In this lesson, we will…

Learn some new words

Read a conversation

Learn about the gerund

Talk about our hobbies

 Hobbies

What is a hobby?
A hobby is something we do for
fun in our free time.

We do hobbies to relax or learn

something new.

How many hobbies do you know in English?

Do you have any hobbies? What are they?
 Vocabulary
What are the hobbies?

cooking reading books drawing playing with friends

playing listening to
video games taking photos watching movies music

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 Match the word to the picture

cooking playing with friends drawing reading books

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 Match the word to the picture

playing listening to
watching movies taking photos
video games music

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 Vocabulary
What’s the missing word?
cooking reading books playing with friends taking photos

playing video games drawing watching movies listening to music

1. She really likes cooking

so we made hamburgers together.
2. She is a very creative person, so she loves drawing
.
3. I bought some nice headphones, because I love listening to. music
4. Reading books
is fun, that’s why I love English class.
5. I don’t like TV shows, so I prefer .
watching movies
6. We just bought a new camera because we love . photos
taking
7. After school, I like going online and playing video
. games
8. After school, I like playing withatfriends
the park.

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Kara and Sam are meeting for the first time.
They are talking about their hobbies.
 Hmm, I have many! I like taking
What are your
photographs, watching TV
hobbies?
dramas, and drawing pictures!
How about you?

Well, I don’t really

Oh, I see!
like taking
After
photographs. I like school, I
watching TV like
dramas! I listening to
sometimes watch music.
them with my dad.
After school, I
love playing
computer games.
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Hmm, I have many! I like ……….
What are your
photographs, ……………..
watching TV dramas,
hobbies?
and …………...
drawing pictures! How about
you?

Well, I don’t really

Oh, I see!
like taking
After
photographs. I like school, I
watching TV like
listening
dramas! I to music.
sometimes watch
them with my dad.
After school, I love
playing
…..……...
computer games.

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 Grammar Time
In English, we can use –ing words like nouns.
These are called ‘gerunds’.
We can use gerunds when talking about likes and dislikes
the same way we do with nouns.

I like apples. Movies are fun.

I like eating apples. Watching movies is fun.
I like football. Books are boring.
I like playing football. Reading books is boring.

Grammar tip: We use ‘is’ with gerund, even if

the object has an ‘s’. So we say ‘Eating apples is
healthy.’
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Some gerunds are usually used with an object.
It would be unusual to say ‘I like watching’ or ‘Taking is
fun’.
We would say ‘I like watching movies/TV/theatre’ and
Taking photographs is fun’.

Other gerunds, like running or swimming,

don’t need an object:

I love running.

Swimming is difficult.
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Look at the prompts below.
Turn them into sentences with the gerund.
I / like / watch / TV
I like watching TV.
She / not/ like / swim
She doesn’t like swimming.
My sister / love / take / photos
My sister loves taking photos.
They / really like / cook / Chinese food
They really like cooking Chinese food.
Read / books / boring
Reading books is boring.

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 Talking Time
You are going to talk about your hobbies
with your partner or teacher.
For a few minutes, write down some of the
things you like and don’t like doing.
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With your partner, pretend you are meeting

for the first time. You want to find out what
they like and don’t like.

I don’t really
enjoy… Do you like…

is fun.
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Look at the sentences below.

Can you spot the mistakes?

I likes playing sports. I like playing sports.

Watching movies are fun. Watching movies is fun.

They enjoy watching photos. They enjoy taking photos.

I cooking Korean food like. I like cooking Korean food.

They do like not swimming. They do not like swimming

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