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• He likes fishing, singing ,travelling and playing table tennis in his spare time .

Unit 4

• How do you spend your spare time?

Teaching aims:

• 1. Train the ability of speaking.

• 2. Master some useful expressions from the dialogues.

• 3. Try to use some sentences in our daily life.

Words and Expressions

1.业余爱好 _____ 2.社团，俱乐部 ______3. 放松 ____

4. 防守；防御 _____5. 在某人的空余时间 _____

6. 与……分享 _____7. 几乎从不 ____

8. 一个朋友的家 ____

hobby

club

relaxdefense

in one’s spare time

share…withhardly ever

a friend’s

Warm-up Read the activities in the box. Then match

them with the correct pictures.

singing playing chess outing playing games

taking photos doing sports cooking dancing

Task Which of the activities

above do you like best? What other activities do you enjoy? Discuss your favorite activities with a

partner.

Example

A:I like singing. What about you?

B: I like singing too. And I also like taking photos.

Speaking

What is your Part A

Task2Read the dialogue and then underline the questions about hobbies in it.

Useful Expressions Asking about Hobbies

What do you do in your spare time?

What’s your hobby?

What are you good at?

Can you play …

What kind of things do you do to relax?

Possible Reponses

In my spare time, I like to…

I have many different hobbies.

I don’t have a lot of hobbies .

I’m good at…

Yes, I can play…

I play … to relax myself.

Pair work

Task 3

Use the expressions you’ve learned to talk about hobbies with your partner. Then complete the chart With the information you get.

Your partner’s hobbies How long has he/she been interested in it?

Work in pairs and complete the conversation below.

• You and your friend are talking about hobbies.

• You: What do you do in your spare time ?• Friend: .• You: How long have you been doing that?• Friend: Since . What about

you? What do you like to do?• You: .• Friend: I can too, but I’m not

as good as you.

I like to play the violin

I was six years old

I like to play table tennis

do that

Part BA nice weekend

Task 4Ask two classmates about their spare-time activities: what do they do for fun and how often do they do them? Then complete the chart and share your answers withthe class.

Time Expression Classmate1 Classmate2

Every day

Once a week

Once a month

Hardly ever

How do they spend their spare time? (Talk about your family.)

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Homework

Master the expressionsand try to make use of

them.

Thank you!