Read the dialogue "Holiday hobbies".

Lesie talks about what she likes to do when she has free time.

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Simon: Hi! What's your name?

Lesie: My name is Lesie Gregory.

Simon: And do you want to tell us about your hobbies?

Lesie: Sure, I'll tell you about my hobbies.

Simon: OK. What are they?

Lesie: My first hobby is going to the gym. I go to the gym three times a week. I do floor exercises, aerobics classes, swimming and I do weight training.

Simon: Of all those things, what are your favorites? What's your favorite? What's your favorite thing to do?

Lesie: My favorite thing to do is either swimming or what they call aqua-aerobics.

Simon: Aqua-aerobics? What's that?

Lesie: Well, actually, there are different kinds of aqua-aerobics. It's just like an aerobics class but it's in a swimming pool, so there's, so you're not putting pressure on your joints when you're jumping up and down.

Simon: Ah, cool! Any other hobbies?

Lesie: Yeah, um, because it's going to be Christmas soon, I'll be able to enjoy my hobby of baking.

Simon: So what kind of things do you bake?

Lesie: Oh, well, sometimes I bake pies, like pumpkin pies or pecan pies. Pecan pies are very famous where I come from in Florida because we have pecan trees and then sometimes I do cakes, like really rich cakes like red velvet cakes, or carrot cakes, but this year I'm going to be baking cookies.

Simon: Cookies! What kind of cookies, Leslie?

Lesie: Ah, let's see this year's cookies are going to be the traditional Christmas sugar cookie, which is a big cookie in a kind of a Christmas shape, like a Christmas tree or Santa Claus with icing or some colored sugar, very yummy, and some M&M cookies with red and green M&M's.

Simon: Oh, wow! Sounds interesting! OK. I've got a question, or I've got something to ask you.

Lesie: Describe how your cookies taste? Use your three favorite adjectives?
Three favorite adjectives? Soft, moist, and sweet.

Fill in the gaps:

1. Simon: Of all those things, what are your ?

2. Ah, let's see this year's cookies are going to be the Christmas sugar cookie, which is a big cookie in a kind of a Christmas shape, like a Christmas tree or Santa Claus with icing or some colored sugar, very yummy, and some M&M cookies with red and green M&M's.

3. Lesie: Describe how your cookies ?

a.

1. i thought you were busy.

2. he showed us where his father works.

3. we hoped you could swim.

4. i wished i could meet her after class.

5. tom asked how many times a week we study english.

6. the doctor said that i should stay at home.

7. i was sorry that he had to stay at home.

8. did you not know that this is a very important conversation?

9. i did not know that he lives on the outskirts.

10. peter said that the museum is closed today.

б.

1. did you know that he left the city?

2. we heard that this student passed all exams well.

3. mother said they already had lunch.

4. henry asked me where i got this book.

5. he called the station and found out that the train had already left.

6. the teacher asked us when we did the exercise.

7. john said this morning that their teacher was sick.

8. did he not know that the children had gone to the forest?

9. she thought he had already graduated.

10. tom said he saw this movie.

в.

1. anna decided that she would call there tomorrow.

2. mother hoped her son would return in a week.

3. father said our friends would come on saturday.

4. parents thought the doctor would examine the child immediately.

5. we hoped that in the evening we could go to the movies.

6. i did not know that your friends will go to rest without you.

7. father told us what we would do on saturday.

8. they said that the lecture will begin at 5 o'clock.

9. we planned and hoped that we would go on vacation at the end of the week.

10. i thought that each of us would have a month of vacation in the

передо мной картина в. васнецова «алёнушка». художник написал её по народной сказке «сестрица алёнушка и братец иванушка». но воодушевила его к написанию этой картины реальная девушка. её он увидел в усадьбе ахтырка, где художник рисовал пейзажи.

на картине я вижу грустную девушку. она сидит на камне возле пруда и грустит. у алёнушки порван сарафан и растрёпаны волосы. наверно она долго бегала по дремучему лесу в поисках братца иванушки. колючие ветки цеплялись за её волосы и одежду, мешая ей в поисках. уставшая, она присела отдохнуть на берегу пруда.

я не вижу на картине солнышка. а вода в пруду такая тёмная! по воде плавают жёлтые листочки, значит, наступила осень. сама природа грустит вместе с алёнушкой.

девушка нарисована как живая! и вся природа как настоящая, не хватает только звуков леса. но мне не понравилась эта картина, потому что она грустная, жалко алёнушку. а ведь сама сказка заканчивается хорошо!