3. Translate into English:

1. Яке Ваше улюблене заняття? 2. Як Ви зазвичай проводите Ваші вихідні? 3. Він дуже любить фотогра­фувати. 4. Вона захоплюється фігурним катанням. 5. Мій син тривалий час збирає марки

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Vih. 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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

IX. Give synonyms to the words in bold type:

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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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10. Read, translate and retell the text: 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 word 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 sailing and from chess to foreign travel. Some of these hobbies require very little equipment while 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.

10. 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.

Making things: models, needlework (e.g. knitting, cro­cheting, sewing, 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.