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My spare time.

Nowadays everybody knows that people are very busy and don’t have much time to spare.Sometimes it’s only the weekend and I think that every day-off needs some special planning. The English say: "Who knows how to work, knows how to rest". I think it’s true. In my view rest is as important as work. So I try to treasure every hour and think of the ways of having a good time in the best way possible for me. I prefer to spend my free time with the people whose company I always enjoy. I also like to spend my spare time alone, when I’m tired and haven’t got any desire to talk to anybody, very often I want to get away from noisy streets and go to the countryside and change the scenery. On the other hand I may go to different entertainment centers such as disco clubs, art centers including cinema, theatre, concerts halls, etc.

There are people who want to broaden and enrich their knowledge during their free time. I’m among them; I go to the library or reading-hall where I can find a lot of books written by my favourite writers and poets. I must add that I never have enough time to enjoy reading and more often read a book or a magazine late in the evening. Or I can go to the museums and picture galleries where I can see the works of well-known painters and sculptors of all times. I don’t forget the computer – my greatest helper in searching for knowledge.

If you want to be strong and healthy, go in for sports. There are many sports clubs, swimming-pools, gymnasiums and sport grounds for everybody who loves sports. Sport will make you not only healthier and stronger, but kinder, more sociable, cheerful and even wiser. Sport will give you its strength and energy and you’ll become a greater admirer of life with all its problems and wonders. (As for me I ...) Moreover, there are a lot of people, who prefer less energetic activities, such as chess, cards, crosswords. And don’t forget about hobbies. You should have at least one, it’ll help you to relax, dream and enjoy lifer. There are so many hobbies to choose: painting, computer programming, photography, fishing, gardening, cooking, walking, learning languages, collecting something and what not. It’s a pleasure to see lots of things made with your own hands, to look through a large collection of old and rare coins, books or stamps, to present your friends with the pictures and drawings created by yourself, to amuse everyone with your green winter garden at home. So, look around more carefully and you’ll find your own and the only one (or even more). Hobbies give people moments of pride and excitement but take a lot of time, energy and even money.

Tastes differ and if you have chosen a hobby according to your character and taste you are lucky. (So my hobby is ...)

Travelling is also a good way to spend my spare time. Visiting new places, seeing sights and meeting new people is a very exciting and useful relaxation. I can go hiking. In summer I like to be outdoors from morning till night, sunbathing, walking barefoot on the grass. My family or my friends are the very people to go with to the riverbank, to the forest or to the seashore. It's really wonderful to put up a tent, make a fire and spend time in a picturesque place.

People are dreamers, our dreams are different but each person chooses his own way of spending free time, either passive or active. In any case leisure should be refreshment and a source of inspiration.

Викладач ______________І.С. Коковіхіна

Theme “My hobby”

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HOBBIES

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 classes: doing things, making things, collecting things and learning things.The most popular of all hobby groups is doing things. It includes a wide variets of activities, everything from gardening to travelling and from chess to volley ball.Gardening is one of the oldest of 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, designine costumes, and handicrafts. Two of the most famous hobby painters were President Eisenhower and Sir Winston Churchill. Some hobbyists write 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,match- boxes, books, records, postcards, toys, watches. Some collections have no real value. 0thers become so large and so valuable that they are housed in museums and galleries. Many world-famous collections started in a small way with one or two items. People with a good deal of money often collect paintings, rare books and other art objects. Often such private collections are given to museums, libraries and public galleries so that others might take pleasure in seeing them.No matter what kind of hobby a person has, he always has the opportunity of learning from it. By reading about the things he is interested in, he is adding to what he knows. Learning things can be the most exciting aspect of a hobby.

MY HOBBY

My hobby is collecting stamps. When I was still a baby, my mother began collecting for me.Of course she didn’t let me touch the stamps until I was old enough. I remember that it was on my fiftéenth birthday that she first put them into my hands. They were in four albums, but since then I have added three more, so that now I have a bigger collection than any of my friends.How do I get my stamps? I have never bought a single one from a shop. My father, who works in a big office sometimes brings me stamps from different parts of the world. And I have friends both here and in other countries who send me stamps in return for the ones I send to them.Now that I am working for my living, I don’t have as much time as before to spend on my stamps. But in the evening what can be better than to sit down at a table with my albums arranging the new stamps in them, writing in the names of the countries or if I am too tired, only looking through the stamps already in the albums.

Each stamp has a story to tell of distant countries and strange people. I see pictures of men and women, birds and animals that I myself have never seen. Kings and presidents pass before my eyes, and I can follow the history of whole nations.But my stamp collection doesn’t only make me think of the past. Just as my mother collected for me, so I, too, am collecting for my ftrture chiId. What better way will there be of making him interested in history, geography and languages and of making these subjects live for him? If I can pass my hobby on to him, he will, be grateful to me for it, a I am grateful to my mother.

Active Words and Word Combinations:

сharacter – характер

activity – діяльність, заняття

taste – смак

gardening – садівництво

according – згідно, до

grown-up – доросла людина

to include – містити у собі

computer games – комп’ютерні ігри

variety – різноманітність

a hobby – улюблене заняття

to touch – торкатися

to arrange – розкладувати, наводити лад

distant – далекі

a bird – птах

an animal – тварина

Questions

1. Do you have a lot of free time?

2. What else do you do besides going to school?

3. Do you play any musical instruments?

4. Are you fond of listening to music?

5. What kind of music do you prefer?

6. Have you ever collected anything?

7. What is your hobby?

8. What is your best friend’s hobby?

9. Which of your friends collects stamps (records, compact discs. etc)?

10. How do you usually spend your leisure time?

11. What do yu do for fun?

12. How do you spend your weekends?

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Sport in Our Life

People all over the world are fond of sports and games. Sport makes people healthy, keeps them fit, more organized and better disciplined. It unites people of different classes and nationalities. Many people do sports on their personal initiative. They go in for skiing, skating, table tennis, swimnilng, volley-ball, football, bodybuilding, etc.All necessary facilities are provided for them: stadiums, sport grounds, swimming pools, skating rinks, skiing stations, football fields.Sport is paid much attention to in our educational establishments. Gymnastics is a part of children’s daily activities in the kindergartens. Physical culture is a compulsory subject t schools and colleges.Professional sport is also paid much attention to in our country. In city, where I live, there are diferent sporting societies, clubs and complexes.Practically all kinds of sports are popular in our country, but football, gymnastics and tennis enjoy the greatest popularity. As for me, I go in for table tennis (ping-pong). It needs mobility, liveliness and much energy. It keeps a person in a good form. I have been playing tennis for five years, but the more I play, the more I like it. I get a real joy taking part in competitions or simply playing with my friends. Sometimes, I go to tennis courts.Certainly, there’s a great distance between my manner playing and such favourjtes as Jim Courier, Stephan Edberg, Pete Sampras, Boris Becker, Per Korda, but I do my training with great pleasure and hope to play as well as our best players do.

Active Words and Word Combinations:

fit – у чудовій формі

to pay attention to – звертати увагу на

kindergarten – дитячий садок

compulsory – обов’язковий

to enjoy populatity – користуватися популярністю

mobility – мобільність

distance – відстань

on personal initiative - за власною ініціативою

Questions:

1. Why are people all over the world fond of sports and games?

2. What necessary facilities are provided for people?

3. What kinds of sports are popular in our country?

4. What is your favourite kind of sport? Why?

Teacher ________________I.S.Kokovihinа

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Books in Our Life

Nowadays it’s almost impossible to imagine our life without books. Perhaps, there are more books on our planet than men alive.Long before the invention of printing people valued books as treasure troves of the human knowledge and experience. Hand — written manuscripts took months of writing and were collected by and kept in monasteries with

utmost care. We can distinguish books between three classes of them. Firstly, books on different branches of knowledge, works by brilliant minds of mankind. Secondly, textbooks, reference books and numerous dictionaries. And at last, books of all kinds and genres to read at leisure. Classics should be taken a little at a time. One’s understanding of books by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Mopassan and Balzak depends on one’s age and experience. Serious is to be read conscientiously and maybe more than once. To a thinking reader they will provide new food for thought every time he rereads it. Many people indulge in reading science fiction, fantasy or detective stories. Of course, there are some advantages and disadvantages of this kind of literature, often reffered to as “easy reading”. As for me, good science fiction and fantasy develop imagination, logical thinking, broader one’s outlook. The same could be said in favour of detective stories. They reveal such minute details of everyday life in this or that particular country that are of greatest interest for a curious reader. The masterpieces of this genre by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and others, show the depths of psychological analysis, the insight into the human nature. As one old saying goes, man cannot live on bread alone. Books are the source of knowledge and the means of self — perfection. Somedtimes it is difficult to solve some problems in life. I think that books can help us. Books must be our friends during all our life.

Active Words and Word Combinations:

treasure trove – скарбниця

monastery – монастир

coscientiously – свідомо

to include in – захоплюватися

science fiction – наукова фантастика

outlook – світогляд

Teacher ________________I.S.Kokovihinа

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