Lexical exercises

Exercise 1. Form nouns, use 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. For each definition choose a suitable word.

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. Say:

1) What kinds of hobby do you know?

2) Which do you think is the most interesting?

Exercise 9. Insert suitable modal verb:

1. You … always hear sports new 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.

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