Letter 4: My hobbies

 

 

General
In this letter you are going to tell your partner about your hobbies and the kind of things you like to do in your spare time.
 
Content
Again, here is a list of questions that will help you write your letter.
Do not forget to react to the letter you have received!!

Build your letter

You could start with :

How are you ? I hope everything is O.K. there. This time, I'll tell you about the things I like doing in my spare time and during the weekends.

 

Use these next questions to build your letter:

• Do you have any spare time?

• What do you like doing best in your spare time?

• Do you often go out with your friends?

• What is your favourite sport?

• Is this sport popular in your country?

• How much time do you spend on your sport?

• Who is your favourite sportsman or -woman, from your country?

• Who is your favourite sportsman or -woman, from outside your country?

• Do you often go out in the evenings?

• What kind of music do you like?

• Is music important to you? Why ?

• Who is your favourite singer or/and band?

• What kind of music do most people in your class like?

• What is the best song that you know?

• Do you like watching television?

• How much time do you spend watching television every day?

• What are your favourite programmes?

• Do you like going to the cinema?

• Who is your favourite actor/ actress?

• Do you like reading?

• What is the last book you read?

• Do you use the computer?

• Do you like videogames?

• Do you have any other hobbies? (collecting stamps....)

• How much time do you spend on this hobby?

• Do any members of your family have the same hobby?

• Now you can add some personal information. Do not ask the same things as in the previous questions because your partner works with the same materials!

You could finish your letter with:

I am looking forward to your next letter. All the best.

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WORDS and SENTENCES
 
Sentences
My favourite artist/singer/film-star is ......
Every week I play .......
It is an exciting sport
I like going out / listening to music / watching TV / .....

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Words
 

aerobics	collect	swap
cassette	concert	to practise
CD	disco	to train
CD-player	football	video
channels	he plays for... hobby	video games
charts	hobbies	volleyball
cinema	soaps	walkman
club	stamps	watch television

 

Hint 4

Now that you have finished your letter you can search information (also through the internet) about your favourite singer,sportsman, actor and rewrite them in the form of an interview pretending to be a journalist.  If you choose people famous in your country, it could be interesting for your partner to read about them.

If you have recently read a book (or watched a film at the cinema) and liked it, you could write a short summary and your opinions about it.  You can suggest it to your partner and find out if there are translations of the same book or the same films in the different countries.

If you spend a lot of time watching TV, you could present your favourite programme to your partner and also send a short video-clip recorded with a video-recorder through the snail mail.