Questions

1. What clothes do you prefer: ready-made or made to order?

2. Where can you buy dresses, suits and coats?

3. What are our clothes made of?

4. Is knitwear popular nowadays?

5. What knitted things can you name?

6. What do we call Clothes we wear every day? In winter? In summer?

7. What are the advantages of having a thing made to order?

8. Does it give you a lot of trouble to have a thing made to order?

9. Do you always try on a ready-made dress before buying it?

10. Have you ever bought anything that did not fit you?

11. Are shoes an important item of our outfit?

12. What size do you take in shoes?

13. Would you like your jacket with a zip-fastener or with buttons?

14. Would you like your summer frock, shirt made of polyester or cotton?

15. Would you like your sweater with or without a pattern?

16. Would you rather have your pullover with a high-neck or V-neck?

17. Would you like your trousers flared or narrow?

Unit 12. Hobby and leisure

WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS

hobbyist amateur theatricals amateur actor collecting fishing gardening hiking leisure circle sin.: society, hobby group, club dancing society photographic club dramatic society school choir	pastime pet corner needlework rehearsal badge coin stamp album
to hike (to go hiking) to take delight in to take a photograph = to photograph	to be keen on to produce a play to exchange

What hobby group would you like to join?

No matter what kind of hobby a person has…

Additional words and expressions

amateur angler, photographer numismatics

a photograph (a shot, a snapshot) lead-toy soldier

ballroom dancing society match-box label

folk dancing society post card post-card with views of London

to photograph (to take a photo)

to cut out

to give pleasure

to print (to make prints)

What do you do at your leisure?

He is keen on angling.

Collecting illustrated post-cards gives me much pleasure.

I haven't printed the snapshots yet.

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 variety of activities, everything from gardening to travelling and from chess to volleyball. 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, designing costumes, 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. Others 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.