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1. Unit 10
Your Free Time
OBJECTIVES:
• Explain the benefits of leisure activities
• Describe Hobbies and other interests
• Compare your use of leisure time
• Discuss the risk-taking personality

2. Introduction
Does technology always live up to its promises?
 Cars were supposed to make it easy to get away from it all.
 Television was supposed to bring families closer for quality time together.
 New household appliances were supposed to increase free time and cut
back on time spent doing chores.
 But the reality is that none of these promises made by the inventors
have really happened.
 In your opinion, what technological advances do save us time?
Summit 1: Page 110

3. Sound Bites
 How do you spend your time?
 This job is really getting to me!
 This job is creating a lot of stress for me
 Are you kidding?
 You can’t be serious
 I’m up to my ears with paper work.
 I have too much work to do.
 A little Rand R would do you some good.
 You would benefit from taking some time off (Rest and Relaxation)
 I can catch up on my work.
 I can get ahead with my work
 You need to just take it easy.
 You nee to take a break and relax
Summit 1: Page 101

4. Conversation Snapshot: Collocations
 Play Games  Do handcraft
 Play chess  Do embroidery
 Play video games  Do wood carving
 Play Ping-Pong  Crotchet
 Do Fitness activities  Have hobbies
 Do karate  Raise rabbits
 Do aerobics  Restore antiques
 Do yoga  Collect coins
SUMMIT 1: Page 112

5. Word Skill: Adverbs
 Use an adverb to modify a verb or adjective. Many
adverbs are formed by adding –ly to an adjective:
Creative Creatively
Emotional Emotionally
Financial Financially
Intellectual Intellectually
Physical Physically
Social Socially
Spiritual Spiritually
 “Karate challenges you physically.”
SUMMIT 1: 113

6. Grammar Snapshot: Order of Modifiers
 When using more than one modifier (adjectives,
determiners etc.) you must keep this order:
1st Determiners (articles /pronouns): a, an, the, this, my, etc.)
2nd Ordinals: First, second, twentieth etc.
3rd Quantifiers: one, a few, some, many.
4th Adjectives: Small, back, big etc.
5th Nouns (student, door, book, etc.)
“My first few beautiful, antique, Italian, crystal, wood tables.”
1 2 3 4 5
SUMMIT 1: Page 114

7. Order of Adjectives
 When using adjectives before the noun, follow this order:
1. Size (small, big)
2. Opinion (pretty, stupid)
3. Age (old, young)
4. Shape (round, square)
5. Color (black, red)
6. Origin (American, Chinese)
7. Material (leather, silk)
“A beautiful miniature vase” /“A small fragile cup”
SUMMIT 1: Page 114

8. Reading: Is Technology Killing Time?
 Read the article on your summit book and answer
the chart:
Promise Reality
 What’s the author’s main point about technology
today?
SUMMIT 1 Page 116

9. Vocabulary: Ways to Talk About Fear
I can’t wait to
I wouldn’t dare
go hang go hang gliding
gliding
Skydiving Skydiving scares
doesn’t scare the life out of
me a bit me
There’s There’s no a
nothing like chance I would
surfing go surfing
I can’t get
enough of You wouldn’t
catch me white-
white-water water rafting
rafting
Bungee You’d have to be
out of your
jumping is no mind to go
sweat bungee jumping
SUMMIT 1: Page 118

10. Writing: Comment On Another’s Point Of View
When you write
to critique or • Because
comment on • This is why…
another’s spoken • Since…
or written ideas,
present your • On account of…
reasons logically, • First of all…
using connecting
words to give • I also…
reasons and to • In addition…
sequence your
ideas: • Finally…
SUMMIT 1: Page 120