В данном разделе вы можете ознакомиться с билетами по различным предметам, школьными и экзаменационными топиками по английскому и немецкому языку, конспектами, а также материалами по педагогической практике.
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-Have you chosen your hobby?
-No, I haven't. I did not choose my hobby. I got interested in collecting postcards occasionally. One of my mother's friends sent me a postcard with beautiful flowers for my birthday. Since then 1 have started collecting postcards with flowers. Later I got an interest in learning about flowers, their names in Russian and in English. Then I tried to grow some flowers and studied their vegetation conditions. I also take photos of wild flowers in different periods of their vegetation.
-Does your hobby help you study at school?
-Well, in a certain way. There are many things which flowers and other plants have in common, and it helps me study botany. Many flowers are named after important and outstanding people, so I know their names and deeds. My hobby also helps me get along very well with my grandmother who is a great lover of flowers. I help her grow them and we spend summer very happily together.
-Do you like making things?
-Well... I can sew a little, and I knit rather well. But I wouldn't call it a hobby. I do it because sometimes I do not see anything I'd like to wear available in the shops, so I sew or knit the thing I like. I can say that I prefer embroidering to sewing because it is like painting a flower-piece. But, of course, I use patterns sold at shops.
-What can people collect but postcards?
-Oh, there are many collectable things. For example, bottles, beer mugs,video films and computer games. Mark Twain once wrote a story about a hobbyist who collected pipes, autographs, bells, even pieces of broken bricks! The most extravagant hobby of that man was collecting echoes.
-Do hobbies help people be happy?
-Yes, I think so. Many people have neither enough time nor talent to become national poets, actors, painters or singers. But in their free time they can exercise their gifts in the family circle and be happy. My mother says that knitting makes her happy because it calms her nerves and lets her create. Most people rest from their duties going in for their hobby.
-Do their hobbies have any impact on their country?
-Sometimes, I think. Let us consider the example of Tretyakov, whose private collection became the basis of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and the example of Catherine the second whose collection of paintings grew into the State museum of Hermitage. Usually museums start as private collections and only years and decades later they become museums. It is also true about the Tower of London and the Louvre, these great European museums.
-What do you think about games of chance as a hobby?
-I think it is silly to game. On the one hand nothing depends on your cleverness or skills. On the other hand, these games require gambling. You can simply game away your money and gain nothing.
-What games of chance do you know?
-Oh, there are many - card games, bingo, billiards, gambling at races.
-Have you ever taken part in any game of chance?
-Well, sometimes I play cards, but we don't stake our money on anything.
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