Spot Dictation British people now have more free time and holidays than they did twenty years ago. The average number of working hours has 1 , and by the mid-1980s almost all fulltime manual 2 were entitled to four weeks’ holiday or more, in addition to public holidays including Christmas and Easter. The increasing number of unemployed, particularly the young, means that large, 3 of the population have found themselves with more leisure time. Typical popular pastimes in the UK include listening to pop music, going to bars, playing and watching sports, going on holidays, enjoying 4 activities, and watching TV. The number of people playing sports has 5 , partly due to the availability of more sporting facilities such as local leisure centers. As more people become 6 of the necessity for exercise, it is estimated that one third of the adult population regularly takes part in outdoor sports and about a 7 in indoor sports. Among the most popular sporting activities are walking, swimming, snooker and darts. Fishing is the most popular country sport. Football, cricket, horse racing and motor sports are all popular spectator sports. Many 8 are published which pertain to popular and minority sports and interests. Multi-screen cinemas have become more common and the number of people going to the cinema 9 in the mid-1980s, after having fallen by more than a half between 1981 and 1984. This was because of a large increase in the population of home videos. Britain has one of the 10 rates of home video ownership in the world.