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Talking about your interests and activities in your free time

Class Havo 1A

Name one interest and one activity you do in your free time

Goals of this lesson:

- At the end of this lesson, you understand the words listed under "Vocabulary" and "Speaking" on page 21 of your Focus 1 Student's book and you are able to use them in a conversation about your interests and free time activities.

- At the end of this lesson you have become more comfortable speaking English, because you have talked about each other's free time activities and interests in pairs.

How to make sentences to say what you do in your free time?

There are 3 words you can use: have, go and play

"In my free time..."

... I have fun with friends

... I play football

... I go shopping

How to make sentences to talk about your interests?

You like to do something:

I/you/we/they like... (activity)

he/she/it likes... (activity)

Examples:

I like watching a movie.

He likes rock music.

How to make sentences to talk about your interests?

You don't like to do something:

I/you/we/they don't like ... (activity)

he/she/it doesn't like... (activity)

Examples:

I don't like doing rap music.

She doesn't like ice skating.

How to make sentences to talk about your interests?

You ask someone if he/she likes to do something:

Do I/you/we/they like... (activity)?

Does he/she/it like... (activity)?

Examples:

Do you like playing golf?

Does she like horror movies?

Let's see if you understand...

Please fill in the blank:

In my free time (...) videogames.

Choose from:

A. go

B. play

C. have

How does the word "like" change when using he/she/it in a positive sentence (so when you like to do something)?

Please write down the answer in your notebook.

Let's summarise!

Work together with your neighbour!

Interests:

Write down an example of a question, a positive sentence and a negative sentence in your notebook you can use when talking about interests.

Activities in your free time:

Write down three sentences using the words have, go and play in your notebook. Give an example for each word!

*You may use page 21 of your Focus 1 Student's book.

Time to check your summaries!

One pair will share what they have written down about "interests."

One pair will share what they have written down about "activities in your free time."

Which strategies did you use to do this assignment?

Let's talk

What: have a conversation in pairs about each other's interests and activities you do in your free time. Form sentences in the way we just practised. Use interrogative (vragende), positive (bevestigende) and negative (ontkennende) sentences.

How: In pairs.

Help: the words on page 21 of your Focus 1 Student's book.

Time: 4 minutes.

Result: you have now used the different types of sentences you can use to talk about interests and activities in your free time in a real life conversation.

Finished?: One random pair will give a demonstration, which takes 2 minutes.

Did we reach the goals?

- At the end of this lesson, you understand the words listed under "Vocabulary" and "Speaking" on page 21 of your Focus 1 Student's book and you are able to use them in a conversation about your interests and free time activities.

- At the end of this lesson you have become more comfortable speaking English, because you have talked about each other's free time activities and interests in pairs.

What did we do to reach them?

- At the end of this lesson, you understand the words listed under "Vocabulary" and "Speaking" on page 21 of your Focus 1 Student's book and you are able to use them in a conversation about your interests and free time activities.

- At the end of this lesson you have become more comfortable speaking English, because you have talked about each other's free time activities and interests in pairs.

Time for a quiz!

Please open your tablets.

Question 1
Please fill in the blank. Choose from have/go/play.

In my free time, I always ... surfing.

1. Play
2. Go
3. Have
4. Goes

Question 2
Please fill in the blank. Choose from have/go/play.

In my free time, I ... basketball.

1. Play
2. Plays
3. Go
4. Have

Question 3
Give an example of a question, a positive sentence and a negative sentence you can use to talk about your interests.

Let's refresh our memory!

Let's see if you remember the present simple.

Write down the form, when to use it, keywords and an example in your notebook.

Finished? Go to page 112 of your Focus 1 Student's book to check what you have written down.

*Een vraag ter controle...

Als je hebt gemerkt dat je met je normale manier van leren toch de stof niet begrijpt, wat doe je dan?

Schrijf het antwoord op het uitgedeelde A4'tje, je hebt hier 1 minuut de tijd voor.

We bespreken het de volgende les.

Homework

Have a conversation in English with a family member or friend about each other's interests and activities you do in your free time. Summarise (geef een samenvatting) how it went. We will look at it in the next lesson.