UNIT 1: MY HOBBIES
I. PHONETICS:
Find the words which has different sound in the part underlined.
1.
A. game
B. arrange
C. skate
D. cake
2.
A. hobby
B. doll
C. collect
D. over
3.
A. difficult
B. unusual
C. uncle
D. result
4.
A. piano
B. fish
C. like
D. badminton
5.
A. rest
B. help
C. garden
D. identify
6.
A. prefer
B. better
C. teacher
D. worker
7.
A. bear
B. hear
C. dear
D. near
8.
A. collect
B. concern
C. concert
D. combine
9.
A. absent
B. government
C. dependent
D. enjoy
10.
A. future
B. return
C. picture
D. culture
11.
A. bird
B. girl
C. first
D. sister
12.
A. burn
B. sun
C. hurt
D. turn
13.
A. nurse
B. picture
C. surf
D. return
14.
A. neighbour
B. favourite
C. culture
D. tourist
15.
A. hobby
B. hour
C. hotel
D. hot
Key:
1. B, 2. D, 3. A, 4. C, 5. C, 6.A, 7.A, 8.C, 9.D, 10. B, 11. D ,12. B, 13. B, 14. D 15. B
II. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
Exercise 1: Match the nouns from the box with the correct verb.
athletics
basketball
cycling
football
karate
skating
swimming
tennis
computer games
photos
TV
table tennis
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judo
coins
bottles
aerobics
stamps
gardening
camping
films
gymnastics
music videos
cartoons
dolls
1. Do:……………………………………………………………………………………
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2. Go:……………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………..
3. Collect:…………………………………………………………………………………
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4. Play:……………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………..
5. Take:…………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………….
6. Watch:…………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………….
Key: 1. go: cycling, skating, swimming, camping
2. do: athletics, karate, judo, aerobics, gardening, gymnastics
3. collect: bottles, dolls, coins
4. play: basketball, football, tennis, computer games, table tennis
5. take: photos, stamps
6. watch: TV, films, cartoons, music videos
Exercise 2: Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense form.
1. You (think)_________ collecting stamps costs much money?
2. My father thinks mountain climbing (be) _________ more dangerous than skating.
3. Every year, my mother (give) _________ me a nice doll on my birthday.
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4. My brother (not like) _________ collecting stamps, he likes collecting glass bottles.
5. My sister likes (cook) _________ very much. She can cook many good foods.
6. Does your brother like (listen) _________ to music in his free time?
7. I think in the future, more people (enjoy) _________ going out by bike.
8. My father says when he’s retired, he (go) _________ back to his village to do the
gardening.
9. We are planning trees around our school now. Our school (be) _________
surrounded by a lot of trees.
10. Lan says she loves collecting pens but she (not/ continue) _________ this hobby
from next year.
11. Nam’s friends often (give) _________ him stamps from other countries.
12. My sister (practice) _________the guitar twice a week.
13. I (see) _________ a film this Sunday evening. You (go) _________ with me?
14. They (give) _________ a party next week.
15. The members of the stamp collectors’ club (meet) _________ at the library next
Friday.
16. You (be) _________ free next Sunday?
17. We (live) _________near Nam’s house, but we (not see) _________very often.
18. Don’t worry. I (go) _________ fishing with you next Saturday morning.
19. I enjoy (collect) _________ dolls and it becomes my pleasure.
20. We love (watch) _________ new films, and we (go) _________go to a new film
next weekend.
21. My brother hates (do) _________ the same things day after day.
22. Our uncle (play) _________ badminton once a week.
23. I (collect) _________a lot of stamps from other countries.
Key: 1. Do you think, 2. is, 3. gives, 4. doesn’t like, 5. cooking, 6. listening,
7. will enjoy, 8. will go, 9. will be, 10. won’t continue, 11. Give, 12. Practices, 13.
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will see – Will you go, 14. will give , 15. will meet, 16. Will you be, 17. live – don’t
see, 18. Will go, 19. Collecting, 20. watching – will go, 21. Doing, 22. Plays, 23.
have collected
Exercise 3: Complete the sentences with appropriate hobbies
1. If you have a lot of bottles, dolls or stamps, your hobby is.............................
2. If you spend time watching bird in nature, your hobby is................................
3. If you like play monopoly or chess, your hobby is...........................................
4. If you always buy flowers and put them in a vase, your hobby is....................
5. If you spend most of your free time making your vases or bowls from clay, your
hobby is................................
6. If you enjoy moving your body to music, your hobby is..................................
Key: 1. Collecting, 2. Bird-watching, 3. Playing board games, 4. Arranging
flowers, 5. Making pottery, 6. Dancing
Exercise 4: Fill in each blank with ONE suitable word.
1. We ________________ playing table-tennis very interesting because we can
meet and make friends with interesting people.
2. My brother and I ________________ the same hobby.
3. I love ________________ outdoors in my garden to plant flower s and
vegetables.
4. My father likes ________________ his bike in the park at the weekend.
5. Tom and Peter like water ________________ and they go swimming, play water
6. My hobby is collecting _______________ because I love reading whenever I have
time.
7. Why don’t you ________________ jogging because it can help you keep fit?
8. I really enjoy going round the shops in my town to ____________ for rare and
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old teacups.
9. My parents have just bought a new ________________ of roller skates.
10. It is very __________________ to collect motorcycles because it costs you a lot
of money to buy them and get them repaired.
Key: 1. find
2. follow/ have
5. sports 6. books
9. pair
3. being/ working
4. cycling
7. start/ begin
8. look
10. expensive/ costly
Exercise 5: Choose the correct answers:
1. You need to be __________ to follow eggshell carving because it may take two weeks
to complete one shell.
A. fit
B. patient
C. careful
D. interested
2. My sister is very keen on swimming, and she goes swimming three __________ a
week.
A. time
B. a time
C. times
D. timings
3. If you choose sewing as your hobby, you will __________ you own clothes.
A. make
B. get
C. do
D. take
4. We often read the instructions carefully in order to make __________ of the things we
like best.
A. models
B. copies
C. uses
D. meanings
5. What does your father do __________ his free time?
A. in
B. at
C. while
D. on
6. My brother doesn’t like ice-skating because he thinks it is __________ .
A. dangerous
B. danger
C. in danger
D. endangered
7. I think a hobby will always give you __________ and help you __________.
A. pleased – relaxing
C. pleasure – relaxed
B. pleased – relax
D. pleasure – relax
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8. My sister’s hobby is sewing, and she can get the sewing patterns from the
__________ magazines.
A. fashion
B. sports
C. science
D. cooking
9. You can share your stamps __________ other collectors __________ a stamp club.
A. with – at
B. with – in
C. to – in
D. to – at
10. If your hobby is greeting card making, you can give your __________ to your friends
as presents.
A. money
B. hobby
C. products
D. greetings
11. I think this hobby doesn’t cost you much, and __________ you need is time.
A. all
B. some
C. all of
D. most
12. My family enjoys __________ because we can sell vegetables and flowers
__________ money.
A. garden – to
C. garden – of
B. gardening – for
D. gardening – with
13. Nowadays people __________ hours sitting in front of the computers.
A. set
B. spend
C. take
D. last
14. I think you should take up swimming __________ it is suitable for your health
condition.
A. because
B. but
C. although
D. so
15. There are many __________ why it is important to have a hobby.
A. facts
B. details
C. reasons
D. answers
16. I join a photography club and all the members love ___________reasons a lot of
beautiful photos.
A. make
B. take
C. making
D. taking
17. Will you __________ making models in the future.
A. find
B. take up
C. look for
18. A hobby help you connect with __________ people.
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D. pick up
A. the other
B. another
C. other
D. others
19. I love my sister’s paintings because she is very __________ in using colours.
A. care
B. careless
C. creative
D. imagine
20. Do you think that hobby is __________ and boring?
A. danger
B. easy
C. interesting
D. difficult
Key:
1. You need to be __________ to follow eggshell carving because it may take two weeks
to complete one shell.
A. fit
B. patient
C. careful
D. interested
2. My sister is very keen on swimming, and she goes swimming three __________ a
week.
A. time
B. a time
C. times
D. timings
3. If you choose sewing as your hobby, you will __________ you own clothes.
A. make
B. get
C. do
D. take
4. We often read the instructions carefully in order to make __________ of the things we
like best.
A. models
B. copies
C. uses
D. meanings
5. What does your father do __________ his free time?
A. in
B. at
C. while
D. on
6. My brother doesn’t like ice-skating because he thinks it is __________ .
A. dangerous
B. danger
C. in danger
D. endangered
7. I think a hobby will always give you __________ and help you __________.
A. pleased – relaxing
C. pleasure – relaxed
B. pleased – relax
D. pleasure – relax
8. My sister’s hobby is sewing, and she can get the sewing patterns from the
__________ magazines.
A. fashion
B. sports
C. science
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D. cooking
9. You can share your stamps __________ other collectors __________ a stamp club.
A. with – at
B. with – in
C. to – in
D. to – at
10. If your hobby is greeting card making, you can give your __________ to your friends
as presents.
A. money
B. hobby
C. products
D. greetings
11. I think this hobby doesn’t cost you much, and __________ you need is time.
A. all
B. some
C. all of
D. most
12. My family enjoys __________ because we can sell vegetables and flowers
__________ money.
A. garden – to
C. garden – of
B. gardening – for
D. gardening – with
13. Nowadays people __________ hours sitting in front of the computers.
A. set
B. spend
C. take
D. last
14. I think you should take up swimming __________ it is suitable for your health
condition.
A. because
B. but
C. although
D. so
15. There are many __________ why it is important to have a hobby.
A. facts
B. details
C. reasons
D. answers
16. I join a photography club and all the members love ___________reasons a lot of
beautiful photos.
A. make
B. take
C. making
D. taking
17. Will you __________ making models in the future.
A. find
B. take up
C. look for
D. pick up
18. A hobby help you connect with __________ people.
A. the other
B. another
C. other
D. others
19. I love my sister’s paintings because she is very __________ in using colours.
A. care
B. careless
C. creative
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D. imagine
20. Do you think that hobby is __________ and boring?
A. danger
B. easy
C. interesting
D. difficult
III. Reading
Exercise 1: Read passage and answer the questions:
My hobby
1. My hobby is reading. I read story books, magazines, newspapers and any kind of
material that I find it interesting.
This hobby got started when I was a little boy. I had always wanted my parents to read
fairy tales and other stories to me. Soon they got fed up and tired of having to read to me
continually. So as soon as I could, I learned to read. I started with simple ABC books.
Soon I could read simple fairy tales and other stories. Now I read just about anything that
is available.
Reading enables me to learn about so many things that I would otherwise not know. I
learned about how people lived in bygone days of magic and mystery. I learned about the
wonders of the world, space travel, human achievements, gigantic whales, tiny viruses
and other fascinating things of our world.
The wonderful thing about reading is that I do not have to learn things the hard way. For
example, I do not have to catch a disease to know that it can kill me. I know the danger so
I can avoid it. Also I do not have to go deep into the jungle to learn about the tiger. I can
read all about it in a book.
Books provide the reader with so much information and facts. They have certainly helped
me in my daily life. I am better equipped to cope with living. Otherwise I would go about
ignorantly learning things the hard way.
So I continue to read. Besides being more informed about the world, I also spend my
time profitably. It is indeed a good hobby.
I Answer the questions
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1 What is his hobby?
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2 How does he find reading?
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3 When did he start his hobby?
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4 Why did his parents get fed up and tired of telling him?
…………………………………………………………
5 What did he start reading?
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6 What does he read about?
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7 Does reading help him a lot?
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8 Have books certainly helped him in his daily life?
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Huy’s hobby
2. My name is Huy and fishing is my favorite sport. I often fish for hours without
catching anything. But this does not worry me. Some fishermen are unlucky. Instead of
catching fish, they catch old boots and rubbish. I am even less lucky. I never catch
anything, not even old boots. After spending the whole morning on the river, I always go
home with an empty bag. “You should give up fishing”, my friends say. “It’s a waste of
time”. But they don’t know that I’m not really interested in fishing. I’m only interested in
sitting in a boat and doing nothing at all!
I Answer the questions
1 What is Huy’s hobby?
……...…………………………………………………………
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2 What does Huy often catch when he goes fishing?
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3 When does Huy usually go fishing?
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4 What do his friends advise him?
…………………………………………………………………
5 Where does he sit to fish?
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6 What does he do when he fishes?
…………………………………………………………………
Exercise 2: Read and fill in the blanks with ONE word given in the box.
hobby
improve
when
taught
writes
because
ending
might
myself
cultures
My name is Sara. My favourite (1) _________ is reading. I enjoy reading a book
when I am free. I started to do it (2)________I was four years old. The first time I did it, I
felt interested. So I kept reading. The teachers (3)_________ me to read the difficult
words. I was happy when I read a story with a happy (4) _________. I was thrilled when
I read a detective story. I enjoy reading (5) _______ I like to explore the imaginative
world of my favourite author, J.K. Rowling who (6) ___________ “ Harry Potter” .
There are a lot of advantages of reading. Reading can make me relaxed and calm. I can
also learn new vocabulary items. Then I can further (7) __________my English.
Moreover, it can give me an unlimited imagination, so I can write books in the future. I
can learn the different (8) _______ and customs of other countries in the world too. I read
at least one hour every day. I read books by (9) ______. I usually read it at home. I wish I
could read different kinds of books because it (10) ______ be very challenging.
Key: 1. Hobby
2. When
3. Taught
4. ending
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5. because
6. Writes
7. Improve
8. Cultures
9. Myself
10. might
IV. Writing
Exercise 1: Make correct sentences from the words and phrases given
1. When/ you/ start/ hobby ?
______________________________________________________
2. We/ find/ make/ models/ very interesting/ because/ we/ should/ creative.
______________________________________________________
3. I/ think/ future/ people/ take/ up/ more/ outdoor activities.
______________________________________________________
4. My best friend/ not like/ mountain climbing/ because/ he/ afraid/ heights.
______________________________________________________
5. My sister/ enjoy/ cook/ and make/ new dishes/ her own.
______________________________________________________
Key:
1. When did you start your hobby?
2. We find making models very interesting because we should becreative.
3. I think in the future people will take up more outdoor activities.
4. My best friend does not like mountain climbing because he is afraid of heights.
5. My sister enjoys cooking and making new dishes on her own.
Exercise 2:Use the words given to write a paragraph about Huong’s hobby.
Huong / be/ student/ class 7A/ Quang Trung school. Collect glass bottles/ be/ one of
/favorite hobbies. She / start / hobby / when / ten years old. She often / share / hobby /
sister. She /find/ hobby /interesting / useful. She/ feel /happy / when / look at / beautiful
flower vases/ make/ them. She / continue / hobby / future / because it / help/ save/
environment.
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Key: Huong is a student in class 7A at Quang Trung school. Collecting glass bottles
is one of her favorite hobbies. She started her hobby when she was 10 years old. She
often shares her/ the hobby with her sister. She finds her hobby interesting and
useful. She feels happy when she looks at beautiful flower vases made from them.
She will continue her hobby in the future because it helps save the environment.
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