Matching: Match the hobbies with the pictures
Which do you like to do in your free time?
Keeping fish
Playing chess
Fishing
Playing guitar
Collecting stamps
Swimming
A
B
C
D
E
F
Vocabulary
Guitarist (n) a person who plays the guitar
Successful (a)
Admire (v)
Ex: I admire him for his success in business
Variety (n)
Ex; He likes collecting rare varieties of stamps
Album (n)
Common (a)
Tune (n)
Task 1: Read the passage to find out all the words or phrases in box A then match them with their meaning in box B
1. Accomplished - Skilled
2. Accompanying - Going with a singer, using a musical instrument
3. Modest - Not very large

4. Avid - Eager
5. Discarded - Thrown away

6. Indulged - Allow oneself to do something for pleasure
7. Keep me occupied - Keep me busy
Task 2: Read the passage again and answer the questions
What is the writer’s first hobby ?
Is the writer an accomplished guitarist ?
Why does the writer admire his uncle ?
What is the writer’s second hobby ?
How did he collect his fish ?
What kind of stamp collection is the writer ?
Where does he collect the stamps ?
Which does the writer get more of, local stamps or foreign stamps ?
What does the writer do with the less common stamps and with the common ones ?

1. His first hobby is playing his guitar.
2. No, he isn’t.
3. Because he’s an accomplished guitarist and he is good at accompanying people singing with his guitar.
4.His second hobby is keeping fish.
5. He bought some from the shop and collected some from the rice field near his house.
6. He isn’t an avid stamp collector.
7. He collects them from discarded envelopes his relatives and friends give him.
8. Local stamps
9. He keeps the less common ones inside a small album. The common ones he usually gives away to others or if no one wants them, he simply throws them away
After you read:
Talk about your hobbies ?
What do you like doing in your free time ?
Why are you interested in it ?
What do you like and don’t like doing after school?


I like/ enjoy ................. In my free time
because .............. .

Homework

Read the passage
Write the answers on the note book
Learn the new words
Prepare the next lesson