Hobbies
A hobby is a favourite pastime of a person.
Hobbies differ like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby to you 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
traveling and from chess to volleyball. Gardening is one of the oldest man’s hobbies,
especially in some countries(Britain
Making things includes drawing, painting,
making sculptures, designing costumes, and handicrafts. Some people 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, toys. 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.
Topical vocabulary
A favourite pastime an item
To one’s liking an
art object
Numerous to be
subdivided into
Valuable
a word famous collection
A wide variety of activities a rare book
To have no real value to have the opportunity of doing smth
A hobby painter to take
pleasure in doing smth
To be housed to
add to
To start in a small way a private
collection
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