XI.If you can’t choose any hobby ask your friend for advice. Make up a dialogue

 

XII. Use the guiding questions given below to write a composition about your hobby.

1. What hobby (hobbies) have you got?

2. How long have you had it?

3. Who advised you to have this hobby or got you interested in it?

4. What interests you in your hobby?

5. How does it help you in your life, study, work?

6. What equipment do you use for your hobby?

7. How much time do you spare for your hobby?

8. Do your friends or parents share your enthusiasm about your hobby?

9. Is it a practical or unpractical hobby?

10. What do you enjoy about your hobby most of all?

11. Why would you recommend other people to take up your hobby?

Text for Supplementary Reading.

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, 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. Such private collections are sometimes 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.

 

 

Unit VII.

Leisure Time. Theatre. Cinema.

Exercises.

I. Listen and read. [ u:] [ u].

too tomb tooth tool could – cook

boo booed boot cool stood – soot

rue rude route rule hood – hoof

who whom hoot fool

coo cooed coot pull

sour soon soup spoon

Lou lose loose stool

 

1. Who'll do the room?

2. Do as I do.

3. Lon grew too big for his boots.

4. Prue knew who's who.

5. It looks good.

6. Put your foot down.

7. Keep a good look down.

 

II. Remember the following quotations.

1. Art is not an end to itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

M. Moussorgsky.

2. Theatre is a magnifying glass.

M. Neyelova.

 

III. Invitations.

Making invitations:

- Let's go to the …

- What about going to …

- Why don’t we go to …

- Would you like to go to …

- How about going to …

- What about tomorrow evening?

- Do you feel like going to …

- May I invite you to …

Accepting an invitation:

- I'd like / love to very much.

- That would be very nice. Thank you.

- All right.

- With pleasure.

- That's a good idea.

- Not a bad idea.

- Oh, I'd love to.

- Yes, I'd love to.

- That suits me very well.

- Agreed.

Refusing an invitation:

- No, I'm afraid, I can't.

- I'd like to, but I'm afraid I can't.

- I wish I could, but I can't.

- Certainly not.

- Thank you, but I can't.

- No, thank you.

- No, I'd rather stay at home.

 

IV. Illustrative dialogues.

-I say, let's go to the theatre tonight.

- Oh, what a good idea.

 

 

- Look here, why don’t we go to the theatre tonight?

- Oh, I'd love to.

 

 

- Look here, what do you say to going to the cinema?

- You know, I don’t feel like going out tonight.

 

 

- What about going to the cinema?

- No, thank you. I'd rather stay at home.

 

V. You are inviting your friend to the theatre / cinema. Tell him / her what theatre / cinema you will visit; what play / film will be shown; where and when you will meet; ask him if it is convenient for him / her.

VI. Expressing likes Expressing dislikes

- I enjoy such films. - I hate such films.

- It is really exciting. - It's so unpleasant for me.

- It's a real piece of art. - Such films are too boring.

- Personally I find it interesting. - I can't stand such films.

- I am mad about this film.

- I am greatly impressed.

Remember these words:

thrilling –хвилюючий

splendid – чудовий

boring – нудний

to be a success –бути успішним

excellent – чудовий

wonderful –чудовий, дивовижний

the acting is perfect –гра досконала

realistically –реалістично

feature film –художній фільм

horror film –фільм жахів

popular science –науково – популярний фільм

animated cartoon –мультфільм

spectator –глядач

 

VII. Express your opinion about the film you saw last.

What is it about? Why do you like it? Is it made very well? Does it have a lot of music? Is this film a success? What do you think of the actors? How do they perform? Is the film colourful? Does this film make you think / laugh / cry?

 

VIII. Read and speak about the different genres of films and their influence on the spectators.

There are a lot of different kinds of films: feature films, horror films, thrillers, popular science films, mystery films, documentaries, animated cartoons. Besides, films may be colour or black and white, full-length or short, sound or silent, dubbed in mother tongue.

Some people prefer feature films, others prefer amusing comedies. The life is rather difficult nowadays, and many of us want to relax or laugh. But at same time we want to watch a true – to – life film which describes the life of ordinary people, their feelings and problems. Such films move us deeply, they arouse the feeling of sympathy or hatred for the heroes. As a rule such films leave a deep and lasting impression upon a person. Educational films are useful mainly for school children and students. But animated cartoons are popular both with children and adults.

Cinema plays an important role in the life of any Society.

 

IX. Write a letter to your friend about the film you saw last, about the films you like to see.

Text for Supplementary Reading.

A Miracle.

David Garrick was a famous -English actor of the 18th century. At the beginning of his stage career he worked in a company of actors which toured to the south of England.

One summer day the company arrived at a little town. They staged a tragedy based on an episode of the Punic War, The evening was warm and they played in an open-air theatre.

At the beginning of the second act there was a scene of a battle-field. There were several bodies of dead soldiers lying on the stage. David Garrick played the part of one of these dead bodies. Ha was lying on the stage and trying hard to look like a real dead body. An actor playing the part of a Roman general came forward and, standing over Garrick, began to recite a monologue.

Suddenly Garrick heard a mosquito buzzing near his ear. Then there were two mosquitoes. The next moment several mosquitoes were stinging him in the face and in the leg. Garrick wanted to scratch himself, but he was playing the part of a dead man, so he could not move He suffered greatly.

Meanwhile the general went on with his mono­logue. "Look at this young man, he was saying, "Only a few hours ago he was full of life'... and there he lies now — a dead body! Only a miracle can bring him back to life!"

And just at that moment Garrick, who could not stand the mosquitoes any longer, began scratching himself violently!

The audience burst out laughing. Of course, the actor playing the part of the general could not continue his monologue. He was thinking hard how to save the situation. At last he had an idea. "The gods have heard me!" he cried" out. "The miracle has happened!"

 

- Retell this story. Use the words first, next, then, finally, besides, because of, that’s why, to cut a long story short, frankly speaking, as a matter of fact, to tell you the truth.

 

Les Kurbas.

Les Kurbas (1887 – 1942), one of the founders of modern Ukrainian theatre, was born into a family of actors in the village of Stary Skalat, in Ternopil Region. In 1907 he finished the Ternopil classical gymnasium where instruction was carried out in the Ukrainian language and went on to study philosophy at Vienna and Lviv Universities. He began his carrier as an actor with the amateur theatre, then joined the travelling troup which belonged to the Theatrical Society " Ruska Besida".

In 1915 he organized the Ternopil Theatrical Evenings which became the first stationary theatre in the Western Ukraine. A year later he accepted the invitation of Mikola Sadovsky, a prominent Ukrainian actor and stage director, and went to Kyiv where he joined the Ukrainian stationary theatre.

As a stage director of the Ukrainian Drama Theatre named after Taras Shevchenko in Kharkiv (1920) and leader of the Actors Association " Berezil" (1922), People`s Artist of the Ukrainian SSR, Les Kurbas, carried out many successful theatrical productions based on plays by Ukrainian, Russian and foreign playwrights. He worked in the movies, too.

In 1922, in Kyiv, Les Kurbas founded the " Berezil" Arts` Association. There the stage director confirmed his creative quest, he used to find new works for staging, in particular, those by Mikola Kulish and Ivan Mykytenko, and new forms of expressing them. He brought up a brilliant galaxy of actors and stage directors: Amvrosiy Buchma, Natalia Uzhviy, Marian Krushelnitski, and others.

It is on the fundamentals of Kurbas` theatrical aesthetic that modern Ukrainian theatre rests today.

Les Kurbas fell a victim of Stalin`s repressions. He was exiled to Solovki islands where he died.

According to the decision of UNESCO a century of Les Kurbas` birth, a great figure in Ukrainian theatre, was marked in 1987. The memorial museum of Les Kurbas was opened in his birthplace, the village Stary Skalat. The exhibits of the museum testify to how much attention he paid to the theatrical art in Ukraine. The cause to which Kurbas dedicated his life has many worthy followers.

Make a chart for L. Kurbas` life.

Years Events

GRAMMAR TESTS.

1. Choose the correct variant of the verb:

1) She was hungry because she......... money to buy food.

a) has b) had not c) have.

2) He is so absent-minded. He always......... everything.

a) forgets d) forget c) forgot

3) I won't tell her the truth because it......... hurt her.

a) hurt b) shall hurt c) will hurt

4) In old times people......... very slowly.

a) travelled b) travel c) will travel

5) Hurry up or you….. late for train.

a)will be b) be c) were

6) He likes music but he...to watch concerts.

a) don't go b) doesn't go c) goes

7) You...... never a looser until you are trying.

a) is b) was c)are

8) It was rainy so I...... my umbrella with me.

a) took b) takes c) taken

9) They are going to the cinema, think I...... them.

a) will join b) joins c)joined

10) The hotel wasn't very expensive. It...... very much.

a) didn't cost b) don't cost c) will not cost

11) I know Nelly is very busy so I...... her.

a) won't disturb b) doesn't disturb c) disturbs

12) The wisest among us often......the least to say.

a) had b) will have c) have

 

2. Open the brackets:

1) There (to be) nothing more precious than life itself.

2) When a teacher (to call) a boy by his entire name it means trouble.

3) He was a wise man and (to judge) people by their actions.

4) By learning you will teach by teaching you (to learn).

5). He (to apply) for this post next year

6) Education always (to remain) the key to both economic and political empowerment?

7) What time the banks (to close) in Britain?

8) Mozart (to write) more than 600 pieces of music.

9) Don't worry. I (to meet) you outside the hotel in 20 minutes.

10) He always (to borrow) books from the library.

11) Last night I was very tired so I (to go) to bed early.

12) Next week my friend (to celebrate) her birthday?