Read the text below. Match choices (A—D) to the text (1—4).
The Significance of a Hobby in the Life of a Teenager
By finding an area of interest, a teen can build competence and skill. This can cause positive results and builds a teenager’s confidence. And this will lead to more competence and skill.
Our likes and dislikes help define our personal characteristics. One of the main jobs of the life stage of adolescence is scoping out our personal definition of who we are — more professionally known as developing our identity. Hobbies help us by sending a signal: «I like doing this. This makes me feel good. Therefore, this is a part of who I am».
Dullness is like a disease for a teen — and it can have the same type of damaging effects. Bored teens look for things to do and are more likely to get involved in trouble. Helping teens develop a hobby is helping them stay out of negative situations.
When a teen is involved with a hobby, teachers, parents as well as the other children have easy access to something to praise him/her. It can also increase positive interaction between a teen and the other people.
Hobbies will give other people the reason to praise a teen.
Hobbies keep a teen from getting in trouble.
A hobby helps a teen have a sense of his/her identity.
Hobbies help build a teenager’s self-assurance.
