Read the sentences below and put the verb in brackets into either the infinitive or -ing form. Find someone whо...

1. wants
(become) famous
in the future.

2 can't stand
(fly).

3 spends a lots of time
(get) ready for school in the
morning.

4 is looking forward to
(leave) school.

5 sometimes pretends
(be) ill to avoid (come) to school.

6 expects
(get) a good
score in his / her next English test.

7 would agree
(marry)
someone just for his / her money.

8 fancies
(start) his
/ her own business in the future.

9 is planning (do) some
sport this week.

10 hopes
(live) abroad in the future.

11 could give up(eat)
chocolate.

12 will carry on (work) until he/she is 70
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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.

Park named after kirov kirova.v many parks and gardens , is where to go for a walk , but the kirov park one of the most beloved and popular holiday destinations for residents goroda.park kirov located in central goroda.posle wwii kirov appeared october avenue which has become a kind of urban boundary array. the city grew and began 50-60 years active building west of the prospectus . right next to it on the site of the former settlement solovyovsk was decided to divide the park, build a hotel , a circus , a museum diorama , making this place a center of recreation for residents and visitors alike. so in the 70s has a magnificent city park with deciduous and coniferous trees, walkways , lawns and , of course, its main decoration - with cascading ponds surrounded by willow trees. later in the park , on the left of the circus were established attractions. developed infrastructure once made ​​the park one of the main leisure centers goroda.v present period park is visited daily by thousands of people here are equipped with a place to stay , rental boats , a children's playground in the center of the bottom of the pond with a fountain . in 2010, between the hotel and the diorama , near ponds appeared sculpture " horseshoe happiness" and paved "alley of happiness" where anyone can order a box cooker with its inscription. one of the favorite activities of visitors to the park , and especially children , is feeding ducks and gulls . birds live here year round , even in winter , and attract a lot of kids and always uplifting to all visitors , sometimes taking food directly from ruk.park kirov not leave anyone indifferent , especially in the summer when it is filled with lush greenery everywhere manicured lawns and flower beds , alleys are benches overlooking a pond surrounded by willows branched !