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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 groups: doing things, making things, collecting things, and learning things.
The most popular of all hobby groups is doing things. It includes a wide varietyof activities, from gardening to travelling and from chess to volleyball.
Gardening is one of the oldest 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 hobbyistswrite 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 asmall waywith one or two items.People with a good deal ofmoney often collect paintings, rarebooks, and other art objects. Such privatecollections are sometimes given to museums, libraries and public galleries so that others might take pleasure inseeing them.
Nomatter what kind of hobby a person has,he always has the opportunity of learning much from it. By reading about the things he is interested in, he is adding to what he knows. Learning new things can be the most exciting aspect of a hobby.
Agree or disagree with the following.
1. You should choose a hobby according to your character.
2. All the hobbies can be divided into three groups.
3. Playing computer games is one of the oldest mans hobbies.
4. Almost everyone collects something at some period in his life.
5. All the collections have no real value.
6. Hobby is just for fun.
Fill in the chart with the correct words from the text. You ma introduce your own ideas as well.
| Doing things | Making things | Collecting things | Learning things |
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