Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Hobby brainstorm
a) Aims
Ss activate prior knowledge of hobbies and recall the vocabulary gardening, collect, model, creative, patient and hobby.
b) Content
T shows pictures of people gardening, collecting stamps, making models and painting. T asks: 'What do these people do? Do you have a hobby? What is it?' Ss brainstorm more hobbies in pairs in one minute.
c) Expected outcomes
A list on the board of at least five hobbies, for example: gardening, collecting stamps, making models, painting, cooking, playing chess. Ss use the new words correctly in one sentence each: 'I like gardening because it is relaxing.'
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T shows four pictures and asks: 'What are the people doing? Is it a hobby?' T introduces the lesson topic: Skills 2, Hobbies.
Students
Ss look at the pictures and listen to the question.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T asks Ss to work in pairs and write as many hobbies as they can in one minute. T walks around and helps with vocabulary.
Students
Pairs brainstorm hobbies and write them in their notebooks. Possible answers: 'swimming', 'reading comics', 'collecting postcards', 'playing football'.
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T asks: 'Which hobby is the most creative? Which hobby needs patience?' T writes the answers on the board.
Students
Some pairs share their lists. Possible answer: 'Making models is creative because we make things with our hands.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T praises the ideas and writes the key words on the board: hobby, collect, model, creative, patient. T says: 'Today we will listen to a talk about a hobby and then write about our own hobby.'
Students
Ss copy the key words into their notebooks and repeat them after T.