hobbies and interests
.docxHOBBIES AND INTERESTS
The speakers in this unit discuss a range of their hobbies and interests.
Before you listen answer the questions:
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What are your hobbies and special interests?
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How would you describe them in a way that makes them sound interesting to a listener?
Recording 1
Voc.
Influence (n) on people or situation means to affect what they do or what happens;
Blog (n) is a website containing a diary or journal on a particular subject;
Make sense (phrase): if a course of action makes sense it seems sensible;
Ingredient (n): ingredients are the things that are used to make something, especially all the different food you use when you are cooking a particular dish.
In this recording Hannah, who was born in Australia but has lived in the UK for much of her life, talks about her passion for cooking and blogging.
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Read the general comprehension questions below. Then play the recording through once and answer each question.
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Who passed on a love of cooking to Hannah?
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Which countries have influenced the food she cooks?
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Why did she start writing a food blog?
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How does writing a blog make her feel?
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When does she find her blog particularly useful?
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Listen again and note down the dishes that Hannah likes to cook.
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Now listen again, stop the recording as necessary and complete the gaps in the sentences.
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We really like to …….. and have big meals.
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So whether it’s a big ……………. Or whether it’s tortilla from Spain.
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I get the best recipes that I cook and ………… there.
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We’d be sharing ……………. .
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Why not put it there, so that they can …………….. it themselves?
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Complete the phrases on the left by matching them with phrases from the right.
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Recording 2
Voc
Cockerel is a young male chicken.
In this recording, Alex talks about keeping pets. Alex lives in the countryside, just outside London. Try to predict the types of animals he keeps.
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Play the recording once. Are these statements true or false? If the statement is false, correct it.
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Alex’s family keeps chickens at the bottom of the garden.
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His children enjoy collecting the eggs.
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His neighbours don’t seem to enjoy being waken up by the cockerel.
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He has definitely decided to get red of the cockerel.
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His parents do not keep chickens.
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Now listen again. Complete the phrases, which express Alex’s uncertainty about keeping a cockerel.
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Summer is probably ……………………….. to get a cockerel.
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The cockerel’s …………………. Everybody that he’s up.
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We …………………… ask the neighbours if it was going to be a problem.
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I think they had slightly .................................. when they said that