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Hobbies differ like tastes. Peoples choose their hobbies according to their taste and character. Someone likes simply to watch TV, lying on a sofa, when someone climbs to the mountains.
If you have chosen a hobby to your liking, lucky you are: you have made your life more interesting. But many people have nothing to do during their spare time, though there are many different hobbies: reading, collecting, going in for sports, traveling and others.
If a person collects something, he does it according to his financial abilities: someone collects cars or pictures of world-known painters, while another one collects beer cans or stamps. But no matter what they collect, it gives them pleasure. Many collections started in a small way with one or two items. Some private collections are really valuable.
No matter what kind of hobby a person has, he always has an opportunity of learning from it.
Some young people find it a pleasure to go to the theatre. The theatre is one of the most ancient kinds of art. For centuries people have come to the theatre for the different aims: to relax, to be amazed or entertained, to have a good laugh, to enjoy the acting of their favorite actors and actresses.
Modern life is impossible without traveling. Many people travel by rail, by air, by sea or by road for pleasure.
I don’t like to read very much, but I think, that it’s the most useful pastime.
If a person likes to read, he can take many useful information and life experience from the books. By reading about the things, a hobbyist is interested in, he is adding to what he knows.
A relatively new hobby is watching TV. But I don’t think that television is a hobby at all. As for me, it’s the way of getting information. There are two viewpoints on television. Some people think that TV is going a lot of harm. People begin to forget how to occupy their free time. It prevents them from communicating with each other, from visiting friends or relatives. And indeed, people are used to have hobbies, to go outside for amusements, to the theatres, cinemas, sporting events. They are used to read books and listen to music. But TV gives wonderful possibilities for getting information, for education. TV brings world in our rooms.
Computers are a new hobby too. Many young people all over the world like to sit glued to the monitor all day long, playing their favorite computer games.
As for me, the first hobby, I had in childhood, when I was 5 or 6 years old, was collecting pictures from the bubble gums. Later on, when I was 8, I collected beer cans. Afterwards, my grandma had thrown them away, ‘cause they occupied a lot of space.
And now I’m interested in cars. I always read all available magazines about the cars, ‘cause I want to know everything about their construction and production.
Also I like to listen to music, especially heavy metal. Some people think that it is impossible to listen such music and they call metal fans “headbangers” or “metalheads”, but I don’t care.
And, of course, like all teenagers, I like to work with computer, watch video and to go in for sports.
So as you can see there are a lot of things to do during your free time.
English–speaking countries.
The United kingdom of Gr. Britain is a capitalist country. England, Wales, Scotland are made in Gr. Britain. Peoples in countries outside the British Isles often call the inhabitants of United kingdom English. There are four main nationalities: English, Wales and Irish.
The population of the United kingdom of Gr. Britain is almost fifty six million Gr. Britain is highly industrialized. The United kingdom is a parliamentary monarchy. But it is well known that the monarchy today has no power.
The USA is situated in the central part of North American continent. The USA is an English speaking country. Many people of this country speak English. But here we can hear French, German and other languages too.
Washington is the capital of the USA. The population of the USA is about 256 million people. There are 50 states in this country.
Canada is to the north of the USA. It is very large country? Larger then the United States. The people who live in these parts came to Canada from France. Canada has to official languages – English and Fresh. In Canada many people speak English, because they also came from England many years age. But in some part of Canada they speak Fresh.
Australia is also an English – speaking country Australia the hottest summer month is January, and the coldest winter month is June. But June is not very cold. Snow falls only on the mountain there. And there are not many mountains in Australia.
New Zealand is not far from Australia, but it is great distant from Britain. The seasons in New Zealand are also different from what they are in Britain from January to February. It is summer, from march to may it is autumn; From June to August it is winter, from September to November it is spring. The national language is New Zealand is also English. Many people from England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland came to live in Australia and New Zealand many years ago.
London
London is the capital of Great Britain, its political, economic and commercial centre. It is one of the largest cities in the world (together with Tokyo and New York) and the largest city in Europe.
The city is very old. It has more then 20 centuries old history. Once, London was a small Roman town on the north bank of the Thames, but slowly it grew into one of the world’s major cities with population of about 8 million. Fewer people live in the centre now, but the suburbs are still growing.
Traditionally London is divided into several parts: the City, Westminster, the West End and the East End. They are very different from each other.
The city is the oldest part of London, it's financial and business centre. Numerous banks, offices and firms are concentrated here including the Bank of England, the Stock Exchange and the Old Bailey. Few people live in the City but over a million come to work here. Two masterpieces are situated within the City: St. Paul's Cathedral and the Tower of London. St. Paul's Cathedral was built in the 17th century by Christopher Wren. The Tower of London was built in the 11th century. It was used as a fortress, a palace and a prison. Now it's a museum.
Westminster is the aristocratic official part of London. It includes Buckingham Palace where the Queen lives and the Houses of Parliament stretching for nearly 1000 feet along the north bank of the Thames. The Clock Tower of the Houses of Parliament is famous for its big hour bell, known as "Big Ben".
Westminster Abbey is the place where coronation of nearly all kings and queens has taken place. Many of them are buried here as well as some other famous people of the country (G. Chaucer, Tennyson, Newton, Ch. Dickens, T. Hardy, R. Kipling, etc.).