Hobby

For example, we read you: "basketball, football, tennis, running, and so on" and you should guess the word: (sports) Is it clear?
- a novel, a hero, a detective story, a book, a fairy-tale; (Reading)
- a guitar, a piano, to listen, to play instruments, jazz; (music)
- films, news, shows, cartoons; (watching TV)
-kitchen, cakes, salad, food, fruits; (cooking)
- stamps, cards, coins, toys; (collecting)
- a computer, to play, tennis, football, basketball; (games)
4. Now let s play a game. We need the captain from each team. You will be editors. What is the Russian for "editor" Get a sheet of paper and a pen and sit down here. The rest of the teams stand here. You are journalists. What is the Russian for "journalist" Okay! Each person should read a sentence, try to remember it and tell the editor from your team to write it down. There are 7 sentences that compose a text. Then the editors read the text to the audience. At the end the team that makes it in a proper and in a faster way wins.
Hobby is something you like to do in your spare time. In Great Britain people like active kinds of hobby. They usually play football. They also like to listen to music. In the USA people like to cook and to collect stamps. So they like passive kinds of hobby. As for Russia we like to ski, to skate and to play hockey.
5. So, you have discussed some questions about hobby. Lets discuss now the most popular hobbies in Russia, in the USA and in Great Britain. Here there are a table with statistics of the most common kinds of hobby.


Great Britain USARussia
Sport (football)- 30
Sport (tennis)- 20
Music - 15
Collecting - 10
TV and video - 5
Reading - 5
Gardening - 9
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