1. Guess some things people like doing in their spare time.

1) A useful home hobby usually done by women.

2) A summer hobby in which tents are often used.

3) A hobby in which people make different figures from pap<

4) A popular hobby (and everyday home activity) which is rather tasty.

5) Learning the night sky.

Did you know?

A bizarre Japanese hobby of fork-bending is based on the theory that by concentrating your mind, one will be able to complete the action with minimal physical effort.

2. a) Listen to the Top 10 hobby chart and order the hobbies given below.

Model building, book reading, metal detecting, sewing, music, woodworking, fishing, restoring cars, bird watching, collecting.

b) Which of the hobbies are ’doing things’ and which - ’making things’? Which of them did you not expect to see in the list? Why?

c) In pairs, discuss if you would like to rearrange the order or replace some hobbies with different ones.

Compare your lists with those of other students and make a class top 10 hobby chart.

3. Nobody can say how many hobbies there are in the world — from a few hundred to a few thousand, and some of them are quite unusual, extraordinary and eccentric. See if you can match some unusual hobbies to the pictures.

Explain your choice.

Dog grooming, egg carving, hikaru dorodango, mooing, noodling, soap carving, tape art.

4. a) Listen to the text and see if you are right.

b) In pairs, discuss what traits of character a person must have to take up these hobbies.

Which of these hobbies do you think are interesting? funny? useful? useless? Why? Compare your opinion with those of other students.

5. In pairs, arrange the hobbies from the most to the least interesting. Compare your list with those of other students. In a class discussion come to a common decision for the class. What is the most interesting (the least interesting) hobby according to your opinion? Why?

6. Interview your family to find out the most unusual hobby they know. Write about it to make a report in class. Use questions from ex. 6 (Lesson 1) to help you.