2016年4月雅思口语part1话题地道语料分享：关于hobby(业余爱好)

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关于雅思口语part1话题hobby的地道语料，主要是学习下一些常见的hobby的表达，另外一篇关于hobby与工作表现的语料，也是好词好句多多。赶紧挑选一些喜欢的用起来吧。

1. I've joined a club where I can play chess.

(become a member of a club)

2. I'm a philatelist. I collect all sorts of stamps.

(a person who collects stamps for pleasure)

3. I often go camping in the summer.

(to live in a camp or outdoors)

4. I do a bit of / a lot of climbing.

(go mountain climbing)

5. I make my own clothes.

(I make clothes for myself. I don't buy them.)

6. I like photography.

(the skill or process of taking photographs)

7. I'm mad about DIY. I think this is a very good hobby for people who have a

house but don't have much money.

(do it yourself; the activity of making and repairing things yourself around

your home)

8. I took up golf when I was at school.

(to start a hobby for the first time)

9. I gave up photography.

(to stop doing a hobby)

10. I collect antiques. I really enjoy going round the shops looking for a

bargain.

(you collect stamps, coins, antiques)

11. I try to practice playing the guitar every day.

(to make music with a musical instrument)

12. I usually go jogging two or three times a week.

(run slowly, especially as a form of exercise)

13. I took up hiking because I wanted to get more exercise.

(a long walk in the country)

14. I don't really do anything in my spare time.

(time when you are not working)

15. In winter, I do quite a lot of skiing.

(in English you normally do a lot of / a bit of sport)

16. In summer, I play tennis and cricket.

(in English you normally play a game)

work performance and hobbies 关于工作表现与业余爱好（超级多的地道词汇与表达）

Hopefully, you don’t need an extra reason to enjoy your hobbies, but if you

happen to be one of the many professionals who are struggling to keep their

constant busyness from encroaching on their favorite activities, a new study

might give you a motivation boost to keep up with your pastime of choice.

The research out of San Francisco State University looked at how creative

activities like knitting, cooking, painting, photography, gardening or

what-have-you affect work performance. In a two-part study the team of

psychologists asked 341 professionals about their pastimes and also asked them

to rate both their level of creativity at work and the level to which they

support their colleagues. Another group of 92 Air Force Captain also gave

information about their afterhours pursuits and had their evaluations of job

performance examined.

可以看看这儿的同意转换的运用。对于hobby,使用了favorite activities, pastime, afterhours pursuit三种表达来替换！

"We found that in general, the more you engage in creative activities, the

better you'll do," said the study’s lead author Kevin Eschleman, an assistant

professor of psychology at San Francisco State.

Knitting Your Way to Better Performance

The analysis showed that those who engaged in a creative hobby performed

between 15-30 percent better at work. The team offered several possible

explanations for why this might be so. Taking time to indulge in your favorite

creative pursuit might help you recharge before heading back to work, or could

also be a means to learn more about your strengths and weaknesses, knowledge

that will benefit you professionally as well. Those who engaged in a hobby also

reported greater feelings of control and mastery.

Whatever the mechanism, the authors acknowledge that part of what may be

going on is simply a selection bias. Those that choose to do these sorts of

hobbies are simply more likely to be creative types and bring though skills to

work with them, rather than the hobbies causing greater creativity.

An Office Bakeoff?

For this reason (and because coercion is a lousy motivation strategy), the

researchers stress it’s a bad idea for managers to push their people into

developing afterhours hobbies because of the study results. "One of the main

concerns is that you don’t want to have someone feel like their organization is

controlling them, especially when it comes to creative activities," Eschleman

said, "because intrinsic motivation is part of that unique experience that comes

with creative activity."

Instead, the study offers others suggestions: "Large organizations, such as

Zappos Inc., incorporate employee artwork into office decorations. Other similar

activities commonly found in organizations include food cook-offs,

cross-discipline education opportunities, and costume contests during holidays.

A more cost-effective and less intrusive approach for organization is to inform

employees that creative activity may help them recover from the workplace."