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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 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.
My Favourite Writer
Мой любимый писатель
I am fond of William Shakespeare’s works. William Shakespeare is the greatest of all playwrights and poets of all times. He was born in 1564 in the town of Stratford-on-Avon. He attended the local grammar school and got a classical education.Я люблю произведения Уильяма Шекспира . Уильям Шекспир — величайший из всех драматургов и поэтов всех времен . Он родился в 1564 году в городе Стрэтфорд-на-Эйвоне . Он ходил в местную среднюю классическую школу и получил классическое образование .There were no theatres in England then. Groups of actors travelled from town to town showing performances in the street. Actors sometimes came to Stratford-on-Avon. The boy went to see all their shows and liked them very much. He wanted to become an actor.Тогда в Англии театров не было . Группы актеров путешествовали из города в город , показывая спектакли на улице . Иногда они приезжали в Стрэтфорд-на-Эйвон . Мальчик ходил смотреть на все их представления и очень любил их . Он хотел стать актером .When he was twenty one William went to London. There he joined a group of actors and began writing plays for them. Soon Shakespeare’s plays were staged and became famous. The theatre where he worked was called «The Globe» and it was the first professional theatre.Когда Уильяму был 21 год , он уехал в Лондон . Здесь он присоединился к группе актеров и начал писать пьесы для них . Вскоре пьесы Шекспира были поставлены на сцене и стали известными . Театр , в котором он работал , назывался « Глобус », это был первый профессиональный театр .In 1582 he married Anne Hathaway and had three children.В 1582 году он женился на Анне Хазауэй , и у него было трое детей .Everybody knows Shakespeare’s plays. The most famous of them are «Othello», «Hamlet», «Romeo and Juliet», «King Lear», «The Comedy of Errors», «The Twelfth Night». Love and death, friendship and treason, devotion and lie are the main ideas of his plays.Каждому известны пьесы Шекспира . Самые знаменитые из них : « Отелло », « Гамлет », « Ромео и Джульетта », « Король Лир », « Комедия ошибок », « Двенадцатая ночь ». Любовь и смерть , дружба и предательство , преданность и обман — основные идеи его пьес .His major achievement as a poet is his sonnets, published in 1609. All his sonnets are full of harmony and music, they praise love, friendship and beauty.Его основным достижением как поэта являются сонеты , опубликованные в 1609 году . Все его сонеты полны гармонии и музыки , они восхваляют любовь , дружбу и красоту .William Shakespeare died in 1616. But his works will always be interesting for people all over the world.Уильям Шекспир умер в 1616 году . Но его творения всегда будут интересны людям во всем мире .