Ex.3.2. Solve these riddles

Ex.3.1. Fill the gaps with a suitable adjective from the chart.

1 I find writing poetry very..................... It helps me to get a truer understanding of myself and gives me a good feeling inside.

2 I enjoy selling the pictures I paint, but it's not very........................... I only made £300 last year.

3 Gardening is very................... It reduces stress levels and calms you down.

4 I've had a................... partnership with Jane for several years: she plays the piano and I play the violin. It's been very good for both of us.

5 Doing unpaid work at the hospital has been a................. experience for me.

6 I would like to be on the club committee, but I've heard it's very.................. and I don't have a lot of free time.

II. Some informal words describing the way people spend their leisure:

Bob's a real culture vulture; he goes to every theatre and art gallery he can find. [big fan of anything cultural]

I'm a bit of a couch potato: I spend hours every day just watching TV. [physically very inactive person]

Mary's a bit of a dabbler: she does a pastime for a couple of weeks, then she gets bored and starts something different. [person who never keeps doing one activity for long]

Francis is a real doer. He never sits round for long and always has some project or other. [person who believes in acting and doing things, not just thinking]

Laura's a shopaholic. She buys all sorts of things she doesn't need. [person addicted to shopping; compare alcoholic: addicted to alcohol]

1 I am a vegetable that sits where humans sit. What am I?

2 I seldom sit and talk, I always act. What am I?

3 I am a bird that eats the flesh of art. What am I?

4 I do some of this and some of that, but never all of this or all of that. What am I?

Ex.3.3. Answer these questions.

1 What kind of obsessions or addictions do you personally have?

2 What was the word above that meant `a person who is obsessed with going out and buying things'?

3 Using the same construction as in question 2 above, what could you call a person who is obsessed with, or addicted to, the following?

a) working all the time b) sport c) eating chocolate

4 What are you? Invent a word for your obsession(s).

Ex.3.4. In the text below, find…

1 three expressions meaning `time when you aren't working'.

2 an expression meaning `divided equally'.

3 an expression meaning `reducing the amount of work needed to do something'.

4 two words that mean `getting machines to do work for us'.

5 an expression meaning `making many articles/goods at once'.

This is how one expert on leisure time sees things changing over a long period. - With the advent of agriculture 10,000 years ago, former hunters and gatherers gained ten per cent of their time off. - By the 1770s, mechanisation increased leisure time to twenty-three per cent. - By the 1990s, automation and mass production gave people forty-one per cent free time. - By 2015, new technologies and labour-saving goods and services will split the week fifty/fifty between work and leisure.

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