Everyone needs a hobby. It’s a way of switching off from the stress and anxiety of daily life and finding some valuable time for yourself. But we spend so much time online these days, that we can’t find the time for a hobby. So what about using the Internet to help you with your hobby? Talk about hobbies and the first thing that comes to mind is often the stamp collector carefully sticking a stamp into an album. Collecting has always been a popular free-time activity. Almost anything can be collected from stamps and stickers to comic books and coins. It can take a lot of patience and determination, though, to track down that last sticker for your football album or a coin that hasn’t been seen in a hundred years. Go online, though, and you will find a community of collectors who can help each other. It’s never been easier to complete any collection.

Maybe you’re keen on creative hobbies. Making your own jewellery, painting or even making model cars can be very satisfying, and it’s even better if you can make money out of something you’ve created. There are thousands of hours of online tutorials with instructions and tips on how to improve your technique. And let us not forget that the Internet is a huge marketplace for whatever you make. Perhaps creating your own website to sell your creations could become your new hobby.

Online tutorials will also help you become a better sportsman. You can get advice on healthy eating, how to get over injuries and improve your strength. It’s not the same as having a personal coach, but it’s almost as good. 25% claim that watching TV is their favourite free-time activity, so it’s good to know that the Internet can get us out and about. GPS apps will make sure you never get lost again when you go hiking. Exercise apps will track your fitness, record your best time and, with practise, make sure you get to the finish line first. So, yes, the Internet is a great hobby, but it can also make our hobbies so much greater.

1 Having a hobby allows us to escape our worries. True / False

2 It is more difficult to complete a collection these days. True / False

3 It is hard to get mate, who likes collecting something. True / False

4 Your hobby can make you money on the Internet. True / False

5 Online tutorials can be better than personal trainers. True / False

6 Apps can help you improve your sports performance. True / False

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I was finishing my homework at nine o'clock yesterday. 9. I  played the
piano at five o'clock yesterday. 10. He  begun to do his homework 
at four o'clock yesterday. 11. She was washing the floor at four o'clock 
yesterday. 12. I  met Nick at three o'clock yesterday. 13. When I 
was coming home, Kate was playing the piano. 14. When I met John, he 
was going to the railway station. 15. When I was going to the museum, I saw 
 a big crowd of people in the street. 18. They  played in the yard
in the evening yesterday. 17. They were playing in the yard the whole 
evening yesterday. 18. I  cleaned my teeth at eight o'clock in the 
morning.

Our class ... Nearly eight years we have studied together, only some have moved to other schools , and some have come to us, joined in our big bitty -4 team. Forty pairs of curious eyes and ears. Forty pairs of fast feet. Forty pairs of hands always busy with something . Forty questions forty responses.We are so similar and yet so different from each other. Know who better to learn from and with whom - to rest, whom you can admire, but someone - tease . Together, we form a large , irrepressible , vociferous creature - 8 -B class . It has its own habits and even the tradition and the teachers never make a mistake , that it is us , even if you will drop a class with your eyes closed. Teachers and parents tell us that the school years are not forgotten . And when you see how happy my mother met with his high school girlfriend on the street, and my dad talks about his school fun and frolic , believe me - they're right.Ten years we spend together in the walls of our school. We will read the same books , answer the same questions . Who can forget the period , which is more than half your life?Now it seems to me that the difference in us still more than the similarities. Not all of his classmates I can call friends or even friends. There are guys whose behavior I do not approve , whose society I hate . Seems to me to be really interested in the fate of this man after the release ? But it is often bad behavior - it's just a defensive reaction , and when you talk with someone face to face , it appears that it is very different than it looked before: kind, smart, capable [ empathy. He's just - different, not like you.Do we have guys in the class of interest and respect for its seriousness , development, versatility hobbies. Many of them - the leaders of our class. Sometimes one wonders how they manage so much to know , to be able , to keep pace ? These guys all love , they often forgiven , " sins ", and the teachers treat them not as the others , and the more loyal and tolerant. These guys - also others.There are in our class a few guys that I distinguish among all people in the world. - They are my friends . We not only learn together (in the broadest sense of the word) , but the rest together , visiting clubs and sports clubs . Even we live close by. Our friendship - honest, faithful , and the test of time . I can always rely on my friends and I know that after graduation , our relationship does not become weaker , even if we act in different educational institutions.Here they are , my friends at school . People , meeting with them many years after high school graduation will cause me a happy smile and a flood of memories and questions : " Do you remember me? ... And where is Luda ? And what does Sasha ? You know, I have not heard about Vadim - how is he now? "Who are we - ordinary boys and girls , blatant , restless , touchy , sometimes - cruel, but still - the best, most fun , most amicable .