Hobbies & Free TimeWhat’s your passion?

Free time & time management

Time management is the ability to estimate how much time one has and how to use that time to complete a task.

Planning is the ability to create and follow a plan to complete a task.

Organization is the ability to keep track of information and materials.

Procrastination - delay doing something until a later time because you do not want to do it, because you are lazy.

Time wasters

Here are a few examples of activities that consume a lot of you time:

1. Watching TV 2. Playing video games 3. Internet (and social networks in particular)4. Talking on the phone

How to be better at time management?

1. Become an expert in estimating how much time your tasks will take you

2. Make a list with the tasks you have to complete, it will help you keep track

3. Prioritize your tasks

4. Set goals for both the short term and long term as to what you want to accomplish.

5. Avoid overload! Remember, time to rest is very important!

How to be better at time management?

What is a hobby?

It’s an activity you do in your free time for pleasure.

Their hobbieshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NHkCRgmbUI

Hobbies

play a...play a...

ride a….collect...

watch….

go...

play...

take...

do...

visit...

Their hobbies

Sports as a hobby

Playing a sport - is it a job or hobby?

What makes the difference?

Uncommon hobbies Beetle Fighting

Carving Egg Shells

Uncommon hobbies Taphophilia

Pooktre Art

Uncommon hobbies Toy voyaging

Do you have a toy that needs a vacation? Well, register at Toy Voyagers.com, you can find your toy a host from around

the world, or offer to host someone else’s toy. You register on the site, create a travelog - profile, and you can also

include Life Missions for your toy, where you tell potential hosts what your toy wants to do while visiting. Hosts and

owners update the travelog and add pictures.

Guerrilla gardening

Guerrilla gardening consists of working on land that the gardener does not have a legal right to use.

It usually takes place on spaces that are abandoned or neglected by their owners.

Interested? There are several guerrilla gardening organizations listed at GuerrillaGardening.org.

It’s cool to be different!http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/study-break/video-zone/teenager-becomes-jetski-champ

My hobby - Do you have a hobby?

Divide into groups of two. Ask questions in order to find out each other’s hobbies; then present it to the rest of us. The following questions should help you:

- What do you like doing in your free time? - What do you usually do in your free time? - What is something that you could do all

day? - Why do you love doing this?

- Is it worth spending your time? - Do you enjoy it?

Discussion - why are hobbies important?Hobbies:

★ a reflection of what we are good at?★ something we like to do without being good at?

Talent or Practice?

Can we be good at something simply by practicing it a lot?Should hobbies be pursued since an early age? Why?Why do people abandon their passion?Is it because they have been exposed to less opportunities in life?