unit 13 hobbies part A reading

Swimming Fishing Reading book Playing football Playing chess Watching T.V Listening music Playing guitar Walking 6 5 4... Playing chess swimming Collecting stamps Keeping fish Play

Swimming

Fishing Reading book

Playing football

Playing chess

Watching T.V

Listening music

Playing guitar Walking

6 5

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Hoa Binh, March, 2013

Playing chess

swimming

Collecting stamps

Keeping fish

Playing the guitar

guitarist

Collector(n) nhà sưu tầm

Words and phrases Definitions

1.Accomplished (adj)

2.Accompanying

(gerund)

3.Modest (adj)

4 Avid (adj)

5 Discarded (adj)

6 Indulge in (v)

7.Keep me occupied

a keep me busy

b Thrown away

c Well-trained

d Going with a singer

e Let yourself do sth that

you enjoy

f

f extremely eager or

interested in

g Not very big

Key: 1-c 2-d 3-g 4-f 5-b 6-e 7-a

Task 1.Match the words and phrases with their definitions

I also indulge in swimming and fishing

(to) indulge in : say sưa ,đam mê

Fish tank (n) bể cá

They keep me occupied.

Keep Sb occupied = keep Sb busy : làm ai bận rộn

• 1 accomplished (a):

• 2 accompany (v):

• 3 modest (a):

• 4 avid (adj) :

• 5 discarded (a):

• 6 indulge in (v):

• 7 keep sb occupied:

đệm đàn khiêm tốn khao khát, thèm muốn

vứt bỏ say mê,say sưa

làm bận rộn

có tài

- to be able to + V-infinitive

- Ex: She is able to sing this song well.

= She can sing this song well.

- to be good at + N/V-ing

Ex: She is good at English.

She is good at learning

English.

HOBBIES THAT THE WRITER HAS

TALKED ABOUT ARE

Playing

stamps

Task 2: Answer the questions:

1 Is the writer an accomplished guitarist?

2 Why does the writer admire his uncle?

3 How did he collect his fish?

4 Where does he collect the stamps?

5 Which does the writer get more of, local stamps or foreign stamps?

6 What does the writer do with the less common stamps and with the

common ones?

No, he isn’t.

Because he is an accomplished guitarist and he’s very good at

accompanying people singing with his guitar.

He bought some from the shop and collected some from the rice

field near his house.

He collects the stamps from discarded envelopes that his

relatives and friends give him.

He gets more local stamps.

He keeps the less common stamps inside a small album The common ones he usually gives away to others or if no one wants them he simply throws them away.

(p.2, lines 1-2)

(p.2, lines 1,2 and 5-6)

(p.3, lines 2-4)

(p.4, lines 2-3) (p.4, lines 3)

(p.4, lines 5-7)

Task 3:

Fill in the blank with one suitable word or phrase.

The writer has three (1) _ in the passage The first hobby is playing (2) _ His (3) _ taught him how to play it The second hobby is keeping (4) _

He collected them from the (5) _ or (6) _ them from the shop The third one is keeping (7) _

He collects them from the (8) _ envelopes He isn't

an (9) _ stamp – collector All of his hobbies keep him (10) _

hobbies

fish

stamps discarded

avid occupied

Decide whether the following statements are true(T)

or false(F) Correct the false information

1 The writer’s father taught him how

to play the guitar.

2 The writer admires his uncle very

much

3 The writer’s mother doesn’t love

watching fish

4 The hobbies really keep the writer

busy.

5 The writer has 3 hobbies.