Hobbies, Sports & Past / Present Habits
Help your students master the language of lifestyle and well-being with this multi-layered lesson. “Hobbies, Sports & Past / Present Habits” explores the personal and psychological side of leisure, moving from traditional crafts to the neuroscience of physical exercise.
The lesson is built around the modern “slow living” movement, featuring a reading passage adapted from The Guardian about young adults turning to knitting and sewing as an “escape hatch” from digital fatigue and social media addiction. Through this narrative and a compelling video by neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki, students are introduced to sophisticated vocabulary such as tangible, euphoria, sedentary, and brain plasticity, as well as essential sporting terms like shuttlecock, harness, and foil.
This multi-skill resource includes:
- Reading & Vocabulary: FCE-style “Use of English” tasks exploring the “social stitch” trend and the rejection of fast fashion, paired with exercises to master over 20 specific hobbies and sports materials.
- Grammar Practice: Clear, comparative explanations of present and past habits, teaching students how to use will for typical behaviour, would for repeated past actions, and tend to for general tendencies.
- Listening & Video: An engaging video-based segment featuring professor Wendy Suzuki’s insights on how exercise strengthens the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus to immediately reduce anxiety.
- Speaking: A robust set of personal discussion questions and prompts that require students to compare their current routines with their childhood habits.
- Full Teacher’s Answer Key & Slides: A detailed guide covering all tasks, including a professional slide presentation designed for seamless classroom delivery.
Exclusive Premium Features:
- Interactive “Past & Present Habits Board Game”: A communicative team-based activity where students compete to form true sentences about their lives using target structures like used to and forever + present continuous.
- Hobbies & Sports Flashcard Set: A perfectly formatted, double-sided printable resource with 20+ vocabulary items and definitions, including specific printing guides for A4 and US Letter paper.
- Comprehensive Homework Pack: A multi-page reinforcement set featuring “Find and Correct the Mistake” grammar puzzles and a reading passage on the “Girls Craft Club” in Edinburgh.
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Some content in this lesson (images, audio, and/or video) was created with AI assistance and reviewed by a qualified English teacher.