Vocabulary: Family members

Match the family members with their meanings

a) husband and wife

b) a son of your sister or brother, or a son of the sister or brother of your husband or wife
c) A person’s brother or sister of the same parents
d) grandfather’s father
e) the son of a person’s son or daughter
f) a member of your family, especially one who does not live with you,
g) a daughter of your brother or sister, or a daughter of your husband’s or wife’s brother or
sister
h) one of the two children who are born to the same mother at the same time
i) If a child does not have siblings

1 Sibling 2 Grandson 3 married couple 4 Relative

5 Nephew 6 Niece 7 Great grandfather 8 Only child 9 Twin

Same exercise
j) the mother of your spouse

k) a child of your husband or wife by an earlier marriage

l) a child who does not have parents

m) the woman who is married to your father but who is not your real mother

n) a person who is between 13 and 19 years old

o) a brother who has either the same mother or the same father as you
p) a mother or father who has adopted a child

q) the woman who is married to your son

10 Adoptive parent 11 Mother-in-law 12 Daughter-in-law

13 Stepmother 14 Stepchild 15 Half-brother 16 Orphan
17 Teenager:
Talking about your hobbies
People often use the word ‘interests’ to replace hobbies.

 I enjoy drawing
 I enjoy hiking
 I am into website design
 I’m interested in local history

Put these words/phrases in the correct category.

Social activities :

Creative activities :

Indoor activities :

Outdoor activities :

Painting board games Fishing cooking

gardening drawing Crafting Writing stories / poetry

Collecting antiques / coins Chilling with friends Knitting

Working out Traveling Volunteering hiking

website design diving chess lie down and meditate

Asking about interests / hobbies

What do you like doing?

What sort of hobbies do you have?
What do you get up to in your free time?

what do you like to do for fun?

 How to reply

When I have some spare time,

I enjoy being physically active, and spend a lot of time playing sports and team games.

I started ……… when …….

I have been learning ………….

I decided to …………..

My best friend got me into ……..

I have been trying to …..

More advanced expressions:

I’m interested in + noun / gerund

I’m keen on + noun / gerund

1. When I was young, I was really into my stamp collection. I took it really seriously.

2. Many people got into cooking during the lockdown and learnt how to make bread.

3. After enjoying taking photographs for a few years, I’ve decided to take up photography
as a serious hobby.

4. I’ve decided to sign up for / subscribe to a gym membership to prepare for my cycling
season.

Saying when you started doing it

How long have you …………….?

 I’ve always loved traveling since I was very young, so I try to travel somewhere at least once a
month
 I started playing soccer in middle school and I haven’t stopped since then.
 creative fascinating practical
cheap unusual interesting
fun relaxing quiet
harmless lifelong enjoyable
passionate intellectual exciting
useful satisfying artistic

NEGATIVE ADJECTIVES

amateur odd tiring lucrative

boring dangerous time-consuming unsociable

Ex: Read these descriptions about some people’s interests and complete them
with the corresponding hobby.

1 For fun, I like _____________. I’ve always liked to do since I took an art class in school. I like
to work cartoon characters. Sometimes I sell my art if it’s good enough. I don’t like to be outdoors
too much because it’s too much work. I like to stay indoors.

2 I really believe that ____________can help you live a long and healthy life. As we get older
we need to have more strength to do daily things in our life.

3 Once or twice a month, I go to different areas of the city and look for interesting pictures to
take. I’ve been interested in _________________since I was young, when my dad bought me a
camera for my birthday. I like it because I can express myself through pictures. Anyone can take
up this hobby, but you need to use your imagination to find interesting shots.

4 As far as I’m concerned, doing ____________ is a very rewarding and satisfying hobby. I have
made some really beautiful chairs and a bookcase for our home. Whether you’re planning to create
furniture for your home or starting a business out of it, learning the basics about woodworking is
crucial. So I never stop learning!

5 __________________ is a fun and addictive hobby that explores history, geography, art and
politics. It is a great hobby to encourage you to get in touch with people to share and exchange
your collections. It’s an activity away from technology that can connect children to the older
generation, who may have also collected when they were younger. On the other hand, it is a very
difficult type of hobby as it requires a lot of patience.

6 What I love about hand-building __________________is that it feels like sculpting. Your hands
are your main tools, and you use a variety of techniques to build your pots with your hands. I
sometimes get frustrated with my efforts. I look at the results and think it looks terrible, but then I
remind myself that I am still learning.

Ex: Read the descriptions again. What adjective (s) best describes each hobby

1 unusual intellectual lucrative other

2 quiet useful exciting other
3 creative cheap lifelong other
4 fascinating harmless lifelong other
5 relaxing time-consuming unsociable other
6 practical relaxing artistic other

talk about hobbies at length.

Work on the example below and complete the information

What – …………………………………………
Where – …………………………………………
When – …………………………………………
Who with– …………………………………………
How often – …………………………………………
Why – …………………………………………

I like to paint in my free time. I can’t paint in the house because my parents say it is too messy,
all the paint and oil, so I use the shed in our garden. I can sit in there and no one disturbs me. I
usually like to paint whenever I have some spare time. I like painting because I can just lose
myself in it, I just get lost in the moment and forget time completely. It is very relaxing and time
just flies by very quickly. I like to spend time on my own and paint. I like to be able to think and
be quiet. I like to be on my own and think. I try to paint whenever I can but I have exams coming
up so I don’t have as much free time any more. But after my exams, I will probably get back into
it.

Talking about hobbies at length.

To talk about the hobby in detail:

say why you like it — you should try to give three reasons if you can

But also do the following:

Describe your feelings about the interest — how do you feel when you do it?
Describe your opinions about it — the more opinions you have the better
And to tell a story about it

example.

I am an avid reader and every weekend you can find me with my nose in a book. There is nothing
I like better than curling up with a good book in my favourite armchair and losing myself in
whatever world the book is set in.
I love reading because I can enter other worlds and meet all these amazing characters. I love
seeing all of the scenes play out in my imagination.
Saying why you like your hobby

You can also explain why you spend time on your hobby to make the conversation longer and
more interesting.

“I really enjoy going to the gym because…………….”

weight lifting is good exercise

…it keeps me fit.

…it gets me out of the house, you know!
…it’s sociable. I’ve met lots of new people.

Staying indoors all day is considered an unhealthy thing to do.

These are some USEFUL POSITIVE ADJECTIVES to describe your interest or hobby:

creative fascinating practical

cheap unusual interesting
fun relaxing quiet
harmless lifelong enjoyable
passionate intellectual exciting
useful satisfying artistic

NEGATIVE ADJECTIVES

amateur odd tiring lucrative

boring dangerous time-consuming

Describe POSITIVE /NEGATIVE Feelings About the Hobby

Angry happy scared surprised

 Shy cold tired depressed

Confident cautious bored worried

Frustrated sad embarrassed Satisfied

Patient lonely comfortable Exhausted

Describe Opinions About the Hobby

Here are some useful phrases you can use to describe your opinion about your interest.

In my opinion… In my experience…

I believe that… I am certain/convinced that…

Personally speaking… In my experience…

I have the feeling that… I am not sure/certain, but…

It goes without saying that… Personally, I think…

I don’t know about other people, but I think… I have no doubt that …

I am sure / I am certain that… I really believe that…

In my point of view… As far as I know…

As far as I am concerned… Some people say…

Talk about your interests is to tell a story about them.

Examples:
1 Two weeks ago I was doing my morning run. I got to this hill that I usually walk up
because I feel too tired at that point to continue running. But I really surprised myself by
running right to the top. I felt really proud of myself.

2 I love cooking but it’s really good if I can cook for a lot of people. I had the opportunity
to do this when I invited a lot of my friends to my home for dinner. I made several dishes,
and they said everything was really delicious. I was so happy to see them all eat everything.