Hobbies. Leisure Time. Бекерова Е.А - 57 стр.

           - an actor/actress                                                                             Tapescripts
           - a chief manager of a popular TV-Channel
       Problem to be discussed:                                                                                          don, in the suburbs. I'm not mar-
                                                                             Tapescript 1 [Headway Inter-                ried but I live with my girlfriend,
       “Leisure in the future: would be the traditional pastime activities
                                                                             mediate (Unit 2) – Tapescript               Fiona. I usually cook our eve-
substituted by new and modern ones?”
                                                                             12]                                         ning meal because she gets home
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       o “Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, some                                                  from work after me. She's a
                                                                             Roger the gardener                          graphic designer and earns a lot
         few to be chewed and digested.”(Francis Bacon, British phi-
         losopher and essayist)                                              D'you know the best thing that              of money, much more than me!
       o “In a very good restaurant we have a dinner that is specially       ever happened to me? D'you                  She earns more but I think I en-
         cooked for us, in a canteen we are merely served with standard      know what it was? It was when I             joy my work more.
         portions of a standard meal. And this is the difference between     lost my last job. Yes, really! I               At weekends we often drive
         the living theatre and mass entertainment of films, radio and       never liked it -hated it in fact -          into the country and go to an-
         television. In the theatre the play is specially cooked for         stuck in an office all day with             tique shops and antique sales. I
         us.”(J.B. Priestly)                                                 computers and a telephone. Now              collect old radios, you see. We
       o “TV is the miracle of the XX century”                               my hobby is my full-time job! I             don't have a television! Can you
       o “We live in such a globalized, homogenized world today that a       start work very early, er ... in            believe it? Everybody has one
         counterrevolution seems to have started. Wherever we go, we         summer I usually leave home                 these days but we don't! Yes,
         see sameness: a Mc Donald’s in Moscow is only marginally            about 5.30 in the morning, but in           er..., er ... I collect old radios and
         different from one in Paris or in Pensacola, Florida. There         winter not until about 8.00. I              Fiona collects old cookery
         seem to be far fewer singular, individualized experiences today     have a small van, and I carry all           books. We take our dog, we have
         than there were in the past. Maybe, X-sport people are merely       my tools and equipment in that.             a lovely dog, and we like taking
         striking a blow for truly individualized and unique experi-         It's autumn now so I'm tidying              her on long walks. I've just
         ence.”                                                              the gardens – I'm picking up                bought two 1930s radios and I'm
                                                                             leaves and pulling up old sum-              cleaning them and mending
                                                                             mer flowers, Oh, and I'm plant-             them. All my radios work, you
                                                                             ing bulbs as well. I'm planting             know! I never play any sports. Is
                                                                             lots of daffodils and tulips.               this unusual?
                                                                             Every season is so different, and               I think there is only one prob-
                                                                             I love them all. I just love work-          lem with my job. It's seasonal, so
                                                                             ing outside in the open air after           I don't earn much in the autumn
                                                                             all those years in a stuffy office.         and winter, so er ... I'm not earn-
                                                                             I never noticed the seasons                 ing much at the moment. I earn
                                                                             there! After work I always go               most money in spring and sum-
                                                                             home and relax in a hot bath. I             mer. But it's OK, I earn enough,
                                                                             have a flat in London but most              not enough to eat out often in
                                                                             of my work is outside of Lon-               expensive restaurants or go to

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