Hobbies

1. Try to answer the following questions:

What are hobbies?
Why do people have hobbies?
What is your hobby?
Can you make money from doing your hobby?
How many hours a week do you spend on your hobby?
Is your hobby safe or dangerous?
Why do people need hobbies?
Do you spend money on your hobby?
Which hobbies are the most expensive?
Which hobbies are the cheapest?
Which hobbies are the most popular in your country?
Did you have any hobbies when you were a child?
Are there any hobbies you would like to try?
Are there any hobbies you can do in other countries, but not your own?
2. Let’s learn new words!
Look at these words. Do you know some of them?
Collecting Arts and Performing Music Individual Team Outdoor
Crafts Arts sports sports activities
Collecting Architecture Dancing Bass guitar Badminton Basketball Camping
Antiques
Collecting Calligraphy Ballet Cello Bodybuilding Baseball Fishing
action
figures
Coin Gardening Acting Guitar Boxing Football Hiking
collecting
Collecting Origami Magic tricks Harmonica Cycling Volleyball Hunting
comic
books
Doll Photography Stand up Piano Diving, Water Kayak,
collecting comedy swimming polo canoe
Stamp Fashion Break Violin Acrobatics Cricket Mountain
collecting design dancing climbing
Collecting Painting and Singing Running Soccer River
vinyl drawing rafting
records

3. Now choose 15 words. Write them down into your exercise book and present it to your teacher by
miming or giving a description - you cannot mention the word in your description!

4. Choose your favourite hobby and present it to your teacher. Talk about your favourite hobby for
at least 5 minutes.
5. Imagine that you are writing your resume. Can you imagine that you would include the following
10 hobbies in your resume?

6. Watch the following video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYmROpQpp5I.

What was the video about?
Which celebrities and their hobbies were mentioned in the video?
Do you know the people and the hobbies mentioned in the video?