TWO FRIENDS DISCUSS THEIR HOBBIES

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Haidar: What do you do in your leisure time?

Sami: It depends.

H: For example?

S: I enjoy music, do chatting, read books.

H: Anything else?

S: As I have told you this is my routine.

S: Say something about yourself.

H: I have only one hobby.

S: That's?

H: That's reading good books on poetry and prose.

S: What a bore you are!

H: In my opinion, book - this is the best enjoyment.

S: Don't you become fed up with books?

H: Never ever.

S: What about travelling?

H: I am not crazy, but, sometimes, I do.

S: Isn't it a bit expensive enjoyment?

H: Yes, it is but you can manage somehow.

H: What are you crazy about?

S: It depends on mood.

H: If your mood is good then you do what?

S: I enjoy pop music.

H: Can pop music be called music in the true sense?

S: Yes, why not.

H: Doesn't it seem a bit childish?

S: No way, enjoyment means enjoyment.

S: It is at least better than reading books.

H: There is no comparison between pop music and books.

S: It's your point of view.

H: I am sorry, perhaps, I have hurt you.

S: No. No it is not so.

H: This way or that way leisure is a must.

S: No doubt it is.

7. Fill the gaps

8. Divide in the correct group

Sport Hobbies

Basketball, football, tennis, painting, reading, gymnastics, collecting things, volleyball, playing the guitar, playing the piano, diving, swimming, photography, listening to music, playing computer games, windsurfing, chess.

Grammar corner: PRESENT SIMPLE

УТВЕРЖДЕНИЕ	ОТРИЦАНИЕ	ВОПРОС	КРАТКИЕ
			ОТВЕТЫ
I play	I don’t play	Do I play?	Yes, I do.
			No, I don’t.
You listen to music	You don’t listen	Do you listen	Yes, I do.
	to music	to music?	No, I don’t.
He writes	He doesn’t write	Does he	Yes, he
		write?	does.
			No, she
			doesn’t.
She speaks	She doesn’t	Does she	Yes, she
	speak	speak?	does.
			No, she
			doesn’t.
It sleeps	It doesn’t sleep	Does it sleep?	Yes, it does.
			No, it
			doesn’t.
We study	We don’t study	Do we study?	Yes, we do.
			No, we
			don’t.
They travel	They don’t travel	Do they trav-	Yes, they
		el?	do.
			No, they
			don’t.

9. Choose the correct form of the verb in each sentence.

1) Taras, live/lives in a beautiful flat in Ekaterinburg.

2) We like/likes going to the discos and dancing.

3) My mother and father get/gets up early.

4) You collect/collects photos of pop stars.

5) My mother teach/teaches mathematics at a secondary

school.

6) My brother work/works in a restaurant.

7) Rosa and Paolo come/comes from Brazil.

8) Martin play/plays football and volleyball at school.

10. Complete the second sentence with the negative form of the underlined verb.

1) I come from Pervouralsk. I don’t come from Revda.

2) Nina studies at the university, she ………at school.

3) Veronica speaks English, she ………………………

French.

4) My sister collects books, she ……………………

postcards.

5) I like going to the disco, I ………………….stay in-doors on weekends.

6) We play volleyball. We …………………….hockey.

7) He takes photos of people. He …………….photos of

animals.

8) They like jazz. They ………..rock music.

11. Use the cues in brackets to complete the questions.

1) How often (you/go) to the cinema?

2) What (you/do) after university?

3) Why (your brother/collect) photos of Sandra Bullock?

4) (your parents/visit) your grandmother every day?

5) What music (your sister/play) on the guitar?

6) (you/help) your brother with his homework?

7) Where (you and your friends/meet after school?

8) (your mother/use) a computer for her work?

9) Where (you friends) live and study?

10) What time (she arrive) at the university?

11) When (you) go to the cinema?

12) Why (we do this exercise)?

12. Ask your groupmate how often does he or she does this activity, your neighbor should answer your questions, using the frequency adverbs

eat breakfast	Use the phrase and a fre-	eat pears
	quently word to make a sen-
watch TV	tence, then use the phrase to	do homework
	ask a question
bake a cake		walk in the rain

smoke	always	use a cell phone
	always
	often
	often
	usually
	sometimes
	seldom
	never

sleep late	use a dictionary	clean the flat

swim	sleep in class	have a cold

drive fast	wear bikini	speak Chinese

use a computer	go to the lake	kiss your mother

wear a skirt	dance	wear red

exercise	drink coffee	play basketball

сry	go hiking	climb a tree


study	eat a snake	speak Russian

drink milk	ask for help	paint nails

read a book	go to church	wear make-up

13. Read the text and translate

LEISURE

Leisure.. such a fascinating time that belongs only to youand you are the only master of it. You are free to spend this time the way you like it and to enjoy it. There are various ways of entertain-ing oneself: you can admire your stamp collection, visit a football ora hockey match, read a book, go to a party.. the list and the variety are enormous.

But what to do if you have no hobby whatsoever, your friends are busy, the books of the favorite author have been reread thousand times and are practically learnt by heart?

Sport activities are said to be useful and seem to be in fash-ion But, to tell the truth, they don’t make one happy and enthusiastic. TV? Well, too many advertisements to enjoy any program even the favorite film. The ads just make one sick and tired and many watch TV only in case they have nothing to do. The other extreme – people spend days and nights watching TV each program in succession and they are satisfied with their leisure, but that is not a common case. Books? I suppose one shouldn’t make reading a hobby, your either enjoy reading, taking a book when you are in a mood or then it is not a hobby, it becomes an obligation. Theatre? Unfortunately, it is not a success with the young nowadays, I believe.

What’s left? That is a question. Yes, you are free to choose, but the choice as it turns out is rather limited. Oh, you can go to a disco and spend a couple of hours – or may be evenings? – there, but

the idea is not the best one, if we speak about hobbies. The idea is even rather idiotic, to tell the truth. Night clubs despite their popular-ity are not a brilliant idea either – that is my personal opinion – to spend your free time. First, you cannot get in free and not all parents are eager to sponsor it, at least, not too often, I guess. Second, youcannot spend every night – they are really night clubs – at disco as you have to attend school or university and that is rather difficult after a sleepless night, isn’t it? Missing lessons is not a popular thing either with the parents or with the teacher, I suppose.

Is there a solution to the problem? Why not? Haven’t you guessed yet? It is a computer. In our time a lot of young people like playing computer games. The ideal hobby! Are you going to argue? If you have got a computer, your problem with your leisure time are solved. You will spend hours at the computer not noticing how the time passes. Moreover, you will be sure that you lack time. You canplay computer games, while your parents believe you are working.

Fortunately, parents don’t know much about the «monster», and you can easily persuade them you are trying to solve some so-phisticated problem and they would believe you. They wouldn’t even guess you are just entertaining yourself and you can waste as much

time at the computer as you wish trying to find a solution to agame instead of studying. Who would know?

But well, spending your free time at a computer you would never notice the time pass and you would have no time for anything else. You wouldn’t get enough sleep and would doze off at the les-sons, you would never have time to get well prepared for your clas-ses, as a result you would always – but for some exceptions – get bad marks ..so, you would be definitely cut off from the real world. And to live a virtual life – that is impossible and may be rather dull.

The main problem is that that the young cannot plan their lei-sure. That is not because they are silly, but due to mere ignorance – they simply don’t know how to do it. And if they did, they would find time for everything – at least for everything that interests them. And this shows that there’s little ground to worry and to call the young generation the lost one. They are not lost. They are only young. It is not a fault. It’s just the period when everybody thinks that there is plenty of time ahead that one can waste it hoping to catch up with itlater on. A great mistake! But who thought differently, being young when the whole world seemed to belong only to you and when the time seemed an eternity that would never come to an end.

Vocabulary

attend school	посещать школу
to be eager to sponsor	желать проспонсировать
to become an obligation	становиться обязанностью
to catch up	догонять
to cut from the real world	отрезать от реального мира
to doze off	дремать
to entertain	развлекать
fascinating	очаровательный
to find a solution	найти решение
to get enough sleep	высыпаться
to get in free	зайти бесплатно
leisure	досуг
to live a virtual life	жить виртуальной жизнью

main problem	главная проблема
to make one sick and tired	раздражать
to miss lessons	пропускать уроки
to persuade	убеждать
plenty of time	куча времени
to suppose	полагать
there is little ground to worry	нет оснований беспокоиться
time passes	время проходит
to waste as much time at the	тратить столько время за компью-
computer as you wish	тером, сколько ты желаешь

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