in a queue – čekati u redu
event – događaj reserve – rezervisati
Christmas holidays – božićni praznici book – rezervisati
half term – polugodište go sledging – ići na sankanje
Easter – Uskrs adore – obožavati
cousin – rođak realize – shvatiti
dawn – zora

Adjectives and adverbs Prepositions and conjunctions

(pridevi i prilozi): (predlozi i veznici):

at least – barem opposite – preko puta, sa suprotne strane

clumsy – smotan next to – pored
windy – vetrovito between – između
sunny – sunčano at the bottom – na dnu
favourite – omiljen behind – iza, pozadi
in the middle of – sredinom
instead – umesto

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Synonyms

Nouns (imenice): Verbs (glagoli):

habit – custom, routine arrange – organise

corner – angle reserve – book, hold
custom – habit book – hold, reserve
event – happening adore – worship
cousin – relative realize – understand
dawn – sunrise, dawning

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 Adjectives and adverbs Prepositions and conjunctions
(pridevi i prilozi): (predlozi i veznici):

at least – at any rate between – among

sunny – sunshiny behind – at the back
favourite – preferred instead – in place of, rather than

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Conclusion

• The text provides us with many examples of to celebrate your birthday in Serbia.
Cherry likes Serbia, but naturally not as much as Britain and her family. We could see
some examples of celebrations in both Serbia and Britain. The text is full of
prepositions of place and time.

Napomena za testove napredovanja: Kako biste što bolje usvojili gradivo, uz ovu lekciju
dostupni su testovi za vežbu koji se odnose na razumevanje teksta i vokabulara iz ove
nastavne jedinice.

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