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Hobbies and Free time activities

1. Free time Mime from Teach this

            Time: 35-60 minutes               

            Possible procedures: A. Students take it in turns to pick up a card and mime the hobby for the other students to guess. 

B. Students take it in turns to choose, describe and guess the hobby. Encourage students to not say any of the words or the hobby on the card.

            Possible structures: Are you good at...? Are you ...? 

2. Hobbies Taboo from Teach this 

            Time: 35 minutes

            Possible procedures: Students take it in turns to describe and guess the names of the hobby from other students' descriptions. Encourage students to not say any of the words on the card or their variations.

Alike: A descriptive video

 

Today,

We are going to watch the video below. It is about a father and his son. 

You are going to:

• Describe the entire video while you watch it. 
• You need to describe: 
• The background:
•  Place- Where is the person? What's the colour of the place?
• Surrounding- What furniture or items are in the surrounding?
• Time-  What time of the day is it?
• Weather- What is the weather like?
• Emotion: happy, sad, angry, tired, etc.
• The clothing of the people
• The physical features: He has got blond/dark brown/ feathers and He is short/thin/fat/blue
• Actions of the people: What is he doing? What are they doing?

BE AS DESCRIPTIVE AS POSSIBLE, REMEMBER I CANNOT SEE THE VIDEO.

We will stop at 3:08 of the video to summarise the events thus far in the video and review any learnt vocabulary.

Birds: A Descriptive Video

 

Today,

We are going to watch the video below. It shows some birds on an electric cable. 

You are going to:

• Describe the entire video while you watch it. 
• You need to describe: 
• The background:
•  Place- Where is the person? 
• Time-  What time of the day is it?
• Weather- What is the weather like?
•  Surrounding- What furniture or items are in the surrounding?
• Emotion: happy, sad, angry, tired, etc.
• The clothing of the animal
• The physical features: He has got blond/dark brown/ feathers and He is short/thin/fat
• Actions of the animal/s: What is he doing?

BE AS DESCRIPTIVE AS POSSIBLE, REMEMBER I CANNOT SEE THE VIDEO.

Daily Life: Choices (Descriptive video)

 Today,

We are going to watch the video below. It shows two versions of the same person. 

You are going to:

• Describe the entire video while you watch it. 
• First, let's focus on the person on the right.
• Second, let's focus on the person on the left.
• For the person on the right, You need to describe: 
• The background:
•  Place- Where is the person? 
• Time-  What time of the day is it?
•  Surrounding- What furniture or items are in his surrounding?
• Emotion: Is he happy, sad or tired?
• The clothing of the person
• The physical features: He has got blond/dark brown/ hair and He is short/thin/fat
• Actions of the person: What is he doing?
• Do the same for the version on the left. 

BE AS DESCRIPTIVE AS POSSIBLE, REMEMBER I CANNOT SEE THE VIDEO.

Entertainment and Media: Lesson 1

Let's Play a Game:

Let's play a snakes and ladder board game. You will need a counter and an online dice.

How to play:

• Each player puts his counter on "start here".
• Take it in turns to roll the dice.
• Move your counter forward the number of spaces shown on the dice.
• Ask a player one of the questions about Entertainment below or create your own question.
• If your counter lands at the bottom of a ladder, you can move up to the top of the ladder.
• If your counter lands on the head of a snake, you must slide down to the bottom of the snake.
• The first player to get to the space that says 'home' is the winner.

Materials:

Print: Snakes and Ladders board

Click: Online Dice

Questions about Entertainment:

1.  Do you ever go to concerts?
2. How important is TV to you?
3. How much TV do you watch in a week?
4. Do you like the same TV programmes as your parents?
5. Tell us about a TV programme you've seen recently.
6. Do you enjoy going to parties?
7. How often do you read newspapers?
8. Do you like shopping? why/why not?
9. Where do you like listening to music?
10. Do you like going to the cinema?
11. Tell me about your favourite film star.
12. Tell us about a film you really like.
13. Do you enjoy playing computer games?
14. Do you use the internet much?
15. What do you use the internet for?
16. Do you ever listen to the radio?

Discussion Time:

Here are some types of TV programmes and a question for you to discuss.

Why would people choose to watch these TV programmes?

Which type of TV show would be the most popular?

Which one would attract more advertisers to spend money on advertising their products? 

Describe the short video to a person with no eyes

What do you need to do?

• Describe the background: weather, time of day, 
• Say where the people or animals are.
• Talk about their emotions.
• Say what they are doing.

 

Hobbies: Are you good at speaking English?

 

Can you name some hobbies?

What are you good at?

Click on: Vocabulary for Hobbies

Note: You can print the vocabulary for hobbies pages and make cards. Use the cards to play a memory game. 

Useful Structures:

Question: Are you good at ... ( hobbies)? For example: Are you good at doing ballet?

I am good at (hobbies).

I am great at (hobbies).

I am not so good at (hobbies).

I am terrible at (hobbies).

How to Play memory game:

• Mix the cards then place them face down on the table.
• Players take it in turn to turn over two cards of their choice in order to try and create a pair. 
• Players show the cards to all the players.
• If the two cards are identical, the player keeps them. 
• If the two cards are not identical, he places them face down in the same place. 
• It is then the turn of the next player to turn over two cards.
• The game ends when there are no more cards on the table.
• The player who has the most pairs wins.

Questions:

Let's practise asking and answering questions about hobbies. Try and use complete responses.

1. What do you like doing in your free time?

I like ______________

2. When do you have free time?

I have free time ______________ (after school, after dinner, at weekends ...)

3. Who do you spend your free time with?

I spend my free time with _____________ (my sister/brother/parents/friends...)

4. Where do you spend your free time?

5. Where do Spanish children usually spend their free time?

6. Can you explain one of your hobbies to me?

7. When did you start doing your favourite hobby?

8. Which hobbies are the most expensive?

9. Which hobbies are the cheapest?

10. Which hobbies are the most popular in your country?

What are the differences between these hobbies?

Let's play a game:

Online Dice

Spot the differences

Travel and Holidays: Lesson 3

Holiday Activities

Types of Holidays: What kinds of holiday do you want?

Do you remember the Holiday Activities?

Compare the pictures:

Talk for TWO minutes:

We are going to talk together for about two minutes. Here are some things that people think are fun to do on holiday and a question for you to discuss. 

First you have some time to look at the task. 

Talk to each other about: 

'Why do people think these things are fun to do on holiday?'

Finally, 

'Which two activities are best for a family holiday?'

Useful Phrases:

To Start:

• Which one shall we start with?
• What do you think?
• I think you know a lot about [_______]. What's your opinion on it?

Moving to the Next Item:

• Shall we move onto [______] now?
• So what about [______]?
• I wonder if we can compare [current topic] to [new topic]?
• What about this one? [Pointing to topic]
• What do you think about this idea?
• How do you feel about that one?
• We're running out of time, so let's move on.
• We still need to discuss [topic].
• That connects with the next topic.
• [Topic] is pretty similar to the last one - maybe we can skip it for now?

Ending your turn:

• What do you think?
• Don't you agree?
• Do you have anything to say about that?
• Do you have anything to add to that?
• Did I forget anything?

 Interrupting:

• Sorry to interrupt but...
• Just a second...

Agreeing:

• Right.
• Good point.
• I fully agree.
• I was just thinking that!
• I was just going to say that!
• That's just what I was thinking.
• I couldn't agree more.
• You're totally right.

Disagreeing (with reasons):

• Maybe, but what about...?
• I think it would be better to...
• I'm not so keen on that.
• I don't really agree with you there.
• Well maybe, but...
• Yeah, but, the thing is...
• The problem with what you said is...
• For one thing...[reason 1] And for another... [reason 2]

Reaching a Decision:

• Well, I think it's definitely not [topic]
• We can eliminate [topic] right away. Don't you think?
• So then, what do you think is the best one?
• I guess you think we should choose [topic]?
• Are we both in favour of [topic]?
• Okay, so we agree.
• I don't think we're going to agree on this!
• Let's agree to disagree!

Travel and Holidays: Lesson 2

 A Day Trip to Paris!

These pictures show different holiday activities. 

Describe these activities:

What are the people doing?

Which one of these activities is ideal for a family holiday? 

Listen to Ruth describing a day trip she took on Saturday.

LISTEN

Answer the questions below. 

1. Where does she initially say she went on Saturday?
2. What time did she take the taxi?
3. Where did she go at 10:30?
4. What three activities did she do?
5.  What did she really do?
6. Make a list of the questions that David asked. He asked 2 important questions.

Task:

Imagine that you and your friend spent last Saturday together. Create story about what you did. Make your story as interesting as possible. 

Use these questions to help you:

• Where did you go?
• How did you get there?
• What time did you arrive in the city?
• What three activities did you do?
• What interesting thing happened?
• What time did you leave the city to go home?

Use these discourse markers in your story:

For example:

It started when we went to London by plane. At 10 o'clock, we arrived at our hotel. Then we went to a restaurant to have hot chocolate and cookies for breakfast. It was delicious. Next, we visited the museum. Suddenly, there were a lot of people on the road so it was difficult for us to leave the museum. Eventually, we got outside where we saw the best football player in the world. He was signing autographs and taking pictures. We joined the line so that we could get a picture. Unfortunately our bus arrived so we had to leave. While we were walking toward the bus, it started to move. Before long, we started running. In the end, we missed it. As a result, we took a taxi. It was very expensive. Finally, we got home at 11:00 pm and went to bed. 

Listening Transcript

Storyboard

 See your day Trip Here!

Describing People: Sketch the thieves

 Some thieves have been stealing items from your classroom. Some students saw them. Listen as your teacher reads the descriptions and draw the three thieves.

DRAW:

Teacher's Description

Describing people: Features

We are going to learn how to describe people.

We use the verb 'to be' to describe:

• height: 

I am tall.

• body build:

She is slim.

• age:

He is old.

Describe the people. You can use these adjectives: tall, short, young, old, slim, medium.

Facial features:

We use 'has got' and 'have got' to describe hair colour, hair length and facial features.

Facial Features are eyes, nose, eyebrows, ears, mouth, lips and chin. 

Vocabulary to describe people's features 

Example:

 

He has got short brown hair.

He has got small green eyes.

He has got a big nose.

Describe the people below:

Let's Talk about the Pictures: