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My Favorite Hobby

How to Talk About Your Favorite Hobby in English

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Unit 4 · Lesson 1 · A1-A2 Speaking

  • A1-A2
  • Ages 6 to 12
  • 60 min
  • 1:1, pairs, or groups

Kids love talking about what they do for fun, and this lesson gives them the words to do it in English. In this A1-A2 speaking lesson, students learn to name their favorite hobby, say when and who they do it with, how they started, and how it makes them feel. Games, dialogues, and a final hobby talk keep students speaking for the whole hour, so by the end they can describe their hobby with confidence and react like a native speaker.

Speaking Goals

By the end of the lesson, students can:

  • Say what their favorite hobby is
  • Say how often and who they do it with
  • Say when they started
  • Say how it makes them feel and why
  • Talk about their hobby for 30 seconds

Hobby Vocabulary

  • hobby
  • draw
  • collect
  • build
  • practice
  • favorite
  • creative
  • calm

Hobby Sentence Frames

  • My favorite hobby is ___.
  • I do it every ___.
  • I do it with ___.
  • I started when I was ___.
  • It makes me feel ___ because ___.

Everyday Hobby Expressions

  • It's my thing!I love it. It is a big part of me.
  • I can do it for hours.I never get tired of it.
  • I'm really into ___.I like it a lot right now.
  • I'm obsessed (with ___)!I love it so much.

Speaking Activities in This Lesson

  1. 1Guess and learn eight hobby words with mime and pictures
  2. 2Play True or False and What's Missing? to remember new words
  3. 3Roll a dice to build sentences about their own hobby
  4. 4Read a dialogue, then make it their own
  5. 5Play Guess My Hobby! with yes/no questions
  6. 6Give a 30-second hobby talk and answer surprise questions

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