hobbies and interests

Write their leisure activities in the chart Favorite leisure activities What they enjoy about each activity.. D Group work Discuss these questions.. * Would you rather spend free time

Activity 1 A Pair work

Look at these pictures Then discuss the questions below

What are the people doing?

Which activities do you regularly do?

Which activities do you never do?

B Listen you will hear interviews with Jason, Emma, and Nick

Write their leisure activities in the chart

Favorite leisure activities What they enjoy about

each activity.

How long they spend on each

activity.

Jason Doing yoga

Emma

Nick

C Listen again

what do they enjoy most about each activity?

How long do they spend on each thing? Complete the chart

D Group work

Discuss these questions.

* Would you rather spend free time with Jason, Emma or Nick? Why?

* Who wouldn’t you like to spend time with? Why not?

I’d rather spend free time with Nick because I also enjoy…

describe each hobby below Use the words in the box and your own ideas.

Activity 2 A Pair work

I think shopping is relaxing and satisfying

Do you think so? I find it dull and time –consuming

B Join another pair

What are your favorite hobbies? Why? Use these

reasons and your own ideas

I can do it alone It’s educational I can do it anytime.

I can do it with friends It’s inexpensive I can do it anywhere

My favorite hobby is doing puzzles

I can do it alone, and it’s relaxing

I really like taking photos

I can do it anytime, and it’s creative.

C Group work Discuss these questions

What hobbies did you do as a child but don’t do now? What new activity would you like to try?

Do you know anymore with an unusual hobby?

I collected stamps as a child,

but I don’t have time for it now

Activity 3 Communication task

Work in pair One of you should look at Task 8 on page 78, and the other at Task 28 on page 86.

You are going to talk about other activities you enjoy

In an average week, how many hours does the average person spend doing these things? Circle your guesses.

Activity 1 A Pair work

Do you think the average

person spends 80 or 120 hours

at home?

I’d guess 80 hours What do you think?

Two people are discussing the information in part A Did you guess correctly? Correct your answers

B Listen

C Pair work

How much time do you spend doing the things in part A?

I think I spend more time watching

TV about 20 hours or so.

I don’t spend any time watching

TV

Activity 2 A Work alone

Check the chores you often do

Write an X next to the chores you never do.

 clean my room  do laundry  shop for groceries.

 feed a pet  recycle  take out the garbage

 fix broken things sweep the floor  wash dishes

B Pair work

Compare your answers Then discuss these questions

* Are there any chores you enjoy doing? What are they?

* What chores do you dislike the most? Why?

* What other chores do you do?

“Actually, I enjoy feeding my pet cat and shopping for

groceries”

Activity 3 A Work alone

Add two activities to chart you like to do

B Pair work

About how many times did you do each activity in the past month?

Complete the chart

“ In the past month, how many times did you eat out?”

C Join another pair

Compare your charts Then discuss these questions

* Who do you think has the most leisure time?

* who spends their free time most productively ? Why?

* If you had more free time, how would you spend it?

Activity 4 A pair work

If you had a free weekend, how would you spend it? Write plans for Saturday and Sunday morning,

afternoon and evening.

“On Saturday morning I’d like to…”

B Join another pair

Share your plans Whose weekend sounds more relaxing? More sociable? More educational? More unusual?

Self-Study For extra grammar, listening and vocabulary practice,

go to pages 104-105