They can arrange a party or go out, for example, go to a disco or some club. Generally they do it to have fun or to have a good time.
When people have nothing to do they easily get bored. As a rule, boredom is an awful state which can lead to depression. That is why it is necessary to get yourself occupied.
Nowadays the most common activity to get rid of boredom is surfing the Internet. This mass media offers a lot of opportunities for entertainment. Socializing in social networks is the most popular activity not only for the young but also for the grown-ups. Using the Internet helps you to kill your time browsing, sharing your pictures in Instagram or chatting with «friends». Gossips or «yellow press» (tabloids) do you more harm than good as they make your brain work in the wrong direction.
Well, sometimes concerned parents try to make their children be occupied all time. That is why schoolchildren don’t have much free time. But if they have, they usually spend it indoors playing computer games or chatting in the net. They can do it for hours.
Answer these questions
1. What is the most popular hobby nowadays?
2. How the Internet helps you to kill your time?
3. What pupils do in their free time?
4. When people get bored?
True\ False
5. Mass media try to entertain people.
6. Reading of some newspapers can be harmfully
7. Pupils have much time for different activities
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1. We have missed the first act of the play because when we arrived at the theatre the performance already had started.
2. At the time of the trial last summer Hinkley has been in prison for eight months.
3. The staff was paid weekly but now they are receiving a monthly salary.
4. Denise had left school early on Wednesday because she was taking her driving test.
5. What’s the point in arguing with people who are holding very strong opinions?
6. Many of the survivors have been working in the fields when the earthquake struck.
7. Phil stood at the door soaked from head to toe: he has been running in the rain.
8. Jim will leave on the early flight the next morning so he made his excuses and left the party before midnight.
9. It seems to me, Minister, that the Government have broken all its pre-election promises regarding the Health Service, (18) нет слова в скобках?
10. It must be raining really hard. All the passers-by were soaked through.
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