How do Americans spend their leisure time?
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Instructions: Read the text about Americans’ leisure time.
How do Americans spend their leisure time?
Active vacations such as swimming and hiking are on the rise. Americans are using the Internet more as a leisure activity, but they also have an increased desire to remain physically fit.
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Quiz
Getting started: Leisure time.
Instructions: Read a bit more about American people’s leisure time:
The majority of Americans feel they do not have enough leisure time, want more pleasure out of life and say they try to engage in new experiences. About one-half of the adult population reported that when they have spare time, they like to relax and do nothing at all.
How do Americans spend their leisure time? Retrieved October, 2016 from.http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/11865/how-do-americans-spend-their-leisure-time.html?edition
Getting started: Leisure time
Instructions: Match the questions and answers.
Simple Present with Question Words
Let’s study the Simple Present with Question Words.
Instructions: Look at the following information about The Simple Present with Question Words:
We use WH questions when we require specific information in an answer.
We often refer to them as WH questions because they include the letters WH: What, Where, When, Why.
In the Simple Present we also need an auxiliary for the interrogative form with Question Words.
Examples:
What do you study?
Where does he go to school?
When do they get married?
Look at the word order and answers.
| Question word | Auxiliary | Subject | Verb (Simple form) | Complement? | Specific aswers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What | do | you | do | in your free time? | I listen to music. |
| Where | does | she | study | law? | At UNAM. |
| When | do | they | play | with their children? | In the afternoon. |
Quiz
Word order
Instructions: Make questions with the following prompts.
Cambridge
he
in
does
study
What
?
work
you
Where
do
?
she
TV
When
watch
does
?
to
it
go home
How long
does
take
?
want
English
do
to
you
learn
Why
?
Quiz
Passive leisure activities
Instructions: Match the questions to the answers.
Evaluation
Instructions: Make questions with the following words.
like
to
What
Vacations
do
on
they
do
?
Which activity
do
jogging
swimming
they
prefer
or
?
to
Where
like
do
they
go
?
Why
prefer
do
they
reading
?
watch
What
like
do
on
American people
to
TV
?