Practica Vocabulario: Work and Play

 

Words:

• Agent:
  

• Always:

• Annoyed:

• Attached:

• Audition:

• Backing dancer:

• Bake a cake:

• Ballet:

• Be up to:

• Buzz:

• Cast:

• Charity:

• Check out:

• Cheerful:

• Choreographer:

• Cool:

• Dancer:

• Diet:

• Dull:

• Earnings:

• Enjoyable:

• Entertainer:

• Exciting:

• Expert:

• Factor:

• Free time:

• Frustrating:

• Fun:

• Go skating:

• Go to the theatre:

• Hang out:

• Have a hobby:

• Healthy:

• Hobby:

• Impatient:

• Impoverished:

• In- line skating:

• Interesting:

• Listen to music:

• Meet:

• Musical:

• Never:

• Often:

• Pastime:
  

• Play a musical instrument:

• Polluted:

• Practice:

• Professional:

• Rarely:

• Read a magazine:

• Rehearsal:

• Relax at home:

• Relaxing:

• Sanitation:

• Set up:

• Sewage:

• Shoot:

• Sometimes:

• Spend money:

• Spend time:

• Stressful:

• Surf the net:

• Take a dance class:

• Take photos:

• Take place:

• Talented:

• Tense:

• Tough:

• Train:

• Uninteresting:

• Usually:

• Visit a museum:

• Wannabee:

• Waste money:

• Waste time:

• Watch sport on TV:

EXERCISES

1. Match the words to make free:

bake     go     meet     play     surf     take     read     visit     watch

friends magazines the net a cake a museum

sport on TV a dance class skating a musical instrument

2. Match the verbs and phrases to form collocations. You can use the verbs more than once.

go to have listen to relax spend take waste

a great time a hobby at home music photos the theatre / a club time / money time with family or friends

      3.  Complete the sentences with collocations from Ex 2.

• I sometimes ____________________ on my MP· player when I’m doing my homework.

• We ____________________ at the capoeira club. I really enjoy it.

• Would you like to ____________________ next week? The musical Chicago is on.

• Pete never goes out on Fridays. He prefers ____________________.

• I enjoy ____________________ at my granny's house. She’s teaching me to knit.

• She doesn’t like ____________________ watching TV for hours.

        4. Complete the definitions with the adjectives in the box.

dull     enjoyable     exciting     frustrating     interesting     relaxing

• Something that makes you feel annoyed and impatient is ____________________.

• Something that makes you feel less tense is ____________________.

• Something pleasurable and fun, like meeting friends, is ____________________.

• When something is ____________________ you want to know  more about it. 

• The opposite of question 4 is ____________________.

• Going on a rollercoaster is ____________________.

       5. Use the adjectives in Ex 4 to describe free-time activities:

• ________________________________________________________________

• ________________________________________________________________

• ________________________________________________________________

• ________________________________________________________________

• ________________________________________________________________

        6. Cross out the incorrect alternative:

• go skating / sports / to the theatre

• take photos / a dance class / a museum

• have the net / a great time / a party

• watch a film / a laugh / sport

• play the piano / the theatre / the guitar

• read the newspaper / the net / a magazine

• surf the web / the net / TV

• listen to the radio / music / at home

          7. Translate in to english:

• No siempre es fácil cocinar un pastel.

• 
  

• No me gusta que mi hermana pierda el tiempo en frente de la tele.

• 
  

• Siempre pasamos un buen rato cuando estamos juntos.

• 
  

• Yo quiero estar en casa y oír música.

• 
  

        8. Complete the table with the words in the box:

dull   enjoyable   exciting   frustrating   interesting   relaxing

Positive	Negative

         9. Answer the questions. Write full sentences:

What’s the most enjoyable book you’ve ever read?

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What’s the most exciting sport you have ever tried?

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What’s the best place you’ve ever been to?

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What’s the most interesting city7 you’ve ever visited?

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What’s the most frustrating experience you’ve ever had?

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