5. Paco and Andrés spend their spare time together
Listening activity
Leisure activities
Listen to this conversation about leisure activities. You can read along with the conversation. Then review the key vocabulary and the sample sentences to solve a matching exercise about the previous conversation.
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Free time activities
Watch the following presentation about spare time vocabulary to enlarge your vocabulary.
At the same time, practice the Present Simple and the Present Continuous Tenses formation.
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Example exercise
Fill in this crossword about free time activities in order to learn some vocabulary related to leisure time. You can help yourself by clicking in hint as many times as you consider necessary and then clicking in enter.
Choose the right translation for this spare time vocabulary:
Alternar con los amigos
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Alternate with friends
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socializing
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Play dames
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Play draughts |
Salón recreativo
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Amusement arcade
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Gambling
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Stamp collecting
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Ludo
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Curiosity: sports
Do you know the origin of soccer?
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The origin of football or soccer can be found in every corner of geography and history. The Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Ancient Greek, Persian, Viking, and many more played a ball game long before our era. The Chinese played "football" games date as far back as 3000 years ago. The Ancient Greeks and the Roman used football games to sharpen warriors for battle. In south and Central America a game called "Tlatchi" once flourished.
But it was in England that soccer really begins to take shape. It all started in 1863 in England, when two football association (association football and rugby football) split off on their different course. Therefore, the first Football Association was founded in England.
Further knowledge
- In order to enlarge your vocabulary about free time and leisure activities, click here.
- Try here to do this attractive multiple choice activity about entertainment.
By Janek Mann. Creative Commons. - If you want to know the pronunciation of any word, try this English Pronouncing Dictionary with Instant Sound.