Free time activities

Teenagers free time

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Vocabulary Focus

chunk - a part of something, especially a large partdecade - a period of ten years errand - a short trip you make to do something, such as buying or delivering things in the neighbourhood grooming- the things that you do to make your appearance clean and neat steady-not moving or changing suddenly leisure-the time when you are not working or doing other duties

All teenagers are different. They enjoy spending their free time doing things like shopping, going to parties, being with friends, gaming and using social media. Texting, watching movies, reading and going to the beach or park are also among their favourite activities. Teenagers are spending an increasing amount of their free time in structured extracurricular activities like arts and sports. Teens today are spending their time differently than they dida decade ago. They are devoting more time to sleep and homework and less time to paid work and socialising. But what has not changed is the differences between teen boys and girls in time spent on leisure, grooming, homework, housework and errands. Overall, teens spend an hour a day, on average, doing homework during the school year, up from 44 minutes a day about a decade ago. Teens are also getting more shut-eye than they did in the past. They are clocking an average of over nine and a half hours of sleep a night, an increase of 22 minutes compared with teens a decade ago. Teens now enjoy more than five and a half hours of leisure a day. The biggest chunk of teens daily leisure time is spent on screens: 3 hours and 4 minutes on average. This figure, which can include time spent gaming, surfing the web, watching videos and watching TV, has held steady over the past decade. On weekends, screen time increases to almost four hours a day. Time spent playing sports has held steady at around 45 minutes, as has the time teens spend on other types of leisure such as shopping for clothes, listening to music and reading for pleasure. Time spent by teens on other leisure activities has declined. Over the past decade, the time spent socialising - including attending parties, extracurriculars, sporting or other entertainment events as well as spending time with others in person or on the phone - has dropped to 1 hour and 13 minutes a day.

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Ex. 8, page 41 Listen and delete the wrong word. Entitle the text. World Book and Copyright Day is on the 23rd of April every year. It is also calling / called International Day of the Book or World Book Days. UNESCO started it in 1995 to promote / promotion reading and publishing and to protect copyright. There are several theories to explain why it drops/falls on April 23. One is because William Shakespeare was born and died on this day. Another is because of a festival hold / held since 1923 in Spain to honour the death / dead of the Spanish writer Cervantes. Part of Spain's festivities include / inclusive a two-day "readathon" of Cervantes' book Don Quixote. UNESCO wants to encourage young people in particularly / particular to discover the unique pleasures of reading and respect the authors who have helped shape / shaping and change our world. World Book Day UK began / begins in 1998. The Prime Minister Tony Blair gave several million schoolchildren a special £1 World Book Day token/tokens they could use to buy any book in any bookshop in the UK. It is fantastic that there is a day to celebrate books and authors. They have certainly enrich/enriched people's lives, from childhood to the day they can no / know longer read. Most authors who write their first book do so, thinking no one will ever read them /it. Many publishers were not interested in J. K. Rowling's first story about a boy called Harry Potter. Nevertheless, it became famous.

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a) How do teenagers enjoy spending their spare time ?b) Do they prefer doing homework or socialising? c) What did they spend 44 minutes a day on? d) What is the biggest part of teens daily leisure time spent on? e) What activities does screen time include?

Teenagers Free Time

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