TEXT: MY HOBBY

MY HOBBY
Have you got a camera? You haven’t. I’ve got a very good camera. I like to take photographs.1 It is my hobby. I like colour photographs. I like them more than black-and-white ones.2 I usually have a colour film in my camera. I like to take pictures of children. I have taken some interesting pictures of my sister’s children. I watch them carefully and wait patiently until I get a good picture of them. It is not easy because children move all the time.
Some of my friends like to show off all their photographs. “Here is a photograph of my aunt. I took it last month. That is an old man and an ass. I took it in Alma-Ata last summer. Because it was dark you can only see the ass’s tail.
I show my photographs only when people want to see them. And only my good ones.

Notes
1. to take a photograph I ,с)фотографировать to take a picture of / v r ^ r
2. Здесь ones–неопределенное местоимение в форме мн
ожественного числа, которое употребляется, чтобы избежать повторения существительного photographs, стоящего в предшествующем предложении. В единственном числе употребляется one: i. This book is more interesting than that one. 2. These texts are not so difficult as the ones we are translating.

Exercises
I. Поставьте глагол, данный в скобках, в соответствующем времени. Обращайте внимание на обстоятельства времени.
1. Where have you been? I (to be) just to the shop. I (to buy) a very good textbook in physics, look at it. 2. I (to like) to take photographs, it’s my hobby. But I not (to like) when somebody (to take) pictures of me. I not (can) sit patiently and wait. 3. My old wireless (to be) very primitive. I (to make) it myself. This year I (to get) a new radio set which (to be) quite up-to-date. The set (to use) electric current. 4. He (to get) a very interesting letter today.
II. Постройте вопросы, начинающиеся с вопросительного слова when. Употребляется ли время Present Perfect в вопросах, начинающихся со слова when?
III. Употребите следующие предложения в вопросительной и отрицательной форме.
1. I have bought a very interesting book. 2. Johnny has broken the window.
IV. Определите, какой частью речи являются данные ниже слова, и переведите их на русский язык.
carefully, usually, patiently, quickly
V. Какую роль выполняет в предложении существительное, стоящее перед другим существительным? Переведите следующие сочетания слов на русский язык.
colour photographs, colour films, the street corner, a banana tree, a football match, a bus stop, a school garden, a railway station, grain export, a tea cup, a coffee cup
VI. Составьте предложения в Present Perfect Tense с глаголами: to stop, to show, to begin, to explain, to see, to take
VII. Ответьте на вопросы.
Have you got a camera? Do you like to take photographs? What ВДВ hobby? Do you like colour photographs or black-and-white
VIII, Составьте рассказ о том, как вы фотографировали кого-нибудь, используя следующие слова и сочетания слов.
hobby, to take photographs, a camera, colour films, to take a picture of, to wait, difficult, to ask, to sit, to stand, to finish, to have the picture ready (сделать фотокарточку), to see in the picture, carefully, patiently
IX. Переведите на русский язык. Обратите внимание на выделенные слова.
a) 1. In some countries poor children cannot go to school because their parents have no money to pay for them. 2. Because of the rain we didn’t go to the park.
b) I. One day we went on an excursion. 2. “No one knows where I am,” she said. 3. This text is as useful as that one. 4. Give me one pound, please.
A Few Laughs
Small boy (running into a studio): Quick! Help! A bull is running after my father!
Photographer (excitedly): What can I do?
Small boy: Put a film in my camera, quickl