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Student’s Worksheet 1“Lazy Sundays”

Warm-up Discuss the following issues with your neighbour:

– Do you collect anything?

– Do you have any other hobbies? What are they?

TASK 1 Read about different types of hobby and answer the T/F questions below.

a. Scrapbooking is a hobby for people who like books.

b. If you like nature you can go birdwatching.

c. If your hobby is window shopping you need a lot of money.

d. If you collect autographs you collect the signatures of famous people.

e. Trainspotters are people who watch birds in the forest.

TASK 2 Finish the words on the right by adding a suffi x from the column on the left:

bird……….. spotting

scrap………… collecting

window……... watching

autograph…… booking

train………… shopping

(Attention: some words will be written together and some separately)

ScrapbookingScrapbooking is a nice hobby for people who like handicrafts. A scrapbook is a decorated photo album with pictures or other precious memorabilia, e.g. certifi cates, letters or tickets from holidays.

TrainspottingTrainspotting is a popular hobby in England. People who have this kind of hobby are called trainspotters. Trainspotters watch trains and they write down the numbers of the trains in special notebooks.

BirdwatchingBirdwatching is a nice hobby for people

who love nature. It means observing birds

with or without binoculars or a telescope.

Many birdwatchers record the songs of

birds, too.

Window shoppingYou can window shop without any money because you only look at shops’ windows. You don’t have to buy anything or enter a shop. You may look around and go to the next window.

Autograph collectingAutograph collecting is collecting the signatures and autographs of famous people. You can collect letters, documents, books and signed photographs.

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Student’s Worksheet 1“Lazy Sundays”

TASK 3 Work in pairs. Look at the list of hobbies and pastimes below:

gardening, reading books, swimming, window shopping, painting, jogging, writing poems, partying, autograph collecting.

Choose one and try to describe it to your neighbour without giving the name of the hobby. Your neighbour has to guess the meaning of it, e.g.:

– You can do it in the morning or in the afternoon. It’s good for your health. You need a special costume to do this. You can do it in winter or in summer. You may use special glasses to protect your eyes.

– Is it swimming?

– Yes!

TASK 4 Work in pairs. Think of what you would like to do on a lazy Sunday. Then study the list of activities (you may think of extra expressions, too) and complete the chart. Share your ideas with other group members.

Time What to do? Where?

1. 8 am

2. 10 am

3. 12 am

4. 2 pm

5. 4 pm

6. 6 pm

7. 8 pm

8. 10 pm

TASK 5 Think of an unusual hobby or pastime. Describe it in 80 –100 words.

A list of places:

home, your best friend’s home,

restaurant, shop, street, etc.A list of places:

A list of things to do

(examples):

have breakfast, have lunch,

meet friends, go for a walk,

have a shower,

talk on the phone,

write a poem,

play computer games,

play with your brother/sister,

eat pizza, play cards,

do homework, watch a fi lm,

go to sleep