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Exercise 3. Answer the questions:

1. Why do people enjoy hobbies?

2. What are four general categories of hobbies?

3. What is the most widespread kind of hobby? Why?

4. What is handicraft?

5. What can you tell about games and sports?

6. Do you have a hobby? What is it?

Exercise 4. Make up sentences using the following words: handicrafts, to attract, a competition, collecting, development, pleasure, stamps, chess, ballet, hard work.

Exercise 5. Look at the picture and discuss Melissa’s hobbies with your friends. Then write down your own hobbies in the same way.

Exercise 6. Give your own example to each suffix.

-able - an unpredictable weather

-conscious

-free

-rich

-led

-minded

-proof

-related

Part 2. Book collecting.

WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS:

Book collecting.

Book collecting is a popular hobby. Many people collect books because they enjoy reading and like to collect things. Private book collections have formed the nucleus of some of the world’s most important libraries. Some people have also presented their collections to universities, where the books may be used for study and research. There are many types of book collections, unique or ancient book collections.

Author collections concentrate on the works of a single author. Book collectors especially value editions with the autograph of the author.

Subject collections include books on a particular subject, such as science fiction or books about sports or sportsmen. Some subject collections are vast with thousands of volumes, but most are much smaller.

Title collections consist of as many as possible editions of a single title. The editions which are translated into different languages are also included.

Unique or ancient book collections focus on books that are unusually beautiful, rare, very old, or of an unusual shape and size. These collections may contain books with unique illustrations, with rare printing styles.

Collectors find books for their collections in rare-book shops, antiquarian bookshops, secondhand bookshops, and at jumble-sales.

Exercise 1. Translate into Russian: to enjoy reading; rare-book shops; jumble-sale; the world’s most important libraries; the works of a single author; thousands of volumes; title collections; unique illustrations; particular subject; different languages; ancient books; for study and research.

Exercise 2. Find the equivalents of these expressions in the text:научная фантастика; благотворительная распродажа; редкий печатный стиль; частные коллекции книг; автограф автора; книги о спорте; необычный размер и форма; антикварные книжные магазины; включать в себя книги на определённую тему.

Exercise 3. Try to match up the adjectives on the left with the nouns on the right.

1. unusual a) illustrations

2. different b) shop

3. particular c) hobby

4. unique d) collection

5. single e) subject

6. printing f) author

7. ancient g) languages

8. rare-book h) shape

9. popular i) styles

Exercise 4. Answer the questions:

1. Why do people collect books?

2. What are general types of book collections?

3. What is author collection?

4. What kind of books do subject collections include?

5. What do you know about title collections?

6. What can you tell about unique book collections?

7. Where do collectors find books?

8. Do you like books? Do you collect books?

Exercise 5. Give the degrees of comparison of the following adjectives: rare, popular, new, hard, wide, widespread, fast, good, heavy, bad, interesting, important, great.

Exercise 6. Decide which word is the odd one out in each of the following groups of words.

1. games, sports, autographs, physical activity;

2. unique, unusual, rare, usual;

3. knitting, buttons, books, dolls;

4. ceramics, singing, metalworking, jewellery making;

5. music, dancing, painting, games.

Exercise 7. Divide the following words and phrases into groups: arts, collecting, handicrafts, games and sports.

To sew, music, to sing, dancing, painting, stamps, coins, needlework, physical activity, knitting, models, competitions, exercise, to play the piano, to play football, ceramics, to crochet, autographs, rare books, to attend concerts, to play tennis.

Unit IV. Travelling.

WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS:

Travelling.

Kinds of travel:

Voyage is made by water or air.

Trip is a brief journey made by water or land.

Tour is a journey in which a short stay is made in a number of places, the traveler finally returns to the place from which he started.

Cruise is a sea voyage from port to port.

Hitch-hiking is travelling by getting free rides in passing automobiles and walking between rides.

Thousands of people travel every day either on business or for pleasure. They travel by plane, train, ship or car. All means of travel have their advantages and disadvantages. Travelling by plane is the fastest but the most expensive way. Travelling by train is slower but you can see more beautiful scenery and interesting places of the country. Travelling by ship is popular mostly for pleasure trips. It is very comfortable but very expensive too. Lots of people prefer travelling by car because you can stop wherever you want and spend there as much time as you like but I think it is very tiresome for the driver.

People travel to see other countries, cities, ruins of ancient towns, to enjoy beautiful scenery. It is always interesting to discover new things, different ways of life, or meet people of other nationalities, to taste exotic food, to listen to different music. Some people prefer a quiet holiday by the sea or in the mountains with nothing to do but walk, bathe and laze in the sun.

Of course we can learn a lot about other places sitting at home, reading books or watching TV but as a good proverb says “Seeing is believing”.

Exercise 1. Translate into Russian: seeing is believing; a brief journey; travelling by ship; to stop wherever you want; the most expensive way; a sea voyage from port to port; advantages and disadvantages; pleasure trips; to prefer travelling by car; to see other countries; to taste exotic food; ruins of ancient towns.

Exercise 2. Find the equivalents of these expressions in the text:путешествовать по делу; нежиться на солнце; различные образы жизни; увеселительная прогулка; путешествовать на поезде; красивый пейзаж; средства передвижения; проезжающие автомобили; тысячи людей; самый быстрый способ; очень утомительно для водителя; встречать людей других национальностей; слушать разную музыку; тихий отдых на море или в горах.

Exercise 3. Answer the questions:

1. Are you fond of travelling?

2. Why do people travel?

3. What do we see and learn while travelling?

4. What means of travel do you know?

5. Which is the most convenient way of travelling?

6. Which is the quickest way of travelling?

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of travelling by air (train, car)?

8. What countries would you like to visit?

Exercise 4. Fill in the missing words:

1. Travelling by … is the fastest but the most expensive way.

2. It is always interesting to taste exotic … .

3. Thousands of people travel every day either on … or for … .

4. Travelling by … is comfortable but very expensive too.

5. Travelling by … is slower but you can see more beautiful scenery.

Exercise 5. Put the words in the following sentences in order.

1. far, our, is, from, not, house, college, the.

2. half, takes, an, me, it, to, there, by, hour, get, bus.

3. a, job, my, lot, mother, at, spends, her, time, of.

4. of, can, hobbies, people, almost, enjoy, age, any.

5. many, things, and, collect, people, reading, they, because, collect, to, books, enjoy, like.

Exercise 6. Describe your last travelling using the new words. Try to remember all its advantages and disadvantages.

Exercise 7. Answer the questions:

1. Which type of holidays appeals to you most and why?

2. Why is it important for anyone to take holidays?

3. Do you prefer a summer or winter holiday?

4. Which means of transport would you prefer to travel by?

5. What makes a perfect holiday?

6. Are you going on holiday this year?