Playing the guitar
Collecting the stamps
Playing chess
swimming
Going fishing
Keeping fishing
Playing tennis
Listening to music
UNIT 13
BEFORE YOU READ
HOBBIES
NEW WORDS
tune / tju:n / (n):
Example: I don’t know the title but I recognize the tune
2. fish tank (n):
3. accompany (v):
4. Avid /’ævId/ (adj):
Example: an avid collector of old coins
5. Accomplish (v):
a series of musical notes that are sung, (giai điệu)
an aquarium
to play a musical instrument, while somebody else sings
extremely interested in something
(often a hobby), (đam mê)
to succeed in something
TASK 1
Work in pairs:
Discuss and match the following words with their definition.
1.accomplished
2.accompanying
3.modest
4.avid
5.discarded
6.Indulge in
7.keep me occupied
2.accompany b. to play a musical instrument,
while somebody else sings
1.accomplished a. not very large, expensive or important
FEEDBACK
4.avid d. to allow yourself to do whatever you want
7. keep me occupied g. to get rid of something
3.modest c. very good at a particular thing,
having a lot of skills
5.Discarded e. to make myself busy

6. indulge in f. extremely interested in something
(often a hobby)
TASK 2
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
1.What is the writer’s first hobby?
2.Is the writer an accomplished guitarist?
3.Why does the writer admire his uncle?
4.What is the writer’s second hobby?
6.What kinds of stamp collector is the writer?
7.Where does he collect the stamps?
9.What does the writer do with the less common stamps
and with the common ones?
5.How did he collect his fish?
8.Which does the writer get more of, local stamps or foreign stamps?
FEEDBACK
1.What is the writer’s first hobby?
2.Is the writer an accomplished guitarist?
3.Why does the writer admire his uncle?
4.What is the writer’s second hobby?
5.How did he collect his fish?
The writer’s first hobby is playing his guitar.
No, he isn’t
The writer admires his uncle because his uncle is an accomplished guitarist.
He collected his fish by buying from the shop,
and collecting from the rice fields.
The writer’s second hobby is keeping fish.
6.What kinds of stamp collector is the writer?
7.Where does he collect the stamps?
8.Which does the writer get more of, local stamps or foreign stamps?
9.What does the writer do with the less common stamps
and with the common ones?
The writer gets more of local stamps.
He collects stamps from discarded envelopes
that his relatives and friends give him.
He is an avid stamp collector.
He usually keeps the less common stamp inside a small album,
and gives the common ones away to others, or throws them away.
TASK 3
WORK IN GROUPS
Talk about your hobbies.
Some suggested questions.
What is your hobby?

2.How often do you do ?

3.When or where do you do?

4. Whom often do you do with or individually?
THANKS FOR YOUR COOPERATION