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PAGE PAGE 1 (print only: P1-P14) Unit Eleven Text I: Cultivating A Hobby Winston Churchill Pre-reading Brainstorming: 1. What is your hobby? How do you develop your hobby? 2. What are functions of hobbies in general? Teaching objectives To use metaphorical language in exposition. To use synonymous expressions that add to the vividness and effectiveness of exposition. To appreciate Churchill’s style of writing, focusing on parallelisms in particular. Notes 1. Hobbies, broadly defined, are constructive spare-time activities that may have a variety of goals: pleasure, relaxation, therapy, self-improvement, and making new friends and social contacts. They generally fall into one of two categories: collecting (such items as stamps or coins) and creating (such activities as model making and painting). Hobbies offer a change from daily routines. Hobbies are of many various kinds, for example: 1. collecting stamps, coins, rocks, seashells, butterflies, books, autographs, postcards, chinaware, antiques, and many other things; 2. making model cars, ships, planes, railway cars. etc.; 3.work-around-the-house hobbies such as gardening, cooking, woodworking, making furniture, decorating, etc. ; 4. photography; 5. needlework and knitting; 6. writing poetry, prose, fiction, etc. ; 7. painting and sculpture. There are also hundreds of other interesting leisure-time activities. 2. Sir Winston Churchill was a distinguished amateur painter. He was the first concededly amateur artist ever to have a retrospective show of his own at New York Citys Metropolitan Museum of Art. As an amateurs show, it was accorded a most favourable and enthusiastic reception; by professional standards, it would not have been as graciously received. ( from: Encyclopedia Britannica , 15th ad. , 1984, v. 8, p. 974) Churchill took up painting in 1915, and he devoted much of his leisure in his later years to this favourite hobby of his. `If it werent for painting, he said, `I couldnt