Номер 28, страница 138 - гдз по английскому языку 11 класс (enjoy english) учебник Биболетова, Бабушис

Unit 4. What are your whereabouts?. Section 2. Unusual hobbies to take up - номер 28, страница 138.

Условие.

SE 28 Read the text describing popular English pastimes. Match the texts to the titles. There is one extra title.

• 1 Reading or Doing
• 2 Leisure Activities that Create the National Character
• 3 Our Nearest and Dearest
• 4 The National Hobby — Virtual Sports
• 5 The Friend We Spend Most Time With
• 6 An Escape from Reality

B You are reading this text, so you will not be surprised that reading is still a popular pastime, even more popular than DIY or gardening (according to the same surveys that told us about TV). Really, you can see a lot of people reading newspapers in the tube in the morning. The survey showed they make more than 80% of us. Thousands of people play word games and do verbal puzzles — our passion for word games is widely-known. Even those who claim they choose non-verbal leisure activities such as fishing, walking, bird-watching, cooking, soap making, knitting or doing sports have several magazines to read about it. The most popular hobbies usually have several weekly or monthly publications, not to mention Internet sites. As a result, we often read a lot about our hobby and have no time to practise it.

A People in England watch a lot of television — according to some surveys the national average is about three or three and a half hours a day. Does it mean we have stopped talking to each other? More than 90 % of people who took part in the survey said they had invited their friends and visited relatives in the past month as well. Some psychologists took part in a similar survey but they didn’t talk to their respondents, they obtained information in the other way. Video cameras were installed in people’s sitting rooms to record how long they watched television and what they were doing at that time. Every day people had to fill forms and record what programmes and how much of them they watched. The results were really shocking: people’s estimates and reality were totally different. They found that when people said they “were watching TV” they actually switched it on and kept doing some everyday things: chatted with children, played with cats, gossiped on the telephone, cooked and ate dinner, did something else, for example, hoovering and even fell asleep. Most of them just occasionally glanced at the television screen during these three or three and a half hours.

C The world is changing quickly nowadays and technological advances give us a new excuse not to go out, pull up the virtual game, talk to a virtual friend and spend a quiet evening without dangers of face-to-face social interaction. The whole world of the Internet: chatrooms, social networks, surfing and messaging is a perfect option for the socially handicapped, word-obsessed English. It is really a good way out: no need to think what to wear, no eye contact, no necessity to decide whether to shake hands or kiss cheeks (a smile may be more than enough?…). Our awkward pauses are not visible, so there is no need to fill silence. Actually, there are no physical contacts and no real human beings to communicate. Just words — we do love them.

D Pets in England are not just pets and keeping them has never been a leisure activity — it’s a way of life. The expression “keeping pets” often has nothing to do with reality — it doesn’t describe the real situation in many English homes and has nothing to do with the status of our animals in the family. Many Englishmen never buy luxurious kennels for their dogs or silk-lined baskets for cats — what for? They let their beloved animals take over the whole house. The unwritten rules let them sprawl over carpets and sofas, sleep in the most comfortable armchair protesting when their owner wants to occupy a corner of it. Our pets often have more attention than our children, are better dressed than us, they always take the best place in the house and the biggest in our heart.

E Do you remember that almost all popular sports and games played in the world come from England? First of all football and tennis, then rugby and even baseball (that foreigners sometimes think is an American game) appeared here. When we didn’t actually invent the game, we did invent a set of proper rules for it and made the world follow them. Take, for example, polo, hockey, boxing, swimming and even skiing. Such activities as hunting, fishing and shooting are also widely recognised as an essential part of English culture and heritage. Many foreigners see sports and games as an integral part of Englishness.

Решение.

Решение 2.

Прочитайте текст, описывающий популярные английские развлечения. Сопоставьте тексты с заголовками. Один заголовок лишний.

Ответ:

A	5. The Friend We Spend Most Time With
B	1. Reading or Doing
C	6. An Escape from Reality
D	3. Our Nearest and Dearest
E	2. Leisure Activities that Create the National Character

The extra title is 4. The National Hobby — Virtual Sports.

Перевод:

A	5. Друг, с которым мы проводим больше всего времени
B	1. Читать или делать
C	6. Побег от реальности
D	3. Наши самые близкие и родные
E	2. Досуг, формирующий национальный характер

Лишний заголовок — 4. Национальное хобби — виртуальный спорт.