Play, do, go

1 Play is often used with sports that are team games, or where we play with another person.	to play basketball/ football/volleyball
2 Go and do are often used for things done outside, and which we can do alone. Go is usually used with the sports ending in –ing.	to go jogging /skiing/ swimming to do aerobics/gymnastics

21 Complete the text using go, play or do.

My family is very keen on sport. We watch a lot of sport on TV and most mornings I (1) … jogging. On Saturday mornings my brothers (2) … football and I (3) … gymnastics. My mother and I (4) … aerobics every week and my mother and father (5) … golf at the week-end. In winter we (6) …skiing and in the summer holidays we (7) … tennis, and (8) … swimming and water-skiing.

22 Now listen to some people talking about the sports they do. Number the sports in order.

 Aerobics   Gymnastic 

 Basketball   Jogging 

 Cricket   Skiing 

 Football   Swimming 

 Golf   Tennis 

 Volley-ball 

23 Choose sports to match these verbs.

Like, be keen on, enjoy, don’t mind, love, be fond of,

BE CRAZY ABOUT, DISLIKE, HATE + Ving

1 After like, hate, enjoy, dislike, don’t mind, be keen on we can use the –ing form of the verb ( gerund or verbal noun)	 Amy likes playing basketball.  Jack doesn’t enjoy jogging in the mornings.  I’m not very keen on watching football.  She doesn’t mind doing aerobics.
2 Like, don’t like, be crazy about and other similar expressions can also be followed by a noun.	 He likes football.  I don’t like basketball.  She is crazy about windsurfing.

But we say:

Playing chess is interesting. - I’m interested in windsurfing.

24 How do you feel about sport? Write five true sentences about yourself and five true sentences about another student. Use the verbs like, hate, enjoy, dislike, don’t mind, be crazy about, be keen on.

Me My partner

Example: I’m not very keen on jogging. Jo doesn’t like basketball.

		1
		2
		3
		4
		5

25 Work in groups. Use the adjectives in the box to talk about the activities you are (not) interested in.

  

boring easy fun exciting tiring relaxing cheap dangerous awful difficult

Example: I think swimming is boring. I’m interested in tennis.

26 Match the words and the pictures. Tick  the things that you like doing.

1	Playing football			Sailing
	Dancing			Listening to music
	Skiing			Swimming
	Watching TV			Reading
	Going to the gym			Eating in restaurants
	Taking photographs			Going to the cinema
	Cooking			Jogging
	Playing computer games			Sunbathing

27 What do you feel about following activities? Use the words from the box.

Computing Listening to music Watching TV Doing aerobics Dancing Fishing Going in for sports Collecting things Reading books Playing football Making friends

1 I really enjoy __________________________________. 2 I’m interested in _______________________________ . 3 I’m fond of ___________________________________ . 4 I don’t much like ______________________________ . 5 I don’t like ________________________________ at all. 6 I hate _______________________________________ . 7 I don’t mind __________________________________ . 8 I’m crazy about _______________________________ . 9 I dislike _____________________________________ .