Entertainments

Vocabulary places of rest

1. Look at the pictures. Do you go to these places? Where?

kart tracking live concert football match

disco party bouncing castle puppet show

2. Match the names of the places with the pictures. Two of them are extra. With a partner, think of some more places to a day out.

1) a bowling alley 2) an aqua park 3) an art gallery 4) a theme park 5) a zoo 6) a circus 7) a fun fair 8) a shopping centre

a b c d e

f g h i j

3. What do you do when you go there? Choose the correct option.

1) You go to the cinema to watch a film, and to the theatre/theme park to see a play, musical or ballet. 2) You go to an aqua park/art gallery to see the exhibition of sculptures, paintings, or other artworks. 3) You go to the circus/zoo to watch or look at or see the wild animals. 4) You go to the disco/ bowling area to listen to music and dance. 5) You go to the zoo/circus to watch the clowns, acrobats or magicians. 6) You go to the fun fair/shopping centre to go on the rides, like the merry-go-round or Ferris wheel.

graMMar making suggestions

4. Complete the rules with Let’s, Shall / Why don’t we or What / How about. Then fill them in the table.

Rule 1) We use What /How about?

Let’s, Shall/Why don’t we? with -inf/-ing form of the verb. 2) We use a question mark after

Let’s/Shall we/What/How about/

Why don’t we. 3) Let’s and Shall we have different/ similar meanings. …on Saturday. …go to the park in the evening.

…visit grandma tomorrow? …go shopping this weekend?

…going for a film together? …coming to my place tonight?

5. Match the statements with the appropriate suggestions.

1) There is an important match tonight. 2) I’m so bored at home! 3) The weather is nice today. 4) I don’t have any money, so

I can’t go. 5) I’m so hungry, but I hate cooking! 6) I’m free at the weekend! 7) I have a great idea! Let’s give a party! a) How about going for a picnic? b) Shall we stay at home and watch TV? c) Why don’t we get some pizza for takeaway? d) I’m a bit tired! I’d like to have a rest instead! e) Let’s go to the stadium and watch it. f) Me too. What about going shopping together? g) Let’s go dancing!

listEning interests

6. Listen to four students and match them with their interests. There can be more than one possible answer.

1) Alice

2) Adam

3) Sophie

4) Tim a) swimming b) reading about history c) visiting intresting places d) cooking e) doing exciting things f) dancing

7. Listen to some more people planning to spend their weekend together. What places do they agree on? What do they want to do?

Place Activity

8. Listen again and complete the table with phrases the speakers use to give positive and negative reactions to the suggestions.

Agreeing Disagreeing

spEaking

9. Read the questions and give as many suggestions as you can.

1) What shall we do tonight? - 2) Where shall we go tomorrow? - 3) How do you want to spend the weekend? 4) What shall we give mum for her birthday? - 5) Whom shall we invite for the party? - 6) Where shall we spend the summer? -

10. Make up short dialogues as in the example to practise giving suggestions.

Ex:

A: Let’s/Shall we go to a rock concert tomorrow? B: No, thank you. I’m not keen on rock music. I like pop better. 1) see a film in the cinema (watching TV) 2) cycle in the park (skateboarding) 3) go for pizza (sushi rolls) 4) play video games (Monopoly or Scrabble) 5) visit the zoo (love animals)

11. Work in pairs. Make plans for Saturday or Sunday with your classmate. Use the dialogue prompts below for a discussion.

Let's go to the zoo on Saturday. Oh, sorry, I cannot go on Saturday but Sunday morning is OK.

That’s OK for me, too. Shall we meet at the entrance? Yes. What time do we meet?

At quarter to eleven.

Great! See you!