【正文】 2. My hobby is reading. My hobby ___________________. 3. My mother likes reading too. _____________________________. 4. My mother bought us a lot of books. _____________________________. 5. Reading can make you clever. _____________________________. 6. There are many interesting facts in books. _________________________________. Step 4 Look and say 1. Look at the picture carefully. 2. Ask and answer the questions about the activities in it. ① Which activity do you think is the most interesting? ② Which skills do you have? ③ Which skill do you want to learn most? Why? ④ Which skill do you think would be the most useful for young people? Step 5 Complete the sentences with the correct form of words or expressions in the box. 1. Read the sentences carefully. 2. Use the correct form of the words to fill in the blanks. activity as a result e out pleasure success 1. I get lots of ________ from my hobbies. 2. I like doing outdoor _________ best. 3. I hope David will great _______ in the future. 4. The Harry Potter stories are very popular. __________, the writer of the books, , has bee very famous. 5. I buy the magazines when they _________ each month. Step 6 Complete the passage with the correct form of the words and expressions in the box. 1. Read the passage carefully. 2. Now plete the passage with the words or expressions in the box. as a result fan hobby interesting model stamp such as ticket tidy up When I was (1)__________ my room yesterday, I found an old box of my father’s. He gave it to me two years ago. It was really (2)__________ to discover something about my father’s life as a child. He once told me about his (3)________ as a child. He wrote to people from all over the world, and they sent him letters back. (4)__________, he had a book of interesting (5)________. People also gave him things from different countries, (6)_________ a silk (7)_____ from China, a little model car from Germany and a small (8)_______ ship from Australia. My father even kept the (9)________ from his first football match. The box made me think about my hobby. I want to keep my old picture books and magazines for a long time too. Step 7 Writing 1. Put the words and expressions in the boxes into the correct columns. 2. Now make at least five sentences about your hobbies. For example: My hobby is swimming. Swimming can make me strong and healthy. Step 8 Listening 1. Listen and plete the diagram. 2. Now listen again and answer the questions. Why is it good to have hobbies? ___________________________________ Step 9 Listening Listen to Part 7 and answer the questions. 1. How old is Seb? 2. Is it difficult to cook something to eat on a boat? 3. Who would Seb like to go sailing with? Step 10 Reading Read the passage and plete the notes. Experiences ? At twelve years old, Seb started to (1)_______________________. ? At fifteen years old, Seb sailed (2)_________________________ across the Atlantic Ocean. Feelings ? The best thing was seeing (3)_______________________ swimming close to the boat. ? The worst part of the journey was when he ran out of (4)__________. ? In the future, he would like to (5)________________________. Step 11 Around the world Learn about the living history. Living history A popular hobby in America and some other countries is to live in the way that people lived long ago. Groups of people find out about the past. At the weekend, they dress in the clothes which people wore in the past and live in the way that people did then. They not only enjoy the weekend, but also learn a lot about life in the old days. Step 12 Writing 1. Plan your survey on hobbies in groups. ? Decide the questions you want to ask. ? Think about what kind of information might be interesting — if people in the same family have the same hobbies, which hobbies young people usually do not like, which hobbies your classmates all like, etc. ? Look up new words. 2. Write your survey. ? Make sure that the sentences are clear and easy to understand. ? Ask your teacher or your classmates to check the survey when you have finished. 3. Do the survey with other students. ? Ask your questions and make notes on the answers. 4. Present the results of your survey to the rest of the class. Step 13 Summary 1. 簡單句的