Vocabulary
Fun and games
Topic vocabulary.
Beat, board game, captain, challenge, champion, cheat, classical music, club, coach, competition, concert, defeat, entertaining, folk music, group, gym, have fun, interest, member, opponent, organise, pleasure, referee, rhythm, risk, score, support, team, train, video game.
Phrasal verbs.
- Carry on-continue, go on, keep on.
- Eat out-eat at a restaurant
- Give up-stop doing something you do regularly
- Join in-take part in, participate in
- Send off-make a player leave a game
- Take up-start(hobby, sport…)
- Turn down-lower the volume of
- Turn up- increase the volume of
Preposition phrases
- For a long time
- For fun
- In the middle (of)
- In time (for)
- On the Internet
- On CD/DVD/video
- On stage
- To show off
Word formation
- Act-action, ( in) active, actor
- Athlete-athletic(s)
- Child- children, childhood
- Collect- collection, collector
- Entertain-entertainment
- Hero- heroic, heroine
- Music- musical, musician
- Play- player, playful
- Sail-sailing, sailor
- Sing- sang, sung, song, singer, singing,
Word patters
Adjectives (to be +….)
- Bored with
- Crazy about
- Good at
- Interested in
- Keep on
- Popular with
Verbs
- Feel like
- Listen to
- Take part in
Nouns
- A book (by somebody) about ( something)
- A fan of
- A game against
- If he wins this match, he will be the world …!
- I am sorry, but you have to be a … of the golf club to play here.
- My … was a brilliant player and I didn’t manage to win the match.
- I’m thinking of going a … to get mor exercise.
- Our basketball … said that I can play on Saturday!
- Tom is really good at cards. He would never … !
- Lisa’s … has just reached number one with their new song!
- The … blew whistle and the game started.
- Which team do you …?
- I took a big … by doing the parachute jump, but I loved every second of it!
- Mark’ s band play traditional … music-they often perform at country fairs and festivals.
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