TEACHER’S NOTES
ESL / EFL RESOURCES Hobbies Taboo
Activity Type Introduction
Reading, listening and In this leisure time activity, students describe and guess hobbies
speaking activity and free time activities in a game of taboo.
Procedure
Language Focus
Divide the class into two teams (A and B).
Hobbies and free time
activities
Tell the class that they are going to play a game of taboo where
Antonyms and synonyms they guess the names of hobbies and free time activities from
other students' descriptions.
Aim A player from Team A comes to the front of the class and is given
a taboo card.
To describe and guess
hobbies and free time The player then describes the hobby or free time activity in bold
activities in a game of on the card to his or her team, without saying the hobby or using
taboo. the other words on the card.
The player is also not allowed to say variations of the words on
Preparation the card, e.g. colour, colours, colourful, colouring, etc.
Make one copy of
the cards and cut as If Team A successfully guesses the hobby or free time activity
indicated. within a specified time (e.g. one minute), they score a point.
If not, Team B has one chance to guess the hobby and steal the
Level point.
Pre-intermediate (A2) Then, a player from Team B comes to the front and is given a card
and so on.
Time Teams continue taking it in turns to play until all the cards have
35 minutes been used.
The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.
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HOBBIES AND FREE TIME
ESL / EFL RESOURCES Hobbies Taboo
Painting Scuba diving Jogging
art swimming running
picture underwater park
colours sea exercise
Skiing Playing football Working out
winter sport kick gym
snow ball exercise
downhill goal health
Fishing Playing golf Playing basketball
rod club hoop
catch course bounce
lake / river ball ball
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HOBBIES AND FREE TIME
ESL / EFL RESOURCES Hobbies Taboo
Watching TV Reading Skateboarding
series book wheels
screen story park
programme pages trick
Photography Gardening Cycling
camera flowers wheels
take pictures plants bike
digital outside bicycle
Playing computer games Playing an instrument Hiking
notebook / laptop musician walk
level song countryside
controller learn nature
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HOBBIES AND FREE TIME
ESL / EFL RESOURCES Hobbies Taboo
Chatting Going shopping Swimming
online buy pool
mobile phone money water
talking mall trunks / swim suit
Camping Visiting relatives Cooking
tent family food
sleeping bag talking kitchen
outside meet recipe
Playing badminton Watching films Surfing the Internet
net movies website
racket cinema browse
shuttlecock screen computer
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