Translate them into Russian.
To bore, to interest, to excite, to exact, to laugh, to lead, to start, to move.
1.6. Memorise the following expressions and compose your own sentences:
1. to be lucky... 3. to make smb pleasure...
2. to be keen on... 4. to keep up with...
5. to be fond of... 9. to go in for...
6. to be interested in... 10. to broaden one's outlook
7. to be crazy about... 11. to brush up...
8. to find pleasure... 12. to have a good ear for...
1.7. Give the English equivalents for the following:
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1.8. Answer the following questions:
1. What do you mean by saying "a hobby"? 2. What hobbies do you know? 3. Which of them do you like best? 4. What's Victor's hobby? 5. What's your hobby?
1.9. Ask about these:
sports (go in for)
music (like)
magazines (read)
TV programme (watch)
films (like)
games (play)
David: sports, basketball, tennis, music, salsa.
Jane: swimming, nature, ball dances, poetry, love stories.
Lina: cinema, detectives, dogs, rock-n-roll, gymnastics.
Example: What kind of music does David like?
Use your notes to make sentences about David, Jane and Lina.
Example: David plays basketball and tennis. He also likes salsa music....
1.10 Write a questionnaire.
Example: In your free time....
1. Do you like playing computer games?
2. Do you like going to the cinema?
3. Do you like...?
1.11 Read the dialogue & make up your own one.
Spare Time
Jack: How do you spend your spare time, Bill?
Bill: Well, my wife and I often go to the movies or to the theatre. And, of course, we never fail to watch interesting TV shows.
Read and translate these dialogues.
Watching Television
Ann: I'm going to the "Progress" this evening.
Kate: What's on?
Ann: It's a western: "Cowboy Come Home".
Kate: But there's a western on television to-night. You're welcome to come in and watch it.
Ann: A wide screen and the colour will be better, I think.
Kate: Nothing of the kind. Here you can have a comfortable chair to sit in, a drink at your elbow and no journey to make. Besides there are other worthwhile programs on: a documentary on underwater swimming, a half hour sport review and an instalment of a mystery serial play.
Ann: Do you prefer seeing a story as a TV film to reading it in a book?
Kate: Oh, yes. You can actually see the characters and how they're dressed and watch their expressions.
Ann: But a film can also make everything more exciting and vivid and the darkness cuts out human surroundings completely.
Kate: But you can't choose your program and it's waste of money to walk out if you're bored. It's so easy to turn off the TV - not that I do turn it off very often.
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Ann: That's just it. You're drugged by it: you've given up all your old interests. That's why I won't have a TV. I still have time to read, invite friends in for a chat or sometimes go to concerts or to the cinema or the theatre.
Useful hobby
B: - History and reading aren't bad hobbies. My father has it worse.
S: - What do you mean, Boris?
B: - Hey, Dad take it easy, - I'm talking about your hobby.
C: -Oh, and what's that, if I may ask?
B: - Well, father usually stays at home doing the cooking and washing up. He reckons it's his hobby.
C: - And what about your wife, Victor?
S: - Oh, she is a modern woman. She believes in sexual equality. She is always sitting in cafes, discussing the problem with her friends.
C: - Well, in any case, your hobby is both interesting and useful.
B:- I doubt whether it is "interesting".
A talk about career
A: - Boris, you know, your father has got a promotion. He has been offered a place as a head of the department for external economic cooperation.
B: - Congratulations, Dad. You know, I have always said that you were destined to be a VIP (very important person) and earn a lot of money.
S: - Oh, Boris, you're my greatest worry. It's about time you started thinking about your career. I'm afraid by the time you get a serious job I'll be an OAP (old aged person).
B. - Come off it, Dad.
S: - You don't realize how serious I am. You have done sports, played the guitar, were interested in computers... And what has come of it all? You chop and change too much.
C: - And what do you do these days?
B: - Again - nothing very special.... Actually I'm mad about dancing.
C: - Perhaps you can make your fortune at it. People can make more money from dancing than from a more conventional profession these days.
S: - I doubt if he can. He is too idle.
C: - I don't believe in forcing boys to take up careers they are not cut out for.
B. - Don't worry. Dad. One day I will marry a young and rich American widow and the problem will be solved.
C. - What a load of rubbish! Put that stupid idea out of your head! It' s ridiculous.
