1. ～事が好きです。

2.  (thing) が好きです。 Means you like (thing).  E.g. テニスが好きです。

3. What if you want to say you like to play tennis? or I like eating chocolate for breakfast on Sundays? How do we stick the verb in the sentence???

4.  plain verb ＋事が好きです。  テニスをする事が好きです。  日曜日の朝ご飯にチョコレートを食べる 事が好きです。

5.  You can use this to say you love （大好 き）, dislike （好きじゃない） and hate （きらい） to do something.  You can also use こと with other abilities such as good at （上手・とくい） and bad at （下手・にがて）

6.  Mariko likes reading the newspaper every morning.  Yumiko likes learning English.  Hisao doesn’t like writing letters.  Rika likes swimming in the pool.  Tomoko likes watching rugby.  Akira doesn’t like playing squash.  Mizue isn’t good at speaking German.  Airi is good at cooking cakes.