13.1 Leisure activities: adverbs
Presentation
1. What leisure activities are shown in the pictures above ?
2 .Which of the activities can you talk about using go ... ing?
Practice
Work in groups. Find out how much the other people do each activity.
Examples Do you listen to the radio at all ? Do you go dancing at all ?
I listen to the radio (quite) a lot. I go dancing (quite) a lot.
I don’t listen to the radio (very) much. I don’t go dancing (very) much.
I don’t listen to the radio (at all). I don’t go dancing (at all).
13.2 THINGS YOU CAN ‘DO’ Presentation and practice
I do (quite) a lot of skiing.
I don’t do much skiing.
I don’t do any skiing.
Talk about the following leisure activities in the same way.
fishing gardening cooking sailing |
walking reading pottery swimming |
painting photography riding yoga |
mountain climbing water-skiing dressmaking jogging |
Answer these questions in as many different ways as you can.
Do you swim at all ?
Do you do any yoga ?
Do you do much reading?
13.3 How much? Practice
You will hear two people playing a game.
Listen to the tape, and say how much the second person does of the following:
skiing
tennis
gardening
In your own table, write nine activities from the pictures in 13.i and the list in 13.2, three in each column.
Work in pairs. Find out what your partner has written by asking questions.
When he/she answers ‘Yes’, write the activity in his/her table, in the correct column.
|
A lot |
Quite a lot |
Not much |
You |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
|
3 |
3 |
3 |
|
A lot |
Quite a lot |
Not much |
Your Partner |
1 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
|
3 |
3 |
3 |
13.4 Kinds of people Free practice
You will hear a description of how someone spends his free time. Listen to the tape and answer the questions.
What kind of person is the man?
Where does he spend most of his time, and doing what?
What does the speaker say about:
a) the pub? b) singing? c) the local choir?
Why don’t you ever see the man at weekends ?
Work in groups.
Look at the people in the pictures. Imagine what different things they do in their spare time.
Choose one of the people. Write a paragraph describing how the person you have chosen spends his/her spare time.
