01

LEISURE
AND
SPORT

Speaking and vocabulary

Leisure activities
1a

Work in pairs and discuss.

Which activities in the box can you see in the photos?
Which activities do you do every day?
go to the cinema
go out with friends
listen to music
go to evening classes

IN THIS UNIT
Grammar: Revision of
questions; Present simple
and frequency phrases

Vocabulary: Leisure activities;

Sports and games

listen to the radio

use the internet
play a musical instrument
play sport

watch live music

play computer games
go to the gym
watch TV

1.1 Listen to the phrases. Practise saying them aloud.

Read the results of the leisure time survey and answer the questions.
1 Where was the survey?
2 What is it about?

Task: Do a 60-second interview

World culture: tbc

KEY FACTS

LEISURE TIME SURVEY OF YOUNG

ADULTS IN THE UK
In our online poll, we asked 1,000 young adults aged between 16 and 24 How do you spend your free time?
Here are the results:

percent of young adults use the internet every day.

The most popular leisure activity is going to the cinema: 2

activity.
82 percent of people say they watch TV for more than 3
4
percent listen to the radio.
38 percent of young people watch live music, but only 5
Only 6

percent say it is their favourite evening

hours a week, but only
percent can play a musical instrument.

percent of young adults play sport. Football, swimming and cycling are the most popular sports.

3a

1.2 Listen to a radio news report about the results of the

survey. Before you listen, try to guess where the numbers in the
box go in the survey.
10

23

30

32

42

87

b Listen again and check your answers. Then work in pairs and
compare your answers.

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Jay and Tina both took part in the leisure time survey.
Complete what they say with the correct verbs from
exercise 1a.
JAY
My computer is very
important for me. Im a
student at Manchester
the
University, so I 1
internet a lot for my
studies and my friends
a lot of
and I 2
computer games. I dont
3
any sport. I 4
to evening classes twice
a week; its a course on Computer Skills. On other
out with friends we usually
nights, I 5
6
to the cinema.

5a

Work in pairs. Ask and answer questions using the

verbs in exercise 1a. Make a list of three activities
your partner does and three activities he/she
doesnt do.

Do you go to evening classes?

Yes, I do I study English!

Do you play a musical instrument?

No, I dont. How about you?

b Compare your ideas. What are the most popular

leisure activities? What other things do people do in
their free time?

TINA
Im a professional musician,
so music is my life! I
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to the radio nearly
all day mainly classical
TV,
or jazz. When I 8
its always a music channel.
to music
I even 9
to the
when I 10
the piano
gym! I 11
and the saxophone. And I
12
a lot of live music
in my free time.

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Leisure and sport 01

Grammar focus 1

1.3 Listen and check your answers. How many

questions did you answer correctly?

Revision of questions
1

Work in pairs. Look at the games in the photos and

discuss the questions.
Which are board games? Which are puzzles?
Which do children often play?
Which have the same name in your language?
Which of the games do you play? Which are your
favourites? Why?
Which of these do you usually prefer? Why?
word games (e.g. Scrabble)?
number games (e.g. Sudoku)?
games of strategy (e.g. chess)?
games of chance (e.g. Snakes and Ladders)?
What other games like these do you play?

Work in pairs. Read the games quiz and try to answer

as many questions as you can in five minutes. If you
dont know the answer, try to guess.

GRAMMAR
1

A
1 When do you play
football?
2 Who do you play
football with?
3 Where do you play
football?
4 Why do you play
football?

Look at the question words in bold in exercise 2.

Which question word(s) do we use to talk about:
1 a person? who
2 a place?
3 a thing?
/
4 a time?
5 the reason for doing something?
6 the way you do something?
7 a period of time?
8 the number of times you do something?
9 the class or type of thing?
10 the number of people or things?

B
1 How often do
you have English
lessons?
2 How long are the
lessons?
3 Which days do you
have lessons?
4 How many teachers
do you have?

Word order in questions

2

Put the words in the correct order to make questions.

1 good at / Is / James / playing chess ?
2 computer games / play / your friends / Do ?
3 start / the game / does / When ?

A FACT
!

C
1 What time is it?
2 What time does the
train leave?
3 What day is it?
4 What date is it
today?

The longest
recorded game of
Monopoly is 1,680
hours thats
70 days!

03 What are marbles usually made of?

08 What colour are the pieces on a backgammon

board normally?
09 Which two letters have the highest score in the
English version of Scrabble?
10 How many spots are there on a dice?
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I get up at six oclock in the week.

I go to the cinema once a month.
I come to school by bus.
My birthday is in August.
I play basketball
My favourite colour is blue.
There are five people in my family.
My journey to school takes about half an hour.
Id like to visit India and Australia.
I like rock and jazz.

a Two.
b Twice a week.
c Tuesdays and
Thursdays.
d 90 minutes.

a
b
c
d

16th May.
Monday.
Nearly three oclock.
Five forty-five.

1.4 Look at the list of questions in exercise 1.

Notice the words which are stressed (these are in
bold). Listen and practise the stressed words.

1.5 Listen and practise saying the complete

questions.

04 Where did the game Mah-jong originate?

07 How do you do a Sudoku puzzle?

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

a My friends from
college.
b On Sunday mornings.
c Because its fun and
its good exercise.
d In the local park.

02 Who starts in a game of chess: the black player or

the white player?

06 Why are there 52 cards in a normal pack?

What time do you get up at the weekend?

PRONUNCIATION

01 When was the first Mario Brothers computer game?

05 What kind of game is Snakes and Ladders?

Write the questions for the answers below.

I get up at seven oclock at the weekend.

Match questions 14 with answers ad in parts A, B

and C below.

Question words

'S
IT

GAMES
QUIZ

PRACTICE

Complete the questions.

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Where
you live?
Who do you live
?
How
do you drink coffee?
What
your favourite food?
When do
have lunch?
you watch TV a lot?
many pets have you got?
you speak French?
would you like to do this weekend?
What time
it now?

Work in pairs. Take turns to ask and answer the

questions in exercises 2 and 3.

What time do you get up at the weekend?

About seven oclock.
Seven oclock! Why do you get up so early?
Because I always go to the
gym before breakfast.

Unit 1, Study & Practice 1, page 138

How often do the World Dominoes Championships

take place?

12 How long does an average game of Monopoly last?

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Leisure and sport 01

Reading and vocabulary

Grammar focus 2

Sports and games

Present simple and frequency

phrases

Work in pairs and make a list of six

sports that are popular in your country.
Which sports do you play? Which ones
do you watch?

1 swims for at least five hours every day.

2 is a Goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, the
World Childrens Charity.
3 has 4 million followers on Twitter.
4 consumes 12,000 calories a day, and often
eats burgers and other fast food.
5 makes pop records.
6 gets up at 5 a.m. to go to the swimming
pool.
7 weighs 100 kg.
8 has the nickname The Fish.
9 lives in Los Angeles, California.
10 earns about $10 million a year.

Read the article and answer the questions.

Which sport:
1 is good for playing with friends?
2 can you play in a park?
3 do you do on your own?
4 is similar to dancing in some ways?
5 is likely to result in injuries?
6 can you play in many different countries?

3a

Complete the questions below with

one word.
1
2
3
4
5
6

s the name of the worlds bestselling computer game?

do you hit the ball when you play
Wii-tennis?
old is the game of golf?
How
Disc Golf courses are there in
the world?
is John Farnworth?
long did it take John Farnworth to
run the London Marathon?

b Work in pairs. Take turns to ask and answer

the questions using the phrases in the box.
by moving your arm and pressing a button
more than 1,000
hes a freestyle football champion
12 hours 15 minutes Wii Sports
250 years old

Look at the words in the box and put them

into three groups: things you need, verbs
and people.
ball
hit
team

racket
throw
kick

games console
winner
score

equipment
player
champion

Work in pairs and discuss.

Which of the three sports do you think is
the most difficult / least difficult? Why?
What other unusual sports do you know?

Work in pairs. Look at the photos of two

sports people and guess who:

Yu-na Kim, world champion ice-skater

from Bucheon, South Korea

NEW WAYS WITH OLD SPORTS

Can you play golf without a ball? Or tennis without
a tennis racket? These days the answer is Yes you
can. Here are some 21st century ways of playing
our favourite traditional sports.

Michael Phelps, world champion

swimmer from Baltimore, USA

1.6 Listen and check your answers.

Whose life do you think is more interesting?
Why?

GRAMMAR

Present simple
1

PRACTICE

Which of the following examples describes:

a habit?
something that is always true?

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

1 He trains for five to six hours every day.

2 She comes from Bucheon, South Korea.

1 WII SPORTS
Nintendos Wii Sports is the best-selling computer game of all time.
You can play tennis, baseball or golf, go bowling or do boxing. You dont
run around or get tired, however. You do everything by moving your arm
and pressing a button on your games console. Its also a good social
activity and many people organise gaming parties with their friends. But
there is a downside; at least ten people in the UK injure themselves
playing Wii Sports every week and have to go to hospital. There are also
hundreds of cases of broken furniture, broken windows and injured
pets! Some people call this new 21st century problem Wii-it-is.

Put each sentence into:

the question form
the negative form

Frequency phrases
3

Underline the phrases below which answer

the question How often ? Where in the
sentences do the phrases go?
1 He sometimes eats burgers and other
fast food.

2 DISC GOLF

2 She often gives money to charities.

The game of golf is more than 250 years old. But for the 21st century
version of the game, you dont need any expensive special equipment.
Players dont hit a ball; they throw a plastic disc towards the hole
which is actually a metal basket. The winner is the player who reaches
the hole with the lowest number of throws. More than half a million
people around the world now play the game. There are more than
1,000 disc golf courses in 40 countries many of them
in public parks. Its a great way to get exercise in the fresh air.

3 He does at least five hours of training

every day.

3 FREESTYLE FOOTBALL
In Freestyle football there are no teams, you dont kick the ball, and
you never score a goal. Freestyle footballers try to keep the ball in the
air using any part of their body. Some people describe it as a mixture
of breakdancing and football. Judges give points for ball control and
original moves. John Farnworth, from Lancashire in the north of
England, was the worlds first Freestyle champion: in 2011 he ran the
London Marathon (42 km) in 12 hours 15 minutes, keeping a ball in
the air all the way!

4 She has English classes three times a week.

4

Number these words from 1 (most often)

to 6 (least often).
sometimes often
always
never

usually

occasionally

Write the frequency phrases in brackets in the correct place

in the sentences.

2a

Michael sends messages on Twitter. (five or six times a day)

He swims for five or six hours. (every day)
He misses breakfast. (never)
He goes to fast food restaurants. (sometimes)
He goes to the swimming pool in the mornings. (always)
Yu-na works for childrens charities. (often)
She studies English. (three times a week)
She eats fast food. (never)
She skates for several hours. (every morning)
She sings in English. (occasionally)

Complete the sentences with a frequency phrase in the box

below to make them true for you.
always occasionally sometimes usually never
every day/week/month/year/two years, etc.
once/twice/three times a day/week/month/year

sometimes
I
watch TV in bed.
1 I go out with my friends.
2 I am late for school/work.
3 I play games on my phone.
4 I listen to the radio in the morning.
5 I go to the opera.
6 I watch TV in the afternoon.
7 I go to bed after midnight.

b Work in pairs and compare your answers.

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Task

Do a 60-second interview
Preparation Reading

Task Speaking

1a

Work in pairs and look at the photos. Do you know who the woman is?
Why do you think shes famous?

b Work in pairs and write five questions to find out more about Freida Pinto.
Where was she born? Is she an actress?

c Read the 60-second interview with Freida Pinto and find the answers to
your questions.

1.7 Listen to two students, Marek and Laura, doing a 60-second

interview. Tick the questions you hear in the Useful language box.
How many questions does Marek ask?

Then, spend some time preparing your answers to

the questions in the Useful language box. Look at the
answers in the Freida Pinto interview to help you and
ask your teacher for any words/phrases you need.

60-SECOND

interview with

Freida Pinto
Q1

Whats your full name?

Freida Pinto.

Q2

Have you got a nickname?

Fro.

Q3
Q4

Q6

Q7

Where do you live?

I live in three suitcases! I come from Mumbai and
sometimes I live there. But I also spend time in London
and New York, and lots of other places. Right now, I
dont mind moving around a lot.
What do you do in your free time?
I do yoga regularly and I read books. I dont do much
sport, but I have a lot of different hobbies! I like dancing,
especially Indian dance and Salsa. I cook different
kinds of food, especially Italian. Also, I collect boarding
passes! I travel by air a lot for work, and also with my
friends, so Ive got a lot of them now!

Where and when were you born?

On 18th October 1984, in Mumbai, India.

Are you scared of anything?

Im scared of water and I cant swim very well! I want to
learn to swim properly so I dont feel so scared.

Q9

Tell me about your family.

My mother, Sylvia, is a head teacher at a high school
and my father, Frederick, is a bank manager. Ive also
got an older sister, Sharon. She works for a TV news
company. Shes my best friend.

Whats your favourite possession?

Shoes! And my Chanel bandana bag!

Q10 Whats your favourite weather?

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Work in pairs and take turns to interview each other.

Make brief notes of the answers. Check the time at
the beginning of the interview and try to complete it
in exactly 60 seconds.

b Asking about interests and family

What do you (do in your free time)?
Have you got (a nickname / any pets / any
brothers and sisters)?
Are you (scared of anything / interested in
cooking)?
Who is your (favourite actor/singer/hero)?
What is your (favourite possession / favourite
weather)?
Tell me about your (family/hobbies).
c Asking about the future
What are (your ambitions for the future)?

interview with

Q8

What was your first acting job?

In 2008, I played Latika in the film Slumdog Millionaire.
I dont have any acting training so I did a three-month
acting course to prepare for the film. My other films
include Trishna, You will meet a tall dark stranger,
Miral, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Immortals.

> Useful language a, b and c

a Asking about basic personal information

Whats your (full name)?
When/Where (were you born)?
Where do you (live / work / go to school)?

60-SECOND

b Listen again and make a note of Lauras answers.

Q5

You are going to interview each other. First, decide on

12 questions you want to ask, using the Freida Pinto
interview and the Useful language box to help you.
You can also add questions of your own. Ask your
teacher for any words/phrases you need.

Work in pairs and answer the questions.

1 What is the most interesting thing you learnt from the interview?
2 Have you seen any of her films?
3 What do you have in common with Freida Pinto?

3a

USEFUL LANGUAGE

I like rain. I love the monsoon season in India when it

rains a lot!

Q11 Who is your favourite actor?

Ive got lots of favourite actors: Aamir Khan, Madhuri

Dixit, Nicole Kidman and Johnny Depp. And my
favourite singer is Sting.

Q1

Q7

Q2

Q8

Q3

Q9

Q4

Q10

Q5

Q11

Q6

Q12

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SHARE YOUR TASK

Practise your interview
questions until you feel
confident.
Film/Record yourself
interviewing your partner.
Share your film/recording
with other students.

Q12 What are your ambitions for the future?

I want to continue acting in films. I also want to open a

school for poor children in India.

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