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Describing hobbies with -ed and -ing adjectives

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Students play a fun card game, guessing game and personalised speaking game to practise contrasting adjectives ending with -ed and -ing, with useful free time vocabulary.

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Describing hobbies with ed and ing adjectives games

 

Adjectives with –ed and –ing guess the hobby game

Choose a hobby like one of those below, or choose an adjective below and think of a hobby that could match that adjective. Don’t tell your partner which hobby you have chosen. Describe your feelings about that hobby until they guess what pastime you are thinking of. If they can’t guess from sentences like those in the box below, give other hints such as what equipment you use, what you wear, or the first letter of the word.

Useful sentences for describing hobbies with –ed and –ing adjectives

“Doing… in this hobby would be… (because…)”

“I tried this hobby (once) and it was…”

“I used to do this hobby, but now I think I would feel…”

“I would feel… if I did this hobby (because…)”

“I would(n’t) like this hobby because it is…”

“It is a very… hobby (because…)”

“My father/ mother/ uncle/… does this hobby and they think it is…”

“Some people think this hobby is… (but I don’t think so).”

“This is the most… hobby in the world.”

 

Ask about any hobbies or adjectives below which you don’t understand, working together to use them in suitable example sentences each time.

 

Are there any adjectives below which you don’t think go with the hobbies on the same line? Why?

 

Describing hobbies with –ed and –ing adjectives random pelmanism

Spread a set of cards made from the worksheet below across the table face down. Choose one adjective card and one hobby card (by choosing a small card and a big one). Try to make a sentence linking the two words with a reason why they go together. Your sentence doesn’t need to be your real opinion, it just needs to make sense. You can’t change the ending of the adjective, so make sure you make the right kind of sentence to match that word exactly. If your partner accepts your sentence as true and grammatically correct, you can keep those two cards and get one point. If not, you must put them back in the same place for people to use later. 

 

Describing hobbies with –ed and –ing adjectives family fortunes game

Choose a hobby or adjective such as one of the words below. Write three words that you most associate with that word (three adjectives if you chose a hobby, or three hobbies if you chose an adjective). Tell your partner which (one) word you chose, then they will try to guess which three words you associated with that.

 

Discussion

How do you feel or would you feel about caving and bathing in hot springs?

What kinds of people like those two things? What other things might they like?


Hobbies and -ed/ -ing adjectives cards

 

bored

 

 

boring

 

stamp collecting

 

bird watching

 

confused

 

 

confusing

 

geocaching

 

orienteering

 

excited

 

 

exciting

 

(go) karting

 

mountain biking

 

embarrassed

 

 

embarrassing

 

acting

 

busking

 

exhausted

 

 

exhausting

 

dancing

 

running/ jogging

 

interested

 

 

interesting

visiting other countries

 

visiting museums

 

frightened

  

 

frightening

 

skydiving

 

bungee jumping

 

relaxed

 

 

relaxing

 

listening to music

 

bathing in hot springs

 

disgusted

 

 

disgusting

 

stuffing animals

 

collecting insects

 

stressed

 

 

stressful

 

trading/ day trading

 

driving

 

annoyed

 

 

annoying

 

gardening

 

DIY

 

fascinated

 

 

fascinating

 

fossil hunting

watching documentaries

 

satisfied

 

 

satisfying

 

cooking/ baking

making plastic models

 

scared

 

 

scary

 

rock climbing

 

hunting lions

 

terrified

 

 

terrifying

 

storm chasing

 

caving

 

thrilled

 

 

thrilling

watching disaster movies

 

watching F1

 

tired

 

 

tiring

hiking in national parks

 

body building

 

challenged

 

 

challenging

 

doing crosswords

 

doing Sudoku

 

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