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Text for Supplementary Reading. Hobbies.

Hobbies differ like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby according to your character and taste you are lucky because your life becomes more interesting.

Hobbies are divided into four large classes: doing things, making things, collecting things, and learning things.

The most popular of all hobby groups is doing things. It includes a wide variety of activities, everything from gardening to travelling and from chess to volleyball.

Gardening is one of the oldest of man's hobbies. It is a well-known fact that the English are very fond of gardening and growing flowers, especially roses.

Both grown-ups and children are fond of playing different computer games. This is a relatively new hobby but it is becoming more and more popular.

Making things includes drawing, painting, making sculpture, designing costumes, handicrafts. Two of the most famous hobby painters were President Eisenhower and Sir Winston Churchill, Some hobbyists write music or play musical instruments. President Bill Clinton, for example, plays the saxophone.

Almost everyone collects something at some period in his life: stamps, coins, matchboxes, books, records, postcards, toys, watches. Some collections have no real value. Others become so large and so valuable that they are housed in museums and galleries. Many world-famous collections started in a small way with one or two items. People with a good deal of money often collect paintings, rare books and other art objects. Such private collections are sometimes given to museums, libraries and public galleries so that others might take pleasure in seeing them.

No matter what kind of hobby a person has, he always has the opportunity of learning from it. By reading about the things he is interested in, he is adding to what he knows. Learning things can be the most exciting aspect of a hobby.

Unit VII. Leisure Time. Theatre. Cinema. Exercises.

  1. Listen and read. [ u:] [ u].

too tomb tooth tool could – cook

boo booed boot cool stood – soot

rue rude route rule hood – hoof

who whom hoot fool

coo cooed coot pull

sour soon soup spoon

Lou lose loose stool

  1. Who'll do the room?

  2. Do as I do.

  3. Lon grew too big for his boots.

  4. Prue knew who's who.

  5. It looks good.

  6. Put your foot down.

  7. Keep a good look down.

  1. Remember the following quotations.

  1. Art is not an end to itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

M. Moussorgsky.

  1. Theatre is a magnifying glass.

M. Neyelova.

  1. Invitations.

Making invitations:

  • Let's go to the …

  • What about going to …

  • Why don’t we go to …

  • Would you like to go to …

  • How about going to …

  • What about tomorrow evening?

  • Do you feel like going to …

  • May I invite you to …

Accepting an invitation:

  • I'd like / love to very much.

  • That would be very nice. Thank you.

  • All right.

  • With pleasure.

  • That's a good idea.

  • Not a bad idea.

  • Oh, I'd love to.

  • Yes, I'd love to.

  • That suits me very well.

  • Agreed.

Refusing an invitation:

  • No, I'm afraid, I can't.

  • I'd like to, but I'm afraid I can't.

  • I wish I could, but I can't.

  • Certainly not.

  • Thank you, but I can't.

  • No, thank you.

  • No, I'd rather stay at home.

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