How to Talk About Your Hobbies In English

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Alicia here in this series we’re going

to learn some easy ways to ask and

answer common questions in English it’s

really useful and it only takes three

minutes in this lesson you are going to

learn how to ask what someone’s hobbies

are without using the word hobbies

you’ve probably seen the question do you

have any hobbies or what are your

hobbies in an English textbook before

however native English speakers almost

never use the word hobbies when asking

about them a much more natural way to

ask the same question is what do you do

for fun let’s practice this question

what do you do for fun what do you do

for fun you can also ask what do you do

in your free time what do you do in your

free time so how would you answer this

question let’s look at how native

speakers would do it the easiest way is

to say I like to or just I like followed

by what you like to do for example if

you like watching movies you could say I

like to watch movies or I like watching

movies I like to watch movies or I like

watching movies and if you like golf you

could say I like to play golf or I like

playing golf I like to play golf or I

like playing golf you can emphasize how

much you like your hobby by adding a

word like really in front of like

for example I really like watching

movies on the other hand if you want to

play down how much you like something

you can say kind of for example I kind

of like playing tennis now it’s time for

Alisha’s advice if you don’t have any

special hobbies or don’t want to be

specific

a good way to reply is I like hanging

out with my friends and stuff like that

I like hanging out with my friends and

stuff like that just use I like and add

hanging out with my friends and then add

and stuff like that making you learn by

having fun it’s a thing infotainment ice

hi everybody welcome back to top words

my name is Alisha and today we’re gonna

be talking about 10 things to do in the

summer in the United States so let’s go

to travel abroad to travel abroad to

travel abroad abroad means outside of

your country so meaning to travel to a

place not the United States in my case

please don’t forget to in this

expression so many of my students will

say this summer I’m going Europe you

need to use two before the place you do

not however need to use two before

they’re so like students sometimes will

say I want to go to there you can’t do

that

you have to use two before the specific

name of a place there is not a specific

place so you don’t need to use to keep

that one in mind to relax at the beach

to relax at the beach ah that sounds

fantastic right now to relax at the

beach you go to the beach and you just

relax there you lay in the Sun you go

swimming maybe you drink a beer you get

a tan if you would like to do that of

course some people don’t you put on

sunscreen whatever it is that you like

to do at the beach you just do that and

enjoy in a sentence I would rather relax

at the beach than have a really active

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dot-com to have a barbecue oh yeah the

next one is one of my favorite things

ever to do in summer wherever I am it’s

to have a barbecue or to have a BB q

it’s also okay but barbeque usually BB Q

is in like writing I love having

barbecues with my friends in the summer

every 4th of July my family has a big

barbecue to party all night the next

expression is to party all night to

party all night you don’t it doesn’t

have to be summer or in the United

States to party all night just say

anyway it’s a party all night means to

do something you enjoy presumably with

your friends or not I guess I partied

like all night at home I tweeted pajamas

are the best and then I tweeted a

picture of myself really excited about a

cookie and was very embarrassed about

that the next day so I deleted it since

I won’t have school in the morning I’m

going to party all night a different

sentence I don’t like partying all night

I get tired I always hit a wall like

r.e.m like I’m like yeah and then 3 a.m.

and I’m running to sleep to get a tan to

get a tan to get a tan it’s in some

cultures this is a good thing in some

cultures it’s not a good thing it means

to sit in the Sun or lay in the Sun and

let the Sun change the color of your

skin be careful there’s there are two

expressions in English there is one to

get a tan and another is to get a Sun

burn so in u.s. culture anyway getting a

tan means like your skin turns like a

darker brown color but when it turns red

it’s bad that means you’ve burned your

skin so tan good burn bad so we’d have 2

separate words to describe them in a

sentence you’ll find me poolside getting

a tan to go hiking

next expression is to go hiking so

hiking means walking or trekking usually

in a mountain or in a nature setting so

in a sentence I used to go hiking with

my family every summer

that’s roughly true in this sentence I’m

going to hike the Pacific Crest Trail to

work a part-time job the next expression

is to work a part-time job to work a

part-time job is very common if you’re a

student especially so when you have your

summer vacation it’s a chance for you to

earn a little bit of money by working at

a part-time job in a sentence

unfortunately she can’t go because she

has to work at her part-time job ah when

I was a teenager I had a part-time job

at a golf course yeah because I was on

the golf team at school

very convenient lovely experiences a

plus everybody to have fun with friends

to have fun with friends also something

that you do not need to only do in

summer but which you can do anytime

we’re having fun now are we so to have

fun with friends it’s just to enjoy time

with your friends it’s great in a

sentence I love having fun with my

friends whenever I can he has fun with

friends but he doesn’t do much else hmm

to attend summer school the next one is

to attend summer school to attend summer

school usually has kind of a bad image

and I feel in you in the u.s. anyway

because it sounds like maybe you missed

something in regular school but for some

people maybe there’s a special course

they want to attend or like a special

internship program or it’s just

something special extra that they would

like to study in a sentence I hated

going to summer school when I was a kid

since I failed the class I’ll have to

attend summer school so those are 10

things that you can do in the summer in

the US or in many other countries I

think if there’s something that you like

to do in the summer in your country or

in any country for that matter let us

know in the comments so thanks very much

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how are your English listening skills in

this video you’ll have a chance to test

them out with a quiz first you’ll see an

image and here a question next comes a

short dialogue listen carefully and see

if you can answer correctly will show

you the answer at the end are you ready

a man and a woman are talking when are

they going to see the movie why don’t we

go see a movie on Saturday yes I’d love

but I have to work a shift in the

morning what time will you finish I’ll

finish it two o’clock then let’s meet up

at the cafe at three o’clock and see a

movie at four o’clock okay

when are they going to see the movie

a man and a woman are talking when are

they going to see the movie why don’t we

go see a movie on Saturday yes I’d love

to but I have to work a shift in the

morning what time will you finish I’ll

finish it two o’clock then let’s meet up

at the cafe at three o’clock and see a

movie at four o’clock okay a man is

talking with a salesperson at the mall

which shirt is he going to buy hmm which

shirt do you think is better the white

one or the blue one well I think the

blue one is better it goes well with

this gray jacket you think so

but it doesn’t go so well with this red

tie does it well that’s true okay then

I’ll take the white one not the blue one

which shirt is he going to buy

a man is talking with a salesperson at

the mall which shirt is he going to buy

hmm which shirt do you think is better

the white one or the blue one well I

think the blue one is better it goes

well with this gray jacket do you think

so but it doesn’t go so well with this

red tie does it well that’s true okay

then I’ll take the white one not the

blue one a man and a woman are talking

what are they going to do first what do

you want to do today I want to go see a

movie okay I want to watch the baseball

game on TV also I want to go shopping

the baseball game starts at 1:00 o’clock

okay so let’s see the movie first and

then you can watch the baseball game all

right then

we’ll go shopping in the evening

what are they going to do first

a man and a woman are talking what are

they going to do first what do you want

to do today I want to go see a movie

okay I want to watch the baseball game

on TV also I want to go shopping the

baseball game starts at 1:00 o’clock

okay so let’s see the movie first and

then you can watch the baseball game all

right then we’ll go shopping in the

evening did you get it right I hope you

learned something from this quiz let us

know if you have any questions see you

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101.com in this lesson you’re going to

learn how to ask someone about what

sports they like if you’re a sports fan

then you’ll know how much fun it is when

you meet someone who likes that sport as

much as you do even if they don’t like

your favorite team you may assume that

you just say what sports do you like of

course this is a normal way to ask this

question but there’s actually a more

natural way to ask this in idiomatic

English we use the phrase to follow a

sport to mean to like or be interested

in a sport so you can ask do you follow

sports or if you think it’s likely that

the other person does like sports you

can ask what sports do you follow you

can answer either of these questions by

saying yeah I follow and then the name

of the sport yeah I follow soccer or you

can say yeah I like soccer or you can

use the phrase I’m a fan of yeah I’m a

fan of soccer but what if you don’t like

sports again remember what we said

before about being careful not to hurt

the other person’s feelings by saying

anything too offensive just say no I

don’t really follow any sports lots of

people don’t like to watch sports but do

like to play sports if this is you then

you can say I don’t really follow sports

but I like playing and then the name of

the sport I don’t really follow sports

but I like playing soccer

a good place to expand the conversation

is if you answer yeah I follow soccer

and the other person answers me to or

something similar to then ask about what

teams they support all you say is what

team do you support

or as we said in previous lessons you

can expand the conversation by asking

the other person how about you once

you’ve finished answering now it’s time

for Alicia’s advice sports are a very

most popular sport in the world in

America it’s called soccer in other

places in other countries it’s usually

called

football soccer is a game that’s played

totally without your hands you kick the

ball back and forth to your team members

trying to score a goal the biggest

soccer tournament in the world is the

FIFA World Cup where countries from

around the globe compete to be the very

best football football a lot of football

players get injured because it’s a very

rough sport in America we call this game

football but in other countries they say

American football football is a game

that’s played with a football that’s

carried in your hand which is very

counterintuitive you pass the football

you run yards and you try to score

touchdowns in America we have the Super

Bowl which is the biggest game of the

year everyone around the country watches

this big football game baseball baseball

is called America’s national pastime

baseball is a very popular sport around

the world there is a pitcher who pitches

the ball and then the

the batter who hits the ball and runs

around the bases to score runs

basketball basketball many basketball

players live like rock stars you dribble

the ball which means bouncing the ball

and you shoot it through a hoop to get

points hockey hockey hockey is

incredibly popular in Canada hockey is a

game that’s played on ice skates and the

players skate around on the ice with

hockey sticks hitting a hockey puck to

score goals and that brings us to the

end of this lesson five most popular

sports what is your favorite sport what

sport is most popular in your country

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to learn more English scores points hi

everybody and welcome back to english

topics my name is Alisha and today I’m

joined in the studio by I’m Davey

welcome Davey and thanks for joining us

so today our topic is going to be about

how to use movies and music and TV shows

to improve your English so we’re both

going to share from our own personal

experiences but maybe we’re going to

share a few things we haven’t done I

suppose but perhaps could help you or

not those kind of really thick anyway do

you want to start sure all right what’s

a way to improve English with music TV

movies all right any ideas my yes I do

have some ideas my first recommendation

is use subtitles in English as early as

possible this isn’t always very easy if

you’re just starting out learning

English if you’re starting out learning

English and you’re watching movies in

English you’re probably watching in

subtitles of your own language but as

soon as you’re comfortable reading in

English and when you’re comfortable

getting most of what you’re listening to

in English I think switching to

subtitles in English is really important

because I think when people are watching

movies and television shows in English

they think that it’s really going to

improve their listening more

anything else but I think you can

improve other skills to not only or

listening and so if you switch to

subtitles in English you’re also going

to improve your reading

you’ll learn to read faster you’ll match

the spellings of English words with how

they sound and that will really help

improve both skills a lot more quickly

and will help you understand what’s

going on home screen yeah actually I

really do agree with that but

interestingly enough I put maybe the

first step to what you just described

that was one of mine so I said listen to

movies in your target language with your

native language subtitles on so

initially I was thinking of this as an

initial tip so to get used to listening

to your target language but then being

able to familiarize yourself with your

Nate in your native language through

using subtitles but then after after you

get comfortable with that maybe you

watch the same movie a few times for

example you get familiar with the story

with the the things that the characters

say then you can switch to using

subtitles and familiarize yourself with

the story in a whole new way so that can

be a really fun way I think to practice

both your listening and your reading

skills I totally agree I suppose you

could even read the subtitles out loud

along with the characters too that’s

we’re getting ahead of ourselves oh my

that brings me to you should have gone

first oh but that brings me partly to my

second tip which is shadowing so you can

do this not only with movies and

television but with music as well

basically just trying to repeat what you

hear or what you’re reading as you’re

listening to it on the screen very

immediately after you hear it and so for

example if you hear a song lyric or a

phrase in the movie or TV show

immediately after you you hear it try

and repeat it back and that will help

kind of improve your speaking especially

regarding pronunciation and how you

connect different words together yes yep

yep I had to say one at the same point

about music mine was by mine in

particular was memorized song lyrics and

sing along so I think that gives you an

extra sort of way to study if you

actually have to read the song lyrics

and try to remember them and repeat them

back sometimes even without the

accompaniment of the artist that you’re

listening to that can

a good way to practice trying to create

or trying to just you know repeat

something without having necessarily

like the audio prompt but one point and

I was thinking about this as I was

writing this card tube it is a little

bit tricky like if there is something a

little bit different about music and I

think this differs from TV shows and

movies how so that sometimes one music

doesn’t always use perfect grammar

that’s true one and two sometimes

artists will kind of stretch sounds or

artists will kind of change sounds or

change emphasis to make the the words

that they’re using match the beat or the

rhythm of their song so sometimes it’s

not always the best way to to practice

your your target language and one more

point if I can add to that is that

frankly a lot of popular music there’s

lots of rude words you have to be really

careful about and there’s also just kind

of nonsense too so you can’t expect

everything that you hear and music to be

exactly the way that people speak but in

general yeah I think it’s exactly right

in terms of just getting familiar with

them a better more natural rhythm it can

be a really good tool to use

I completely agree yeah okay so we set

me up again my third one I’m just

blending right together okay my last

point here is don’t believe everything

you hear specifically to mean that yes

not only song lyrics but TV shows and

movies oftentimes use imperfect or

incorrect grammar as well and so you

can’t always think that that’s exactly

how something should be said just to

just because you heard it in a song or

saw it on TV

so for example right now I’m actually

rewatching Buffy the Vampire Slayer

I’m a very very open Buffy fan and as I

was watching Buffy just today I realize

how they speak on that show isn’t really

like most people speak English

especially that the writers of that show

and the characters on that show sort of

have their own way of speaking that

isn’t typical if you’re if you are a

learner

watching that show or watching other

shows too you might think that that’s

how people speak English and hearing

vocabulary that you’ve never heard

before but it’s just made up for the

show it’s only used on the show so

that’s a key point then so maybe if

you’re gonna watch TV you’re gonna watch

movies to try and study English maybe

like science fiction or fantasy or like

historical movies aren’t necessarily the

best well maybe historical movies to

some extent maybe it’s good to pick like

a modern or a more contemporary thing to

study from like I know friends is a

really popular TV show that’s comedy a

lot of people like to use bad so that is

a good point too I think okay we

actually differed finally on that I had

something totally different this is

something that I actually did when I was

studying which is translate songs you

enjoy or at least try to translate songs

that you enjoy because a song is usually

maybe three minutes four minutes long

and there probably aren’t going to be

words that entire time and there’s gonna

be some repetition of those words so if

you can identify if you can find a song

that you like an artist that you like

and maybe there’s something that’s just

you just love this particular track or

whatever it is if you try to translate

that even if it’s not a correct

translation you can still be learning

those words and you can still be

studying how those words fit together

and how maybe you can understand those

words in other situations so maybe a

word that you’ve translated in song a

you might hear again in song B maybe by

the same artist or a different artist so

because you took the time to try to

translate it or at least have an idea of

what it might mean you can identify it

in a different context in a different

situation so this is something that I

actually did that’s a very good idea

yeah yeah it was fun I think any any

time you hear a new word or any time you

hear a language that you’re studying

you’re doing that so you that so that

you can use that language in the future

in other contexts and so that’s a really

good first step to doing that taking

what you’ve learned trying to translate

it and using it in other ways I think so

okay that’s all I have do you have

anything else that’s that’s all I have

for now okay

and if you have any other ways that you

like to use music movies TV shows other

kinds of media to study English or to

study another language please let us

know in the comments all right thanks

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hi everybody and welcome back to top

words my name is Alisha and today we’re

gonna be talking about 10 gamers speak

words I am excited about this one

let’s go curse word is achievement

achievement is used when you have

completed a mission in some games

there’s a very famous phrase that says

like achievement unlocked good feeling

beta beta it’s for something that’s not

quite finished but that’s maybe in like

a testing phase you could hear like the

beta release of something or like the

beta test version of blah blah blah for

example I am beta testing a running game

right now that is true

next is boss if you ever played a video

game probably you know about a boss

battle you’ve been playing through a

level and at the end of that level

there’s a boss that you have to fight

it’s kind of interesting now thinking

about it how we use boss for a main

challenger that you have to defeat in a

video game level but we also use it for

like our managers at work so the next

word is role-playing game role-playing

game is commonly abbreviated commonly

shortened to RPG this is a very popular

style of game a role-playing game

meaning you play a role role-playing

games have evolved over years now you

can play for example MMORPGs massively

multiplayer online role-playing games I

have been playing role-playing games

since I was like 11

my brother convinced me to play Final

Fantasy 7 the next word is checkpoint

you might also hear save point you save

your game and then you continue on in

the game and then if you die you go back

and you respawn you come back to life

from that checkpoint

I feel like checkpoint is used more in

like a racing game but save point is

used more in an RPG the next one is noob

and oob i love the word noob i mostly to

talk about myself actually when i’ve

made like a really stupid decision noob

means rookie it means someone who is

inexperienced at something you can use

noob in a game if you find someone who

has just joined the game they’re a brand

new player there are a noob they don’t

know anything

farming let’s talk about farming in

gaming terms it means you are trying to

collect a certain item it has like kind

of a reputation for being a bit boring

because you’re just killing like the

same creature over and over again NPC

NPC means non playable character there

are other characters within the game

that moved the story forward but that

you cannot play as you cannot become

that character but you interact with

them I have to talk to an NPC in order

to move this quest forward next is

camper a camper is someone who is

waiting for a creature to spawn so a

person who’s waiting for the monster to

appear is called a camper you can use

camping as a verb to to talk about that

like I’m camping this monster really

people camp other players

I suppose so depending on the kind of

game you’re playing MMO is a massively

multiplayer online game means you can

play online with a lot of different

people essentially well that’s all

that’s the end so those are 10 game or

speak words I really enjoyed doing this

lesson it’s been a long time since I’ve

thought about video games and now I want

to like go home and play it was really

fun if you enjoy video games and want to

use your English to be able to explain

them these are some words that might be

really really useful for you alright

thanks very much for watching and we

will see you again next time for more

fun stuff bye in this lesson you’re

going to learn how to ask and answer the

question have you seen this movie

sometimes when you’re talking to someone

you might run out of things to talk

about don’t worry it happens to everyone

this lesson is going to be really useful

in increasing your repertoire of small

talk questions by focusing on a topic

that most people are at least a little

bit interested in movies if you find

yourself with nothing to talk about or

if you just really like movies then you

can always start a conversation about a

new or controversial movie you do this

by asking have you seen and then the

name of the movie the question have you

seen is used when asking about movies

rather than did you see because you’re

asking about the person’s present state

there are several possible answers to

this if you have seen the movie there

are again several ways to reply

according to how much you enjoyed it

if you saw it and really enjoyed it you

can say yeah I really liked it or if you

saw it but only thought it was so so you

can say yeah it was okay or if you saw

it but didn’t like it yeah but it wasn’t

really my thing remember with this last

one that you shouldn’t criticize the

movie too much until you know what the

other person thinks of it in order to be

polite the logical follow-up to one of

these responses is to ask what the other

person thought of the movie you can just

say what did you think of it and then

this starts off a potentially

interesting conversation about your

opinions on the movie however how do you

answer if you haven’t seen the movie in

question all you have to say is no not

yet this not yet implies that you’re

planning to see the movie at some point

and so signals to the other person that

they shouldn’t tell you about key points

of the story if you don’t plan to see

the movie in question or if it’s not the

type of movie you like you can get this

across politely by saying no it’s not

really my sort of thing now it’s time

for Alicia’s advice if you have seen the

movie in question but the other person

hasn’t it’s a great conversation starter

to tell them about the plot of the movie

or about any particularly funny or

memorable scenes but be careful you

should always ask if the other person

plans to see the movie in the future

before telling them any important plot

points just say do you plan to see it at

some point

telling someone an important plot point

or the twist or ending of a movie is

called spoiling a movie the noun is a

spoiler as in don’t tell me any spoilers

it’s considered very bad manners to

reveal a spoiler without giving warning

first and some people can get very

annoyed if you do this so be careful in

general talking about movies is a pretty

safe topic if you don’t want to offend

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how are your English listening skills

first you’ll see an image and here a

question next comes a short dialogue

listen carefully and see if you can

answer correctly will show you the

answer at the end

a woman is calling on the phone to

reserve tickets for a play which two

seats did she get hello this is black

friars Playhouse can I help you I’d like

to get two tickets for King Lear at 5:30

this evening do you still have any

tickets available we do have a few seats

left but I’m sorry to say we don’t have

any next to each other if you don’t mind

though we can get you two seats

separately okay we don’t mind do you

have any particular requests well do you

have any aisle seats yes we have an

aisle seat at the left side of the

center section and to the right of it

three seats over we have another free

seat to the side okay then please book

that aisle seat certainly how about the

other one do you have any seats near the

center the only Center seats we have

left are from the first row to the third

row I’m not too crazy about having

actors spit on me so this room is

relatively small and I think you could

enjoy the play even at the end of the

row on the side is that so then I’ll

take the one you mentioned before on the

left side

which two seats did she get

a woman is calling on the phone to

reserve tickets for a play which two

seats did she get hello this is black

friars Playhouse can I help you I’d like

to get two tickets for King Lear at 5:30

this evening do you still have any

tickets available we do have a few seats

left but I’m sorry to say we don’t have

any next to each other if you don’t mind

though we can get you two seats

separately okay we don’t mind do you

have any particular requests well do you

have any aisle seats yes we have an

aisle seat at the left side of the

center section and to the right of it

three seats over we have another free

seat to the side okay then please book

that aisle seat certainly how about the

other one do you have any seats near the

center the only Center seats we have

left are from the first row to the third

row I’m not too crazy about having

actors spit on me so this room is

relatively small and I think you could

enjoy the play even at the end of the

row on the side is that so then I’ll

take the one you mentioned before on the

left side a woman is asking about a

library’s lending policy which materials

could she borrow at one time excuse me

can you tell me how to borrow books is

it your first time at this library yes

well then I’ll explain the rules to you

you can borrow up to six books and five

CDs or DVDs at a time per person but you

can only borrow up to ten items in total

at a time everything needs to be

returned in two weeks and if you’d like

to renew please let us know before then

can I also borrow magazines or

newspapers you can’t borrow newspapers

but you can borrow magazines except for

the latest issue can I return them

through the mail we can’t accept returns

through the mail please come to the

library to return them after hours you

can put them in the box next to the

entrance

but items that are overdue please return

them directly to this desk I see thank

you very much

which materials could she borrow at one

time

a woman is asking about a library’s

lending policy which materials could she

borrow at one time excuse me can you

tell me how to borrow books is it your

first time at this library yes