Understand health and welfare topics with every resource provided in this “Gateway 1 Unit 4: Leisure Activities” unit summary. Learn the essential vocabulary and grammar related to leisure activities.
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Vocabulary in Gateway 1 Unit 4: Leisure Activities
Leisure activities are activities that people do in their free time. They are the activities that they enjoy. Leisure activities can be indoor, outdoor, or both. They help us reduce the stress of our daily life, have a good mood or a state of mind
1. Indoor vs Outdoors Activities
Indoor activities
Outdoor activities
Both
- Cooking
- Using the internet
- Watching tv
- Chatting on the net
- Gardening
- Playing football
- Jogging
- Going to the cinema
- Shopping
- Cooking
- Listening to music
- Reading
- Playing chess
2. Positive and negative Emotions
- Positive emotions or feeling
- Nouns: Joy – gaiety – delight – cheerfulness – merriment – vivacity – calm – satisfaction – enthusiasm – optimism – jubilation.
- Adjectives: Motivated-amused-Hopeful-cautious-happy-confident-ecstatic-fascinated-relaxed
- Negative emotions or feeling
- Nouns: Anger – despair – depression – loneliness – sadness – frustration – worry – fear
- Adjectives: Disgusted-shocked-Lonely-annoyed-frightened-enraged-frustrated-anxious-mischievous-smug
3. Adjectives ending with “ed” or “ing”
- We use adjectives that end up with “ed” to express: feelings and emotions
- We use adjectives that end up with “ing” to describe: activities and places
Ex: we feel motivated and amused in the English class because we find it interesting.
She felt tired after working hard all day.
A park is a fascinating place you go to.
Grammar in Gateway 1 Unit 4: Leisure Activities
1. Too vs Enough
Use: Too and enough indicate a degree. They are used with adjectives.
- Too means more than what is needed.
- Enough means sufficient.
Example: He is too old to play football with the kids.
You’re not working fast enough
I don’t have enough time.
He has too many friends.
She has got too much patience
2. Future Tense: “Be going to” and “Will”
- Planned action or intention
Example: Bill is going to study information technology
- Prediction based on physical evidence
Example: There are thick clouds in the sky .it’s going to rain
- Affirmative
Subject + be going to + verb (infinitive)
Ex: He is going to see Bill this evening
Negative
Subject + be not going to + verb (infinitive)
Ex: He is not going to see Bill this evening
Interrogative
be + Subject + going to + verb (infinitive)
Ex: Is He going to see Bill this evening?
will
is used for
- Prediction
Example: It will rain tomorrow - Scheduled events
The football match will start at 3:00 p.m. - Promises
I’ll telephone you after class - Making offers
I’ll make you some coffee
THANK YOU SO MUCH MY DEAR TEACHER FOR YOUR GENEROSITY.