How To Talk About Your Hobbies FLUENTLY In English (FREE PDF)

Hello my amazing student!

Today you are going to learn all the vocabulary and grammar

you need to talk about your hobbies and you'll also learn

how to ask other people about their hobbies as well.

Welcome back to JForrest English, of course I'm Jennifer

now let's get started!

first let's review the most common verbs a preference that you need to talk about hobbies

like enjoy love and adore adore sounds even stronger than

love now remember with your verb a preference

the next verb needs to be in the gerrand form the verb with ing I like and now we need a

hobby I like reading reading fiction

so like plus Jaron Verp now although native speakers don't always follow

this rule for certain verbs a preference

native speakers always use the geran so this is only flexible with certain verbs

because of that to make it easier for you always use the geran verb with a verb a preference

so let's practice this what do you like doing like jaren verb I like and then put it in

the comments you need an activity so share a hobby

use that jaren verb I like what I can't wait to find out

now of course you can use other verbs a preference I enjoy taking pictures of nature

taking pictures our Gerrand I love playing piano I adore playing basketball

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now with your verb a preference you can also use a noun I like photography

I like taking photos with the jaran verb or a noun

I like photography I enjoy sports I love music I adore languages

all of these were the noun form now of course those are very simple statements

so let's add on to that to make it more complex I like reading fiction in my free time

I enjoy taking pictures of nature in my leisure time

so you can use free time or leisure time both are acceptable

I would say free time is slightly more common playing piano is my favorite pastime

so using pastime is an alternative to say hobby

playing piano is my favorite hobby activity pastime

and notice here I'm using a Gerrand statement playing piano that's a Jarren statement

playing piano is my favorite pastime instead of using the word pastime

you could say playing piano is my favorite way to pass the

time past time to past the time

they're the same meaning just different structures now let me share some more advanced

C1 phrases that you can add to your vocabulary you will sound very advanced and professional

if you say I'm an avid cyclist the structure is to be an avid

and then you need a noun cyclist that is someone who cycles

so that's the noun form and if you're an avid cyclist

it means you really really really really love cycling

you could say I'm passionate about photography as the noun

or about taking photos with the jaron verb and don't forget

you need that verb to be to be passionate about noun

or jirrent you could say I spend every chance I get in my garden or

gardening so here to spend time in a location or the

activity which is in the jarren verb

you could say I recently took up cooking and now I spend all my free time trying new

recipes the phrasal verb here is to take up

when you take up an activity is simply means you start that activity

but using the phrasal verb will make you sound very natural

advanced and professional now let's review some natural phrases

to help you sound just like a native speaker I'm really into meditation

I'm really into doing yoga to be into plas noun meditation or Gerrand

doing yoga this simply means you really enjoy I'm really

into art I'm really into painting

you really enjoy these activities I'm a huge fan of puzzles and playing word

games to be a fan of plus noun or jarrant

and you can say I'm a huge fan a big fan

so you can modify fan to make it sound stronger here's a fun one I live to surf

I live to go surfing this sounds very strong you spend your entire life thinking about

or doing the activity and in this case you don't use the Jaron

to live plus infinitive I live to surf but don't get confused with I live to go surfing

let's talk about that structure we use the structure to go plus Gerrand

for verbs of movement like surfing you could say whenever I have free time

I always go so here the verb is go this is the verb you're conjugating

so it might be she always goes because you need to conjugate it

but then the next verb if it's a verb of movement will be in the Jarren form

I always go hiking biking skiing dancing walking jogging

running and many other verbs of movement are possible

another way to sound more advanced when talking about your hobbies

is to add an adjective so let's review some common adjectives

I love reading because I find it very relaxing or calming

painting is a great way to be creative so creative is my adjective

and notice this is a Gerrant expression painting is a great way to be creative

I'm into sports because I love being active or I love being social I'm passionate about

puzzles because I find them very challenging

spending the afternoon in nature is very enjoyable so instead of saying I enjoy spending time

in nature you're using enjoyable as the adjective

and your sentence is a Jarren statement so that sounds quite advanced

simply by changing the structure traveling

and learning about the world is very fulfilling now you have a lot of vocabulary

and grammar to talk about your hobbies but what about

if you wanna ask someone about their hobbies do you have any hobbies what are your favorite

hobbies what hobbies do you enjoy

those are the three most common questions but let's look at some more advanced C1 questions

what do you enjoy doing in your free time how do you usually spend your free time

usually is a adverb of frequency so that's why we have the present simple here

what's your favorite way to pass the time and notice that all these questions use vocabulary

you previously Learned to talk about your hobbies

so you're really using the same vocabulary but you're forming it in a question

now let's review some natural ways you can ask someone about their hobbies

what are you into remember you already Learned this I'm into

I'm really into now you're just asking what are you into what do you do for fun

so instead of saying as a hobby or in your free time is just for

fun what do you do for fun do you like sports

this is a really great way because let's say you like sports

that's your passion that's what you live for you can just ask the other person

do you like sports and then even if they say no

I don't I prefer and then they'll tell you what they like instead

so you'll learn about their hobby simply by asking that question

how do you like to unwind to unwind this means to relax

to distress because that's why we enjoy hobbies right

to answer this one you can use a Geron statement to sound quite

advanced drawing is my favorite way to unwind

right now you might be thinking but Jennifer I'm too busy for hobbies

don't worry let's talk about some phrases you can use for hypothetical

or future hobbies if I had if I had more free time I'd love to take up

drawing and now you already know what take up an activity

means I love to take up drawing

so this is a hypothetical because you don't have free time

so if someone asks you what are you into what do you do for fun what are your hobbies

you could say I wish I had time to play basketball so the person understands that you love basketball

but it's not currently your hobby because you said

I wish I had which means you don't have it right now

if I weren't so busy at work I do yoga every day because I live for yoga

but again it's hypothetical if I weren't so busy but you are busy

or you could say once I and then present simple once I graduate

once I finish once I complete once I graduate I'll definitely learn how

to salsa so again

you're sharing that you're passionate about salsa

or dance but right now you're focused on graduating so this isn't currently your hobby

but it's a hypothetical future hobby so these are great phrases to have in your

vocabulary so now you have all the vocabulary and grammar

you need to talk about your hobbies did you enjoy this lesson

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because hobbies are active usually let's go let's go

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