1.7. Give the English equivalents for the following:
в соответствии с характером и вкусом; в свое свободное время, становиться более интересной и волнующей; вам повезло; проявлять живой интерес к фотографии; увлекаться шитьем; быть ближе к природе; одно из многочисленных хобби; любая хорошая музыка; стараться выяснить все о ...; не отставать от новостей; освежать в памяти ... .
1.8. Answer the following questions:
1. What do you mean by saying "a hobby"? 2. What hobbies do you know? 3. Which of them do you like best? 4. What's Victor's hobby? 5. What's your hobby?
Ask about these:
sports (go in for)
music (like)
magazines (read)
TV programme (watch)
films (like)
g
ames
(play)
David: sports, basketball, tennis, music, salsa.
Jane: swimming, nature, ball dances, poetry, love stories.
Lina: cinema, detectives, dogs, rock-n-roll, gymnastics.
Example: What kind of music does David like?
Use your notes to make sentences about David, Jane and Lina.
Example: David plays basketball and tennis. He also likes salsa music ... .
1.10 Write a questionnaire.
Example: In your free time ... .
Do you like playing computer games?
Do you like going to the cinema?
Do you like ...?
1.11 Read the dialogue & make up your own one. Spare Time
Jack: How do you spend your spare time, Bill?
Bill: Well, my wife and I often go to the movies or to the theatre. And, of course, we never fail to watch interesting TV shows.
1.12 Read and translate these dialogues. Watching Television
Ann: I'm going to the "Progress" this evening.
Kate: What's on?
Ann: It's a western: "Cowboy Come Home".
Kate: But there's a western on television to-night. You're welcome to come in and watch it.
Ann: A wide screen and the colour will be better, I think.
Kate: Nothing of the kind. Here you can have a comfortable chair to sit in, a drink at your elbow and no journey to make. Besides there are other worthwhile programs on: a documentary on underwater swimming, a half hour sport review and an instalment of a mystery serial play.
Ann: Do you prefer seeing a story as a TV film to reading it in a book?
Kate: Oh, yes. You can actually see the characters and how they're dressed and watch their expressions.
Ann: But a film can also make everything more exciting and vivid and the darkness cuts out human surroundings completely.
Kate: But you can't choose your program and it's waste of money to walk out if you're bored. It's so easy to turn off the TV - not that I do turn it off very often.
Ann: That's just it. You're drugged by it: you've given up all your old interests. That's why I won't have a TV. I still have time to read, invite friends in for a chat or sometimes go to concerts or to the cinema or the theatre.