LEISURE

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 479.

Introducing People (formal, informal)

– Hello, John.

– Hi, Linda. Linda, this is Mary. She's my friend from Saint-Petersburg.

– Hello, Mary. Nice to meet you.

– Hello, Linda. Nice to meet you too.

– Hello. Come in.

– Mom, this is Kate. She is my groupmate.

– How do you do, Mrs Mason?

– How do you do? Kate. Pleased to meet you.

– Pleased to meet you too.

1.17 Use the words from the word bank and talk about your free time.

Do you have free time? When? How do you like to spend it? Do you prefer spending your free time alone or with anybody else? Have you got any hobby? Is it collecting things, doing things, designing things, learning things? What is your favourite activity?

Word bank. Hobbies: have yoga classes, read books; activities: go rock climbing/for a walk/for a ride/clubbing/ skiing/dancing/skateboarding

/shopping; chat on the phone, watch a film, have a coffee, surf the Net, stay at home.

1.18 Chris and Rose have recently started going out together and are trying to decide what to do in the evening. Complete their conversation with the words in bold.

a) watching, b) play, c) listen, d) go out, e) clubbing, f) dance

CHRIS: So, what shall we do tonight?

ROSE: Let's go ___ (1)! I feel like a dance.

CHRIS: Oh, no …I can't stand all that noise. Can't we just stay at home and ___ (2) chess?

ROSE: You must be joking!

CHRIS: Well, actually, yes, it is… But if you don't like it, we can do something else.

ROSE: Like what?

CHRIS: How about___ (3) a good film on DVD?

ROSE: You really don't want to ___ (4) at all, do you Chris? What are you, sixty years old or something?

CHRIS: We could ___ (5) to some music later… we could___ (6) on our own, just the two of us. What do you think of that, Rosie?

ROSE: Oh, OK, then. Maybe you can be romantic after all. But no chess, right?