Exercise 7. Discuss what activities you can do in different seasons.
Do : morning exercise, yoga, gardening, a driving course, a language course. Play: sport games, computer games, chess, cards, board games, the guitar, the piano. Go: dancing, swimming, skiing, skating, snowboarding, jogging, sailing. Go to: the cinema, to the theatre, to the gym.
Exercise 8.Use the following phrases and make true sentences about your activities.
Examples: I’m not very good at cooking. I spend a lot of time watching TV.
1. I spend a lot of time… .
2. I’m not interested in… .
3. I really love… .
4. I don’t have enough time for… .
5. I spend too much time
6. I’m not very good at … .
7. I’m quite good at …
8. I absolutely hate … .
9. I really enjoy….
10. I can’t stand … .
11. I just adore … .
12. I don’t spend much time… .
Exercise 9. Read the following text about hobbies. Make up dialogues about hobbies between:
A) A psychologist and a patient;
b) students;
C) travel agency and a customer.
HOBBIES
Hobbies differ like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby to your liking, you have made your life more interesting. Hobbies can be subdivided into four large groups: doing things, making things, collecting things, and learning things.
The most popular of all hobbies is doing things. It includes activities from gardening to travelling and from playing chess or computer games to swimming. Making things includes drawing, painting, sculpturing, designing clothes, writing music or novels, and handicrafts. Almost everyone collects something at some period of his life: stamps, coins, books, CDs, postcards, toys, watches, etc. Some collections are so big and valuable that they are housed in museums and art galleries. People with a good deal of money often collect paintings, rare books, and art objects. Sometimes private collections are given to museums, libraries and public galleries so that other people might take pleasure in seeing them.
Doing any kind of hobby people always have an opportunity to learn from it. By reading about the things they are interested in, they are getting new knowledge. Learning things also includes doing different kinds of courses, such as driving, cooking, or foreign languages.
Exercise 10. See more about leisure and do ex. 3 from the video about Maria, Max and Tumalee:
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Exercise 11.Read and translate the Text.Choose the title that suits the Text best of all:
- Leisure time or free time
- Leisure in England
- Types of leisure
- Some facts about leisure
Text II
Leisure time or free time, is a period of time spent out of work and essential domestic activity. It is also the period of discretionary time before or after compulsory daily activities such as eating and sleeping, going to work or running a business, attending school and doing homework, household chores, and day-to-day stress. The distinction between leisure and compulsory activities is loosely applied, i.e. people sometimes do work-oriented tasks for pleasure as well as for long-term utility. 
For an experience to qualify as leisure, it must meet three criteria: 1) The experience is a state of mind. 2) It must be entered into voluntarily. 3) It must be intrinsically motivating of its own merit.
The word leisure comes from the Latin word licere, meaning "to be permitted" or "to be free", via Old French leisir, and first appeared in the early 14th century. The notions of leisure and leisure time are thought to have emerged in Victorian Britain in the late nineteenth century, late in the Industrial Revolution. Early factories required workers to perform long shifts, often up to eighteen hours per day, with only Sundays off work. By the 1870s though, more efficient machinery and the emergence of trade unions resulted in decreases in working hours per day, and allowed industrialists to give their workers Saturdays as well as Sundays off work.
Affordable and reliable transport in the form of railways allowed urban workers to travel on their days off, with the first package holidays to seaside resorts appearing in the 1870s, a trend which spread to industrial nations in Europe and North America. As workers channelled their wages into leisure activities, the modern entertainment industry emerged in industrialized nations, catering to entertain workers on their days off. This Victorian concept - the weekend - heralded the beginning of leisure time as it is known today.
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Types of leisure.
Active leisure activities involve the exertion of physical or mental energy. Low-impact physical activities include walking and yoga, which expend little energy and have little contact or competition. High-impact activities such as kick-boxing and soccer consume much energy and are competitive. Some active leisure activities involve almost no physical activity, but do require a substantial mental effort, such as playing chess or painting a picture. Active leisure and recreation overlap significantly.
Passive leisure activities are those in which a person does not exert any significant physical or mental energy, such as going to the cinema, watching television etc. Some leisure experts discourage these types of leisure activity, on the grounds that they do not provide the benefits offered by active leisure activities. For example, acting in a community drama (an active leisure activity) could build a person's skills or self-confidence. Nevertheless, passive leisure activities are a good way of relaxing for many people.
Text vocabulary:
compulsory daily activities - неотъемлемая ежедневная деятельность
essential domestic activity - основная деятельность (экономическая) внутри страны
long-term utility – длительная (долгосрочная) польза
voluntarily - добровольно
wage – заработная плата
long shifts – длительные рабочие смены
intrinsically – по сути
package holidays – организованный отдых (турпутевка)
Exercise 12.Answer the questions:
a) What is active leisure?
b) What do you know about low-impact physical activities?
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c) How do you understand the term high-impact activities?
d) Are passive leisure activities good for relaxing and why?
e) What do you know about the word leisure and the history of this term?
Exercise 13. Phrase match
1. the period of a) the Latin word
2. people sometimes do b) eighteen hours per day
3. the word leisure comes from c) discretionary time
4. often up to d) work-oriented tasks for pleasure
5. Saturdays as well as e) with the first package holidays
6. to travel on their days off f) Sundays off work
7. physical activities include i) consume much energy
8. kick-boxing and soccer j) a good way of relaxing
9. passive leisure activities are k) walking and yoga
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