Get on with meet make get to know have an argument introduced
have got a lot in common go out with
Do you get on with
your sister?
'Not really. We have an argument about
something at least once a day!'
1 'Where did you
your best friend?'
'My cousin Clare
me to her on the bus.'
2 'Why do you
Dylan
every weekend?
'We
We both enjoy
going to the cinema?
3 'Do you often
friends with new people at parties?
'No, I find it difficult to
strangers​

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.

The legend of Lake Naroch. Many years ago there … (lived) a girl called Nara. She … (could) sing very well and play the psaltery .She … (loved) a young man and … (wanted) to marry him. One day she was sitting near a large beautiful lake when a rich man … (saw) her. He … (liked) Nara so much that he… (wanted) to marry her. As Nara….. (had) a groom she… (did not want) … to marry the rich man. But the rich man … (was) very stubborn, and his servants … (killed) Nara’s groom and … (took) Nara to the rich man’s palace. The girl … (was) so unhappy that when everybody was sleeping, she … (set) fire to the palace , and … (ran) away. When the rich man… (learnt) about it, he … (sent) his servants after Nara. As she … ( could not) run away from them, Nara … (dived) into the lake and… (died). From that time the lake was named Lake Naroch.