- Read the short text, look at the highlighted words and decide what they mean
Arianna was asked about her favourite leisure activities and what she does in her free time. Arianna claims that she used to be interested in arts and crafts. She used to be fond of candle making and soap making. She also used to get a lot of enjoyment from floristry. In addition, she was involved in different activities in the pottery workshop. She learnt to form clay bodies into objects of different shapes and really took to ceramic art. Some years later she went off craft making, and pulled out of the arts group working in the pottery workshop. However, she carries on reading about floristry sometimes. She also finds gardening very enjoyable. Now she wants to take up a new hobby and try some other forms of entertainment. She prefers reading something about different hobbies before choosing a new one for herself.
- Study the definitions and fill in the gaps with the correct words
- to take up a hobby
- to take to
[ ] — to learn or start to do something, especially for pleasure
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[ ] — to start liking somebody/something
- to pull out
- to carry on
- to go off
[ ] — to move away from something or stop being involved in it
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[ ] — to continue doing something -
[ ] — to stop liking somebody/something or lose interest in them/it
- to be fond of (doing) something
- to be interested in something
- to be involved in
[ ] — find something pleasant, especially something you have liked or enjoyed for a long time
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[ ] — giving your attention to something because you enjoy finding out about it or doing it; showing interest in something and finding it exciting -
[ ] — to be interested in something you are doing
- forms of entertainment
- leisure activities
[ ] — shows, films, television, or other performances or activities that entertain people, or a performance of this type
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[ ] — free time activities
- enjoyment
- enjoyable
[ ] — the pleasure that you get from something
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[ ] — giving pleasure