INTERMEDIATE. LEISURE. PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF LEISURE TIME.

 PRESENT AND PAST OF LEISURE

Listen to 8 speakers answering the following three questions:

• How do you define leisure?
• What did you do for fun as a child?
•  How do you spend your free time?

 It will take 6.40 min. 

Some of them speak emotionally, some stay reserved, but anyway all they say is personal and beautiful, telling us stories. 

So, Listen to the answers, make e-notes in the table below (copy the table), try to hear all the activities they mention, get ready to answer the teacher's questions at the meeting (lesson). 

How do the speakers define leisure? 1.       __________________________________________________________________  2.       _________________________________________ 3.       _________________________________________ 4.       _________________________________________ 5.     __________________________________________________________________   6.       _________________________________________ 7.       _________________________________________ 8.       __________________________________________________________________

What did speakers do for fun as a  child? 1.       _____________________________________________________________________  2.       ___________________________________________ 3.      _____________________________________________________________________  4.     _____________________________________________________________________   5.     _____________________________________________________________________   6.     _____________________________________________________________________   7.     _____________________________________________________________________   8.      _____________________________________________________________________

How do the speakers spend their free time now?    1.        ____________________________________________ 2.        ____________________________________________ 3.        ____________________________________________ 4.        ____________________________________________ 5.        ____________________________________________ 6.        ____________________________________________ 7.       _______________________________________________________________________  8. ___________________________________________ .

THE VIDEO IS HERE. 

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Answer the three questions by yourself. 
Prepare a 45 second speech about free time according to the structure:

- How you understand what leisure is,
- What you do when you have free time,
- How it is different from the leisure activities of your friends and your parents (the older generation of your family).


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Get ready to a discussion in the class about free time, 
Think over the answers to the following questions:

• What is leisure in your country?
• What is the difference between leisure activities in your country now and 10 years ago? 
• How has the leisure changed? What are advantages and disadvantages of new activities? 

Find the information in the Internet or ask the older people about it.

 

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Here is a bonus, some TED VIDEO, "THE FUTURE OF LEISURE TIME". 

WATCH it and answer the teacher's questions.  

HAVE A GREAT TIME LISTENING, PREPARING AND THINKING!