1. NİŞANTAŞI ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Lıstenıng & speakıng skılls ı1
WEEK 2:hobbıes
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İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi
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2. Pre-listening activities
Look at the pictures below and discuss the questions with your partner.
What hobbies do you know? Make a list of different hobbies.
What do you think are the 3 best and worst hobbies? Why?
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Match the verb with the correct noun and write a – g next to the numbers 1 – 7.
take
listen to
watch
stroke (= move your hand gently over something
park
make it as (= be successful as)
set up (= start)
a designer
your scooter
a business
films
photos
the cat
music
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Match the words with their definitions. Then compare your answers with your partner.
a. Addicted
b. Allow
c. Affectionate
d. Purr
e. Stroke
f. Whiz
g. Slippery
h. Alteration
i. Customize
j. Sinister
1.killer
2.needing something very much and doing or having it too often
3.to give someone permission for something
4.showing that you like or love someone
5.for a cat to make a soft sound in its throat to show pleasure
6.to gently move your hand over a surface
7.a change, or the process of changing something
8.to make something suitable for a particular person or purpose
9.making you feel that something bad or evil might happen
10.to move somewhere very quickly
11.smooth and wet and difficult to hold or walk on
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5. While-listening activities
Match the speakers with their favorite things. Write a-e next to the numbers 1-5.
1… Speaker A a. a tablet
2… Speaker B b. a sewing machine
3… Speaker C c. a scooter
4… Speaker D d. a set of knives
5… Speaker E e. a cat
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6. WHILE - LISTENING ACTIVITIES
Fill the gaps with the correct words from the box from the audio
My favorite thing has to be my new tablet. It’s really light and quite 1_____________, so I take it with me everywhere. I’m always writing 2___________to friends and it’s big enough to do college work on it too. It takes really good 3 _____________, and I play games and listen to 4_____________ on it as well, of course. I often download 5_____________ onto it, and watch them in 6_____________. My mum says I’m 7_____________, because I’m always on it. I even read things on it at breakfast time. I’m not allowed to at 8____________ time, though. I have to be 9_____________ and talk to people then. “Welcome back to real life,” my mum says.
addicted / bed/ small / photos / films / dinner / polite / messages / music
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7. WHILE - LISTENING ACTIVITIES
Fill the gaps with the correct words from the box from the audio
My favorite thing? Does my 1_____________ count as a thing? She’s not really a thing, but anyway. She’s a really 2_____________ little cat. I’ve had her since she was 3_____________ months old. You know how some cats are really 4_____________ and hardly talk to you? I know cats don’t really talk, but you know what I mean. Well, she’s not like that at all. She’s really 5_____________ and comes up to me as soon as I get home, purring away like mad. She makes a lot of 6 _____________ for a tiny thing. She loves being stroked and comes and curls up next to me when I’m on the 7_____________. She’s great 8_____________.
sofa / independent / cat / beautiful / affectionate / company/ four/ noise
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8. WHILE - LISTENING ACTIVITIES
Fill the gaps with the correct words from the box from the audio
My new scooter! It’s quite small, but 1_____________, and just what I needed for getting around the 2_____________. I used to have quite a long walk to the 3_____________, then a longish walk at the other end to get to 4_____________. But now I can just whiz there on my 5_____________. And there’s no problem parking, there’s always 6_____________ for it. You have to be 7_____________ with the cars and 8_____________ – they don’t always see you – and when it rains the surface of the road is 9_____________, it gets really slippery. But in general it’s perfect for me, and I can fit a 10_____________ on the back too – I’ve got an extra 11_____________ for a friend. It’s great. Riding along makes me feel so free.
scooter / lorries / space / fun / college / careful / city / friend / helmet/ metro/ terrible
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9. WHILE - LISTENING ACTIVITIES
Fill the gaps with the correct words from the box from the audio
This might sound a bit old-fashioned, but my sewing 1_____________ is my favourite thing. I’m studying 2_____________ and love making things, as well as designing them. I also love 3_____________ myself and often buy second-hand clothes – everyone loves the “vintage” 4_____________ at the moment – and then I adapt them to my 5_____________. It’s much easier using a machine to do that than doing it by 6_____________. I do alterations for my mum and my sister too. If I don’t make it as a 7_____________, I suppose I can always set up my own alterations and customising 8_____________. Customising clothes, by taking things off and adding things on, is actually very 9_____________, so I wouldn’t mind that.
look / fashion / designer / size / business / creative/ hand/ machine/ clothes
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10. WHILE - LISTENING ACTIVITIES
Fill the gaps with the correct words from the box from the audio
My set of Japanese knives. That sounds a bit sinister, doesn’t it, but I’m not a 1_____________ or anything. They’re chef’s knives and the best ones come from 2_____________. Cooking is my new hobby. I got into it when I started watching MasterChef on TV. Then I went to an evening 3_____________ for beginners, and I haven’t looked back since. I try and have a 4_____________ for between four and eight 5_____________ every two or three 6_____________. That gives me something to work towards and I always do new 7_____________ so they can try them out and give me feedback. It’s quite an 8_____________ hobby if you use good 9_____________, but now my friends help towards the 10 _____________. They still get a good 11 _____________ for a very low price.
expensive / class / Japan / murderer / dinner / dishes / friends / ingredients / cost / weeks / meal
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11. Post-listening activities
Discuss in groups 4-5 students these questions
What’s your favorite thing? Why is it important to you?
What’s your main hobby? Why?
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Draw a map of your hobbies and favorite things. Then exchange with your partner and discuss your maps.
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References
things
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