Unit 14: Reading

WORD SQUAREFind the words and phrases which show hobbies... Collecting stamps Playing the guitar Go swimming... Task 1Match the words and phrases on the left with their definitions on

WORD SQUARE

Find the words and phrases which show hobbies

UNIT 13 HOBBIES

LESSON 1: READING

• I BEFORE - READING

• II WHILE - READING

1 Task 1 : Matching

2 Task 2 : Answering the questions

• III AFTER - READING

I BEFORE _ READING

 The pictures below present some hobbies

Collecting stamps

Playing the guitar Go swimming

vocabulary

• accomplished : (adj) : tài ba, tài hoa

• accompany : (v) : đ m đàn ệ

• modest : (adj) : không l n l m ớ ắ

• avid : (adj) đam mê

• discard : (v) : v t đi, b đi ứ ỏ

• indulge in : say mê

• keep me occupied : làm cho tôi b n r n ậ ộ

Task 1

Match the words and phrases on the left

with their definitions on the right.

something

TASK 2: Answer the questions:

1. What is the writer’s first hobby?

2. Is the writer an accomplished guitarist?

3. Why does the writer admire his uncle?

4. What is the writer’s second hobby?

5. How did he collect his fish?

6. What kind of stamp collector is the writer?

7. Where does he collect stamp?

8. Which does the writer get more of, local stamps or foreign stamps?

9. What does the writer do with the less common stamps and with the common

ones?

His first hobby is playing guitar

No ,he isn’t

Because his uncle is an accomplished guitarist and he is very good at

accompanying people singing with his guitar

His second hobby is keeping fish

Some were bought from the shop, some were collected from the rice field near his house

He is an avid stamp collector

He collects them from discarded envelops, his friends and relatives give him

Local stamps

He keeps the less common ones inside a small album The common ones

he usually gives away to others or if no one wants them he simply throws them away

III AFTER-READING

Ask your partners questions to get information to fill in the table Then report what you have found out about your partners to the class.

What is your hobby?

Why do you like to do it?

Homework

hobby about 80 words.