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Text 2 What’s your idea of fun?
 
Base Jumping
As soon as I saw someone BASE jumping off a Swiss mountain, I knew I wanted to do it. This guy just jumped off a cliff and fell for a few seconds before opening his parachute and floating down to land in the valley. It looked amazing. BASE jumping’s great because you don’t have to go up in a plane. The word BASE comes from Building,
Antenna, Span (the middle part of a bridge), Earth (mountain or cliff) – the four kinds of places that BASE jumpers jump from. I’ve jumped from all of these except an antenna, so that’s my next objective. The most important thing in BASE jumping is to stay calm when you’re falling. You have to make very fast and accurate moves and the smallest
mistake will kill you. Most people think my hobby is terrifying, but I actually enjoy being terrified!
Chuck Calderon, Tennessee, USA
 
Karaoke
A lot of my friends say they feel embarrassed when they sing in front of people, but I don’t think it’s embarrassing at all. People are so worried about what other people think that they can’t have fun any more. I think it’s crazy. When I get up on stage, I just forget what people think of me.
Last year I entered a karaoke competition in my home town, Wicklow, and I won a place in the national championship. I was so excited! I went up to Dublin with all my friends and family, it was fantastic. There were some brilliant singers there from all over the country and I didn’t think I had a chance, but in the end I won second place. Was I embarrassed?
No, I wasn’t!!!!
Shania Brady, Wicklow, Ireland
 
Bodybuilding
 
I started bodybuilding when I was a teenager. I was in a hockey team and I went to the gym a lot to train. I discovered that I really enjoyed lifting weights and feeling my muscles work. I was fascinated by the photos of bodybuilders I saw in magazines and I wanted amazing muscles like that too. After a while I stopped playing hockey and spent all my time in the gym instead. As a bodybuilder, I have to eat a lot of protein-rich food like meat and eggs, and I don’t go out much at night because you need lots of sleep when you’re working out a lot. That’s probably the only bad thing about the sport. Some people say that bodybuilding is disgusting, especially for women, because they think enormous muscles aren’t natural. I think they’re just embarrassed about their own weak little bodies and too lazy to work out.
I’ve got a great body now, and I’ve had my photo printed in several magazines.
Petra Bruneau, Winnepeg, Canada
 
Sudoku
For me, there’s nothing more satisfying than doing a sudoku. I love the way the numbers all fall into place. People think a sudoku is a boring mathematical puzzle, but it hasn’t got anything to do with maths. The pieces of the puzzle are numbers, but you don’t do any calculations with them. I suppose most people try to solve the puzzle by logic, but I don’t. 
I put a number in place by intuition – because it looks right. Then one thing leads to another, and suddenly it’s finished. I can usually do a difficult sudoku in under ten minutes. I sometimes do 15 or 20 puzzles one after the other, and I never get bored. I was in the National Championship last year, and that was really exciting. There were 160 competitors and I finished in the top ten. My friends used to get annoyed about my sudoku habit. You can’t have an interesting conversation with someone who is doing a sudoku! But now I think they accept it. 
Jake Daniels, Portsmouth, UK
 
Vocabulary Practice
 

1. Match the words with their definitions.
 
conversation утес
puzzles чемпионат
intuition отвратительный
disgusting разговор
hometown родной город
competition загадка
cliff открыть
discover интуиция
championship соревнование
 

2. Fill in the following prepositions.
 
By, to, off, in, with, of
to be fascinated ___ the photos ___ bodybuilders
to be printed _____ several magazines
to see someone BASE-jumping ___ a Swiss mountain
to win a place ______ the national championship
to go up ___ Dublin ____ all my friends and family
 

3. For these words find the synonyms in the text.
 
Example: guy - boy
 
several, leap, aim, main, rapid, error, insane, work out, maybe, huge, idle.
 

4. Look at the adjectives below and choose those that can describe your favourite hobby.
 
chief, expensive, favourite, great, harmless, interesting, main, mere,
new, old, only, other, own, particular
peculiar, popular, same, special, exciting, boring, embarrassing,
exhausting, relaxing, annoying, stressful, frightening, tiring,
challenging, thrilling.
 

5. Look at the phrases below and choose those which can describe your friend`s hobby.
 
gardening, collecting stamps/coins, playing a musical instrument, birdwatching, cooking, photography, rock climbing, fishing, hiking, painting, shopping, sewing, hunting, surfing the internet.
 

6. Match the words to complete phrases and make up your own sentences with them.
 
not to have calculations
to feel doing smth
to do so worried about smth
to be muscles work
to enjoy anything to do with maths
 

7. Translate the sentences into English, using the words from the text.
 

1. Большинство людей находит мое хобби пугающим, но мне нравится оно.
2. Когда люди поют на публике, они могут испытывать смущение.
3. Мой друг всегда проводит все свободное время в спортивном зале.
4. Что он сейчас делает? Он тренируется.
5. Она слишком ленива, чтобы тренироваться регулярно.