B Complete the sentences using the words from exercise 3a.

1. When they opened up the tomb they found … beyond their wildest dreams.

2. Sophie's notebook is covered with ….

3. Rescuers used a special … for finding people trapped in collapsed buildings.

4. I could never play team sports - I lack the … spirit (= a strong wish to beat others).

5. … is an object on which you can ride in a standing or crouching position, propelling by occasionally pushing one foot against the ground.

 

C Listen to three people talking about their hobbies (audio file 1, 2, 3). Tick the hobbies they are talking about and place them in the correct order.

cooking	parkour
playing chess	gardening
collecting football stickers	photography
painting	fishing
knitting	geocaching

 

D Listen to the conversations and answer the questions.

1. What is geocaching?

a. hiding things

b. finding things

c. making things

2. What is necessary for geocaching?

a. a camera

b. a GPs device

c. a map

3. What does the second person tell about?

a. knitting

b. collecting things

c. dancing

4. What does she collect?

a. cars

b. milk-jugs

c. embroidered pictures of cottages

5. What does parkour mix?

a. walking

b. running

c. jumping

6. Are there any similarities between parkour and skateboarding?

a. Maybe

b. Yes

c. No

 

4 Speaking

 

4a When you prepare a talk you can use such phrases as:

1. In this short talk, I d like to talk about …

2. First, …

3. On the one hand ….

4. On the other hand …

5. In conclusion it must be said….

6. To sum up,…

4b Work in pairs. Make a report about different kinds of hobbies:

1. The most unusual hobby

2. The most common hobby

3. The rarest hobby

 

5 Writing

Read a saying and a quotation below and write a short composition (50-80 words) on one of them.

1. As many people as many hobbies.

2. “People are spending more on their hobbies to make their free time more enjoyable” (Steve Wagner)

3. `` A hobby is labor disguising itself as leisure. It is extremely destructive to the boundaries of private life`` (Bauvard, The prince of Plungers)

6 Extra activities

 

A Rearrange these letters to make different types of films or movies.

1. noiact	2. llerthris	3. omecdies	4. storicalih pice
5. manctior	6. rroroh	7. ionmatani	8. ensecic noifcit

B In pairs, ask each other the following questions. Use the words from ex. 6a in your answers.

1. How often do you go to the cinema? Which kinds of films do you prefer?

2. Do you prefer to watch a film at the cinema or on video? Why?

3. If you watch a film in another language, do you prefer it to have subtitles or a voiceover? Why?

 

C Complete the text using the words below, then translate it.

· science fiction	· basic	· branch
· transformation	· term	· scientific
· fantasy	· mutation

Science fiction

Science fiction is a popular modern 1) … of prose fiction that explores the probable consequences of some impossible transformation of the 2) … conditions of human existence. This 3) … can be about a technological invention or may involve some 4) … of biological or physical reality (e.g. time travel, extraterrestrial invasion, ecological catastrophe). Science fiction is a form of literary 5) … or romance.

The 6) … itself was first given by Hugo Gernsback, editor of the American magazine “Amazing Stories”, in 1926 and it is usually abbreviated to SF; before this, such works were called ‘7) … romances’ by H. G. Wells and others. Several early precedents have been claimed for the genre but true modern science fiction begins with Jules Verne's “Voyage au centre de la terre” (1864) and H. G. Wells's “The Time Machine” (1895). During the 1950s 8) … gained greater respect, as writers like Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, and Arthur C. Clarke expanded its range. SF has also had an important influence on postmodernist fiction by writers not devoted to this genre: Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Doris Lessing, and Italo Calvino are significant examples.