Flash Cards: Hobbies & Activities

Name thirty-seven hobbies and free-time activities in English using the phrasing printed on the cards.

Match an illustrated activity to its written English label.

State a personal preference in writing or speech by completing the frame "I like …" with an activity from the set.

Report a preference shared by two people using the frame "Both of us like …" and naming both people.

Distinguish the three English verb patterns the set puts side by side: doing + noun, playing + sport or instrument, and the bare -ing form.

Show one card at a time and let students produce the phrase before they read the printed label, so the illustration carries the first round of recall.

Sort the cards into piles — indoors against outdoors, or alone against with other people — since the set splits cleanly between pottery, baking and scrapbooking on one side and cycling, gardening and going for a walk on the other.

Run the two "I like …" pages immediately after a card sort so students write with vocabulary they have just handled, then use the "Both of us like …" page as a pair interview.

Treat the verb patterns as a lesson in their own right: doing yoga and doing pottery, playing tennis and playing an instrument, and dancing, baking and cycling all behave differently and the cards sit next to each other.

Hobby and free-time vocabulary in English — students learn thirty-seven labelled activities spanning crafts, music, pet care, sport and quiet pastimes.

Picture-to-word matching — each card pairs one illustration with the English phrase that names it.

Expressing personal preference — the "I like …" frame pages have students commit a chosen activity to a full sentence.

Reporting a shared preference — the closing page asks students to name two people and the one activity both of them enjoy.

English verb-pattern awareness — doing + noun, playing + sport or instrument, and the bare -ing form appear across the deck for comparison.