Step Up to IELTS

1. STEP UP TO IELTS
UNIT 1

2. ACTIVITY 1: INTERESTS AND HOBBIES

3. ACTIVITY 1: INTERESTS AND HOBBIES
• SKIING
• SHOPPING
• HIKING
• FOOTBALL/SOCCER
• SWIMMING
• CARDS
• ROCK CLIMBING
• HORSE RIDING
• GO: used for individual
activities that often take place
far away from home, i.e. you
need to GO somewhere to do
them.
• PLAY: used for games that
involve team players or
opponents.
• GO SKIING
• GO SHOPPING
• GO HIKING
• PLAY FOOTBALL/SOCCER
• GO SWIMMING
• PLAY CARDS
• GO ROCK CLIMBING
• GO HORSE RIDING

4. ACTIVITY 1: INTERESTS AND HOBBIES
• COOKING
• SINGING
• READING
• SEWING
• USING THE COMPUTER
• DRAWING
NO MOVEMENT, NO PLAYERS
 CRAFT OR SKILL

5. • I love cooking = I enjoy cooking = I’m a big fan of cooking.
• I’m interested in cooking.
• I think I am a good cook.
• I cook every weekend.
ACTIVITY 1: INTERESTS AND HOBBIES
What is your hobby? Why
do you like doing it? How
often do you do it?

6. Activity 2: -ing and –ed as Adjs
• I’m interested in cooking = I find cooking
very interesting.
• Reading books is fascinating = I find reading
books ____________ = I am _________ by
books.
• I am a shopaholic. I find shopping relaxing. I
feel ______ whenever I go shopping.
• Adjectives that end ‘-ed’ describe emotions –
they tell us how people feel about something.
• Adjectives that end ‘-ing’ describe the thing
that causes the emotion – a boring lesson
makes you feel bored.

7. 1. What interests you? Why?
2. What in life can make you feel satisfied?
3. What do you often do to feel relaxed?
Activity 2: -ing and –ed as Adjs

8. Listening activity: Brainstorming
Stamp
collecting tennis gardening
running football fishing
chess
Water
polo surfing

9. 1. Tennis
2. Chess
3. Water polo
4. Fishing
5. Gardening
6. Running
7. Reading
tennis court: sân tennis
Cf. football field: sân bóng
Move: bước đi, nước đi
Challenge: thử thách
Opponent: đối thủ
goal keeper: thủ môn
Pot: chậu hoa, chậu cây
green fingers: có tay trồng cây
Marathon:
Distance: khoảng cách