Unit 13 speaking

Unit 13
Speaking
* Warm up: Look at the pictures about hobbies and match each of them with their own names in the box.
chatting with a friend on the telephone fishing reading books mountain climbing
swimming watching TV stamp-collecting keeping fish
1. ……………….………
2. ……………….………
3. ……………….………
4. ……………….………
5. ……………….………
6. ……………….………
7. ……………….………
8. ……………….………
swimming
stamp…….
fishing
keeping fish
reading books
watching TV
mountain….
chatting….
Task 1.
Task 2.
Task 3.
Beginning a collection of something is exciting. The most exciting is (1)………….stamps because there are so many to choose from. Stamp-collecting (2)…….…. a hobby of millions of people all over the world for more than some hundred years.
Nobody (3)………… how many stamps there are in the world. The (4)…………. problem of all for the beginner is just which stamps to collect, as there are so many and nobody could (5)……..….. them all.
Further practice: Read the following passage and fill in the gaps with suitable words in the box
has been knows biggest collect collecting
collecting
has been
knows
biggest
collect