30 Minute Hobbies Sport Vocabulary Conversation Practice with PDF and subtitles
hello everyone and welcome back to
english with lucy and
william yeah part three
yeah it’s your third time isn’t it yeah
we’ve had a couple
on my personal channel and we did a
conversation video the other day on this
channel
loads of you seem to really like it and
have asked for william to come back
well i live here so well we thought we
would do another
but also incorporate your questions so
today’s topic is past times and hobbies
you have a lot of those don’t you i’ve
got a few i’ve got a few i can
contribute
so i put a post on the community tab
asking you
what questions you have about british
people’s
hobbies and pastimes and also ours
so i think we should have a look okay i
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with lots of the vocabulary that i have
pulled
from our conversation so click on the
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so daniel from italy because everyone
has said where they’re from i think
that’s so nice
daniel from italy has a question about
whether we
maintain our hobbies or are we super
enthusiastic
at the beginning and then after a few
weeks we give up
and get bored yeah i’m pretty good at
maintaining
my hobbies so i see a lot of things on
like crafts and making things and baking
beautiful cakes
and i always feel so enthusiastic at the
beginning
and then towards the end i just think
it’s so much work
but with other things like running
that’s been a hobby i’ve had for so long
and
making cards for my family that’s
another one
what are yours mine are mainly sport
related
hobbies so rugby football
golf i could go on
if you’d like a few more watching rugby
or playing rugby i’d probably watch more
than i ever used to
because i used to play a lot of rugby
but now
i don’t play as much rugby as i used to
but i do both
yes so one of will’s main hobbies
used to be playing rugby but
what happened a couple of reasons why i
had to stop
um the main one being injuries
i i used to get injured every saturday
playing
um i remember you coming home with a fat
lip
yeah and a fat eye yes well we have a
black eye
and a fat lip yeah don’t we those are
common satire and a black clip
that’s what i know also another reason
was time
i mean when you start working especially
if you work on a farm
it’s so hard to take time off because
you depend on the weather don’t you
oh we have a lovely question from
paulina
she is russian but she lives in estonia
she says what are your favorite british
tv shows
good question so the first show that
comes to mind
is mock the week it’s a comedy show
based on uh recent news and comedians
are on the panel
and they make a joke about current
affairs
yeah that’s a great tv show i think i
actually
recommended that in a video before so
great minds think alike uh another one
that i always recommend but i
absolutely love is the vicar of dibbly
i’ve been watching it a lot recently
that will never get old no
it’s so good because in the uk
they’ve brought out a new equivalent to
netflix
called brit box and a couple of the tv
stations have got together
and kind of made a collaboration so all
of the old favorite comedies and tv
shows
are all on this one streaming service
and it’s not very expensive so i have
been going
crazy just a little bit here watching
all of my old
favorite tv programs but the vicar of
dibley
is a vicar played by dawn french one of
my favorite comedians
she moves to a very small village in
oxfordshire
i think and it’s about her trials and
tribulations of
running a church in such a small
backwards village yeah so we watch quite
a lot of tv shows and films
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back to the questions
okay we have a good one from muhammad
from algeria
he asks in general what is the one
morning hobby that many brits like doing
on their weekends
well we’ve spoken about a fry up before
like a full
english breakfast that’s not a hobby
yeah it’s not hobby is it eating
it’s one of my hobbies i think gardening
oh that’s a good one yeah a lot of
british people
love gardening well i’m sure people
everywhere love gardening
especially in lockdown all the garden
centers were overrun with people
everything was completely sold out the
people who normally didn’t have enough
time to garden
well suddenly did and yeah garden
centers did a really good trade
now everyone’s lawns are looking
immaculate yes
i would say another one could be golf
yes
that’s a very popular sport yes
because it’s quite relaxed i mean i’ve
never played golf i’ve got no
coordination
but what what do you like about it um
that used to be my hangover cure at
university
we’ve managed to mention hangovers in
every video now i think
yeah it’s good
stretch your legs it’s um
it’s quite a leisurely social sport as
well you normally do it with at least
two to four people uh it’s good for a
catch-up
it’s not anyone can play golf really
anyone can
me well take some people longer than
others but you don’t have to be
exceptionally fit you know it’s true
if you don’t want to walk just order a
trolley my grandad played golf until he
was in his 90s and he used to win
he won champagne and he used to drink it
he was such a great man we have one from
sanya from india she hopes that we’re
both safe and well
that’s very kind of you saying yeah we
hope you’re well as well
yes you’re safe safe and well safe and
well
everyone she asks which hobbies do both
you and will share so do we have any of
the same
hobbies you’ve got sport as your hobbies
mine are running i love exercise classes
my favorite ones
are body pump which is like a cardio
workout
with weights i also love bar pilates
where you do little movements ballet
movements it’s not dancing
but ballet movements and pilates at the
same time
the last time you tried doing that was
when you were trying to
show how to use a gym when was that
started doing squats oh yeah chin ups in
the last video
pilates and doing the gym chin ups looks
exactly the same
i also like being creative i like
cooking
and i love making cards for my family
for their birthdays
what else do i like shopping
i hate driving i hate driving that’s
true but are there any hobbies that we
both
love and we can do together uh going for
long walks in the countryside
that’s a big part of being a farmer and
a farmer’s wife to be
um yeah i love going on walks i probably
enjoy them slightly more than you
well i spend most of my day outside
walking anyway around the farm
so sometimes the last thing i want to do
at the end of the day is go for another
two three mile walk
yeah that’s true i guess in general just
spending time
with our dog and now our cat as well
that’s something anything that makes
them happy i think we are very good
with food i cook the food you eat the
food
we both share the hobby of food but i’m
definitely cooking a lot more now
that’s true will has upped his game
oh yes i have to cooking i got served
the most
beautiful salad today with chicken bacon
sweet corn avocado walnuts
walnuts coriander even though you don’t
like coriander
you’re doing such a good job so ziad
from azerbaijan says
do people in great britain like
motorsports
yes i think we’re obsessed with them yes
i like motorsports your dad likes
motorsports yes my dad
loves f1 racing but the thing is he’s
also very efficient with his time
so he can never spend hours and hours
watching it
he records it and then he’ll spend like
20 minutes fast forwarding through the
highlights
so he doesn’t give himself enough time
to relax the main
interesting bits of a formula one race
are the beginning
the middle where they do the pit stops
and then the last
few laps everything else is nap time
basically
it’s a bit noisy for me then yeah
i found that quite a stressful noise i
would like to go
i’d like to see what it smells like i
imagine it smells like petrol
you need um ear defenders oh do you yeah
yeah oh maybe i wouldn’t like it the
noise is i should think it was a lot
louder than it is now but
still yeah okay we have salma
from morocco i think she’s also an
english teacher actually her name is
english with salma so shout out to her
she wants to know what are the most
common hobbies
in england the most common ones
football football’s definitely up there
has to be football
fishing i think that is probably one of
the most
participated sports
uh in the country or activities shall we
say
i don’t know if i’d say it’s the most
popular but maybe it’s because
i don’t talk to many people who fish but
there are a lot of fishing lakes
and you don’t keep the fish do you you
just catch them and
fly fly fishing you catch them and then
release them
oh that’s a bit mean isn’t it but okay
prince from sudan says
how do we entertain ourselves when we
feel bored
this is a really depressing answer
anytime anyone feels bored they just use
their phone don’t they
no we don’t we do okay we do
but during lockdown we played quite a
few board games
oh that’s true that’s one of the
activities that we love doing together
yeah the board game about actually all
those fun times we had just
yeah months of board games and so we
found a board game and we fell
in love with it it’s called patchwork
and it’s like tetris but in a board game
it’s very very good i won’t try to
explain it you need to read the
instructions but i will link it down
below
because it is fantastic and we’ve bought
it for all of our friends and family
olivika from india wants to know how we
would describe
our perfect day
sunday yeah well it would be a sunday
actually no i prefer saturday because
then you know you’ve still got sunday
but a sunday roast forms part of my
perfect day so it has to be a sunday
yours yeah yeah that’s part of mine as
well
um an afternoon watching a rugby match
would be involved in mine
sorry sorry i wouldn’t have to watch a
lot
but no i’d watch it just the one would
be fine for your perfect day i’d be
there
watching not understanding what’s going
on but watching
i think it would involve a dog walk
seeing my parents and my brother
as well that would be part of it and
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my friends ellie and felicity
just seeing the people you love and i’d
also like to go on a run and do
an exercise class because that always
makes me feel good i’d do that first
so this is an interesting one emily
hansen who is from turkey
wants to know if there are any hobbies
that are
not common around british people for
example extreme sports
exotic animals i’m thinking you’ve lived
in new zealand
i’ve lived in spain were there any
hobbies that we saw in those other
countries
that we don’t see in the uk so there was
one
for me in spain paddle there was this
sport
it looked like tennis but with a really
small racket called
paddle and i swear i have never seen
that sport in the uk but they
really took it seriously out there i
think they were in the olympics
yeah well maybe maybe not i don’t know
i’m not sure about new zealand i’d say
new zealand
it’s quite a predominantly farming
country so they would share quite a few
of the things that
i would do around here so i’m not sure
about new zealand
what don’t we we don’t ski i i was
thinking we have no mountains
we don’t ski but it’s very popular to go
abroad
skiing yeah a lot of people do that i’ve
never been skiing before i’ve never been
to a
skiing location that’s something i’d
like to
take you to ski resort you can take me
definitely miguel from spain
wants to know if we play any musical
instruments
do you want to start tell them your
instrument i used to play a musical
instrument
and then we ended up selling it to a
family member
i used to play the drums i played the
drums for about
six years i think it was five or six
years
did you do any grades i didn’t do grades
but i did enter competitions
oh yes i did uh i never won oh
i always came second or third um
but it was at school and i remember one
competition in particular
i was playing to a soundtrack in the
background
and uh and i was just in the moment i
was just playing along and i completely
lost where i was
uh looking at the music book and
the music in the background had actually
stopped and i just carried on playing
and everyone in the crowd was just they
didn’t know whoever to applaud
to tell me to stop or i ended up
carrying on playing for another 15
seconds
so we’re going to say 15 minutes no
another 15 seconds i was looking at my
teacher to the side and he was just like
okay you’re done
you’re done well done so my dad plays
the drums
but he set up a soundproofed room above
the garage
so that he wouldn’t disturb us but the
problem was it was next to my bedroom
but i used to find it quite soothing i
could just hear like a little heartbeat
or sometimes a very fast heartbeat in my
ear
he’s much better than i ever was he’s
excellent my dad at the
drums and he also plays the violin and
so me and my brother
also took up the violin as well and we
played until we were 18 and then we
stopped
but sometimes when i go home i will pick
up the violin with my dad and we’ll play
a duet together that’s something i
really like doing
maybe when i’m older i will buy a violin
and play a bit here but i don’t have the
urge at the moment
you can sing loose
i don’t i don’t sing sing i’ve
occasionally seen she doesn’t like to
sing in public but
she sings i do sing every now and again
um i only sing for my parents birthdays
so if my parents have a party i know
that
it’s their favorite thing when i sing
and but even though i find it so
embarrassing
i will do it for them but that’s it but
it’s my dad’s 60th i think
soon so i’m getting really nervous that
he’s going to want me to sing
oh we have elif from turkey and
they want to know how we spent our time
together throughout quarantine
well we’ve already mentioned board games
that was a big part of it
and they also want to know if we found
any new hobbies
in this period so i’d say one thing
that we did that we’d never done before
is zoom
pub quizzes so this is a popular pastime
for british people
we love going to the pub and we also
love quizzes so a lot of pubs
once a month will host a quiz so you
have to get a team between i think
one and six people and you pay a fee
and then i think the winner takes most
of it but normally
you donate it to charity yeah we we
loved doing that when we lived in the
village
brilliant yes it gets the village
involved
basically yes it’s really nice it’s
normally the last wednesday of every
month
we have a really good friend who is
amazing
at pub quizzes so we always used to get
him on our team
yeah he’s what you would call a ringer
he doesn’t live in the village but he’s
brought in from outside of the village
to help your team is that what it’s
called a ringer a ringer
where’s that phrase from i don’t know
but it’s it’s like when you have a
a team a sports team um
and you bring someone in from another
club who doesn’t play for your club
that is called a ringer look will’s
teaching me english now this is amazing
thank you and that was really nicely
explained actually
we started doing pub quizzes on zoom
with all of our friends
lots of different couples and each week
a different
couple would organize the questions and
when it got to your go
your round you went above and beyond
didn’t you well i
i spent a couple of late nights looking
into
you know everything everything yes
basically no no one likes an easy quiz
everyone should learn something new
by the end of the quiz that’s how i feel
yes and then you put it in the next
quiz that’s with a different group of
people
um so what will did is he looked through
all of his friends
old facebook photos took the most
embarrassing ones possible
blocked out their face and had a round
where you had to guess
which person was in that photo and it
was excellent we were in
stitches so actually one thing involved
you guys um
one of will’s friends it was his turn to
make the quiz
and he actually made a round based on my
youtube comments
um so he showed like crazy comments and
we had to guess
if they were real or not and it was
hilarious because
you know i do get some strange comments
every now and again
um so beware if you comment anything
strange you might be in the next quiz
because we’re in lockdown again but
you’ll probably never know about it
you’ll never know tani from india asks
if we like extreme
sports like bungee diving bungee diving
bungee jumping or sea diving bungee
diving god that would hurt your neck
wouldn’t it if you hit the water
well i’ve never done that many extreme
sports i’ve done
skydiving but it was indoor skydiving
so it wasn’t real skydiving not that
extreme
um you’ve done a lot more than me though
i’ve
i’ve done two bungee jumps um natter
ah crazy and one skydive
and all three were in new zealand i’m so
glad you did that before i met you
because i wouldn’t i would have been
so worried they were all awesome one
bungee jump was
into a cannon a cannon into a cannon
like a one that you fire bumps yeah i
jumped into it and then they shot me out
of it
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okay
um and then my second one was off a
bridge
at a smaller height and then i went into
the water at the bottom
were you meant to yes okay good right
it’s done on
it’s done on weight oh okay if you’re
very heavy
um you’re most likely going to go into
the water but if you’re
not quite so heavy and not as tall as me
um you’ve actually got to reach out and
touch it
and the skydive was in taupo
in new zealand and that was from 15 000
feet so i was free-falling for a minute
wow yeah it was you don’t
you don’t really believe you’re doing it
at the time it doesn’t feel like you’re
free-falling in the sky
i don’t know if i’d do that i am i just
have too many things that i love
i want to do again oh deborah
from india i just read out her name
before and you said how nice it was
didn’t she say again it’s a lovely name
it’s a lovely name
um she has asked what is britain’s
biggest festival so
i think the biggest celebration is
christmas
for us were you thinking like last year
christmas rubbish glastonbury yeah
we’ve never been to glastonbury okay
that’s a hobby in a past time going to
music festivals they’re very big
uh in the uk i went to one when i was 16
reading festival and somebody jumped on
my
tent and everything was squashed but it
was very good but i was thinking more
like cultural it makes a lot more sense
yeah
so christmas is probably the biggest one
um but i’m also thinking of
frequent festivals as well we have a we
have a lot of beer festivals
yes so often pubs in the summer normally
will put on an event called a beer and
cider and normally sausage festival as
well
to try and bring in more people for that
weekend make a big party of it
and i love those they’re great you get
to go there they normally bring in lots
of different ciders and beers from all
around that you can try
lots of sausages sometimes they do a hog
roast as well
which is where they cook a pig basically
and everyone gets
given sandwiches with that yeah
what other festivals can you think of
i’m just thinking of music festivals now
art festivals
yeah we like a festival in the uk
this is a good one okay we have marina
from spain
she says i’m from spain and here it’s
always really hot
so i’m wondering what do you do in
england to have fun outside
because it’s raining basically all the
time oh
marina how things have changed yeah
so you’re right i noticed that when i
lived in spain
people did a lot more outside to an
extent apart from in summer
where the heat was basically unbearable
in seville um
but we just make the most of good
weather
whilst it’s there so when it’s a sunny
day
even if it’s quite cold you know it’s
march or something everyone’s got their
shorts on
people are sunburned people are
sunbathing in a pub garden a lot of our
hobbies include pubs we’re having
barbecues
barbecues are a massive thing so the
difficult thing in the uk is that it’s
hard to plan
trips because you cannot guarantee the
weather
so i know in spain most people went on
well many people went on holiday within
spain because you knew that it was going
to be sunny
perfect for a beach holiday whereas here
i once booked
over a week in the beach with my family
and it rained
the entire time i’m not kidding it was
like being inside a cloud
for the entire time beautiful beach
beautiful place
but you go on the wrong day and it’s
awful in the summer when a sunny day is
predicted
and especially at a weekend everyone
packs the car
drives two three hours to the nearest
beach
and you know roasts themselves
roast themselves until the monday where
we’re probably predicted rain
yeah but now our summers are actually
getting hotter
uh we have days of over 30 degrees a bit
more regularly now
yeah which we aren’t used to so we
struggle our houses struggle
yeah really struggle because our houses
are designed to retain heat in winter
you know if you have the heating on you
need lots of insulin insulation but that
means in the summer
if the house heats up our houses all our
insulation is working hard to retain all
that heat still
so i know the houses are built
differently in hot countries
okay we have anastasia or anastasia from
turkey lovely name we’ve had a lot of
beautiful names today
um they want to know if there are any
hobbies that we would like to take up
in the future you go first okay well
i’ve got one small one
there’s a new class at my gym um
where they’ve got a little trampoline
with handles
i’ve shown you a video already because
i’m so excited about it
and you jump to the beach to the music
i am so excited to try that when it
starts at the gym
i think it’d be quite good in spin
classes spin spin class i used to do
spin but they don’t do it
at our gym now i go to a very small gym
it’s just a room where we do classes
what would you like to do what would i
take up
i’ve mentioned golf i used to play a lot
more golf
when i was 18. so a few years ago now
but i would like to take that up a bit
if you had more time
if i had more time any other things that
you haven’t tried before that you would
like to try
that you think you’d be good at two
things i’d like to do
i’d like to learn and become fluent in
another language
oh which one spanish would probably be
the most helpful for our relationship i
would love that i was better at french
at school
well no that would be great that means
that we can go to spain i can speak
spanish we can go to france
you can speak french and i can learn it
i’d love that
voila
and the second one would be back to
a musical instrument
not necessarily the drums but i’d
quite like to be good on a guitar or a
piano
that would be cool we were just talking
the other day i said that i’d like to
learn to play the piano maybe if we have
children and they’re learning the piano
i could learn with them
i think that would be amazing right i
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