Relax get take spend give it up join learn take up

1. I'm ________ to play the guitar.

2. I ________ all my free time doing karate. I _______ a club three years ago and I've just got my black belt.

3. I used to go windsurfing every week but I had to ________ when I started university because I didn't have the time.

4. I paint most evenings and weekends. I find it relaxing ant it ________ my mind off work.

5. I go fishing quite a lot. It _______ me out of the house and it helps me _______ and forget all my worries.

6. I ________ golf when I was about 40, when I had to stop playing rugby.

7. Here are some people talking about their hobbies. Can you guess what each hobby is? Use the words once only.

photography playing chess practice the piano fishing sewing

surfing hill-walking gardening sewing

hunting shopping jogging skateboarding

1. I usually use colour, but sometimes you get a better effect with black and white. It really depends on the subject. (photography)

2. I usually use three rods at the same time — you've got more chance of catching something.

3. I really enjoy going to stores and markets looking for a bargain.

4. People say it's cruel but I never shoot anything that I can't take home to eat.

5. I try to practice every day, but sometimes it's difficult because I don't like to disturb my neighbors too much. And one neighbor gets very angry if I play the same thing over and over again.

6. The waves are best on the west coast.

7. The great thing is you can do it whenever you like. I usually do it three or four times a week — either early in the morning, or after school. I only go for about 25 minutes but it really keeps me in good shape.

8. All you need is a good pair of walking boots, a rucksack and a waterproof jacket.

9. Obviously it saves me a lot of money. Besides, I hate shopping in clothing stores, because so many things are badly made.

10. I joined a club because I wanted to get better, and now I play twice a week in the evenings. It has helped me a lot, and I have a much better memory for all the different moves and strategies.

11. We go to a park where there are some ramps and we practice different tricks. 12. I cut the grass at least once a week.

8. We go jogging (or jog), but we play golf, and we do gymnastics.

Look at the list of activities. Do we use go, play, or do? Write down these word combinations. Make up 5 sentences with them.

swimming cycling squash riding

football running aerobics volleyball

tennis basketball a sport running

judo skiing jogging hiking

yoga windsurfing sailing handball

9. Role Play

With a partner

Read and translate the following dialogues. Learn them by heart and act in pairs. Make up similar dialogues of your own and role-play them.

1

- What is your hobby Henry?

- I'm collecting old books. There are already six hundred of them in my library.

- Do you read them, too?

- Well, yes, but reading is not important. It is the process of collecting them itself that interests me.

2

- Do you think Jill is going to come to the party tonight?

- Certainly. She is crazy about dancing.

- Do you mean to say that dancing is her passion?

- Oh, yes. She dances well and she would dance day and night.

3

- I've got some extra postage stamps to exchange.

- What series?

- It's a special series of British authors.

- Oh, those stamps must be very interesting, but unfortunately they're out of my line. I collect only stamps of African states.

4

- Why are you so keen on collecting old coins? What's the use of it?

- Well, from the financial point of view it isn't of much use, really. I don't get any richer. But old coins tell much of the history of human society.

- Ah, you are going to study history, eh?

- I am not thinking of it now.