Learn English - What do you do for fun?

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ENGLISH with James


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Hi. James from EngVid. Just looking at my work. I don't know when I'm going to get any
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more downtime. I mean, I haven't had spare time or time off in so long. I haven't done
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any of my interests or hobbies and -- you know what I mean, right? You don't? Oh, that's
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today's lesson. We're going to talk to you about conversation skills and how you can
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improve them while talking about your downtime, hobbies, and time off. You know? Oh, you don't
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know? Let's do it, then. Let's go to the board. Well, let's start off with what is a "hobby".
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Well, a "hobby" is something -- and you can think of the word "habit". I think most of
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you know "habit" is something you do regularly. Well, a "hobby" starts with a "h", and it
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means "something you do regularly". But in this case, it's something that's fun, you
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do it regularly, and you don't get paid for it. That's what we usually call your "hobby".
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So you might even spend money and time to do it, but you get a lot of fun from it, and
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you do it regularly. Now, another word for "hobby" is "interest". And the funny thing
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about "interest" is that I could say to you, "What are your hobbies?" Or I could say to
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you "What are your interests?" And it's almost the same. And we use them -- English speakers
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-- almost interchangeably, which means we can just change them, and it doesn't really
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matter. But there's a slight difference. Remember "hobby" and "habit" go together -- you do
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regularly? Well, "interest" means "I like it". Like, I'm interested in the theatre,
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but I don't go all the time, maybe once every two years. But my hobby is collecting comic
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books, which means I actually -- every week -- buy the comic books. Like, I have it, and
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I get enjoyment from both. So remember, you can use the words, but one is more specific,
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all right? So you could say -- you know, you could say, "I'm interested in reading." -- I
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don't have time to do it, but I like the idea of it. versus "My hobby is reading.", which
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is -- that's what I do when I don't have anything to do. All right?
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So let's go over here. What kind of hobbies or interests can a person have? Well, one
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of them is collecting. Now, what does "collecting" mean? It means "to bring together a group
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of things", all right? But in this case, "collecting" is very specific. Personally, I collect comic
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books. And I dare you to go back and watch how many videos I've done wearing a Batman
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T-shirt, and you'll know I'm a real collector, okay? I love Batman. But let's just say I
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bought Batman No. 1. Now, if I'm a collector, I'll also buy Batman No. 2 and Batman No.
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3 and so on and so on. I'll continue to buy. And I will keep them. I'm not going to sell
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them. I'm not trying to make money, and I'm going to enjoy them as a collector. I will
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go back after reading them and read them again. Just like when you collect -- we say comics;
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you can collect books. You can also collect art and music. You guys know -- you collect
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music. You collect Duran Duran -- right? -- that great group. "Girls on Film" -- oh, I'm old.
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No, that new guy, Justin Timberlake, yeah? "Mirror" -- yeah. I can't sing that song.
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But you know what I mean. You can collect music. You can collect art -- Van Gogh, Picasso
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-- music, again -- Beethoven, Bach, Brahms. Collect and enjoy, right? For yourself or
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your friends. What else can you do? Well, you can also play.
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And in this case, we're talking about playing sports. I enjoy playing sports. I enjoy playing
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golf. No, I don't. But sports. You can enjoy playing cards or games. So sports: "I enjoy
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playing soccer." I'm saying "i-n-g", "I enjoy playing soccer." or "I enjoy playing volleyball
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at the beach." Right? Cards: "I enjoy playing poker, solitaire" -- "Nobody loves me" because
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"solitaire" means to be by yourself. Or I enjoy playing poker. Five-card stud, because
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I'm a stud, baby. Okay. Now -- or games. Now, when I enjoy playing games, right, I can do
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"gaming". It's a little different. Games can be board games like chess or checkers or Monopoly,
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and "gaming" -- which we changed to "I enjoy gaming", so you would just say "gaming" instead
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of "playing", right? "Gaming" -- everybody knows it's electronic, okay? Good.
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Now, "travelling" -- but I'll explain because it seems obvious. "Travelling" means anything
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outside of your city. If you go to the library in your city, you're not travelling, boys
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and girls. You're just going to the library. But if you have a big country -- like, I'm
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in Canada. We like travelling to other parts of Canada because it's like going to Europe.
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But you can travel in North America. You can travel in Europe. You can travel to Africa
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-- leave Europe. Oh, my gosh, yes. You can travel between countries, continents, and
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large regions. So when you say, "I enjoy travelling", it can be from a city in one part of your
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country to another, or to different countries, or different continents. Cool? You should
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leave. Travel a little. Learn a little. "Going to": "Going to" means -- because I'm
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going from one place to another to do the activity, and that is the activity, "going
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to" to do it, all right? In this case, movies: "I enjoy going to the movies." That's my hobby.
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Every week I see a new movie. I have a friend who watches one movie every night. He goes
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to a cheap theatre, and he watches movies. He loves them. That's his hobby. Two hours
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a day, he gets to heaven. You know, he flies away and enjoys them, you know? Or going to
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the beach. Some people like going to the beach. Like little turkeys, they lie in the sun -- it's
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called "tanning" -- and then they turn over at two o'clock and turn over at three o'clock
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and turn back. And they cook themselves. I don't know why, but they enjoy going to the
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beach. Some people like going to the theatre. You know, masterpiece theatre. Watch the theatre.
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It's very intellectual, theatre. And you get to say "theatre". Can't say that with movies.
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It doesn't -- "movies". Sounds like a -- well, whatever.
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Okay: baking and cooking. So another hobby is baking and cooking, and it's not just for
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women anymore. No, sir. I like cooking too. I like cooking shows, Top Chef and whatnot,
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right? Iron Chef. So you watch, and then you copy the recipe, and you make it. So you say,
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"My hobby is cooking." If it is, please send me an invite, me and the worm. We're coming
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over. I don't care where you live. We're coming for a visit. And make it good, son, because
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I don't travel for no reason, all right? Next, this is going to be funny. I know some
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of you are laughing right now because, you know, "James, we do things we enjoy, yes?
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But in school, I have to read and write. You're telling me this is hobby?" Yeah, there are
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some crazy people who like to read and write. Well, reading anyway, like, I enjoy a good
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book. I enjoy comic books. But some people enjoy writing and doing poems and stories,
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and some people enjoy reading books, horror, drama, and whatnot, right? "Whatnot" means
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"anything". So, this is what we're talking about here.
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These are things that could be hobbies, but we have to talk about questions because I
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said this is going to help you with conversation. You don't walk up to people and go, "I enjoy
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cooking. I enjoy reading, and I enjoy playing cooking, and I enjoy playing soccer." They
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will say, "Why are you talking to me? I didn't ask you that." So we can look at the questions
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that you can ask somebody or they might ask you, and when you respond, you'll find out
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that -- well, guess what? You have things -- what we call "things in common" -- that
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help us talk to each other and get to know each other. Our interests, when they are similar,
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we can become friends. Or even if they are different, we can learn from each other. Let's
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go to the board, shall we? All right, so the first thing we look at is,
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"What do you in your" -- there's a "d". "D" is for "dummy". Wait. Don't be so rude.
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"D" is for "downtime". Downtime.
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Downtime. "What do you do in your downtime?" Now, you notice
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it says, "in". The preposition is "in". Well, because we are "in" time, right? There's a
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beginning to time and an end to time, and you're somewhere "in" this time. So we say
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"downtime": this is your relaxing time -- time when you're not "up" and working; you're "down"
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in time. So you can relax. So a lot of native speakers go, "Hey, what do you do in your
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downtime?" The time you're not working -- relaxing time, okay?
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Next one we're going to do is, "What do you do with your spare time?" Well, we know what
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"time" is, but what does "spare" mean? "Spare" means "extra". It has many meanings, but today,
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the basic meaning is "extra". Now, we have spare change. When you have paper money -- a
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dollar -- and you go to the store and they give you money back and it's little metal
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money, that's called your "spare change" or "coins". You do -- your spare change isn't
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enough to buy big things, so you buy usually gum or candy or pay for parking. Yeah, that's
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fun -- fun things with the spare change. We do the same thing with our spare time. With
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our "spare" time -- it's our "extra" time -- remember: "spare" because you sleep for
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eight hours, you work for eight hours, you have to eat and poo-poo -- I said it. I'm
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sorry. -- but then you only have two or three hours a day for yourself, and that's your
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"spare" time. What do you do for fun with your "spare" time, right? We use this preposition,
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"with", to say, "Look. There's you, and there's time. How do they come together?" Well, they
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come together for me for collecting things, like comics, right?
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Now, we've got one more. What could that be? "What do you do when you have time off?" "Time
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off". Well, what do you do when you have time off? Time off from what? From life? No. No.
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I was thinking, "Could it be possible?" Time off from work, right? That's when travelling
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would come in. "In my time off, I'm going travelling." Because it's usually a longer
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period of time, right? So you say, "travelling" -- so your time off. We could also use it
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for other things, like collecting and that -- probably "spare time", you would say, or
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"downtime". Your hobbies are collecting, but time off most likely travelling, but you can
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still use it. It's something we say, right? So, what do you do when you have time off?
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What do you do? You can say, well, "I enjoy" or "I like to". "James, 'enjoy' and 'like'
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are the same." I know, and I'm separating them for a reason. There're another couple
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reasons that I don't have time to go into, but the key here is, if you remember this
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simple rule, you can use it, and you'll be right, like, 90 percent of the time, no problem.
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"You enjoy" -- don't use "to". Don't use this particle, this preposition "to". Don't use
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it. But you can say, "I enjoy", i-n-g. So "I enjoy" --sorry. Give me a second here.
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Take a good look. You got that? But you can say this. Now, ready? Read it with me. "I
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enjoy 'i-n-g'. I enjoy 'i-n-g'." What am I saying? "I enjoy playing." "I enjoy dancing."
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"I enjoy singing." "I enjoy going." That's right. Okay? So that's, "I enjoy 'i-n-g'".
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What about "I like to"? Because we know I enjoy 'i-n-g'-ing, but "I like to". Well,
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here -- "I like to" -- the verb that follows has to be in the base form, okay? "Base form"
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means don't change it, so "travel", "play", "collect", right? "I like to collect comic
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books." "I enjoy collecting comic books." Do you see the difference? So we can do it
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with anything here, right? "I enjoy travelling to different countries." "I like to travel."
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I'm going to put "base", base form. So this means, don't change the verb, okay? So if
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you can remember these two words -- if you're going to say (1) "I enjoy 'i-n-g'", and "I
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like to 'base'". How low can you go? Turn it up. I'm just joking. That's an old rapper
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reference, all right? But "base verb", so you want to use the base verb here, okay?
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So let's give an example. "I enjoy travelling." "You like to -- that's right -- travel." Cool.
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Excellent. All right? Now, the response to all of this when you
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go through this long conversation with somebody -- "yadda yadda", or, you know, "blah, blah"
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-- when they finish, you go, "Hey, man, that's cool. Yeah, that's really cool." or "Dude,
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that's interesting." You don't have to the "dude" part. You don't have to say that, but
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you can go, "That's rather interesting. You enjoy the theatre. Wow. I like to go swimming.
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That's cool, isn't it? The water is cool." Made a funny, okay? Wait -- not that funny.
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But to wrap up the lesson -- remember "wrap up" means "finish" or "complete", okay?
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"What are your hobbies?" These are -- remember, "h" for "habits". These are things that I
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like to do, enjoy doing, and do regularly, and I don't get paid for it, right? Another
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word is "interests", but "interests" could be "what do I like" -- it doesn't mean it's
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a hobby, but I'm interested in this and that, okay? We talked about that. We've got three
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others here: "Downtime", "spare time", and "time off" are all similar, right? And finally,
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"enjoy". "I enjoy 'i-n-g'. I enjoy 'i-n-g'." Yeah, you like that. Can't see my butt move,
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my butt -- my bottom. It's really nice, though. It's cute. It's good. And finally, "base"
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-- how low do you go? "I like to 'verb in the base'", all right? Now, and the final
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thing is, "Oh, that's cool. That's really interesting." Those are good responses after
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someone tells you these are the -- these are their hobbies, okay?
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So I got to go. Hey, it's like Superman. I just popped that shirt. See that? I enjoy
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being Superman. That's my secret identity -- my hobby. Okay, Mr. E and I are out. We're
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going to have some fun right now -- going to go play sometimes. We're not going to go
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read anything. That's his thing. I lied. I hate reading. I don't know how to read. I'm
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illiterate. Illiterate. You know that? Anyway. So -- okay. I'm out, but before I go, you
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have to go to www.engvid.com, where "eng" stands for "English" and "vid" stands for
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"video" -- okay? -- where myself -- Mr. E is always present, and there's, like -- I
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think there're like 975 new teachers. It's incredible. It's just crazy out there. I'm
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just playing with you. It's my hobby. See? I enjoy doing that. I'm really interested
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in what you have to say, though, so don't forget to go do the quiz when you're done.
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Got to go. Bye.
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