Interests and Leisure
Interests and Leisure
Talk about – rozprávajte o:
- Leisure activities in
general – aktivity na voľný čas
- My free time – môj voľný čas
- After-school activities at our school – mimoškolské aktivity na našej škole
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Men’s and women’s hobbies – mužské a ženské záľuby
1. Leisure activities in general
We can spend our leisure time:
a) Actively – doing
sport, working in the garden …
b) Passively – watching TV, reading a book, playing computer games…
IN SUMMER:
In summer we can do these leisure activities:
- gardening /práca v
záhrade/ - people grow fruit, vegetables, cut the grass …
- do summer sports – cycling /bicyklovanie/,
swimming, playing tennis, golf, football…
- go out with friends /ísť von s priateľmi/ - we can go to a musical
concert, to the cinema, to the theatre, to the pub for a beer
- go to the nature /ísť do prírody/ - go hiking
/ísť na turistiku/, go for a walk in the forest /ísť na prechádzku do lesa/, rock climbing / horolezectvo/, to pick mushrooms /zbierať
huby/
- go to the ZOO
IN WINTER:
In winter we can do these leisure
activities:
- do winter sports – we can go skiing, snowboarding, skating /korčuľovať sa/, we can play ice-hockey
at the pond
- go to the fitness centre
- collect objects /zbierať predmety/ - for
example: collect stamps /zbierať známky/
- play a musical instrument – hrať na hudobnom nástroji /play guitar, a
piano, a violin = husle/
- men can do DIY projects /muži môžu robiť práce pre domácich majstrov/ - they can do
practical jobs around the house – for example decorating, repairing…
- some people can have cooking and baking
/pečenie/ as their hobby
- meet with friends in a pub, in a cafe
- go to
the cinema, theatre, to an art exhibition
- education – we can study languages, computers…
-
spend our leisure time passively – we can:
- watch TV, read books
- play computer games
-
do crosswords – lúštiť krížovky
Young people like these hobbies:
- playing
team sports
- going to the disco, pub, parties, cinema
- doing sport – roller-skating /korčuľovanie na kolieskových
korčuliach/, skateboarding
- playing computer games
Some people join a group to practice their hobby – for example
folk dancing /ľudové tance/, choir singing /spievanie v zbore/ and so on.
2. My free
time
I spend most of my free time actively. In summer I like …………………. /playing football, dancing…/. In winter
I like ………………. /skiing, snowboarding…/. Sometimes when I am tired I spend my free time passively – for example I ……………. /do
crosswords, read a book, watch TV…/. Moreover, in winter when I come home from school and I can’t go skiing because it’s too late or because
there is no snow, I meet with my friends in a pub and we chat and have a good time, or we go to the cinema.
I prefer summer because we have a 2
months’ holiday and therefore we have a lot of time. I can go ………………… /swimming, sunbathing, meet with friends…/
3. After-school activities at our school
Our school offers many after school activities:
- We
can join a computer group – the Internet is available at our school
- We can join a tourist group – we can go
hiking in summer or go skiing in winter
- We can use the gym and the school’s sports ground - we can play football,
volleyball and other ball games
- There is also a fitness group available at our school – we can train bodybuilding and we
can be fit and have strong muscles.
- If we want to become better at languages, we can attend free English and German
lessons as an after-school activity.
I like to take part in the after-school activities at our school sometimes – I like
playing football and volleyball with my schoolmates after school. I never took part in the language lessons because I don’t like languages. I also
attended ……………………/computer group, fitness group…/.
4. Men’s and women’s
hobbies
Usually women have less time for their hobbies than men because they have to look after children and do household
work. They must do cleaning, ironing, cooking /because cooking is not always a hobby, but sometimes it is a duty = povinnosť/.
Most hobbies
can be practiced by both men and also women – for example doing sport, gardening, reading books, watching TV an so on.
Some hobbies are
considered typical for men and other hobbies are typical for women:
MEN’S HOBBIES:
-
playing football, hockey
- DIY /Do It Yourself/ - práce pre domácich majstrov /urob si sám/
-
bodybuilding – kulturistika
- driving cars – šoférovanie aút
- riding
motorbikes – jazdenie na motorkách
- going to the pub
WOMEN’S
HOBBIES:
- knitting – štrikovanie
- cooking – varenie
- baking
– pečenie
- going out for a coffee – ísť von na kávu
- gossiping – klebetenie
- aerobics
Vocabulary:
leisure activities – activity na
voľný čas
in general – vo všeobecnosti
spend leisure time – tráviť voľný čas
grow fruit – pestovať ovocie
cut the grass – kosiť trávu
go to the pub for a
beer – ísť do krčmy na pivo
pond – rybník
do practical jobs around the house – robiť
praktické práce okolo domu
decorating – maľovanie
repairing - opravovanie
as a hobby
– ako koníček, záľubu
a cafe – kaviareň
theatre – divadlo
an art
exhibition – umelecká výstava
education – vzdelávanie
language – jazyk
like – mať rád
join a group – pripojiť sa k nejakej skupine, navštevovať skupinu
to
practice a hobby – robiť, vykonávať záľubu
most of my free time – väčšina môjho voľného času
tired – unavený
moreover – ďalej, ešte k tomu
too late – príliš neskoro
chat – diskutovať, kecať, neformálne sa rozprávať
prefer – uprednostňovať
therefore – preto
offer – ponúkať
many – veľa, mnoho
join a
computer group – pripojiť sa, navštevovať počítačovú skupinu /krúžok/
group – skupina, tu: krúžok
available – k dispozícii
the gym – telocvičňa
sports ground – športové
ihrisko
ball games – loptové hry
have strong muscles – mať silné svaly
if we
want to become better at languages – ak sa chceme stať lepšími v jazykoch
attend – navštevovať
take part – zúčastniť sa
less time – menej času
they have to look after
children – musia sa starať o deti
do household work – robiť domáce práce
ironing –
žehlenie
both – obidvaja
are considered – sú považované
Zones.sk – Zóny pre každého študenta