Page 18 - English 9 | Skills Based Activity Book

FUNCTIONS
• Talking about likes/dislikes, hobbies and free time activities
• Expressing opinions English 9
• Making preferences
• Asking about and telling the time and the date Theme 3
• Inviting and refusing/accepting an invitation
Movies
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4. David Susan Matt What do you think about the following? Write your
opinions and share them with your classmates.

cycling jogging gardening painting collecting stamps
knitting cooking climbing doing origami

I think pottery To me, pottery In my opinion, ______________________________________________
is a waste of is relaxing. pottery is
time because creative. ______________________________________________
it’s out of date. ______________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________________

5. Read the speech bubbles and fill in the chart.
Ted John Mary Jane

I prefer watching quiz I prefer watching news I’m a fan of many I prefer soap
shows to reality shows bulletins because they celebrities, so I operas to movies
because they are give information about prefer watching talk because I find them
educational. I learn new current events. shows. I think they very exciting.
things from them. are amusing.

Name TV Program Reason
E.g. Ted Quiz shows They are educational.

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6. Which one do you prefer in the following pairs? Make sentences about your preferences.

E.g. read books – watch TV I prefer reading books to watching TV.
rock music – jazz I prefer rock music to jazz.

1. traditional shopping – online shopping _______________________________________________________
2. eat out – cook __________________________________________________________________________
3. team sports – individual sports _____________________________________________________________
4. play outside – play indoors ________________________________________________________________
5. sing – listen to music _____________________________________________________________________

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