Free time
1 Do you like solving crossword puzzles? Why / Why not?
2 Read and translate this text about Maxims hobby.
I like doing different things, such as reading detective novels, listening to music, playing tennis with my friends, travelling.
But my favourite way to spend free time is doing crossword puzzles. It's not only interesting, but also useful. When you try to solve a puzzle, you find out and learn a lot of different facts. Besides, in puzzles there are questions about famous people, geographical places, countries, scientific achievements and so on. They also train your brain. I can spend hours doing crosswords and Im never fed up!
Crossword puzzles first appeared in the US in the early 20th century. Today many people around the world regularly do crosswords, sometimes on the bus or train on their way to work. And so does my dad! Most newspapers and magazines contain at least one crossword and there are often prizes for people who send in the correct solution. (Once I even won a mixer!) Books of crosswords are also popular.
I know that in Britain they have two basic types of crossword: quick and cryptic. In quick crosswords the clues are usually definitions of the answers. Cryptic crosswords, which began in Britain and are much more popular there than in any other country, have clues which contain both a definition of the answer and a word puzzle involving the letters in it.
I like doing all types of crossword puzzles. They are Scandinavian, English, Hungarian, Japanese, ordinary. I sometimes try to make up my own puzzle and I can say that it isnt as easy as it seems to be!
As I said earlier my dad likes solving puzzles too, and this unites us very much.
Vocabulary:
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| fed up | |||
| puzzle | 
| solve | 
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| scientific | 
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| brain | contain | 
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Questions:
1 Do you have much free time? 2 How do you prefer to spend your holidays? 3 Do you do any sports in your free time? 4 How do you usually spend your weekends? 5 Do you like to go anywhere when you have some free time? 6 Your friend says he / she doesnt know what to do in their free time. Give some advice. 7 Travelling is a nice way to spend your free time. Agree (disagree).
Be ready to talk about the way you like to spend your free time.
Grammar:
: (general yes/no questions), (special wh-questions), (alternative questions) (disjunctive tag-questions). 䳺 .
䳺.
| 䳺 | 䳺 | : / | ||
| Does | his friend | live | in Lviv? | No, he doesnt. |
| Are | you | crying | because of your mark? | Yes, I am. |
| Can | Susan | speak | French? | Yes, she can. |
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| 䳺 | 䳺 | ||||
| Where | does | his friend | live? | - | He lives in Kyiv. |
| Why | are | you | crying? | - | Because of the mark I got. |
| How well | can | Susan | speak | French? | She often makes mistakes. |
, 䳺 do/does/did .
| ( ) | 䳺 | ||
| Whose friend | lives | in Kyiv? | His friend does. |
| Who | got | a bad mark? | I did. |
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| 䳺 | 䳺 | ³ | ||
| Does | his friend | live or work | in Kyiv? | He lives in Kyiv. |
| Are | you | crying | because of your mark or your boyfriend? | Im crying because of my bad mark. |
| Can | Susan or Liz | speak | French? | Suzan can. |
: , . , , . 䳺 ?
| ? | ³ | |
| His friendlives in Lviv, | doesnthe? | No, he doesnt. |
| Youare crying, | arentyou? | Yes, I am. |
| Susancant speak French well, | canshe? | No, she cant. |
