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English Practise Exercise: Spending Time With Friends

English Practise Exercise: Spending Time With Friends

от Marieke OLS Community Manager -
Number of replies: 5

Dear English community

In the English A1 course on OLS, you can find the module ‘I go to the cinema all the time’. In this module, you will learn all about how to talk about your favourite social activities and how to make plans with friends in English.

To practise speaking about these topics in English and make it personal to you, I’d love to hear about how you like to spend time with your friends!

In describing your answer, you can think about question like:

  • What are your favourite social activities?
  • Are you someone who loves to go out, or do you prefer to stay at home? 
  • Do you have different groups of friends with whom you enjoy different activities?


I’m looking forward to reading your answers!

Warmly,



Marieke, OLS Community Manager – English


In reply to Marieke OLS Community Manager

Re: English Practise Exercise: Spending Time With Friends

от Chantal REBUS -
My favourite social activities are family gathering, going to the cinema with my daughter, being a grandmother for my two grandaughters.
I love both, going out and staying at home. It is important to find a balance but I like staying at home, washing TV and doing my chores.
Thank you for your correction
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Re: English Practise Exercise: Spending Time With Friends

от Marieke OLS Community Manager -
Dear Chantal Rebus,

It’s lovely to hear about how you enjoy spending time with your family! You’ve already done a great job practising this material in writing. As you asked, I’m happy to help with a few corrections. You can see them below:

"My favourite social activities are family gatherings, going to the cinema with my daughter, and being a grandmother to my two granDdaughters.
I love both going out and staying at home. It is important for me to find a balance, but I enjoy staying at home, watching TV and doing my chores."

Keep up the great work! :-)
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Re: English Practise Exercise: Spending Time With Friends

от María Luaces Taboada -
Helllo Marieke! How are you?
My name is Maria, I´m 44 years old. I was born in Andorra but I moved to Galicia ten years ago. My favourite social activity is going to the beach.
In summer I enjoy swimming and playing volleyball but in winter I prefer taking long walks on the empty beach, It relaxes me a lot.
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Re: English Practise Exercise: Spending Time With Friends

от Marieke OLS Community Manager -
Hi María Luaces Taboada,

I'm very well thank you! Lovely to have you in our community. How are you?

I can really relate to loving the beaches and the sea, both in summer and in winter. For me it has the same effect: it relaxes me and make me feel joyful :-)
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от Anna Torino -
Hello!
I'm definitely a fan of family gatherings. I love spending time staying with my sons or other relatives, especially during festive seasons. In the summer, I enjoy hanging out and visiting new places. If it were up to me, I'd travel all year long but I have a job and professional responsibilities too, so I'm planning to leave and discover the world later, after my retirement. In the meantime, I enjoy staying in a family group with whom we meet for dinners on Saturdays. We don't go to restaurants (sometimes it happens too), but we gather at each other's homes alternately every week. In that way, the event isn't a burden. Regarding other social activities, I'm a movie fan but platforms such as N,S have changed my habits.