1. The document provides examples of common leisure activities that people engage in, including watching TV, gardening, reading the newspaper, listening to music, using the internet, and cooking. 2. It then asks the reader to fill in missing verbs in sentences describing similar leisure activities like listening to music, reading, talking on the phone, relaxing, entertaining friends, and playing computer games. 3. Next, it prompts the reader to answer short questions about their own leisure activities like hobbies, entertaining guests, reading preferences, and how often they contact friends. 4. Finally, it asks the reader to rank various leisure activities from most interesting to most boring in their personal opinion, including gardening,

3. Exercises
56.1 What are these people doing?
1 She’s ____________
watching TV 4 She’s ____________
cooking
5 She’s using the____________
Internet
2 He’s ____________
gardening
3 He’s ____________
reading the newspaper 6 He’s _________ to a ______
listening CD

4. 56.1 Fill in the missing verbs.
1 Sometimes I listen to CDs or tapes.
2 I prefer to ___________ magazines more than
read
newspapers.
3 I ___________ to my sister on the phone every
talk
Sunday.
4 A lot of people like to ___________ a sleep after
have
lunch.
5 Do you ever ___________ friends to dinner?
have / invite
6 The children ___________ computer games every
play
evening.
watch
7 Shall we ___________ a video tonight?
see / watch
8 Did you ___________ the programme about
Namibia yesterday?
9 My father ___________ vegetables in his garden.
grows

5. 56.3 Answer for yourself.
1 If you have friends around, what do you like
to do?
______________________________ etc.
We talk, or we have a meal, or we listen to music,
2 Does anyone come to stay at your
house/flat?
______________________________
My best friend sometimes comes to stay.
My cousins sometimes come to stay, etc
3 What do you like to read most?
______________________________
I like novels, and I read a newspaper every day.
4 How often do you ring your friends?
______________________________
I ring them a bout once a week.

6. 56.4 Interesting or boring? Put these leisure activities in order, from most
interesting to most boring, in your opinion.
gardening cooking reading using the Internet
watching videos listening to music doing nothing
most interesting most boring
using the Internet watching videos listening to music doing nothing reading cooking gardening