Увлечения подростков нашего района

Актуальность проектной работы "Our hobbies"

    Актуальность содержания мотивирует учащихся к изучению английского языка, способствует развитию учебных, коммуникативных умений и навыков. 

    Особенность проекта в том, что в нем уделяется большое внимание увлечениям подростков, факторам риска подростковой жизни и борьбы с ними. В нашем городе, микрорайоне достаточно различных кружков по интересам, спортивная, музыкальная и художественная школы. Есть платные и бесплатные кружки, но многие подростки плохо информированы и не
знают как провести свободное время.

    Данный проект задаётся целью предложить подросткам разнообразные увлечения, альтернативы ежедневным привычкам. Повышение уровня информированности среди подростков, мотивирование их на новые занятия позволит их отвлечь от вредных привычек, стать более здоровыми, творчески развитыми.

    Проект учит читать, понимать, анализировать и использовать газетные и журнальные публикации в классе и жизни, одновременно развивает речевые умения и навыки в устной и письменной речи (умение формировать, выражать и отстаивать свое мнение по данной тематике, вести дискуссию на английском языке, писать короткое эссе). Разнообразные задания направлены на то, чтобы учащиеся научились работать в команде, правильно распределять роли, сравнивать данные и делать аргументированные выводы.

    Проектная работа будет заключаться в создании интерактивного WEB-сайта, позволяющего любому школьнику, родителю познакомиться с жизнью подростков Великобритании, России, узнать интересные факты об их увлечениях. На данном сайте ребята смогут поделиться своим мнением, высказать предложения, рассказать о собственных увлечениях.

    Данная работа позволит заинтересовать большее количество школьников новыми увлечениями, отвлечь их от пустого времяпровождения перед экраном телевизора, игры с телефоном.

Classification of hobbies

1. doing things

1) sports

2) …….

3) …….

2. making things

 1) drawing/painting

 2) …….

 3) …….

3. collecting things

 1) stamps

 2) …….

 3) …….

4. learning things

 1) reading

 2) …….

 3) …….

 Текст "Hobbies"

Hobbies differ like tastes. If you have chosen a hobby according to your character and taste you are lucky because your life becomes more interesting. A hobby is a means to achieve satisfaction. A hobby plays an important role in one's life to give the peace of mind one desperately needs when he comes home after an exhaustive day at work. Hobbies play the vital role of fulfilling an interest of the person and provide emotional value in his life. A hobby helps develop one's personality as a person's thinking changes with the choice of hobbies one has. A person gets a lot of time to introspect about himself when he spends some time in a hobby.

Another important role of a hobby is to flaunt one's achievements through a hobby. For example, collection of stamps, antiques, etc. are used to flaunt to one's friends, relatives and people in general. It gives great pride in sharing one's collection or displaying it where everyone can see it. Gaining respect and reputation through one's collections or different hobbies is an important encouragement to pursue a hobby.

Hobbies are divided into four large groups: doing things, making things, collecting things, and learning things.

The most popular of all hobby groups is doing things. It includes a wide variety of activities, from gardening to travelling and from chess to volleyball.

Gardening is one of the oldest man's hobbies. It is a well-known fact that the English are very fond of gardening and growing flowers, especially roses. Most English people love gardens, their own above all, and this is probably one reason why so many people prefer to live in houses rather than flats. They spend much leisure time working among their flowers, trees and vegetables. The British take part in numerous flower-shows and vegetable shows with very good prizes. To many gardeners the process of growing the plants and taking care of them seems more important than the pleasure of looking at the flowers or the prospect of eating vegetables. So this is the most favorite hobby of the British people.      

Both grown-ups and children are fond of playing different computer games. This is a relatively new hobby but it is becoming more and more popular.

Making things includes drawing, painting, making sculpture, designing costumes, handicrafts. Two of the most famous hobby painters were President Eisenhower and Sir Winston Churchill. Some hobbyists write music or play musical instruments. President Bill Clinton, for example, plays the saxophone.

Almost everyone collects something at some period in his life: stamps, coins, matchboxes, books, records, postcards, toys, watches. Some collections have no real value. Others become so large and so valuable that they are housed in museums and galleries. Many world-famous collections started in a small way with one or two items. People with a good deal of money often collect paintings, rare books, and other art objects. Such private collections are sometimes given to museums, libraries and public galleries so that others might take pleasure in seeing them.

No matter what kind of hobby a person has, he always has the opportunity of learning much from it. By reading about the things he is interested in he is adding to what he knows. Learning new things can be the most exciting aspect of a hobby.

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