ЛЕГКО! (4 задание) 3. Match the two halves of the idioms.
1) Every cloud
2) What goes around
3) Where there’s smoke
4) Once bitten,
5) When in Rome
6) Where there’s life
7) Nothing ventured,
8) Let’s cross that bridge
a) there’s hope
b) do as the Romans do
c) twice shy
d) when we come to it
e) there’s fire
f) comes around
g) has a silver lining
h) nothing gained
4. Complete the conversations with one of the sayings
from Ex.3. There is one you don’t need to use.
1) A: Shall I enter the talent show?
B: Oh, go on! After all, .
2) A: Did you eat snake in China?
B: Yes, you know what they say: .
3) A: Joe was fired but now he’s found an even a better job!
B: Really? Well, .
4) A: You should buy your new phone online.
B: No, last time my card details were stolen. .
5) A: Since my accident, Pam’s been so helpful.
B: You were always there for her. .
6) A: Alain said he wasn’t dating Kim.
B: Well, I’ve seen them together, and .
7) A: What happens with our picnic if it rains?
B: I think it’s unlikely but anyway, .
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.