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Vtii. Read and dramatize the following dialogues:

A: What is your hobby?

B: My hobby is collecting old coins.

A: How interesting! Have you got many in your collec­tion?

B: There are almost eight hundred of them.

A: Quite a number, I should say!

  • # *

A: Is painting your hobby?

B: Why do you think so?

A: Because there are a lot of pictures in this room.

B: It’s my elder brother’s hobby.

A: I see, but what about you?

B: I prefer stamps.

  • * *

A: Hello! Where are you going?

B: To the stadium.

A: What for?

B: You know my hobby is football. Will you join me?

A: I’m sorry, but I can’t. I’m busy now.

B: Good-bye, then,.

A: So long.

  • # #

A: What is your favourite pastime?

B: Fishing, I enjoy fishing very much.

A: Do you often go fishing?

B: Well, yes. I make a point of spending a few hours on the river every week-end.

  1. Give synonyms to the words in bold type:

  1. I am fond of modern music. 2. Collecting badges is his hobby. 3. He makes a point of doing morning exercises outdoors. 4. Marry’s favourite occupation is knitting. 5. Roger prefers to go in for sports in the open air.

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Hobbies and leisure-time occupations

From the old English word hobby meaning horse, came the modern word hobbyhorse. This is a dummy horse at­tached to a performer who pretended to be riding a horse in a play or a dance. Hobbyhorse has been shortened to hobby to describe any favourite leisure time occupation. This v/ord has become rather common in modern usage.

Leisure time occupations, or hobbies, can be divided into four groups: doing things, making things, collecting things and learning things. Of these four groups, doing things is perhaps the most popular. It includes a wide range of activities, from gardening to sa'ling and from chess to foreign travel. Some of these hobbies require very little equipment v/hile others require considerably more. There is also a choice between mental and physical activities, indoor and outdoor pursuits, etc.

Leisure time occupations can be more or less active. A real hobby is usaully defined as something creative and individual, sometimes even as something obsessive, unusual or eccentric.

  1. Translate the text: indoor activities or home interests

Doing things: reading; listening to records or tapes or to the radio; watching television; entertaining friends; playing games (e.g. chess or cards); painting; mending things.

Maki g hings: models, needlework (e.g. knitting, cro­cheting, sev/ing, weaving, making carpets, making lace), making music, i.e. singing or playing musical instruments (e.g. the piano, the guitar, the violin), cooking and baking, home decorating and repairing.

Collecting things: collectings stamps, postcards, maps, coins, beermats, bottles, tins, old china, autographs, books, butterflies, shells, crystals and other things.

Learning things: learning foreign languages, learning to play a musical instrument, studying music, art, literature or other subjects.Even if one’s hobby does not solely consist of the study of particular subjects, a real hobbyist wants to learn more about his chosen subject and its history, so that he can become a real expert at it.

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