Hobbies And Interests
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| V + re | a | [εa] | fare, mare, bare care, flare : there, where |
| C V + re | e | [iә] | here, mere |
| u | [juә] | pure, cure, sure | |
| o | [o:] | fore, core, more and Door, floor, four, your | |
| y i | [ai ] | tire, tyre | |
leisure [΄le ə]
pastime [΄pa:staim]
entertain [entə΄tein]
percent [pə`sent]
on average [on΄ævərid ]
exciting [ik΄saitiŋ]
meal [mi:l]
famous [`feiməs]
heritage [`heritid ]
orchestra [`o:kistrə]
dance [da:ns]
appeal [ə`pi:l]
acclaimed [ə`kleimd]
fair [fεə]
3. . . Television, popular, activity, visit, radio, music, compact disc, CD player, regular, museum, gallery, bar, collection, manuscript, festival, artistic, orchestra.
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Leisure Pastimes in ___?___
Watching television and visiting or entertaining friends or relatives are among the most popular leisure activities in Britain. Nearly every household has a television set and about 82 percent of households have a video recorder. People spend, on average during the week, 25 hours watching television and over 16 hours listening to the radio. Listening to recorded music, increasingly on compact disc (CD), is also popular, and 59 percent of households have a CD player. Other regular pastimes include reading, gardening, do-it-yourself home improvements, sporting activities, and going out for a meal, to a pub or bar, or to the cinema.
There are over 2500 museums and galleries open to the public in Britain, which have some of the worlds most important and exciting collections. They receive about 110 million visitors a year. The most famous of them include the British Museum, National Gallery, and Natural History Museum etc. The British Library has over 150 million individual items, including books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, stamps and recorded sound.
Britains artistic and cultural heritage is one of the richest in the world. Around 650 professional arts festivals take place in Britain every year. London is one of the leading centres for drama, music, opera and dance. Britains symphony orchestras are internationally famous, the British pop and rock music maintains its worldwide appeal. British films are acclaimed. There are about 2200 cinema screens in Britain.
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As to the young people, the most popular pastime for teenagers is watching television; one in three British teenagers has a television in their bedroom. They spend 12 hours per week this way, compared with only 6 hours doing their homework. The alternative is playing computer games or musical instruments.
The young adults like going to pubs (82%), eating in fast food restaurants (77%), going to disco (68%), cinema (65%), library (41%), fun fair (27%), museum (21%) and theatre (14%).
Vocabulary
leisure [΄le ə], n ,
leisure [΄le ə], adj
pastime [΄pa:staim], n - , ,
watch [wot∫], v ,
entertain [entə΄tein], v - , (), (with)
listen to [lisn], v , ,
gardening [΄ga:dniŋ], n -
do-it-yourself [΄du:itjo:΄self], n ( , )
home improvements [΄həumim΄pruvmənts], n pl ,
on average [on΄ævərid ]
cinema [΄sinəmə], n , , ,
stamp [stæmp], n -
art [a:t], n ,
artistic [a:΄tistik], adj ,
exciting [ik΄saitiŋ], adj ,
item [΄aitəm], n , , , ,
library [΄laibrəri], n -
dance [da:ns], n , ,
dance [da:ns], v -
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1) visiting museums and galleries
2) reading books
3) playing computer games
4) collecting stamps
5) drawing
6) going in for sports
7) entertaining friends
8) training a dog
9) watching TV
10) gardening
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1) Watching television is among the most popular leisure activities in Britain.
2) People spend more time listening to the radio than watching television.
3) The most popular pastime for teenagers is do-it-yourself home improvements.
4) The most popular pastime for young adults is going to pubs.
5) Most young adults do not like going to the theatre.
6) Nobody goes museums and galleries.
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Music, museum, famous, ballet, exciting, theatres, cinemas, concert, artists, tickets
Entertainment in New York
And what can you do after dinner in the evening? Go to the theatre, or the ______, or perhaps listen to some ______. You can do something different every night of the week.
Most of the theatres are in the streets near Times Square and on Broadway. There are thirty or more _______ on Broadway and tickets are expensive, but sometimes you can get cheaper _______ on the day.
There are _______ all over the city.
New York is a wonderful city for jazz. You can hear the best jazz at the Blue Note at 131 West Third Street.
Sometimes you can hear a rock ________ at Madison Square Garden.
Americans like to watch an _______ game of baseball, and New York has two _______ baseball teams the Mets and the Yankees.
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New Yorks museums have the works of some of the worlds best and most famous _______. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the biggest _______ in New York, and is on the Fifth Avenue.
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1) My Dad makes furniture and all kinds of things in his free time. His hobby is
2) My friend paints the floor, changes wallpaper and rebuilds the rooms in his flat. His favourite pastime is
3) My sister has a big collection of CDs and tapes; she often goes to different concerts and knows the words of all popular songs by heart. She takes her Walkman everywhere with her. Her hobby is
4) My brother rarely watches TV, but he often buys books and goes to the library. His favourite leisure pastime is
5) My Mom spends all her free time planting flowers and looking after them. Her hobby is
6) My friend often invites people to his place. He likes
7) My sister goes to disco every weekend. Her favourite pastime is
