HOBBIES, SPORTS, LEISURE ACTIVITIES

A) What do you like doing in your free time?

Reading Knitting

Dancing Playing soccer

Playing the guitar Sailing

Listening to music Skiing

Painting Cycling

Cooking Swimming

B) Read the text. Answer the questions.

My karate weekends

I take after my father in my love of sports. He and I would always get together on weekends to
play soccer or baseball. However, as time passed by, I was getting more and more sedentary.
Eventually, my clothes didn’t fit me anymore and that was it! I decided to take up some sport.
And I chose a form of martial art: karate. I signed up for classes at our local sports center. I took
to it right away and by the end of the first class I was hooked. It’s been three years now and I
currently work there as a voluntary instructor. And what’s more: they needed someone to take
over from the man who was my very first teacher, who had left the center to get started on his
own new gym. I am very thankful to him! Karate has become my life and it takes up all my free
time. I still manage to go to work at the bank every day, but – boy! – how I seek my karate
weekends!

TRUE OR FALSE

1. He has always been sedentary.

2. His father taught him martial arts.
3. Karate became a passion of his by the first class.
4. He only works at the sports center.
5. He only teaches karate at the center.

C) Match the activity to the correct place.

Skiing Course

Soccer Gym

Golf Track

Jogging Slopes

Working-out Pitch
 D) Compare the two picture and discuss the following questions.

1. Which of the two sports do you think is more enjoyable?

2. Which one do you believe is more difficult to learn?
3. What is the equipment required to practice each sport?

E) Circle the best option to complete these sentences according to the audio you listen.
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1. A dirtboard is a board with wheels that you stand on / a board with no wheels that you stand on / a
board that you sit on.

2. To go canyoning you need ropes and a helmet / a guide and special equipment / ropes and special
equipment.

3. Zip-wiring is scary and difficult / easy and exciting / scary but exciting.

4. Paris looks so beautiful at night / on television / in the photos.

5. The impressionist paintings are in the Louvre / the Musée D’Orsay / the Rodin Museum.

6. The famous Rodin statue is called The Worker / The Thinker / The Philosopher.

7. The girl is going to Paris for the weekend / four days / five days.

8. She’s going with her friend / her boyfriend / her family.