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Vocabulary: DIY and hobbies...

Yet, you must be extremely careful if you think you may turn yourself into an electrician, or a plumber... You might have huge problems...

Everyone of you, respecting and following their capacities, can do very varied activities enabling you to express your talents and give free rein to your creativity. 

I) PAINTING, DECORATING, WALLPAPERING...

Overalls	a ladder	Paint tins/cans and brushes	Removing/peeling wallpaper
Paint brushes	A paint roller	Wallpaper	Paste/brushes and rolls

Working with paint and brushes for the sake of Art... and the sense of Beauty...

Water colours	"Gouache"	A drawing	Charcoal

II) If you are very experienced, you may try to start working  WOOD, be a joiner, or even try to be an electrician or a plumber/ welder, taking great care of the consequences, since a non-professional's work can have terrible or disastrous consequences. 

A joiner	A hammer and nails	A wood saw	An electric drill
An electrician	Bulbs/ plugs/ sockets	Screwdrivers	To measure
A plumber	A water leak	A spanner/ a wrench	A meter/metre

If changing the decoration of your house is not of much interest to you,  or if you don't really feel like rolling up your sleeves,  you may engage in another different hobby or activity.

Sewing is one of them. It can be useful on a day to day basis, to sew up buttons, or do a stitch or two, but also to invent, create and make original clothes (or have them made). Everyone may hope to become a "Grand Couturier", promoting luxury and glamour in a country: we should remember that most of the famous "Grands Couturiers" in the world, are males. 

A sewing machine	A needle and thread	a tape-measure	Scissors
A reel of thread	Ribbons	A thimble	Lace
"Haute Couture"	Balls of wool	Knitting needles	Scrapbooking

Well, well! If you know how to use this vocabulary, you'll be able to pass this test brilliantly!   Go for it! 

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1. Oh great, Mom! I can see that there's no longer a bucket under the radiator... The painterplumberelectrician"Couturier"I don't know must have repaired the leakthreadreelthimbleI don't know...

2. Dad said he was going to redecoratedrillpaperwallweldI don't know my room while I'm away. Once he has hammeredremovedknitpaintedI don't know the old wallpaper, he'll use a laddersawscrewdriverthimbleI don't know to clean the ceiling, and then he'll paintsawplugladderI don't know my room blue.

3. 'When the room is done, I'll ask Dad to lend me a screwdriverdrillsawhammer and nailsI don't know to hang a holiday picture. ' 'Of course not... Dad will use his hammerelectric drillscrewdriversewnI don't know to hang it up.'

4. Can you ask Dad to put a thimblesocketbulbladderI don't know near my desk, so that I can plug inredecoraterepaintsawI don't know my new desk-lamp?

5. When wrenchingscrapbookingsewingpaintingI don't know, GrandMa always asks me to thimbleplugsocketbulbthreadI don't know her brushscrapbookneedleembroideryI don't know for her. She also says she can't sew or sawerdrillerhammerembroiderI don't know without a thimblenailneedledrillscrewdriverI don't know.

 

    

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