Lexical exercises

Exercise 1. Form nouns, using the suffixes, and translate them.

-er(-or) -ist -(t)ion -ment

collect hobby collect amuse

hunt philately complete entertain

paint tour attract develop

dance achieve

travel

play

Exercise 2. Change the words written with capital letters so that they correspond to the contents of the text.

The British Sport.

Britain does not often produce sportsmen who are successful in world (CHAMPION) but it has been good at inventing sports. In towns and cities space for team sports is (LIMIT). To keep fit, most people take part in individual sports. They (USUAL) go walking, swimming or cycling. Taking part in all these sports is ( FORMAL) and relaxing. Although many British people want to be (HEALTH) not many people do very much about it. A recent study proved that many people were not as active as they thought and (CORRECTLY) believed that they did enough exercise to keep fit.

Exercise 3. Make up pairs of synonyms:

spare, to be keen on, to enjoy, to one’s liking

to be interested in, free, to one’s taste, to take pleasure.

Exercise 4. Make up pairs of antonyms

exciting, usual, common, useful, pleasant, free, to win

boring, to lose, useless, unpleasant, unusual, rare, busy

Exercise 5. Insert prepositions; translate into Russian:

to be fond…collecting to be interested…gardening

to be keen…fishing to take pleasure…reading

to go… … sport to keep … good health

to take part… sport events according… one’s taste

to be … one’s disposal to be busy…needlework

Exercise 6. Make word-combinations:

Adj+Noun Verb+Noun

favourite pastime to enjoy sport club

(un)pleasant occupation to prefer handicraft

(un)usual hobby to choose gardening

usefull(less) competition to join crowds of people

exciting leisure to attract collecting

spectacular championship

Exercise 7. Choose a suitable word for each definition.

1. Freedom from duties or usual work

2. A group organized to work together

3. A contest, the act of competing

4. Proficiency, trade or technique

5. Gathering, bringing together in a group

6. An activity or interest for enjoyment

7. An occupation requiring skill with hands

hobby, leisure, handicraft, team, competition, skill, collecting

Exercise 8. Insert suitable modal verb:

1. You … always hear sports news on the radio and TV.

2. Everywhere you… see people going in for sport.

3. Numerous hobbies … be subdivided into four large classes.

4. A hobby … be useful and help your cultural development.

5. Your hobby … help you to choose a profession.

6. Leisure time as well as work … be thought over.

7. You … sometimes hear that there are no winter sports in England.

8. He … join the sports club as soon as he is through with his medical examination

9. A hobby … influence your life style.

10. The child is pale, he … play out-of-doors.

Text 1

HОBBIES

Exercise 1. Read and translate the text.

Notes:

to make sculpture – заниматься скульптурой

to design a costume – разрабатывать модель костюма, создать костюм

a hobby painter – художник-любитель

to be housed in museums and galleries – размещаться в музеях и галереях

an item – предмет, пункт, экспонат

a rare book – редкая книга

an art object – предмет искусства

a private collection – частная коллекция

A hobby is a favourite pastime of a person. Hobbies differ like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby to your liking, lucky you are: you have made your life more interesting.

Numerous hobbies can be subdivided into four large classes: doing things, making things, collecting things and learning things.

The most popular of all hobby groups is doing things. It includes a wide variety of activities, everything from gardening to travelling and from chess to volleyball. Gardening is one of the oldest man’s hobbies, especially in some countries (Britain, for example). A relatively new hobby which is becoming more popular is playing computer games.

Making things includes drawing, painting, making sculpture, designing costumes, and handicrafts. Some hobbyists write music. Two of the most famous hobby painters were President Eisenhower and Sir Winston Churchill.

Almost everyone collects something at some period in his life: stamps, coins, matchboxes, books, records, postcards, toys, watches. Some collections have no real value. Others become so large and so valuable that they are housed in museums and galleries. Many world-famous collections started in a small way with one or two items. People with a good deal of money often collect paintings, rare books and other art objects. Often such private collections are given to museums, libraries and public galleries so that others might take pleasure in seeing them.

No matter what kind of hobby a person has, he always has the opportunity of learning from it. By reading about the things he is interested in, he is adding to what he knows. Learning things can be the most exciting aspect of a hobby.

Exercise 2. Answer the questions to the text:

1. What is a hobby?

2. What classes can hobbies be divided into?

3. What activities does doing things include?

4. What do hobbyists, who prefer making things, do?

5. What do people collect?

6. How do people learn from his or her hobby?

Exercise 3. Find a key-sentence in each passage

Exercise 4. Make up a plan of the text, using the phrases in a proper order:

Collecting things

Doing things

Making things

Classes of hobbies

Learning things

Exercise 5. Complete the sentences and say if you are one of them.

Book Lovers are interested in

Fishermen like to…

Musicians prefer…

Collectors are fond of

Sportsmen go in for…

Theatre-goers spend their time…

Philatelists devote their time to…

Tourists are keen on…

Painters take pleasure in…

Dancers enjoy…

Nature lovers take part in…

Text 2

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