Hobbies. Leisure Time. Бекерова Е.А - 27 стр.

2.6. Activities.                                                           Vote again. What is your attitude towards the computer and the Inter-
                                                                           net? Has your attitude changed during the debate?
      A. Read the letter written to a newspaper advice column. Discuss
                                                                           Fill in the table on the blackboard
possible solutions with a partner and then write a reply to the woman.
 Dear Miriam
                                                                                            +                                    –
 My husband’s addicted to the Internet. Day and night he chats to
 an American woman, sometimes intimately. We’ve been married
 for 27 years and a few months ago he told me he wanted a divorce.         Websites:
 I found out he’s been sending flowers to this woman he met on the         www.profound.cc.uk
 Internet and he intends to go over and visit her.                         www.hippy.freeserve.co.uk/censor/
 He’s 50 and all my friends have told me he’s probably going               www.birmingham.co.uk/english
 through a midlife crisis. He talks all the time to this woman. I
 know for sure he’s not seeing anyone else, it’s just the Internet
 that’s got a stranglehold on him.
                                                                                            III. Sports and Leisure Activities
 He’s always been a bully and has threatened that if I did anything
 to get in touch with the woman, he’d set our two Alsatian dogs on                  1. Popular Sports and Leisure activities in Britain
 me. What can I do?
                                                                           1.1. Pre-reading focus.
                                                         Daily Mirror             1) It is fair to say that Russia as most Western countries has be-
                                                                           come a leisure-orientated society. Do you agree/disagree?
       B. It is fair to say that people are getting addicted to the com-          2) Russian people have also become extremely health-
puter and the Internet. Children play computer games. Teenagers chat.      conscious and for many young people keep-fit is a very important part
Grown ups go to different Web sites. What is your attitude towards the     of their lives. Do you agree/disagree?
computer and the Internet? Is it a positive/a negative one?
       Vote and write down your answers on the blackboard.                 1.2. Pre-reading task.
                   +                                 –                           Read the essay written by a British teacher, Mrs. Penn, about
                                                                           popular sports and leisure activities in Britain.
                                                                                 • When you have finished, give the definitions to the following
                                                                           words and phrases:
      С. Work in two groups and debate the following issue:                          to mushroom
          Can the computer or the Internet be a hobby?                               health-conscious
Group 1 – You are to support this opinion                                            keep-fit (a noun)
Group 2 – You are against this opinion                                               to be preoccupied with
Share your opinions.                                                                 aerobics
                                                                                     weight-lifting

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