unit 13 hobbies part A reading

Swimming
Fishing Reading book
Playing football

Playing chess
Watching T.V
Listening
music
Playing guitar
Walking
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Hoa Binh, March, 2013
shing
Playing chess
swimming
Collecting stamps
Keeping fish
Playing the guitar
guitarist
Collector(n) nhà sưu tầm
Words and phrases Definitions
1.Accomplished (adj)
1.Accomplished (adj)
2.Accompanying
2.Accompanying
(gerund)
(gerund)
3.Modest (adj)

3.Modest (adj)
4. Avid (adj)
4. Avid (adj)
5. Discarded (adj)
5. Discarded (adj)
6. Indulge in (v)
6. Indulge in (v)
7.Keep me occupied
7.Keep me occupied
a. keep me busy
a. keep me busy
b. Thrown away
b. Thrown away
c. Well-trained
c. Well-trained
d. Going with a singer
d. Going with a singer
e. Let yourself do sth that
e. Let yourself do sth that
you enjoy
you enjoy
f.
f. extremely eager or
interested in
g. Not very big
g. Not very big
Key: 1-c 2-d 3-g 4-f 5-b 6-e 7-a
Task 1.Match the words and phrases with their definitions

While you read

I also indulge in swimming and shing
(to) indulge in: say sưa ,đam mê
Fish tank (n) bể cá
They keep me occupied.
Keep Sb occupied = keep Sb busy : làm ai bận rộn

•
1. accomplished (a):
•
2. accompany (v):
•
3. modest (a):
•
4. avid (adj) :
•
5. discarded (a):
•
6. indulge in (v):
•
7. keep sb occupied:
đệm đàn
khiêm tốn
khao khát, thèm muốn
vứt bỏ
say mê,say sưa
làm bận rộn
có tài
- to be able to + V-infinitive
- Ex: She is able to sing this
song well.

= She can sing this song
well.
- to be good at + N/V-ing
Ex: She is good at English.
She is good at learning
English.
HOBBIES THAT THE WRITER HAS
TALKED ABOUT ARE
Playing
guitar
Keeping
fish
Keeping
stamps
Task 2: Answer the ques0ons:
1. Is the writer an accomplished guitarist?
2. Why does the writer admire his uncle?
3. How did he collect his fish?
4. Where does he collect the stamps?
5. Which does the writer get more of, local stamps or foreign stamps?
6. What does the writer do with the less common stamps and with the
common ones?
No, he isn’t.
Because he is an accomplished guitarist and he’s very good at
accompanying people singing with his guitar.
He bought some from the shop and collected some from the rice
field near his house.
He collects the stamps from discarded envelopes that his
relatives and friends give him.
He gets more local stamps.

He keeps the less common stamps inside a small album. The common
ones he usually gives away to others or if no one wants them he simply
throws them away.
(p.2, lines 1-2)
(p.2, lines 1,2 and 5-6)
(p.3, lines 2-4)
(p.4, lines 2-3)
(p.4, lines 3)
(p.4, lines 5-7)
Task 3:
Fill in the blank with one suitable word or phrase.
The writer has three (1) _______ in the passage. The first
hobby is playing (2) _______. His (3) _______ taught him
how to play it. The second hobby is keeping (4) _______.
He collected them from the (5) _______ or (6) _______
them from the shop. The third one is keeping (7) _______.
He collects them from the (8) _______ envelopes. He isn't
an (9) _______ stamp – collector. All of his hobbies keep
him (10) _______.
hobbies
the guitar uncle
fish
rice field bought
stamps
discarded
avid
occupied

Decide whether the following statements are true(T)
Decide whether the following statements are true(T)
or false(F). Correct the false information.
or false(F). Correct the false information.
1. The writer’s father taught him how
to play the guitar.
2. The writer admires his uncle very
much.
3. The writer’s mother doesn’t love
watching fish.
4. The hobbies really keep the writer
busy.
5. The writer has 3 hobbies.
T F