XII. Read and translate the text about hobbies. Retell it according to the questions given below.

Hobbies

Hobbies differ like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby according your character and taste you are lucky because your life becomes more interesting.

Hobbies are divided into four large groups: doing things, making things, collecting things and learning things.

The most popular of all hobby groups are doing things. It includes a wide variety of activities, from gardening to travelling and from chess to volleyball.

Both grown-up and children are fond of playing different computer games. This is a relatively new hobby but it is becoming more and more popular.

Making things includes drawing, painting, making sculpture, designing costumes and handicraft.

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Almost everyone collects something at some period of his life: stamps, coins, matchboxes, books, postcards, toys, watches. Some collections have no real

value. People with a good deal of money often collect paintings, rare books and other art objects.

No matter what kind of hobby a person has, he always has opportunity of learning much from it. Learning new things can be the most exciting aspect of a hobby.

Questions:

• Tastes differ. Can you say the same about hobbies?

• Have you chosen a hobby according to your character and taste?

• Which hobby groups do you know?

• The most popular hobby group is doing things, isn’t it? What kind of activities does this group include?

• What do you know about computer games?

• Are you fond of making things?

• Have you ever collected anything?

• What can be collected?

XIII. Learn the topical Speech Patterns:

A)

- What is your hobby? My hobby is collecting old coins.

- What is your hobby, Jane? Dancing. I am crazy about dancing.

- What is your favourite pastime? I like chatting to my old friends. I also like reading.

- What do you go in for? I go in for sports, skiing in winter, swimming and motoring in summer.

B)

- Your hobby seems to be very useful.

- Your pastime seems to be both practical and interesting.

- He seems to be carried away by his hobbies.

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- She seems to be sick and tired of collecting these useless things.

C)

- I usually stay at home in the evening reading books and papers.

- She usually stays at home after work watching television.

- He usually stays at home cooking and washing.

- His wife is always busy discussing ecological problems with her friends.

XIY. Read the dialogues. Try to retell them.

1.

A. What is your hobby, Ann?

B. I collect books published in the XYIII century.

A. It is very interesting! Have you got many in your collection?

B. There are almost two hundred of them.

A. Quite a number, I should say! I wonder whether you manage to read them

all.

B. Reading is not essential. It is the process of collecting itself that interests me.

2.

A. What is your favourite pastime, Boris?

B. Fishing. I enjoy it very much.

A. Do you often go fishing?

B. Well, yes. I make it a point of spending a few hours by the river every weekend.

A. Do you usually catch much?

B. Well it depends.

3.

A. What do you usually do after work, Jane?

B. Oh, a lot of things. There is always a lot of work to do about the house, washing up, doing the rooms, mending clothes.

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A. No, I don’t mean that. What is your favourite pastime?

B. Again – nothing very special. Sometimes I read a little, watch TV

or listen to the music.

A. I see. What about dancing? Do you like it?

B. Oh, very. I am crazy about dancing. Do you mean to say we shall go to a dance?

A. Yes, I should like to. There is a very good dancing party at the

College Club.

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