30 Phrases to Talk about your Free Time in English

What do you do in

your

free

time

? Do you have any interesting hobbies? Let's find out. Hello, my name is Keith from English Speaking Success and the Keith Speaking Academy website here to help you speak better English. Give better answers and get a higher score on the speaking test so in this lesson I am going to show you many interesting

phrases

so that you can speak with confidence and naturally about what you do in

your

free

time

or in your free time or in your free time as they say across the pond in America and I will also show you how to use these

phrases

correctly so that at the end of the video you can confidently

talk

about your hobbies, how often you do them and why you like them.

Great, oh, and it gets better because I'll also show you how you can use different tenses to

talk

about hobbies. Now, if you are an IELTS student, pay attention, wake up. If you are an IELTS student, you know that when talking about IELTS you need to show a wide range of grammatical structures including different tenses, so this video ticks all the boxes. It's a great expression to check all the boxes, meaning it ticks all the boxes. Excellent and it gets better, listen to it as a bonus at the end of the video. to tell you the most common mistake that I see students make when talking about this topic of hobbies and free time now before we start let me tell you the secret to being successful in the IELTS speaking oh and if you are new here if this is the first time If you're looking at me, you might not know this, so listen, this is important, the secret to succeeding in IELTS is to speak natural spoken English, not formal academic English, not natural spoken conversational English, that's all and That's exactly what I show you in everything. from my videos right now once you've learned these phrases today of course you need to practice unfortunately it's not enough to just sit and watch me no you need to practice and you can practice on your own but I think it's one of the best.

The places where you can practice is Cambly, it is a fantastic online platform with native English speakers where you can practice all the English you need, especially for speaking in IELTS. I'll tell you more about Cambly later and tell you how you can get it. a free lesson, as well as great discounts on their platform, so stay tuned, but now let's start talking about their free time activities. Well, let's first talk about different types of free time activities. Well or like I said, we could call them. leisure activities or hobbies we can also say hobbies. I think there are probably four common types of activities;

There may be more, but this is where I would put most of the activities and hobbies that people do, first and foremost, indoor activities, so this could include games. board games or video games reading watching television or watching movies or simply relaxing going out with friends, it is true that the latter could be outdoors and that brings us to the next category, which is outdoor activities. Now this can include things like sports, whether it's playing soccer. skiing swimming jogging um gardening is a very popular hobby in the UK traveling although I don't know much lately but for a lot of people traveling is a great hobby and also shopping again shopping could well be outdoors could be indoors the next category is collecting things or collections, the most common collections are stamps, coins and nowadays things like nfts, yes, if you are a modern and new young person like me, seriously, nfts, non-fungible tokens, these are in fashion today Nowadays, many people are buying NFTs.

An NFT, if you don't know, is basically a unique digital item that you can buy and sell, it can be a piece of painting art, a video clip that is trending, check them out. The fourth category is creative activities, so I'm thinking about things like playing a musical instrument, right, I play the guitar for example, painting, maybe knitting or some similar craft work, and I also guess taking photographs is another popular activity, so there you have four categories and many different types of hobbies. Let's now move on to see how You can talk about your hobby, so how do you answer the question what do you do in your free time?

Well, here are some nice phrases that you can use correctly. You might say, "I do a lot of things." Do a lot of things or you could say I don't do much if you don't do much. The most important thing is that you don't say anything, especially if you are taking an English test like the IELTS, don't say no. I don't have a hobby, say something well, it's important that you speak, so living up to it means doing now, sometimes, living up to something can mean doing something that maybe is bad and that you shouldn't do, but to be honest we use this when you tell people what you did on the weekend it just means what did you do then in the context of hobbies it's okay to say I do a lot of different things we can also say more simply I like doing yoga or I like do yoga oh Keith, I've been thinking about that, what's the difference between I like doing something and I like doing something well?

That's a very good question and thank you for asking. It's very, very simple, right? You can use both to express your enjoyment of something well so I enjoy yoga I like to do yoga I like to do yoga however and I like to do something can also be used to show a habit or a choice, for example, I like to do yoga the Thursday you're focusing on the habit every Thursday or choosing to do it on Thursdays instead of focusing on enjoyment, that's super simple, more phrases to show that you love an activity or a hobby, um, I like playing video games, that It's true, and you?

I like it cool or I like playing video games what about you? I like it nice or I'm passionate about it I'm passionate about playing video games what about you I'm passionate about it? very very nice now here is a really good learning tip notice that if a verb follows a preposition then that verb must be in gerund with the correct ing, I like to play with the preposition verb ing, I like games, do you? right?, I am passionate about painting, remember that important learning advice now, I appreciate that sometimes you may not be passionate or love a hobby, but you do it less seriously just to have a little fun, in this case you can say well, I like it dabble in cooking, sometimes I dabble in painting last week I dabbled in nfts is not true just one example, so look, I dedicate myself to something or do something.

I dedicate myself to painting. How about you? I dedicate myself to the good. Also, we can say that I play the guitar. I'm just an amateur. A fan of the Spanish word amateur. it means you're not professional in many cultures, right, you might like to be quite humble, don't you say, I play the guitar and I'm fantastic, no, I play the guitar, I'm not very good, but I play, I'm just an amateur or I play for fun I just play for fun or I'm I'm an amateur I'm an amateur I say I'm an amateur again which means I'm not a professional so it's just for fun not too serious lovely now go away leave me a comment below tell me what you do with your time free now when we talk about your hobbies we can not only talk about what you do but also how often you do it.

It's great to go into more detail to talk about frequency. we use adverbs of frequency from simple to advanced simple I paint often I paint regularly I paint frequently i regularly um and you regularly good more complex I paint whenever I can i um whenever I can or I paint as often as I can often as I can I do as often as I can or I paint every time I have the opportunity and more complex I don't paint as much as I would like I don't paint as much as I would like or I don't round off to paint as much as I would like I don't understand the second round um gerund I can't paint as much as I would like excellent now let's move on okay so we've talked about adverbs to make your answer more interesting let's make your answers correct um even more sophisticated intelligent better um we can use different tenses in order and especially if you are an IELTS student , this is important that you show or demonstrate your ability to use different tenses in English, we can Start with a simple and become more complex, let's start with the present simple so that we can say that I paint.

I recently started painting. To take up a hobby, means to start doing a hobby. I recently started painting. I'm new to this, which means it is. new to me I'm new to this I'm new to this next simple past I started painting a couple of years ago or I decided to try painting to try something means to try something new I decided to have try to paint or even I decided to try my hand at painting to try it is to try something new, especially a hobby, I decided to try my hand at painting, it doesn't have to be a craft activity, right, I decided to try playing soccer where you don't use your hands well unless you're a goalkeeper or it's American football, of course, and then more complex present perfect continuous like present simple now simple past simple past in the past talking about something that started in the past and continues until today true, it is a hobby that you still practice present perfect and present perfect continuous we can use both I have been playing or I have been playing football since I can remember since I can remember Can you say that?

Feeling the rhythm since I can remember. Well, I've been painting for as long as I can remember. long time great so we can put it all together okay present past present perfect continuous i often paint um i decided to try painting because my daughter was taking classes yeah so i've been painting for about two years lovely you can pause the video and practice for you right now let's move on if you like it if you like it if you like this video if you like it it sounds like a McDonald's ad I love it if you like this video press the subscribe button turn on notifications to find out about more videos to come don't go don't go to sleep because right now we're going to talk about the benefits of hobbies okie dokie let's talk about the benefits of hobbies ok I think the three most common benefits of hobbies are to help you relax, help you stay healthy, and help you socialize.

There may be other benefits, but I think these are the three most common. Let me now give you some great templates that you can use to talk about hobbies. Benefits First of all it helps me go blank even better it just helps me go blank okay it helps me relax it helps me relax it helps me relax all that means relax right oh Keith I've been thinking right? shall we say it? helps me relax or helps me relax is another good question and congratulations for being so proactive the simple answer is both are the same you can use both ok another template I find helps me blank I find it helps me blank ok we can say it helps me get fit helps me stay fit helps me stay fit especially talking about sport or eating or cooking healthy staying healthy lovely next allows me or allows me to just leave blank allows me to just leave in white yes so if we're talking about socializing well it allows me to go out with friends it allows me to just meet up with friends it allows me to relax with friends it's also a A good way to go blank, it's a good way to socialize and if you want to sound really British, TRUE?

And this is so natural, it's a good way to go blank, it's a good way to get closer to nature, try it, it's a good way to very natural, brilliant, finally, three nice phrases that you can use to talk again, relax and combat the stress that we have so much in the world, first of all, it has a calming effect, it is really therapeutic, it is a great stress buster, excellent some nice phrases and templates. you can start practicing I tell you what I'm so impressed that you're still looking that you're still awake and you're actually practicing too it's great so listen in a moment I'm going to tell you the most common mistake students make when they talk about free time and hobbies first.

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Great, you can click the links below and check it out if you think it's right for you and it's just what you need go and sign up for a plan use the new code Keith you'll get 40 off. I think it's very important to practice, it's very important to get feedback to help you improve your spoken English and if you're doing it. IELTS to help you get the score you need on the IELTS speaking test. Well, let's go ahead and take a look at the most common mistakes students make. Okay, so let's talk about the most common mistake now in IELTS.

Talking about hobbies and free time. It is such a popular topic that I practice it a lot with students and this is the mistake that many students make. See if you can spot the error. I'll give you some examples. My favorite hobby is playing the guitar. My favorite hobby is collecting. stamps, can you see the mistake? playing the guitar is a verb collecting stamps is a verb but my favorite hobby is and a noun you need a true noun, what should be is my favorite hobby is playing the guitar or my favorite hobby is collecting stamps the guitar is the noun phrase we can take a verb put it in a gerund to make a noun phrase playing the guitar is the noun phrase my favorite hobby is painting my favorite hobby is playing computer games it is a simple mistake to make but very important Make sure you don't make that mistake and you can avoid mistakes As you're practicing more, right click and check out Cambly.

You can practice and get feedback from a teacher who will also help you correct your mistakes and not do it. Don't stop watching, stay with me, go and watch the following video, which is about small talk in English, how to start a conversation in English, quite complicated. Go and watch the video below, it will show you how to do it. You will be there very soon thanks for watching, take care my friend, goodbye.