TEACHER’S NOTES

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Hobbies Taboo

Activity Type Introduction

Vocabulary and Speaking In this hobbies game, students describe and guess hobbies and
Game: describing, free-time activities.
guessing (group work)
Procedure
Focus Divide the class into two teams (A and B).
Hobbies and free-time
Tell the class that they are going to play a game of taboo where
activities
they guess the names of hobbies and free-time activities from
Antonyms and synonyms other students' descriptions.

A player from Team A comes to the front of the class and is given
Aim a taboo card.

To describe and guess The player then describes the hobby or free-time activity in bold
hobbies and free-time on the card to their team, without saying the hobby or using the
activities in a game of other words on the card.
taboo.
The player is also not allowed to say variations of the words on
the card, e.g. colour, colours, colourful, colouring, etc.
Preparation
Make one copy of If Team A successfully guesses the hobby or free-time activity
the cards and cut as within a specified time (e.g. one minute), they score a point.
indicated.
If not, Team B has one chance to guess the hobby and steal the
point.
Level
Then, a player from Team B comes to the front and is given a card
Intermediate (B1) and so on.

Teams continue taking it in turns to play until all the cards have
Time been used.
30 minutes
The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.

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 HOBBIES AND FREE TIME

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Hobbies Taboo

Painting Scuba diving Jogging

art swimming running

picture underwater park
colours sea exercise

Skiing Playing football Working out

winter sport kick gym

snow ball exercise
downhill goal health

Fishing Playing golf Playing basketball

rod club hoop

catch course bounce
lake / river ball ball

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 HOBBIES AND FREE TIME

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Hobbies Taboo

Watching TV Reading Skateboarding

series book wheels

screen story park
programme pages trick

Photography Gardening Cycling

camera flowers wheels

take pictures plants bike
digital outside bicycle

Playing computer games Playing an instrument Hiking

notebook / laptop musician walk

level song countryside
controller learn nature

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 HOBBIES AND FREE TIME

WORKSHEETS, ACTIVITIE S & GA ME S Hobbies Taboo

Chatting Going shopping Swimming

online buy pool

mobile phone money water
talking mall trunks / swim suit

Camping Visiting relatives Cooking

tent family food

sleeping bag talking kitchen
outside meet recipe

Playing badminton Watching films Surfing the Internet

net movies website

racket cinema browse
shuttlecock screen computer

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