III. Search the text for the words similar in meanings to the ones given below.
Comfort, intense, speed, go down, to have a right, availability, to permit, romance.
IV. Search the text for the words opposite in meanings to the ones given below.
Particularly, minor (under-age), majority sports, insignificant, to retrench, urban, to vanish.
V. Ask your group-mates questions about leisure time in Britain and in Russia using the suggested words and word combinations from the texts above.
Famous public holidays; pubs and clubs; shopping; going to the theatre; multi-screen cinemas; home videos; eating out; going abroad; foreign destination; to relax; traditional games; different sorts of entertainment; live music; welcoming to families; to be allowed in the bar; drinking habits; a general move about the dangers of drinking too much; TV watching; reading; magazines and books; great works of literature; stories of mystery and romance; ‘classics’; TV shows or dramatizations.
VI. Prepare a short talk on places and activities, which help you to have a rest with your friends or members of the family.
VII. Listen to the following interview with David Lavender, an Artistic Director of the Komedia Theatre, Brighton, who is considering the questions of why very few people go to the theatre in Britain and agree or disagree with his statements.
1. The main reason, why people don’t go to the theatre nowadays very much is that there is an easy alternative to it.
2. In the past it was understood in Britain that theatre was for a minority part of the population and the working people didn’t go to the theatre.
3. It’s very easy to put people off the theatre.
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