Exercises TO PRINT :

• Likes / Dislikes / Hobbies :
  - envoyés par Christelle BOLTZ (Ac. Strasbourg)
  

  - Un transparent pour parler de ses goûts

  - Un jeu de cartes sur les "hobbies" avec d'un côté les dessins (+ Page 2) représentant diverses activités et de l'autre les verbes associés (+ Page 2).

  - Une fiche reprenant le nouveau vocabulaire et quelques règles relatives à l'utilisation des verbes exprimant les goûts.

• Hobbies & vacation Activities Worksheets
  1. Favourite past times battleships worksheet - Teach hobbies vocabulary with pictures
  2. Hobbies word association exercise - indoor activities vs. outdoor activities
  3. Where can we go hiking in your city? Hobbies dialogue writing
  4. Adjectives to describe hobbies. hobbies writing & dialogues exercise.
  5. Hobbies interview worksheet: interview a friend and report back.
  6. Hobbies discussion worksheet
  7. Holiday activities matching exercise
  8. Extreme sports vocabulary exercise. Memory game, word fragment exercises.
  Si l'accès direct n'est pas autorisé, une fois sur la page d'accueil , cliquer sur Vocabulary Worksheets en haut de la page, à gauche.
  (esl-galaxy.com)

• Holiday activities matching exercise
  Si l'accès direct n'est pas autorisé, une fois sur la page d'accueil , cliquer sur Vocabulary Worksheets en haut de la page, à gauche.
  (esl-galaxy.com)

  

• Entertainment - activities to print
  using always / often / sometimes / never
  

  

• Games - (enchantedlearning.com)
  'Label the checkers, dominoes, backgammon, dice, cards, dartboard, dart, bullseye, and board game.'
  
  

Lesson plans :

• Practise your English while you learn about collecting things.
  "Take a look at the article, story, word game, cartoon, poll, trivia and links."
  (British Council)

  

• Gambling. = "the act of betting money, for example in a game or on a horse race...
  Take a look at the articles, poem, word game, cartoon, poll, trivia and links."
  (British Council)
  
  

   

• Disneyland celebrates 50th birthday - a lesson plan - present perfect (breakingnewsenglish.com)
  - with "a news article, listening (MP3 file), communication activities, pair work, discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises."

  

• VIDEO GAMES - Activités Multimédia (Académie de Dijon)
  "Différents types d'activités sur le thème des jeux vidéo sont proposés, à partir d'enregistrements provenant de Voanews :
  QCM, textes à trous, questions ouvertes, expression écrite et orale, discrimination auditive, lien phonie/graphie, accent tonique etc..."

• The Outdoors - a lesson plan (esl-lab.com)
  "Camping, hiking, and fishing. These are just a few activities that people do to relax and enjoy the outdoors.
  Listen to the words..."
  Vocabulary | Practice | Follow-Up

• Hobbies and recreation - a lesson proposed by Randall S. Davis with :
  - a list of commonly-used vocabulary with a recording of the words in RealMedia format.
  - a short quiz to test students' comprehension of some of the words,
  - a Follow-Up exercise for expanding students' use of the vocabulary in a conversation with a partner or group.
  (esl-lab)

Webquests :

• Computer Games - Good or Bad? (Frankie Meehan - tesoltasks.com)
  "You must explore the list of webpages below and make notes about the information contained in each.
  Then, using your notes you can make up your mind about whether computer games are good or bad.
  You will be required to present your arguments as an essay."
  
  
  
  

INTERACTIVE games :

• Nightlife - Listen to the text + Nightlife Vocabulary Crossword - interactive
  (madridteacher.com)

  

• Environmental Rescue - an interactive game about fishing (sadlier-oxford.com)
  "Turn a polluted pond into a paradise by building complete sentences."

  

• Woodlands Games (woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk)
  
  

Games TO PRINT :

• Test your knowledge of amusement parks with a crossword - with Answer Key (eduplace.com)

• Amusement parks - word search to print - easy (eduplace.com)
  Idem - intermediate (eduplace.com)

INTERACTIVE stories WITH SOUND :

• Alfy's Fort (alfy.com) - CLICK ON "PLAY A GAME" ON THE RIGHT OF THE PAGE

• Alfy goes camping (alfy.com) - CLICK ON "PLAY A GAME" ON THE RIGHT OF THE PAGE

• Alfy goes to school (skateboard) - (alfy.com) - CLICK ON "PLAY A GAME" ON THE RIGHT OF THE PAGE

• Alfy Snow Day (alfy.com)
  
  
  

Stories without sound :

• A day in Blackpool (freeuk.net)

  

Conversation questions :

• HOBBIES (Corinne Brugiere)

  

• Entertainment (TV, Radio, Games, Gambling, ...) - (iteslj.org)
  
  
  

Songs :

• The Nuki Song
  "Time after school play on my computer my nuki never leaves my mouth
  even on the playground or on the rollercoaster I never take my nuki out."
  (lyricsmode.com)
  + the VIDEO
  (YouTube)

  

• The busy buzz song - animated
  "Buzz is a very busy bee. She's doing lots of things.
  Listen to a song about all the activities that she likes doing."
  (British Council)

  

• Animaniacs "I'm Mad" Song : the lyrics (rogerwatersonline.com)

• Life is a roller coaster by Ronan Keating

• Roller Coaster by Quorthon

• Poisoning Pigeons In The Park by Tom Lehrer :
  "Life is skittles and life is beer."
  (Proverb : 'Life is not all beer and skittles')

Poems :

• Gone fishing - animated poem - NO sound (BBC)
  
  

Superstitions :

• Old Superstitions : Card (bored.com)
  
  

Idioms and Proverbs :

• Genius in France by Weird Al Malkovic :
  "I'm about as sharp as a bowling ball"
  
  

• Relax-Ay-Voo by Dean Martin :
  "I was light as a kite"

• M-80 by Papa Roach :
  "I'm as sharp as a knife
  As high as a kite
  Demented as the night is long"

• Hungry As The Hunter by Mission U.K
  
  

• Poisoning Pigeons In The Park by Tom Lehrer :
  "Life is skittles and life is beer."
  (Proverb : 'Life is not all beer and skittles')
  
  

Cartoons : (Si le lien est inaccessible, enregistrer l'image pour obtenir la taille initiale.)

Videos :

• JUST FOR PLEASURE!!!

   

• Fallsview Casino: Lucky dog
  "Promoting a casino in a cliché way has been done too much, time for a new approach!
  With this spot they aren’t really promoting gambling, they are using luck as an argument."
  (creativecriminals.com)

  

• What is Geocaching ?
  "Learn about the high-tech treasure hunting game being played around the world by adventure seekers!
  Learn more at http://www.geocaching.com"
  (YouTube)
  See Vocabulary

• Batelco INFINITY - The Official film experience release by Batelco
  "An EPIC journey through people's ideas coming to life.
  It's INFINITY from Batelco that took over 1 year in the making - INFINITY the biggest innovative ad Film."
  (YouTube)

  

   

• Leisure
  "Most of Britain’s population enjoys sport and leisure activities in one way or another, and whether as a participant or a spectator there are a whole host of activities to enjoy."
  (British Council)

  

   

• Paintball documentary : D-Day 2007 Ep 1 + Oklahoma D Day documentary 2007 Part 2
  (dailymotion.com)

  

• Close-Up: Australia's love for the 'pokies'
  "Pokies" are an extremely common sight in Australia - poker or slot machines that appear everywhere from small country pubs to large casinos."
  (BBC)

  

• Mr Bean in the park (You Tube)