Time off

Theme of the lesson
“Time off”
Aims:
To provide students with an opportunity for free speaking practice;
To develop students’reading, listening abilities;
To communicate about the topic.

Free time
Leisure activities
Spare time
Recreation

ACTIVITIES THAT YOU DO TO RELAX OR ENJOY YOURSELF
THE TIME WHEN YOU ARE NOT WORKING OR ARE NOT BUSY
Leisure activities

Leisure
relaxation
entertainment
enjoyment
pleasure
fun
new experience
excitement
joy

Leisure Time Activities
watching TV
playing computer games
listening to music
reading books
listening to the radio
reading newspapers

Teenagers' Preferred Leisure Activities
watching TV - 76%
playing computer games - 71%
listening to music - 60%
reading books - 51%
listening to the radio - 48%
reading newspapers - 37%

Task 1
Find someone who…

Task 2

Task 3
Interviewer: Excuse me, I’m doing a survey on how people spend their time. Can I ask you a few questions? Do you ever …?

Task 4
Discuss the leisure activities with your partner.
I think football is boring.

Task 5
Centuries ago, people didn’t have much free time, because everybody was working too hard. In Britain in the nineteenth century, people had more spare time, but because the Victorians hated relaxing and doing nothing, they invented football. Rugby and cricket. People took up more gentle activities too, like gardening, bird-watching and train spotting, and it was even possible simply to watch a sport and give the impression that you were actually doing something. Gradually, leisure activities have become less and less energetic interests and hobbies. But now there is a new type of person who thinks that lying on the sofa watching television on Sunday afternoon or reading the newspaper from cover to cover is the most exciting activity they can manage. This the twentieth century coach potato. For them, every activity is too much trouble, and laziness is an art form! So how do you spend your free time?
Are you a coach potato?

Someone who takes little or no exercise, and who spends their free time doing very little.

Rhyme by Carolyn Graham “A coach potato”
Do you like to swim?
Do you like to ski?
I am a coach potato I like TV.
Does he like to swim?
Does he like to ski?
He’s a coach potato
He likes TV.
He doesn’t like to ski
He’s a coach potato
He likes TV