Leisure and Hobbies
Answer these questions
Do you have many photos of your family and friends? Where do you keep them? What do you do with them?
When you go on vacation, what do you keeps to remember your trip?
What kinds of papers and photos did your parents save from your childhood? Do you ever look at them?
Leisure focus:
Scrapbooking
Before reading
Find the explanations for these terms
Layout_________________________________

Scrappers_______________________________

Crops__________________________________
An empty book for collecting and preserving photographs,
newspaper articles, and other papers.
A page that uses fancy paper, stickers, drawings and words to show the theme.
Big parties where we all work on our scrapbooks.
New words
Define
Preserve
Throw away
Precious
Supplies
Decorate
Universal
Display
Keep in good condition for the future
Show sth for other people to look at
Important and valuable
Things you need to do or make sth
Get rid of sth you don’t want
Explain the meaning of a word
The same everywhere
To make sth look better
Reading comprehension
Complete the sentences with information from the article.
In her childhood, Diane liked to______________________.
Diane started making scrapbooks after________________.
Her first scrapbooks was about______________________.
People make scrapbook to__________ and to___________.
bits of paper, things like movie tickets, vacation postcards, even paper napkins
10 years ago
father
preserve
display
Reading comprehension
B. Answer True(T) or False(F)
Scrapbooking has become an important business.
People in many countries make scrapbook.
A “crop” is a kind of scrapbooking competition.
Most scrapbooks are about nationality history.
A scrapbook page has both words and pictures
F
T
F
F
T
Reading comprehension
C. Answer the questions
What kinds of people do you think scrapbooking would be popular with young or old? Male or female?
Do you think scrapbooking would be popular in your country? Why, or why not?
Imagine you’re going to make a scrapbook. What theme will you choose ? What will you put on your scrapbook pages?
Vocabulary comprehension
A. Answer the questions below. Share your answers with your partner.
What is something you would like to “preserve” for your children in the future?
What is something that you really should “throw away”?
How do you like to “decorate” your rooms?
What are some leisure activities that are universal?
Vocabulary skill
Vocabulary skill
B. Complete the conversation below using the correct noun or verb
A: It’s quite an(1)____________ to get into a university like Harvard or Tale.
B: Yes, I(2)___________; but I’m not planning to attend either of those schools. I’m trying to enter the University of Wisconsin. The problem is that all international students have to take the TOEFL test. It’s a (3) ___________
A: Well, if you want to go there, you’ll need to (4) ___________ your test score.
B: I know, but my current score is still an (5) ___________ over last month’s score.
A: Well, I’m sure you’ll get into Wisconsin- your English is very good. And you know that standardized tests don’t always provide an accurate(6) ___________ of a person’s ability to speak in English.
achievement
agree
requirement
improve
measurement
improvement