HOBBY, SPORT, VACATIONS, WEEKEND
SPEECH PATTERNS
I have nothing against it – ничего не имею против
It goes without saying – само собой разумеется
I think you are right – думаю, ты прав
I hope this is true – надеюсь, это правда
I don’t quite understand you – я не совсем понимаю тебя
I’m afraid you are mistaken – боюсь, что ты ошибаешься
I dare say it is wrong – осмелюсь сказать, что это неправильно
I suppose it is not so – полагаю, что это не так
As far as I know (remember…)…- насколько я знаю (помню)
In my opinion … (To my mind)…- по-моему …
It seems to me that… - Мне кажется
To tell the truth …(Frankly speaking)… - По правде говоря (честно говоря)
What do you think about it? - Что ты думаешь об этом?
What do you mean? – Что ты имеешь ввиду?
Exercise 1. Agree or disagree with the following statements. Use the speech patterns.
1. Lots of people devote their free time to their hobbies.
2. You can spend your free time in different ways.
3. People choose a hobby according to their tastes.
4. A hobby may help you in choosing your profession.
5. A hobby may influence your life style.
6. Every hobby must be useful and interesting.
Exercise 2. Make the sentences complete, begin them with a suitable speech pattern.
1 …, leisure time must be thought over.
2 …, collecting is one of the most popular hobbies.
3 …, sport unites people of different classes and nationalities.
4 …, sport holds an important place in our life.
5 …, city inhabitants often like to go hiking.
VOCABULARY
Nouns
1. art object - предмет искусства
2. bore - скука
3. championship - соревнования
4. collecting - коллекционирование
5. competition - соревнование
6. fan - болельщик
7. fishing - рыболовство
8. gardening – садоводство
9. handicraft - ремесло
10. hobbyist - человек, имеющий хобби
11. hunting - охота
12. knitting - вязание
13. leisure[‘leʒə] - досуг
14. needlework - рукоделие
15. occupation - занятие
16. opportunity - возможность
17. pastime - времяпровождение
18. sewing [‘souiŋ]- шитьё
19. skill - мастерство
20. spectator -зритель
21. sport facilities - спортивное оборудование
22. team - команда
23. tournament - турнир
24. wide variety of activities – широкий круг занятий
Verbs and word-combinations
1. to add to – прибавить, увеличить
2. to amuse - развлекать
3. to arrange - устраивать, организовывать
4. to attract - привлекать
5. to be at one’s disposal - быть в распоряжении
6. to be busy with - заниматься
7. to be fond of - увлекаться
8. to be interested in – интересоваться чем-то
19. to be keen on – увлекаться
10. to be subdivided into – подразделяться на
11. to be to one’s liking (taste) -на чей то вкус
12. to choose (chose, chosen) -выбирать
13. to devote to - посвящать
14. to enjoy - наслаждаться
15. to entertain - развлекать
16. to go in for sport - заниматься спортом
17. to go on a hike - идти в поход
18. to go out - пойти развлечься
19. to have a good time - хорошо проводить время
20. to have an opportunity of doing smth – иметь возможность сделать что-то
21. to include - включить
22. to influence one’s life style - влиять на образ жизни
23. to join - вступать, присоединяться
24. to keep in good health - сохранять здоровье
25. to look forward to smth. - предвкушать
26. to lose (lost, lost) - проиграть
27. to prefer - предпочитать
28. to relax – расслабляться
29. to score the goal - забить гол
30. to start in a small way - начинать с малого
31. to take part in - принимать участие
32. to take pleasure in - получать удовольствие
33. to win (won, won) - выиграть, одержать победу
Adjectives
1. amateur[ˊæmətə:] - любитель, любительский
2. boring – скучный
3. common -распространённый
4. exciting - волнующий
5. favourite – любимый
6. numerous – бесчисленный
7. popular - популярный
8. rare - редкий
9. spare = free - свободный
10. spectacular - зрелищный
11. strange – необычный
12. (un)pleasant - (не)приятный
13. (un)usual - (не)обычный
14. useful -полезный
15. useless - бесполезный
16. valuable - ценный
Additional word-combinations and phrases
1. according to one’s taste - на чей-то вкус
2. any length of time - неограниченное время
3. the most exciting aspect of - наиболее привлекательная сторона
4. There is no accounting for tastes = Tastes differ – О вкусах не спорят
PHONETIC EXERCISES
Exercise 1. Read the words, mind the sounds:
[æ] fan, amateur, attract, relax, valuable.
[ɔ:] sport, important, bore, score, walk
[i:] free, needle-work, team, keen (on), keep
[еi] occupation, favourite, skate, taste, spectator
[ŋ] collecting, knitting, fishing, gardening, hunting, skating, skiing, shooting, diving, swimming.
Exercise 2. Read the words, compare the sounds:
[ʒ] — [ʤ] — [∫] — [t∫]
pleasure join fishing champion
leisure object competition championship
usual strange occupation chess
unusual arrange shooting choose
gym
jumping
LEXICAL EXERCISES
Exercise 1. Form nouns, using the suffixes, and translate them.
-er(-or) -ist -(t)ion -ment
collect hobby collect amuse
hunt philately complete entertain
paint tour attract develop
dance achieve
travel
play
Exercise 2. Change the words written with capital letters so that they correspond to the contents of the text.
The British Sport.
Britain does not often produce sportsmen who are successful in world (CHAMPION) but it has been good at inventing sports. In towns and cities space for team sports is (LIMIT). To keep fit, most people take part in individual sports. They (USUAL) go walking, swimming or cycling. Taking part in all these sports is ( FORMAL) and relaxing. Although many British people want to be (HEALTH) not many people do very much about it. A recent study proved that many people were not as active as they thought and (CORRECTLY) believed that they did enough exercise to keep fit.
Exercise 3. Make up pairs of synonyms:
spare, to be keen on, to enjoy, to one’s liking
to be interested in, free, to one’s taste, to take pleasure.
Exercise 4. Make up pairs of antonyms
exciting, usual, common, useful, pleasant, free, to win
boring, to lose, useless, unpleasant, unusual, rare, busy
Exercise 5. Insert prepositions; translate into Russian:
to be fond…collecting to be interested…gardening
to be keen…fishing to take pleasure…reading
to go… … sport to keep … good health
to take part… sport events according… one’s taste
to be … one’s disposal to be busy…needlework
Exercise 6. Make word-combinations:
Adj+Noun Verb+Noun
favourite pastime to enjoy sport club
(un)pleasant occupation to prefer handicraft
(un)usual hobby to choose gardening
usefull(less) competition to join crowds of people
exciting leisure to attract collecting
spectacular championship
Exercise 7. Choose a suitable word for each definition.
1. Freedom from duties or usual work
2. A group organized to work together
3. A contest, the act of competing
4. Proficiency, trade or technique
5. Gathering, bringing together in a group
6. An activity or interest for enjoyment
7. An occupation requiring skill with hands
hobby, leisure, handicraft, team, competition, skill, collecting
Exercise 8. Insert suitable modal verb:
1. You … always hear sports news on the radio and TV.
2. Everywhere you… see people going in for sport.
3. Numerous hobbies … be subdivided into four large classes.
4. A hobby … be useful and help your cultural development.
5. Your hobby … help you to choose a profession.
6. Leisure time as well as work … be thought over.
7. You … sometimes hear that there are no winter sports in England.
8. He … join the sports club as soon as he is through with his medical examination
9. A hobby … influence your life style.
10. The child is pale, he … play out-of-doors.
Text 1
HОBBIES
Exercise 1. Read and translate the text.
Notes:
to make sculpture – заниматься скульптурой
to design a costume – разрабатывать модель костюма, создать костюм
a hobby painter – художник-любитель
to be housed in museums and galleries – размещаться в музеях и галереях
an item – предмет, пункт, экспонат
a rare book – редкая книга
an art object – предмет искусства
a private collection – частная коллекция
A hobby is a favourite pastime of a person. Hobbies differ like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby to your liking, lucky you are: you have made your life more interesting.
Numerous hobbies can be subdivided 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 man’s hobbies, especially in some countries (Britain, for example). A relatively new hobby which is becoming more popular is playing computer games.
Making things includes drawing, painting, making sculpture, designing costumes, and handicrafts. Some hobbyists write music. Two of the most famous hobby painters were President Eisenhower and Sir Winston Churchill.
Almost everyone collects something at some period in his life: stamps, coins, matchboxes, 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.
Exercise 2. Answer the questions to the text:
1. What is a hobby?
2. What classes can hobbies be divided into?
3. What activities does doing things include?
4. What do hobbyists, who prefer making things, do?
5. What do people collect?
6. How do people learn from his or her hobby?
Exercise 3. Find a key-sentence in each passage
Exercise 4. Make up a plan of the text, using the phrases in a proper order:
Collecting things
Doing things
Making things
Classes of hobbies
Learning things
Exercise 5. Complete the sentences and say if you are one of them.
Book Lovers are interested in
Fishermen like to…
Musicians prefer…
Collectors are fond of
Sportsmen go in for…
Theatre-goers spend their time…
Philatelists devote their time to…
Tourists are keen on…
Painters take pleasure in…
Dancers enjoy…
Nature lovers take part in…
Text 2
WHAT IS HOBBY?
Exercise 1. Read the text, find the information to do exercise 2, following the text.
A hobby is what you can and like to do in your spare time. People choose a hobby according to their tastes, personalities and temper. With a hobby one’s life gets more interesting.
Some people are interested in music. They collect records, compact discs and tape recordings of their favourite musicians and singers or attend their concerts. Others like to collect books, postcards or stamps. City inhabitants often like to go hiking because they want to get closer to the nature. They spend their weekends and holidays in the forest and countryside. Some others like to work in their gardens and grow vegetables and fruit. Gardening and growing roses is quite popular among British. It is one of the most common hobbies there.
Both children and grown-ups are nowadays fond of computer games. With the development of new technologies such games became popular. Very often a hobby helps us to choose a profession and has a substantial influence even on the life style.
A lot of people are fond of sport. It is not only interesting, it helps you to keep yourself in good shape and be healthy. Many people like taking photographs, others prefer knitting or cooking. A lot of people like animals and have a cat, a dog or a parrot at home. They take care of their pets and spend much time with their animals. They read books about animals, watch films about them, like to see them at the Zoo.
Some newspapers write that there are more than 1000 hobbies in the world to spend one’s free time. It is very difficult to describe all of them. The main thing is that all of them must be useful and help your cultural development. My point of view is that leisure time as well as work must be thought over. In that case you will have a good and useful rest and you will forget what a bore is. Lots of people devote their free time to a hobby. Choose an interesting hobby for yourself and enjoy it!
Exercise 2. Complete the sentences, use the information from the text:
- A hobby is what you…
- People choose a hobby according to…
- People interested in music…
- The most popular hobby in Britain is…
- Computer games are popular with…
- A hobby can help you to…
- Sport helps people to…
- Some people like to take care of…
- It is difficult to describe all hobbies because…
- All hobbies must be…
Text 3
Exercise 1. Read the text and do the tasks
MY HOBBY
My hobby is collecting stamps. When I was still a baby, my mother began collecting them for me. They were in four albums, but since then I have added three more, so that now I have a bigger collection than any of my friends.
How do I get my stamрs? I have never bought a single one from a shop. My father, who works in a big office, sometimes brings me stamps from different parts of the world. And I have friends both here and in other countries who send me stamps in return for the ones I send them.
Now that I am working for my living, I don’t have as much time as before to spend on my stamps. But in the evening what can be better than to sit down at a table with my albums arranging the new stamps in them, writing in the names of the countries, or, if I am too tired, only looking through the stamps already in the albums.
Each stamp has a story to tell of distant countries and strange people. I see pictures of men and women, birds and animals that I myself have never seen. Kings and presidents pass before my eyes, and I can follow the history of whole nations.
But my stamp collection doesn’t make me think of the past. Just as my mother collected for me, so I, too, am collecting for my future child. What better way will there be of making him interested in history, geography and languages? If I can pass my hobby on to him, he will be grateful to me for it, as I am grateful to my mother.
Exercise 2. Agree or disagree, use speech patterns.
1. The young man has three albums with stamps.
2. His mother began collecting stamps for him.
3. He buys stamps in a shop.
4. He spends much time on his hobby now.
5. Each stamp tells him a story of distant countries and people.
6. Stamp collection makes him think only of the past.
7. Stamps help him to follow the history of whole nations.
8. The young man wants to pass his hobby to his future child.
Exercise 3. Do you agree that stamp collecting is very useful and interesting? Why/why not?
Text 4.
Exercise 1. Answer:
Do you know any popular sports in England?
Exercise 2. Read the dialogue and get ready to do the exercises.
SPORT
Student: People all over the world are fond оf sports and games. But there are national games which enjoy the greatest popularity in that country or another. I'd like to know about the most popular games in England today.
Teacher: Well, I suppose football and cricket. Almost every English man plays these games. Tennis, golf, hосkey, horsе-racing are also very popular.
Student: What football is preferable in England: soccer or rugby?
Teacher: Soccer, I think. You see, this kind оf football is played almost throughout the world. Rugby can be called hand football. It is more complicated, of course, but it is also gaining ground.
Student: I’ve been told that Englishmen are mad оn cricket.
Teacher: In а way they are. At least, if their famous Mary le Bone Cricket Club loses the game it is considered а national disaster.
Student: Tennis has bеcоmе popular of late, hasn’t it?
Teacher: Oh, yes. In England tennis is played all the year round - on hard courts or grass courts, or covered courts, in parks and in special tennis courts. Every summer they hold а great international tournament in Wimbledоn, nеar London. Tennis players from all over the world take part in it. It’s very honourable to win it.
Student: And аге there any winter sports in England? Аs far аs I know their winters are mild.
Teacher: You аrе quite right.Тhere isn't much snow in winter there, and Englishmen dоn’t often have the chance оf skiing, skating or tоbogganing. But winter is the popular time for fox hunting.
Student: What about indoor games?
Teacher: Well, there's chess, billiard, cards, table tennis again. By the way, dо you plау chess?
Student: Well, I do, of course. But I am not а professional, just an ordinary amateur, and not а very good оnе at all.
Exercise 3. Make up sentences:
Football is a kind of game to get a ball through a net.
Volleyball in which you try to knock a ball into a hole.
Golf to knock a ball into a goal.
Cricket to knock a ball through some hoops.
Tennis to hit a ball so that your opponent cannot hit it.
Exercise 4. Ask your friend:
- What kind оf sports she/he knows.
- What spоrt she/hе goes in for,
- if she/he has enough time to do sports.
- why people go in for sports.
- if she/he is interested in swimming.
- if she/hе ever goes to football mаtсhеs.
- who her/his favourite sportsmen аге.
- if she/hе watches the games оn TV.
Exercise 5. Make up your own dialogues, yu can use the following words and expressions:
to bе fond оf sports, to win the game, to do training, to train for competition, to bе а poor (good) chess player, to keep healthy and strong, to bе good at, sports fans, to go in for, to cheer for, to bе the best swimmer, the main sporting events.
Text 5.
SPORTS IN GREAT BRITAIN
Exercise 1. Before reading pay attention to the proper names.
Wembley ['wembIi] - знаменитый стадион Уэмбли в Лондоне
the Derby ['da:bi] - Дерби (ежегодные скачки лошадей-трехлеток на ипподроме Epsom Downs близ Лондона; по имени графа Дерби)
Wimbledon [‘wimbldən] - Уимблдон (предместье Лондона, в котором находится Всеанглийский теннисный и крикетный клуб)
Exercise 2. Readthe text.
The British are known to bе great sports-lovers, so when they are neither playing, nor watching games, they like to talk about them. Many of the games we play now have соmе from Britain.
One of the most popular British games is cricket. It is often played in schools, colleges, universities and bу club teams all over the country. Summer isn’t summer without cricket. То many Englishmen cricket is both а game and а standard of behaviour. When they consider anything unfair, they sometimes say: "That isn't cricket."
But as almost everywhere else in the world, the game which attracts the greatest attention is Association football, or soccer. Every Saturday from late August till the beginning of May, large crowds of people support their favourite sides in football grounds. True fans will travel from onе end of the country to the other to see their team plау. There are plenty of professional and amateur soccer clubs all over Britain. International football matches and the Cup Finals take plасе at Wembley.
Rugby football is also very popular, but it is played mainly bу amateurs.
Next to football, the chief spectator sport in British life is horse-racing. А lot of people are interested in the races and risk money оn the horse which they think will win. Тhe Derby is perhaps the most famous single sporting event in the whole world.
Britain is also famous for motor-car racing, dog-racing, boat-racing, and even races for donkeys. Тhе famous boat-race between the teams of Oxford and Cambridge attracts large crowds of people.
А great number оf people plау and watch tennis. Tennis tournaments at Wimbledon are known all over the world. Тhе innumerable tennis courts оf Britain are occupied bу people between the ages of 16 and 60 who show every degree of skill - from practically helpless to the extremely able.
The British also like to plау golf, baseball, hockey, grass-hockey. Various forms of athletics, such as running, jumping, swimming, boxing are also popular. You can sometimes hear that there are nо winter sports in England. Оf course the English weather is not always cold enough to ski, skate, or toboggan, but winter is а good season for hunting and fishing.
Indeed sport in onе form or another is an essential part оf daily life in Britain.
Exercise 3. Find the correct answers to the questions:
- What do the British do when they are neither playing, nor watching games?
a) they like to write about them. b) they like to talk about them. c) they like to listen to sport news.
2. What kind of sport is especially associated with Britain.
a) cricket b) football c) rugby
3. What is cricket for an Englishman?
a) a game b) a standard of behaviour c) both
4. What is the most popular game in the world?
a) football b) volley-ball c) basketball
5. Where do the cup Finals take place?
a) Wimbledon b) Oxford and Cambridge c) Wembly d) Derby
6. What kinds of racing are popular in Britain?
a) only motor-car racing b) only dog-racing
c) only boat-racing d) all of them
7. What do you know about Wimbledon? It is famous for:
a) boat-racing b) tennis tournaments c) football matches.
8. What winter sports are popular in Britain
a) skiing and skating b) tobogganing c) hunting and fishing.
Text 6
Exercise 1. Read the text.
WEEKEND IN ENGLAND
Most people in Britain work a five-day week, from Monday to Friday. Schools, colleges and universities are also closed on Saturdays and Sundays. Therefore from Friday evening till Monday morning people are usually free. Everyone looks forward to the weekend and when Friday comes along, as people leave work they say to each other: “Have a nice weekend”.
Students, young people working away from home and single people in general like to go away for the weekend. They may go home, go to stay with relatives or friends in different parts of the country, or stay in a hotel or boarding house in the country or at the sea. It is, of course, more difficult for married couples with children to go away for the weekend. They do so sometimes, but as they usually have a house, they more often have people to stay.
Those who stay at home at the weekend try both to relax and to catch up with all the jobs they are too busy to do during the week. For women who go out to work these include housework, sewing, washing, shopping and sometimes gardening; for men - repairs and other odd jobs in the house, cleaning the car and gardening.
Saturday morning is a very busy time for shopping, as this is the only day when people who are at work can shop for any length of time.
On Saturday afternoon the most important events of the week take place: football, rugby, horse-racing and other sports.
Some men go and watch, others sit and watch the sports programmes on television.
Saturday evening is the favourite time for parties, dances, going to the movies or the theatre, in fact for “going out” generally. For many people it is the climax of the weekend, no one has to worry about getting up early for work next day.
Having gone to bed late at night before, many people have a lie-in on Sunday morning. When they finally get up they have a leisurely breakfast. While having breakfast people start reading the Sunday papers.
If the weather is fine, people may decide to go out for the day. Some wait till after dinner, which is at 1 or 1-30. Sunday dinner is traditionally the most important family meal of the week. People sit talking, reading the paper, watching television until tea time. In summer they sit in the garden and more energetic people go out for a walk or to see friends. Tea time is at 5 or 5-30. Besides the all-important tea there are sandwiches, cold meat and salad, fruit, bread and butter. Quite often friends are invited to Sunday tea. Some people spend evening quietly at home, others go to see friends, go to a concert or film, or go out for a drink.
Exercise 2. Choose the most popular ways of spending free time in England (mentioned in the text).
- staying with relatives
- house work
- shopping
- skating and skiing
- watching sports programmes
- going out
- fishing and hunting
- having Sunday dinner
- hiking in the mountains
- going to a concert or film
Text 7
Exercise 1. You will hear the telephone conversation of two young people. While listening choose the correct answer for each question from the three given.
1. Why did Mandy go to Malta?
a) she won a lottery b) she got the tour as a Christmas present c) she got the tour as a birthday present
2. How did Mandy travel to Malta?
a) by car b) by airplane c) by train
3. Who did Mandy go on holiday with?
a) her aunt and uncle b) her parents c) her friends
4. What is the weather like on the island?
a) sunny b) rainy c) hot and humid
5. What food do traditional restaurants serve?
a) fish and chips b) steaks c) fish and vegetables
6. What is Gozo?
a) an island b) a city c) a mountain
7. When is Mandy going home?
a) tomorrow b) next week c) next Tuesday
SPEECH EXERCISES
Exercise 1. Express your own opinion
- What is the best way for you to relax?
- When do you usually have a good time?
- What are you interested in?
- How does your hobby influence your life style?
- What do you devote your free time to?
- How do you usually spend your week-ends?
- What do you prefer to do during your holidays?
- Where do you like to “go out”?
- What kind of sport do you go in for?
- What activities do you like to take part in?
Exercise 2. Speak about
a) Your day off. How do you spend your free time?
b) What is hobby? What hobbies do you now? What hobbies do you have?
c) Sport in our life. Famous kinds of sport in different countries.
d) Optional task: How can hobby help you in your life?
WRITTEN TASKS.
Exercise 1. Write a letter.
a) This is a part of Andy’s letter.
“... I’m starting to feel unfit! Do you do much exercise? How often do you do exercise? What should I do to get fit? I’m thinking of joining a gym. Is that a good idea? What else would you recommend?
Write soon.
Love,
Andy”
b) This is a part of a letter from your English pen friend.
“… I can’t wait to come and stay with you next month. We’re going to have such a lot of fun! What do you think the weather will be like? What kind of clothes should I bring with me? How much money do I need? Have you arranged any interesting things for us to do? Let me know!
Hope to hear from you soon.
Love,
Alex”
Observe the rules of letter writing.
Exercise 2. Comment on the following statement
Some people believe that “travel broadens the mind”. They believe that when you travel to other places, you experience new things and learn from them. Other people, however, argue that most people who go on holiday to other places just lie on a beach and don’t experience the local culture.
Express your opinion and give reasons for it. Give other people’s arguments and explain why they are wrong. Don’t forget to make a conclusion.
Follow the plan:
- Make a general statement of the problem
- Give you opinion with arguments for it.
- Give other people’s opinion and explain why they are not right.
- Make the conclusion.
Test “ HOBBY, SPORT, VACATIONS, WEEKEND”
1. Insert a suitable preposition:
He devotes all his free time… his collection. a) on b) to c) in d) at
2. I am keen… fishing. a) on b) to c) of d) in
3.. Sport helps you to keep… good health. a) on b) to c) in d) at
4. What are you fond …? a) in b) for c) to d) of
5. They always take part… sport competitions. a) on b) for c) in d) at
6. Make up pairs of synonyms:
1..to be keen on
a) to have a good time; b) to be fond of; c) to go out; d) to take part in;
2. hobby
a) pastime; b) spare time; c) leisure; d) favourite occupation;
3. occupation
a) opportunity; b) competition; c) pastime; d) free time;
7. Choose the sentence which is grammatically wrong:
a. Almost everyone collect something at some period in his life. b. A hobby is a favourite pastime of a person
c. Hobbies differ like tastes. d. Hobbies can be subdivided into some large classes
8. Insert the right modal verb:
1. I (могу) skate.
a) can b) have to c) to be able to d) may
9. To my mind you (надо) go in for sport.
a) should b) may c) have to d) can;
10. You will (сможешь) ski well in another few weeks.
a) can b) must c) need d) be able to
11. A hobby is what you … and like to do in your spare time.
a) must b) may c) can d) have to
12. Choose correct tense-voice form:
In England people … tennis all the year round
a) play b) is playing c) plays d) has played
13. When…you…part in that competition?
a) have…taken b) are…taken c) did…take d) did…took
14. He … in for sport last year
a) doesn’t go b) hasn’t gone c) didn’t go d) hasn’t go
15. … … … a hobby for yourself?
a) Did you choose… b) Do you choose… c) you choose… d) Have you chosen…
16. Insert the article where it is necessary:
Will you play… chess with me?
a. the; b. a; c. an; d. –;
17 Sports play … important part in the life of … Englishmen.
a. the; b. a; c. an; d. –;
18. …Saturday evening is the favourite time for parties, dances, going to the pictures or the theatre, in fact for “going out” generally.
a. the; b. a; c. an; d. –;
19. Denote the part of speech of the following words:
A n. -noun B v. -verb C adj.- adjective D adv.-adverb
1. championship; 2. successful; 3. to entertain; 4. generally;
Match the beginning of the sentence in A with the middle part in B and the end of the sentence in C. (for example A1B2C2)
| A | B | C |
| 1 Netball | 1 is the oldest of all the major tennis tournaments | 1 as the home of golf. |
| 2 Table tennis | 2 is the largest female team sport | 2 in England. |
| 3 Wimbledon | 3 is traditionally regarded | 3 sport |
| 4 Scotland | 4 began with Cambridge University students | 4 beginning in 1877. |
| 5 The game of darts, as it is today, | 5 was invented in the north of England | 5 using cigar boxes and champagne corks. |
| 6 Horseracing, the sport of Kings | 6 is a very popular | 6 in a town called Grimsby. |
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Tapecript:
Mandy: Hello, Paul.
Paul: Hello, who is it? I can’t hear you very well.
Mandy: It’s me, Mandy. Guess what! I’m calling from Malta.
Paul. Malta? You’re joking. What are you doing there?
Mandy: I’m here on holiday. My parents wanted to surprise me. It’s a gift for my birthday.
Paul: Mmm, you’re so lucky! When did you get there?
Mandy: Well, we arrived last Tuesday and we are going to stay for another week/ The flight was super! It was my first time on the plane. And when we got here, we hired a car because we wanted to tour the whole island.
Paul: It sounds great! Who are you there with?
Mandy: Just with my parents. My aunt and uncle wanted to come too, but they couldn’t leave their jobs.
Paul: Well, tell me a bit about the island. What’s the weather like?
Mandy: It’s sunny every day, so it’s quite warm. I like it because I can go swimming and sunbathe all day long. Actually, it rarely rains here – nothing like England. (They laugh)
Paul. So, is your hotel at the seaside resort?
Mandy. No, actually, it’s in the capital, Valetta. It’s a beautiful old hotel with a nice view of the city.
Paul: How about the people?
Mandy: Oh, they’re quite friendly and hospitable and most of them speak English. So, I don’t have any problems, even if I go out alone. But I’ve also made a few friends, and we go cycling together.
Paul: What is there to eat on the island?
Mandy: Paul! You always think about food! Well, we have been to a couple of traditional restaurants for lunch where we had fish and vegetables. For dessert, we had oranges and figs with honey. It was very nice.
Paul: That sounds delicious, but you know I prefer steaks.
Mandy: I know. Enough about food!
Paul: OK, what are you doing tomorrow?
Mandy: Tomorrow, we are going on a day cruise to Gozo, which is a small island near Malta. It’s full of mountains. I’ll send you a pastcard from there.
Paul/ OK, have a nice time!
Mandy: Thanks. See you next week! Bye!
Keys (Listening): 1c, 2b, 3b, 4a, 5c, 6a, 7b