Free-time activities

Technology

7.2.4.1 understand with limited support the main points of extended talk on a range of general and curricular topics

7.5.3.1 write with some support about personal feelings and opinions on a limited range of  familiar general and curricular topics

• Learn verbs about free-time activities.

• Listen to a podcast about metal detecting.

• Listen for general meaning and specific details.

• Write personal sentences about free time using adverbs of frequency

   Start

1.Greeting.

Warm-up  

• Ask students what they understand by these words, then ask them to say what their favourite activities are.

• Ask students if they have a lot of free time, or not enough. Elicit some ideas

Lead – In

I ride a bike.

She watches TV.

He has a lunch.

He goes fishing.

He plays chess

Divided into groups with picture

Students say different words from the picture 

Which of these activities are sports and which are hobbies?

Gardening, golf, painting, football, archery, fishing, skydiving, martial arts, snowboarding, tennis, aerobics, board games, white-water rafting, knitting, ice hockey, skiing, motor racing, pottery, weightlifting, photography, stamp collecting, .

“Good job!

Well done!”

Formative Assessment

Pictures

PPT

• Tell students to read through the options and try to guess as many as they can, before they listen and check.

• Check the answers and ask around the class to find out how many activities the students guessed correctly.

Ex: 2 P: 12

• Look at the photo with the class and ask students to identify the activity (metal detecting). They can answer in their own language.

Differentiation: Support;  learners are arranged to interact in mixed groups.  Topic vocabulary is used while responding to the given questions

Read the information about the

Money Matters podcast. Then listen and

choose the correct answers.

1 Justine goes metal detecting with …

a her friends. b her dad. c her mum.

2 Justine goes metal detecting …

a at the weekends.

b when she goes on holiday.

c when she isn’t at school.

3 Justine usually goes metal detecting …

a near the sea. c in the park.

b at school.

4 Justine …

a has got €183 from metal detecting.

b pays €183 a year to go metal

detecting.

c bought her metal detector for €183.

Ex: 2 P.12

Remind students to use a variety of adverbs when writing their sentences

Ex: 4 P. 12

Write true sentences using the present simple

and adverbs of frequency.

I / meet / my friends after school

I often meet my friends after school.

1 we / play / computer games

2 I / go / swimming

3 my friends and I / watch / DVDs

4 I / have got / a mobile phone with me

5 I / be / late for class

6 my friends and I / go / cycling

Group work

Match 1–11 with a–k.

1 play a the cinema

2 go b computer games

3 listen to c comics

4 meet d friends in town

5 play in e photos of people

6 wear f shopping with friends

7 collect g a band

8 take h expensive sunglasses

9 surf i DVDs

10 watch j the internet

11 go to k mp3s

Students choose the correct words

ANSWERS

1 TV 8 shopping

2 music 9 the internet 3 computer games 10 swimming 4 friends 11 in a band 5 sport 12 cycling 6 things 13 to the cinema 7 photos 14 magazines and books

Students read the information about the Money Matters podcast.

ANSWERS

1 b

2 c

3 c

4 a

Students write the sentences using present simple and adverb of frequency

ANSWERS:

1 We … play computer games.

2 I … go swimming.

3 My friends and I … watch DVDs.

4 I have … got a mobile phone with me.

5 I am … late for class.

6 My friends and I … go cycling.

Never    ешқашан

Hardly ever  бір кездері

Sometimes  кей кезде

Often    үнемі

Usually  әдетте

Always   әрқашан

Exercise for level A students

Choose the correct words.

I ’ve sometimes got / ’ve got sometimes my

laptop with me.

1 She’s hardly ever / hardly is ever late for

school.

2 We go sometimes / sometimes go shopping

on Saturdays.

3 They often are / ’re often tired in the

evenings.

4 It’s usually / usually is very hot here in

summer.

5 You never have got / ’ve never got any

money with you.

6 Batyr doesn’t often play / plays not often

football.

Exercise for level B students

Cross out the bold adverb that is in the wrong

place.

I sometimes listen sometimes to reggae.

1 We often play often volleyball in the summer.

2 They never are never late for class.

3 She’s usually got usually make-up in her bag.

4 He doesn’t often watch often TV.

5 He always is always at the sports centre.

6 Hardly ever I hardly ever listen to hip hop.

7 They sometimes go to sometimes the cinema.

8 Occasionally she occasionally reads magazines.

Exercise for level C students

Rewrite the sentences with the adverbs of

frequency.

We go to the park on Saturdays. (usually)

We usually go to the park on Saturdays.

1 He takes his mobile phone to work. (often)

2 The traffic is bad in the morning. (occasionally)

3 I ride my bike to school. (not often)

4 I’m late for school. (hardly ever)

5 I’ve got a lot of money. (never)

Assessment criteria

- Learn verbs about free-time activities

Descriptor:

- read and try to find many activities

Assessment criteria:

-Write personal sentences about free time using adverbs of frequency

Descriptor:

- write the sentences using present simple and adverb of frequency

-Make CCQ questions

CD 1

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EX: 5  P: 12 SB