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with learning English now back to the lesson in English hobbies are activities that we do
regularly for our own enjoyment usually a hobby is something you do for fun you don't get paid for it
many people distinguish a hobby from an ordinary leisure activity by suggesting that some kind of
knowledge or skill is developed by a hobby so for example watching television is often thought of as
just a leisure activity not a hobby hobbies can be something you do mostly on your own like gardening
knitting woodworking or juggling or hobbies can be something that you do mostly with other people
like bowling playing basketball acting and playing board games for some people learning a foreign
language such as English could also be a hobby here are some vocabulary words and phrases that
we often use to talk about our hobbies let's start with an easy one model the noun model
has two main meanings one meaning is an example used to follow or imitate so a model sentence
is a sentence which shows you how a vocabulary word works in our in our videos we often use
many model sentences as examples but that's only one meaning of the word model the other
meaning of the word model is a three-dimensional representation of something so some people enjoy
building models people make model buildings model airplanes model trains and even whole
villages you can make models out of different materials two models can be made out of plastic
or wood or metal or even toothpicks so someone might tell you I enjoy making model airplanes
or I like to build models and once you've built a model you might also spend some time painting
it which was also a hobby here's another useful vocabulary word for hobbies and actually this
one word is part of a whole family of words and that word is the verb collect to collect means
to bring together or to gather things together in English you can say I need to collect my clothes
and wash them or I'm collecting all my notes for this class sometimes even abstract things can be
collected such as I need to collect my thoughts examples of things that people collect as a hobby
include stamps coins trading cards and even dolls someone who likes to collect things can be called
a collector so collect is the noun for a person who likes to collect things and the things that we
collect together well together you can call them your collection so a collection is a noun that
means the things gathered together so someone might say here is my stamp collection I enjoy
collecting stamps another word that we use a lot to talk about hobbies is memorabilia memorabilia
are objects that people collect because they have some historical interest for example some people
collect World War two memorabilia or memorabilia from the 19th century that means objects that
come from the era of World War 2 or from the era of the 1800s memorabilia is an interesting word
because it comes from the root word memory and memory is the ability of our brains to remember
things to bring back into your mind or your thoughts something which was there before and
another word related to memorabilia is memento a memento is an object that you keep to remind
you of some important person or event this is a memento of my trip to Spain this is a memento
of my mother right these are things that remind you of your trip to Spain or your mother so from
that word remember we have important words like memory memorabilia and memento right and these
are things that you can collect you can collect memorabilia collect mementos can you remember all
that so let's review our vocabulary words model my hobby is making model air collect I'm a collector
I enjoy collecting concert tickets do you want to see my collection memorabilia I enjoy classical
memorabilia like columns and Greek statues what kind of hobbies are interesting to you you could
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