Презентация на тему Time off

with an opportunity for free speaking practice;
To develop students’reading,

listening abilities;
To communicate about the topic.

YOURSELF
THE TIME WHEN YOU ARE NOT WORKING

OR ARE NOT BUSY

Leisure activities

experience
excitement
joy

listening to music
reading books
listening to the radio

reading newspapers

playing computer games - 71%
listening to music -

60%

reading books - 51%

listening to the radio - 48%

reading newspapers - 37%

survey on how people spend their time. Can I

ask you a few questions? Do you ever …?

think football is boring.

time, because everybody was working too hard. In Britain

in the nineteenth century, people had more spare time, but because the Victorians hated relaxing and doing nothing, they invented football. Rugby and cricket. People took up more gentle activities too, like gardening, bird-watching and train spotting, and it was even possible simply to watch a sport and give the impression that you were actually doing something. Gradually, leisure activities have become less and less energetic interests and hobbies. But now there is a new type of person who thinks that lying on the sofa watching television on Sunday afternoon or reading the newspaper from cover to cover is the most exciting activity they can manage. This the twentieth century coach potato. For them, every activity is too much trouble, and laziness is an art form! So how do you spend your free time?
Are you a coach potato?

who spends their free time doing very little.

like to swim?
Do you like to ski?
I am a

coach potato I like TV.
Does he like to swim?
Does he like to ski?
He’s a coach potato
He likes TV.
He doesn’t like to ski
He’s a coach potato
He likes TV