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In this task, you are going to describe how people could spend their free time.
Pre-task:
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INDOORS OUTDOORS
ACTIVITIES ACTIVITIES
3. Discuss the following questions in pairs and then share your ideas with the class.
a. What indoors activities do you usually do?
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e. Are your parents agree or disagree when you do outdoors activities? Who do you do
with?
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During Task
4. Look at Abediemi’s video then do activities
A- Answer the question.
QUESTIONS
7. Practice more at home! For some more explanation and practice on the
present continuous tense visit the following links.
http://www.agendaweb.org/verbs/present_continuous-exercises.html
http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentContinuous1F.html
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-continuous-exercise- 6.html
Post Task
8. Role playing (groups of 3 people). Here’s the transcript for the conversation in
exercise 4, it will be the model for your own conversation. You will have to
change the actions, feel free to ask your teacher for vocabulary or look it up in
the dictionary. Act it out in front of your classmates and teacher.
Transcript:
My name is Abiedemi and I'm Nigerian. The question is do you have a hobby?
Yes, I have many things that I like doing when I have free time. I like reading
and dancing especially. I like reading historical fiction because the transport
me to a different time period and I feel like I am living like those people. I love
listening to music and dancing because dancing is great exercise for my body
and I also feel great after dancing.
Extreme Ironing
What activities are sports? Running and football? Sure.
Synchronized swimming? Probably. Ballroom dancing?
Maybe. Playing cards? Probably not. Gardening? Definitely
not. Most people believe that sports must combine
physical activity and competition. If we use this definition,
then extreme ironing is a sport.
What is extreme ironing? Extreme ironing is pressing clothes in very difficult places.
Ironists must carry their irons, ironing boards, and wrinkled laundry with them to the
competition site. Some ironists take electric generators. Others heat their irons on gas
stoves. The competitors get more points for the difficulty of the location. However, the
quality of the ironing is important, too. Each item must be well pressed.
Extreme ironists compete in some amazing places. Contestants iron while they are
climbing rocks, climbing mountains, and climbing trees. They iron in canoes, on the
backs of cows, and even underwater. One team ironed while on a kayak in the Atlantic
Ocean.
This sport is not a joke. Teams from 30 countries competed in the first world
championships in Germany in 2002. Phil Shaw is the inventor of extreme ironing. He says
that there are about 1,500 ironists worldwide. Some teams have corporate sponsors.
The German corporation Rowenta, an iron maker, pays for Shaw's team. The goal of
extreme ironists is to have their sport included in the Olympics. Maybe then they can
start using their real names. At the moment, contestants use names such as Steam, Cool
Silk, and Iron Man. Why? Shaw admits, "Most competitors don't want people to know
that they are ironists."
A- Read the statements and write true (T) or false (F).