Study guide: Likes Activities and Choir Singing

📋 Course Outline

1. Activities and Personal Preferences
2. Like, Love, and Hate with Gerunds
3. Pronunciation and Sentence Rhythm
4. Activities Alone or with Friends
5. Choir Practice and Singing

📖 1. Activities and Personal Preferences

📝 Essential Points

• The activity words practiced include running, swimming, cooking, camping, bike riding, playing the piano, playing sports, traveling, flying, buying clothes, going to the movies, reading, walking in the mountains, eating good food, shopping, watching movies, and watching TV.

📖 2. Like, Love, and Hate with Gerunds

📝 Essential Points

📌 Like, love, don’t like, and hate are followed by a verb ending in -ing when describing an activity, as in “I love cooking” and “I hate shopping.”

• From most positive to most negative, the scale is:
  • love
  • like
  • don’t like
  • hate

💡 Memory Hook

Love and like express positive preferences; don’t like and hate express negative ones.

📖 3. Pronunciation and Sentence Rhythm

📝 Essential Points

• The pronunciation practice contrasts /ʊ/ in words such as bull, book, cook, look, and good with /u/ in boot, too, food, soon, and school, and practices /ŋ/ in singer, doing, going, swimming, and thing.

• The speaking practice asks learners to imitate the sounds and rhythm of a conversation about cooking, reading books, bike riding, and being single.

📖 4. Activities Alone or with Friends

📝 Essential Points

• In the tweets, people describe preferences about eating out, traveling, shopping, dancing, watching movies, reading, walking, driving, listening to music, and singing along, either alone or with friends.

📌 The examples contrast activities enjoyed alone, such as cooking, dancing at home, reading, and driving, with activities preferred with others, such as eating out, traveling, shopping, watching movies, and walking.

💡 Memory Hook

Alone suits concentration and personal enjoyment; friends make activities social and shareable.

📖 5. Choir Practice and Singing

📝 Essential Points

• The video-listening exercise asks for information about a choir’s name and membership, its members’ university studies, practice days and duration, concert frequency and venues, and singers’ preferences and reasons for singing.