English at Leisure

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English at Leisure
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Unit 5

• Home Entertainment

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• What do you usually do at home to kill time?
• Whats your hobby/pastime/interest?

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Common Forms of Home Entertainment

• Watching TV
• Watching Dvd/vcd at home
• Listening to music
• Playing cards
• Practicing Chinese calligraphy
• Chatting
• Reading

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• Playing video/computer games
• Surfing/chatting on internet
• Needlework and knitting
• Cooking
• Doing cross-word puzzleskeeping pets
• Keeping house-plants

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• I like doing/ noun
• I love doing /noun...
• I prefer doing/noun
• I enjoy doing /noun
• Im always happy (with) doing/noun
• I spend most of my free time (on)

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Expressing likes and dislikes

• There are some commonly used sentences for
  asking the others likes or dislikes
• Do you like ?
• What do you think of ?
• How do you like ?
• Are you crazy about ?
• Are you keen on ?
• Do you care for ?
• Who/whats your favorite ?
• I like very much, and what about you?

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There are some commonly used sentences for
answering

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• Yes, Im crazy about
• Im a real fan of
• I have a fancy for
• I guess I like more.
• I prefer to
• I love/enjoy

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• No, I dont like it at all.
• No, Im afraid I cant bear/stand it.
• It makes my stomach turn.
• I really hate
• Its not my cup of tea.
• Its not to my taste.

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Tip

• It is strongly recommended that listening
  exercises can always come beforehand, for the
  truth of the following principles
• One has to be a good listener before he is a good
  speaker.
• No input, no output.

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• Work on the dialogue on Page 201
• Ways to ask someones hobby at home
• How do you spend your free time?
• What do you do in your spare time?
• Do you have any particular hobbies?
• What sort of things do you like doing when you
  are at home?
• How do you amuse yourself when you are at home?
• What do you do at home when you have sometime to
  yourself at home?
• How do you entertain yourself at home?

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Some useful sentence patternsexpressions

• 1. I never feel like doing anything energetic.
• 2. All you have to do is to press a button or
  flick a switch.
• 3. I think TV is a wonderful invention.
• 4. I find reading so relaxing and such an
  independent activity.

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• 5. Its so addictive (that) I never do anything
  else at home these days.
• 6. It makes a great change from all the mental
  activity I have to do at work.
• 7. I have music in the background all the time.
• 8. I suppose you could say its a perfect hobby
  useful and money saving!

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How to interpret a diagram?

• From the survey diagram, we can easily find out
  that
• Over the years, has changed a lot.
• It is shown that remains stable during the
  years.
• The number of has increased/risen while has
  declined/fallen/decreased.

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Working on numbers

• From the most to the fewest
• All, nearly all, most, many, quite a lot, some,
  not many, a few, very few, no

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Making Comparison Useful expressions to show
differences

• In contrast to A, B is.
• In spite of their similarities/differences.
• A is not exactly/entirely/quite/the same as B in
• that.
• A is totally different from B.
• A and B are different/dissimilar in every
• respect/in may ways.
• On the one hand, A, while on the other, B.
• A, whereas B.
• A, but the same cannot be applied to B.

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Useful expressions to show similarities

• A and B are similar in.
• A and B have striking similarities.
• A and B seem to have much in common/some
• common features.
• A comparison between A and B
• suggests/shows/proves that.
• A, and the same is true of B.
• A bears some resemblances to B.

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• Work on Task 7 on page 210

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Work on TV programs

• Go to page 212 and then to page 214
• TV series, TV serial

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Asking about a film

• Whats on tonight?
• What sort of film is it?
• Whats it based on?
• Whats it about?
• Whos in it?
• Which channel is it on?
• Whos the director?

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How to describe a film?

• The King and I is a gentle, sentimental film with
  lots of old songs. It stars Deborah Kerr and Yul
  Brynner.
• Kindergarten Cop is a fantastic, funny and
  exciting film with a bit of everything. It stars
  Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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How to persuade someone?

• Im sure you would love it/ like it/enjoy it.
• Why dont you give it a try? I promise you would
  fall in love with it.
• Come on! Lets watch that
• O, please, lets
• You wont want to, I promise you.

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Working on meanings

• Boxing day,
• A couch potato,
• A tear-jerker,
• A spoilsport,
• Clash,
• Switch over,
• Lay money on sth,
• Give in to sb

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Working with words

• Page 232, task 4

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Assignment

• 1. Write a summary of a TV serial and be ready to
  present it to the class next time
• 2. Review the whole unit
• 3. Prepare unit 6