Hobbies

Hobbies differ like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby according to your character and taste you are lucky because your life becomes more interesting.

Hobbies are divided into four large classes: doing things. It includes a wide variety of activities, everything from gardening to traveling and from chess to valleyball.

Gardening is one of the oldest of man’s hobbies. It’s a well-known fact that the English are very fond of gardening and growing flowers, especially roses.

Both grown-ups and children fond of playing different computer games. This is a relatively new hobby but it’s becoming more and more popular.

Making things includes: drawing, painting, making sculpture, designing costumes, handicrafts. Two of the famous hobby painters were president Eisenhower and Sir Winston Churchill. Some hobbyists write music or play musical instruments.

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 other 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 things he is interested in, he is adding to what he knows. Learning things can be the most exciting aspect of a hobby.

1. What does “hobby” mean?

2. What kind of hobbies do you know?

3. What is your hobby? Tell why?

4. Do you like computer games?

5. Have you ever collected anything?