Hobbies. Leisure Time. Бекерова Е.А - 42 стр.

2. Look at the leisure activities in the box below. What's your
opinion of them? Use the words in the box in 1.
                                                                            4. Work in pairs. Decide how energetic the activities in the box in 2
 football      tennis     cricket      do-it-yourself (DIY)    fishing
                                                                            are. Give them a score from 1 (= lazy), to 10 (= energetic).
 gardening        entertaining     shopping        going to nightclubs
 watching television           reading        painting bird-watching         LISTENING [T.4]
 train spotting playing cards swimming running walking                             1 . Listen to nine people talking about what they like doing. Put
                                                                            the number of the speaker by the activity in the box in Vocabulary and
I think football is boring.                                                 reading 2 which they like doing.
Which other leisure activities do you like and dislike?                            2. Work in pairs and decide how old each person might be.
                                                                            Which person or people would you describe as a couch potato? What
3. “Are you a couch potato?” is about leisure activities. Read it and       else did they say about their leisure activities?
choose the best definition for a couch potato.                               Listen again and check.
       1. Someone who enjoys energetic sports and active hobbies.
                                                                            FUNCTIONS AND GRAMMAR
       2. Someone who takes little or no exercise, and who spends their
free time doing very little.
                                                                            Adverbs and adverbial phrases of frequency
       3. Someone who doesn't like doing sports but is active in other
                                                                            Adverbs of frequency usually go before a full verb, but after be or
ways.
                                                                            an auxiliary verb.
       4. Someone who likes indoor gardening.
                                                                            I always spend the weekend doing housework.
                                                                            She sometimes likes playing cards.
                        Are you a couch potato?                             I am often out in the evening.
Centuries ago, people didn't have much free time, because everybody         I’ve never enjoyed football.
was working too hard. In Britain in the nineteenth century, people had      I hardly ever go to the cinema.
more spare time, but because the Victorians hated relaxing and doing
nothing, they invented football, rugby and cricket. People took up          Here are some common adverbial phrases of frequency. They usu-
more gentle activities too, like gardening, bird-watching and train spot-   ally go at the end of a clause.
ting, and it was even possible simply to watch a sport and give the im-     every day, week, month, year, two days, other day, now and then
pression that you were actually doing something. Gradually, leisure         once/twice/three times a day, a week, a month, a year
activities have become less and less demanding and most people have         most days, mornings, once in a while
a variety of more or less energetic interests and hobbies But now there
is a new type of person who thinks that lying on the sofa watching          Talking about likes and dislikes
television on Sunday afternoon or reading the newspaper from cover to       You can put an -ing form verb or a noun after the following ex-
cover is the most exciting activity they can manage. This is the twenti-    pressions.
eth-century couch potato. For them, every activity is too much trouble,     I adore shopping. I love entertaining. I enjoy watching television.
and laziness is an art form! So how do you spend your free time?            I hate running. I can't stand staying at home.
Are you a couch potato?                                                     I detest collecting the leaves.

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