UNIT 7 Leisure Week-end

I. Read translate and learn the following:

Indoor activities or home interests.

Doing things: reading; listening to records or tapes or to the radio; watching television; to lie-in, entertaining friends; to receive guests, to have guests to dinner, to arrange a fancy-dress ball, to have everything arranged (for) one’s birthday, playing games (e.g. chess or cards); painting; mending things.

Making things: models, photography (photos), 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: collecting 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.

Outdoor activities or activities outside the home

Sports activities: athletics, gymnastics, yachting, swim­ming, sailing, rowing, canoeing, racing, skiing, skating, moun­taineering, climbing.

Playing games: football/soccer, handball, volley-ball, tennis, table tennis, basket-ball, baseball, water-polo, golf, badminton, bowling, judo, fencing, boxing and taking part in competitions.

Other activities: gardening, fishing, traveling (e.g. visiting the country-side/the seaside/museums/art ex­hibitions/historical buildings), walking / to go for a walk, to go for a picnic, hiking, to have a garden-party, driving a car, car maintenance, visiting a choir, watching outdoor sports, betting on matches or races

Additional words: week-end, leisure, day off, pastime, party, picnic, hiking, hobby, countryside, landscape, picturesque, spare, willingly, eagerly, to relax, to enjoy, theatre-goer, cinema-goer, video shop

II. Read, translate and learn the following phrases and word-combinations:

1) to do smth. at the week-end 19) to lie in the sun

2) to go somewhere for the week-end 20) to go in for sport

3) to stay somewhere over the week-end 21) indoor/outdoor games

4) to look tired 22) to make a fire

5) to be tired after/of smth. 23) to stay at home

6) to look forward to 24) to hire a video

7) to real­ize one's plans/dream 25) to be on (about a film)

8) to make up one's mind/to decide to do smth. 26) to get tickets

9) to have a good time 27) to go out with boyfriend/girlfriend

10) to be fond of smth. 28) to make a date / to date a girl

11) to arrange smth. 29) to go out on a date with smb.

12) to be lucky 30) to have a date with smb.

13) to be keen on doing smth. 31) to accept an invitation

14) to go out 32) to get bored with smth.

15) to spend one's time in the open air 33) to take a break from work

16) to feel refreshed 34) to put smth. into words

17) to have a swim 35) in different ways

18) to swim in the river (lake)

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