Stock market: business of buying and selling shares in companies?. and the place where this is done2[r]
(1)(2)I Warm up
Game: Work out which activity is
(3)(4)2 5 8
(5)answer
• Reading books
• Reading newspapers
• Playing volleyball/playing sports • Shopping
• Singing
• Meeting friends • Listening to music • Watching TV
• Watching sports • 10 Fishing
(6)II Before you read
Look at the activities and guess which of these leisure
activities British people often in their free time?
• Reading books
• Reading newspapers
• Playing volleyball/playing sports
• Shopping
• Singing
• Meeting friends
• Listening to music
• Watching TV
• Watching sports
• 10 Fishing
(7)Pre-teaching vocabulary
• Dull ( adj): slow to understand or learn(đần, chậm hiểu)
• Pastime (n): hobby, leisure activity (trò tiêu khiển)
snooker, pool…
• Bricklaying (n): cementing bricks together with mortar(xây gạch)
• Engrave (v): to carve a design or lettering into a hard surface for
decoration or printing(trạm, trổ, khắc)
• Stock market: business of buying and selling shares in companies
and the place where this is done
• An enormous range of: nhiều, đa dạng
• Sophisticated(adj): complicated( tinh vi)
(8)III WHILE YOU READ
Task 1:
The words/phrases in italics in the
following sentences all appear in the
(9)Answer:
1.A home based 2.B by far
3.B on offer 4.A pursuits
5.B spectator sports
(10) Task 2: Answer the questions:
1 Why are recreation and entertainment important to people?
2 What sports the British like watching? 3 What sports they like taking part in?
(11)IV After you read
• Discuss the question:
Which of the British leisure activities