Question

Hobbies hobbies differ like tastes. if you have chosen a hobby according to your character and taste, you are lucky because your life becomes more interesting. gardening is one of the oldest man's hobbies. it is a well-known fact that the english are very fond of gardening and growing flowers, especially roses. both grown-ups and children are fond of playing different computer games. this is a relatively new hobby but it is becoming more and more popular. making things includes drawing, painting, making sculpture, designing costumes, handicrafts. two of the most famous hobby painters were president eisenhower and sir winston churchill. some hobbyists write music or play musical instruments. president bill clinton, for example, plays the saxophone. almost everyone collects something at some period in his life: stamps, coins, matchboxes, books, records, postcards, toys, watches. some collections have no real value. others become so large and so valuable that they are housed in museums and galleries. many world-famous collections started in a small way with one or two items. people with a good deal of money often collect paintings, rare books, and other art objects. such private collections are sometimes given to museums, libraries and public galleries so that others might take pleasure in seeing them. no matter what kind of hobby a person has, he always has the opportunity of learning much from it. learning new things can be the most exciting hobby. 1: выписать из текста все существительные и образовать множественную форму. 2: выписать все правильные и неправильные глаголы.

Answer 1

Задание 1.  

Hobby – hobbies, taste – tastes, character – characters, life – lives, man – men, fact – facts, flower – flowers, rose – roses, grown-up – grown-ups,  child – children, game – games, thing – things, costume – costumes, handicraft – handicrafts, painter – painters, president – presidents, sir – sirs, hobbyist – hobbyists, instrument – instruments, saxophone – saxophones, example – examples, period – periods, stamp – stamps, coin – coins,  matchbox – matchboxes, book – books, record – records, postcard – postcards, toy – toys, watch – watches, collection – collections, museum – museums, gallery – galleries, way – ways, item – items, person – people, painting – paintings, book – books, object – objects, library – libraries, matter – matters, kind – kinds, opportunity – opportunities, thing – things.

Задание 2.

*в  список включены также глаголы, использованные в тексте в виде герундия

Правильные глаголы:

differ, include, play, collect, start, house, paint, design

Неправильные глаголы:

choose, be, become, write, give, take, grow, make,  draw, see, learn