Hobbies

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Hobbies
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You are a pupil of the language courses. In your
group, you are speaking about hobbies of your
childhood. You are telling what object and when
you collected., What your collection was like,
where your collection is now and whether you have
changed your hobby.
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Look at the Mind Mapand make up the sentences.
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collecting stamps, coins, badges, boor, pictures
reading fiction, novels, magazines, newspapers, s
tories
listening to the news, music, operas, modern
music, songs
taking pictures
Hobbies
performing on the stage
going to the theatre, the cinema, the museum
writing novels, spy stories, fiction, poems
watching cartoons, feature films, soap
operas, plays, television
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These expressions can help you

• I would like
• My hobby is
• I prefer
• As for me
• I am good at
• I am interested in

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Match
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1. characteristic features
2. to love animals
3. to allow to do smth
4. shepherd
5. to divide into
6. good reminiscences
7. rare calendars
8. decorative breed
9. a childish dream
10. to treat dogs

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Complete the sentences.
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1. Hobby is a persons favorite2. I
lived very much and I had mydream to have a
dog at home.3. I began to calendars with
dogs.4. I learned a lot about different of
the dogs.5. I tried to find calendars.6. Each
breed includes into itselffeature.7. I was on
reading different books about dogs.8. I even
wanted to become .
rare, childish, a vet, occupation, to collect,
breed, characteristic, animals, keen
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Work with your partners.Make up a
dialoguefocusing on the following questions.
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What does it mean hobby?What things do people
usually collect?Is it important for a person to
have a hobby?Which ways of spending free time do
you know/What is a thematic collection?What is
your hobby?Is collecting calendars popular only
with children?What can collecting calendars
teach you?Do collectors specialize in one
subject or more?Are thematic collections
popular?
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Tell pleaseto have a hobby is important for a
person.
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Tellto be interested in something is exciting.
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Tellto connect your future profession with your
hobby is great.
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Work in groups.Interactive discussion.Listen
attentively to your opponent and ask them
questions.
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Group 1. Exciting theme on the language courses

• What kind of theme can you talk on the courses?
• Why is this theme important for you?
• Who told about their favorite pastime?

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Group2.Your favorite childish occupation

• Did you collect stamps, coins or calendars?
• Was your collection thematic?
• What could your collection teach us?

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Group 3.Your future profession and your hobby

• Would you like to connect future profession with
  your hobby?
• What profession would you like to choose?
• Will you dream come true?

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Read and translate the sentences.
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1. I am a pupil of the language courses.2.
Its very useful for me, because we have
opportunity not only to practice our English but
to discuss many different and exciting topics.
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3. Recently we have talked about one of the most
interesting theme Hobbies and leisure time.4.
Pupils of our groups told about their favorite
pastime and hobbies.
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5. As you know hobby is a persons favorite
occupation in his time.6. Its very important
for us to do what we are interested in and what
we are good at.
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7. Someones hobby is painting, collecting
something, others likes to listen to music, to
read books or to go to the theatre, the cinema or
disco clubs.8. And Id like to tell you about my
hobby when I was a child.
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9. I loved animals very much and I had my
childish dream to have a dog at home.10. But my
parents didnt allow me to buy any dog.11. At
first I was very upset, but then I decided to
help me myself.
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12. I began to collect the calendars with
dogs.13. It was so absorbing.14. I tried to
find interesting rare calendars and when I
decided to stop my collection numbered 250 ones.
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15. With the help of such hobby I learned a lot
about different breeds of the dogs.16. you see,
each breed includes into itself characteristic
feature, which has left the history of the
beginning and using of any breed.
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17. Thats why according to the International
Federation dogs breeding I divided my calendars
into 2 main parts shepherds watch and
decorative breeds.18. I was keen on reading
different books about origin of dogs, species,
and their habits.
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19. I learned how to take care of them.20. For
some time I even wanted to become a vet.21.It
was the greatest infant fancy.22. But as time
passed I changed my mind.
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23. And now I have only good reminiscence about
that collection.24. But I still want to have a
dog, and who knows, maybe some day Ill buy a dog
for myself, about which I dreamt for a long time.
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