Free time and leisure activities

Question 1

What idiom do we use when talking about havng a hobby for a job?

Answer 1

to make a living out of a hobby

Question 2

What kind of free time do we know?

Answer 2

free time/spare time
leisure time

Question 3

What is free time?

Answer 3

time when you do not have to work or study and can do what you want

Question 4

What is leisure time’

Answer 4

time that is spent doing what you enjoy when you are not working or studying

Question 5

What are some things connected to leisure?

Answer 5

leisure activities
leisure facilities
leisure pursuits
leisure industry

Question 6

What idiom do we use when we want to say to do things at your own pace?

Answer 6

do something at your (own) leisure

Question 7

What is an example of a leisure facility?

Answer 7

gym
swimming pool
hockey ring

Question 8

What are hobbies, interests and pastimes

Answer 8

activities that we do for pleasure in our spare time

Question 9

When do we use the word hobby?

Answer 9

when talking about an individual (active)

Question 10

exmp. hobby

Answer 10

His main hobby is basketball. (He plays it)

Question 11

When do we use the word interest?

Answer 11

when talking about an individual (not necessarily active)

Question 12

exmp. interest

Answer 12

His main interest is basketball (he watches matches, he reads about it, he may or may not play it)

Question 13

When do we use the word pastime

Answer 13

when talking about people in general

Question 14

exmp. pastime

Answer 14

Watching TV is the national pastime in Slovenia

Question 15

Which TV do we refer to when were watching the channel after it played live?

Answer 15

catch-up TV
TV on demand

Question 16

What is important with hobbies, pastime and interests?

Answer 16

work-life balance

Question 17

What is work-life balance?

Answer 17

an aspect of a healthy life and therefore it represents an important determining factor for an individual’s well-being

Question 18

At what time of the week has it been scientifically proven that people are happier?

Answer 18

at the weekend

Question 19

What do people experience at the weekend?

Answer 19

better mooods
greater vitality
fewer aches and pains

Question 20

Even what type of people enjoys the weekends more?

Answer 20

even people who like their jobs or have interestin, high status jobs

Question 21

With what are weekends associated with?

Answer 21

higher level of freedom and closeness - individuals are involved in activities of their own choosing and can spend time with family members and friends

Question 22

What are weekdays associated with?

Answer 22

activities involving external control, time pressure, demands related to work, child care and other constrains

Question 23

How can we spend our free time?

Answer 23

being physically inactive
being physically active
socializing
being creative
attending cultural events
being of some use to society

Question 24

How can we be physically inactive?

Answer 24

reading
listening to music
CONSUMING MASS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
resting

Question 25

How can we be physically active?

Answer 25

doing sports or OUTDOOE PURSUITS (gardening, hiking)

Question 26

How can we socialize?

Answer 26

hanging about (out) with friends DISCUSSING CURRENT AFFAIRS gossiping eating out

Question 27

How can we be creative?

Answer 27

joining an: ORCESTRA band CHOIR drawing painting writing poems

Question 28

What cultural events can attend?

Answer 28

going to the: theatre cinema opera to the concert visiting: ART GALLERIES museums VARIOUS EXHIBITIONS

Question 29

How can we be of some use to society?

Answer 29

doing VOLUNTARY WORK for different CHARITIES

Question 30

which households are more likely to be engaged in leisure activities and why?

Answer 30

high income households are more likely to be engaged in leisure activities and spend a larger aount of time performing them than low income households

Question 31

Why do we use adjectives when talking about free time and leisure pursuits?

Answer 31

to desribe free time and leisure pursuits

Question 32

What kind of adjectives do we use?

Answer 32

rewarding fruitful lucrative therapeutic relaxing/calming time consuming

Question 33

What are rewarding pursuits

Answer 33

doing voluntary work helping charities

Question 34

What are fruitful pursuits

Answer 34

cooperating with someone in an activity

Question 35

What are lucrative pursuits

Answer 35

selling your own arts and crafts

Question 36

What are therapeutic pursuits

Answer 36

yoga meditation gardening

Question 37

What are relaxing/calming pursuits

Answer 37

listening to music reading

Question 38

What are time consuming pursuits

Answer 38

being president of a club

Question 39

Why do we use informal words when talking about free time and leisure pursuits?

Answer 39

to describe the way people spend their leisure time

Question 40

What informal words do we use?

Answer 40

a couch potato hang out catch a few rays go for a chat and a cuppa catch a flick a culture vulture a shopacholic to be into to be totally hooked on to go off

Question 41

Who is a couch potato?

Answer 41

someone who lays on the couch and watches a screen

Question 42

What does it mean to hang out

Answer 42

to socalize

Question 43

What does it mean to catch a few rays?

Answer 43

to catch some rays of sunshine, go out in the sun

Question 44

What does it mean to go for a chat and a cuppa?

Answer 44

to go out for a coffee

Question 45

What does it mean to catch a flick?

Answer 45

to catch a film

Question 46

Who is a a culture vulture?

Answer 46

someone extremely interested in culture events

Question 47

Who is a shopacholic?

Answer 47

someone who goes out on shopping sprees and goes broke eventually

Question 48

What does it mean to to be into something?

Answer 48

to really like someting e. g. slalom skiing

Question 49

What does it mean to be totally hooked on something?

Answer 49

to obsessed over something e. g. motor racing

Question 50

What does it mean to go off?

Answer 50

to stop doing something e. g. football