1. Podpora rozvoje cizích jazyků pro Evropu 21. stol. INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky.

2. Holidays and Hobbies Free Time Activities

3. What types of holidays do you know? 1.Christmas / Boxing Day / New Year’s Eve 2.Easter 3.Labor Day 4.Independence Day 5.Half terms 6.Bank Holiday 7. Summer Holidays 8. Sick leave 9. Maternity leave 10. Public Holidays

4. Typical Czech Public Holidays 1/ January 1st Independent Czech State 2/ Variable Easter Monday 3/ May 1st Labour Day 4/ May 8th National Holiday - Liberation Day (1945) 5/ July 5th National Holiday - Cyril and Methodius Day - the Slavic Christianity Day 6/ July 6th National Holiday - Master John Hus burning at the stake (1415)

5. 7/ September 28th National Holiday - Czech Statehood Day 8/ October 28th National Holiday - Independent Czechoslovak State Proclamation Day (1918) 9/ November 17th National Holiday - Day of Fight for Freedom and Democracy 10/ December 24th Christmas Eve 11/ December 25th Christmas Day 12/ December 26th St. Stephen's Day

6. Answer: 1/ How can you earn extra money for holiday? 2/ What would you take on holiday to these destinations: India, Hawai, Iceland, New York, Prague, the High Tatras Mountains, African Safari? 3/ What problems can you encounter when you go on holiday in a group of people? 4/ What kind of holidays is popular among young people; old people? 5/ Which type of holiday is ideal for you and why? 6/ Two-person activity: the best and worst holiday that you ever had?

7. The means of travel in order to get to your holiday destination, you have to travel. 4 means of travelling: 1. by rail 2. by bus or coach 3. by air, 4. by sea.

8. Free-time activities Reading Cooking Flying Gardening Hiking Listening to music Writing poetry or stories Painting Doing nothing Sports:  Dancing  Tennis  Horse-riding  Canoeing  Fencing  Soccer  Squash  Weight-lifting  Hurdles

9. Discuss the following: 1/ Why people have hobbies? 2/ Name some dangerous hobbies? 3/ Name some time-consuming hobbies? 4/ Is a hobby useful for a future job? 5/ Which are the most common hobbies in our country? 6/ Talk about your hobby.

10. Unusual hobbies – unusual gifts Singing Active person Overweight person Record a song in a recording studio Driving a formula, skydiving, bungee jumping, flying a plane, balooning A spa, a fitness membership, cooking course, get on TV Think of other examples.

11. Sport equipment helmet Bow and arrows skates Soccer shoes shuttlecock Ice- hockey stick whistle referee Baseball bat Golf club

12. Scauts a worldwide youth movement an informal educational system that emphasizes practical activities in the outdoors Development of: self-confidence, responsibility, character, collaboration, leadership Differences between a participant and a leader (also Camp America)

13. Volunteering – a helpful way to spend your time Volunteering is the practice of people working on behalf of others without being motivated by financial or material gain. Volunteering takes many forms, give some examples… helping disabled helping elderly teaching

14. INVESTICE DO ROZVOJE VZDĚLÁVÁNÍ Tento projekt je spolufinancován Evropským sociálním fondem a státním rozpočtem České republiky. Tato výuková prezentace byla pořízena z finančních prostředků hrazených Evropským sociálním fondem a rozpočtem České republiky.