UNIT 4 FREE TIME AND HOBBIES

Part 1 Free time and hobbies vocabulary

Watching TV Reading Cooking Playing football

Playing basketball Playing tennis Going swimming Going jogging
Going climbing Doing boxing Doing judo Doing yoga
Hanging out with Relaxing with family Going shopping Taking photos
friends
painting Writing stories/a blog

Part 2 What do you like doing?

In my free time, I like ____

 Like + ing

In my free time, I love …

In my free time, I enjoy …

I hate …

I love going swimming.

I enjoy watching TV.

I hate going shopping.

Can you see the same pattern?

The verb after love, enjoy, hate and like must be ended by-ing

You can also add words like really, sometimes, or absolutely to make your meaning stronger
or weaker.

I really like playing online games.

I sometimes enjoy watching k-pop.

I absolutely hate cooking.

Part 3 Adding more details to your ideas

1. How often do you do your free time activity?

I like playing sport. I play football every Tuesday evening.
I absolutely hate cooking. I only cook once or twice a month.
I really like taking photos, but I don’t get the chance to do it often.

What about you? How often do you your free time activity?

You can use these to help you talk.

Every _____

Every weekend, every Saturday afternoon, every day,

once/twice a ______

Once a week, once a year, twice a month, three times a year, and so on.

2. Where do you do your free time activity?

For example:
I like playing sport. I play football every Tuesday evening at the park near my house.
I enjoy having coffee with my friends. We go to a café in the city center once or twice
a week.
I really like taking wildlife photos in the forest, but I don’t get a chance to do it often.

You can see that our sentences are getting more detailed. When you produce sentences, you
should always give details and these will make your English sounds more interesting and
natural.

Well, I do believe that now you are able to produce some sentences by giving some details,
practice them and say them out load.

Part 4 The most popular free time activities in the UK and the USA

The British and American like to do many different things on their free time such as doing
sports, taking photos, watching TV, listening to music, reading books, playing different
games, and DIY. DIY means Do It Yourself or doing different activities and things you can do
without any help from professional. In other hand, they do DIY by using their on hands.
 UK USA
Watching TV Watching TV
Spending time with friends and family Reading
Listening to music Computer and Internet
Shopping Spending time with friends and family

Phrases with do, go, play

A lot of people in the UK and USA do different sports; they go swimming, play football and do
karate.

Phrases with do

Do sport, do gardening, do art and craft, do karate, do judo, do aerobics, do athletics, do

gymnastics,

Phrases with go

Go shopping, go swimming, go jogging, go skiing, go running, go sailing, go fishing

Phrases with play (team games)

Play volleyball, play football, play golf, play tennis, play chess, play board games.

UK USA
The British go to the movies Americans go to the cinema

WH Questions

Who is a person

What is a thing or action

When is a time

Where is a place

Why is the reason something happened

How is a number or the way something is done

How to form WH-Questions in present simple?

Look at the following examples!

1. Who eat apples?

2. What do children eat?
3. When do children eat?
4. Where do children eat?
5. Why do children eat?
6. How do children eat?

Now, compare to the followings

1. Who eats apples?

2. What does a child eat?
3. When does a child eat?
4. Where does a child eat?
5. Why does a child eat?
6. How does a child eat?