Leisure and Hobbies
A. Answer these questions
1. Do you have many photos of your family and
friends? Where do you keep them? What do
you do with them?
2. When you go on vacation, what do you keeps to
remember your trip?
3. What kinds of papers and photos did your
parents save from your childhood? Do you ever
look at them?
LEISURE FOCUS:
SCRAPBOOKING
Before reading
Find the explanations for these terms
A page that uses fancy paper, stickers, drawings and words to
Layout_________________________________
show the theme.
An empty book for collecting and preserving photographs,
Scrappers_______________________________
newspaper articles, and other papers.
Crops__________________________________
Big parties where we all work on our scrapbooks.
New words
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Define
Preserve
Throw away
Precious
Supplies
Decorate
Universal
Display
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Keep in good condition for the future
Show sth for other people to look at
Important and valuable
Things you need to do or make sth
Get rid of sth you don’t want
Explain the meaning of a word
The same everywhere
To make sth look better
Reading comprehension
A. Complete the sentences with information
from the article.
1. In her childhood, Diane liked
bits of paper, things like movie
tickets, vacation postcards, even
to______________________.
paper napkins
10 years ago
2. Diane started making scrapbooks after________________.
father
3. Her first scrapbooks was about______________________.
preserve
display
4. People make scrapbook to__________ and to___________.
Reading comprehension
B. Answer True(T) or False(F)
1.
2.
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4.
5.
Scrapbooking has become an important business.
People in many countries make scrapbook.
A “crop” is a kind of scrapbooking competition.
Most scrapbooks are about nationality history.
A scrapbook page has both words and pictures
F
T
F
F
T
Reading comprehension
C. Answer the questions
1. What kinds of people do you think scrapbooking would be
popular with young or old? Male or female?
2. Do you think scrapbooking would be popular in your
country? Why, or why not?
3. Imagine you’re going to make a scrapbook. What theme will
you choose ? What will you put on your scrapbook pages?
Vocabulary comprehension
A. Answer the questions below. Share your
answers with your partner.
1. What is something you would like to “preserve” for your
children in the future?
2. What is something that you really should “throw away”?
3. How do you like to “decorate” your rooms?
4. What are some leisure activities that are universal?
Vocabulary skill
Verb
Improve
Achieve
Noun
Improvement
Achievement
Measure
Measurement
Develop
Require
Agree
Govern
Development
Requirement
Agreement
Government
Meaning
Making sth better
to succeed in reaching a
particular goal, status or
standard, especially by
making an effort for a long
time
to find the size, quantity,
etc. of something in
standard units
grow bigger/stronger
to need something
to have the same opinion
to legally control a country
or its people
Vocabulary skill
B. Complete the conversation below using the correct
noun or verb
achievement
A: It’s quite an(1)____________ to get into a university like Harvard or Tale.
agree
B: Yes, I(2)___________; but I’m not planning to attend either of those
schools. I’m trying to enter the University of Wisconsin. The problem is that all
requirement
international students have to take the TOEFL test. It’s a (3) ___________
improve
A: Well, if you want to go there, you’ll need to (4) ___________ your test
score.
improvement
B: I know, but my current score is still an (5) ___________ over last month’s
score.
A: Well, I’m sure you’ll get into Wisconsin- your English is very good. And you
measurement
know
that standardized tests don’t always provide an accurate(6)
___________ of a person’s ability to speak in English.