Someone who takes little or no exercise, and who spends their free time doing very little.

Centuries ago, people did not have much free time, because everybody was working too hard. In Britain in the nineteenth century, people had more spare time, but because the Victorians hated relaxing and doing nothing, they invented football, rugby and cricket. People took up more gentle activities too, like gardening, bird-watching and train spotting, and it was even possible simply to watch a sport and give the impression that you were actually doing something. Gradually, leisure activities have become less and less energetic interests and hobbies. But now there is a new type of person who thinks that lying on the sofa watching television on Sunday afternoon or reading the newspaper from cover to cover is the most exciting activity they can

manage. This twentieth century couch potato who has a sedentary lifestyle with no or irregular physical activity. It is commonly found in both the developed and developing world. Sedentary activities include sitting reading, watching television, playing video games, and computer use for much of the day with little or no vigorous physical exercise. A sedentary lifestyle can contribute to many preventable causes of death. Screen time is the amount of time a person spends watching a screen such as a television, computer monitor, or mobile device. Excessive screen time is linked to negative health consequences. For them, every activity is too much trouble, and laziness is an art form! So how do you spend your free time? Are you a coach potato?

Exercise 2 Answer the questions.

• What does the word “coach potato” means?

• Who hated to relax and doing nothing in the 19^th century ?

• What kinds of sports games were invented at that time?

• What other gentle activities were popular?

• What kind of a new term appeared in the 20^th century?

Exercise 3 Translate this text with a dictionary.

Exercise 4. Look at these pictures and tell about your free time activities (9-10 sentences).

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Exercise 6. Answer the questions.

• What do you usually do in your free time?

• Do you like to spend your spare time with your friends?

• What kind of entertainment do you enjoy?

• Is it expensive to entertain yourself?

• What kind of place of interests you can recommend to your friends?

Exercise 7. Imagine that you are going to the USA for your summer holiday. Make a plan of your activities and make a discussion about them with your partner.

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Exercise 7. Listen to Richard Hillman- a representative of Student Services, he will give some information about free time activities on a university campus. Complete the sentences, write no more than three words.

• Most artistic events take place in or around the ___________________.

• It is always possible to see Eastern European Art at the ____________.

• More unconventional plays can be seen at _______________________.

• To get into the choir or jazz band, students have to have____________.

• Richard hasn’t covered everything in his ________________________.

Exercise 8. Answer to the following questions:

• What facilities would you expect to find on a university campus?

• Where is the flourishing arts scene situated?

• What does it include?

• Where can you see the exhibition of contemporary architects and designers?

• What does a Workshop Studio stage?

Exercise 9. Retell the text (8 sentences).

Exercise 10.Imagine that you are an organizer of your best friend’s birth day party. Write down an invitation letter to all the guests (3-4 sentences).

2Exercise 11. Use these phrases and make5-6 sentences with them.

Useful phrases to have spare time to have fun to waste time to enjoy yourself leisure activities to entertain yourself

Exercise 12. Write an essay about how to manage your time wisely and correctly.

Questions for computer based test

1. Choose the right variant. I’ve no idea …

1. whose book it is.

2. whose book is it.

3. it is whose book.

4. it is book whose.

2. Choose the right variant. Choose the right variant. I can’t remember ….. or not.

5. whether posted I your letter

6. posted I your letter whether

7. whether I posted your letter

8. I whether posted your letter

3. Choose the right variant. Could you tell me … ?

1. how long lasts the movie?

2. how long the movie lasts?

3. how lasts long the movie?

4. the movie lasts how long?

4. Choose the right variant. I’m not sure … .

1. where Aden is situated

2. where is Aden situated

3. where situated Aden is

4. where situated is Aden