Gateway 1 Unit 4 Leisure Activities

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.

Indoor vs. Outdoors Activities

Indoor activities

• Cooking
• Using the internet
• Watching tv
• Chatting on the net

Outdoor activities

• Gardening
• Playing football
• Jogging
• Going to the cinema
• Shopping

Both

• Cooking
• Listening to music
• Reading
• Playing chess

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

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.

Example: 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

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.

Future Tense: “Be going to” and “Will.”

Be going to

• 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)

Example: He is going to see Bill this evening

Negative

Subject + be not going to + verb (infinitive)

Example: 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

It 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.