номер 5 (страница 82) гдз по английскому языку 6 класс тренировочные упражнения в формате ГИА Ваулина, Подоляко

5. Read the text and find the answers to the questions. Match questions 1-6 to paragraphs A-E. There is one question with no answer.

1. Why are young people interested in punk rock and the like?

2. What is the origin of hip hop?

3. What type of sport is popular with the young?

4. What are typical activities of English young people?

5. What theatre performances attract young people?

6. What is understood by leisure time?

A. Leisure time is free from work, study and household duties. The ways people spend their leisure time normally differ according to the age group: middle-aged and elderly people normally prefer watching TV or going to the theatre, or sometimes gardening, younger people enjoy more active pastimes like doing extreme sports, visiting discos or travelling.

B. However, the idea of doing sports or travelling is becoming popular with the older people. Teenagers normally prefer to do extreme sports with speed, height and danger. They wish to take themselves to the limits of their physical ability and fear, such as climbing, whitewater rafting, surfing, windsurfing and many others.

C. Their tastes in music are associated with youth subcultures, such as hard rock, hip hop or rap and punk rock. They normally like action films, comedies, musicals, thrillers and cartoons.

D. Sometimes the ways young people spend their free time depend on national traditions. For example, in the USA young people like blues, rock, country music and hip hop because they originated in the USA. The sports they are doing also originated in America like baseball, auto-racing, basketball, and surfboarding, skateboarding, snowboarding.

E. British youngsters are really fond of watching and taking part in football matches and sorts of races such as horse-racing, boat-racing and even dog-racing, as well as playing football, rugby and golf. They are really fond of pets and often spend some time in the evening taking their dog for a walk.