19.Talking About Your Hobbies

hobby

singing

music

sports

soccer

swimming

piano

instrument

hymn book

guitar

sewing

dancing

play  played  playing

like liked liking

read  read  reading

learn learned  learning

19. Talking About Your Hobbies: Story

Jimmy is a dragon. He lives in Dallas, Texas, with his family. Everyone (1) in his family has a hobby.

 

Jimmy’s brother Elmo likes sports. Elmo plays soccer with his school’s team (2).

Jimmy’s sister, Elvira, swims and sings in the school’s choir (3). She really likes (4) music and might join the school band. (5)

Jimmy’s father, Terrance, likes music too. He plays the guitar and sings. He especially likes to perform (6) at church socials. He also likes to read. He reads (7) many books—mostly about history and religion.

Jimmy’s mother, Rebecca, or Becky for short, (8) is very active in the church choir (9). She leads (10) the congregational singing where everyone sings from the hymn book.

Becky can also play the piano. She likes to sew and sometimes makes shirts (11) for Jimmy and other family members.

Sometimes Becky and Terrance go to dances. This is unusual (12) for dragon parents. Dancing is mostly for teenagers (13)

Jimmy is trying (14)  to learn to play the piano, but he’s not very good at it.

               

The whole (15) family likes sports. They often (16) go to school soccer and basketball games (17). They even watch games together (18) on TV—World Series. Baseball is their favorite. They sometimes even (19) sing during the “seventh inning stretch” (20):

Take me out (21) to the ball game.

 Take me out with the crowd (22).

Buy me some peanuts (23) and Cracker Jack.

I don’t care if I ever get back (24).

Let me root, (25) root, root for the home team (26).

If they don’t win, (27) it’s a shame (28).

For (29) it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out (30)

At the old ball game!

1)       Todos

2)       equipo de su escuela

3)       coro

4)       le encanta

5)       es posible que se junte con la banda de la escuela

6)       actuar

7)       ha leído

8)       para corto

9)       coro de la iglesia

10)    dirige

11)    a veces hace camisas

12)    inusual

13)    principalmente para jóvenes

14)    tratando

15)    entera

16)    a menudo

17)    partidos

18)    juntos

19)    a veces aun

20)    séptimo tramo de entrada

21)    Llévenme

22)    gentío

23)    cacahuetes

24)    No me importa si jamás vuelva [a casa]

25)    gritar/animar

26)    equipo del vecindario

27)    ganan

28)    lástima

29)    Porque

30)    golpes y estás fuera

19. Talking About Your Hobbies: Reading

Jimmy is a dragon. Well, (1) he’s not actually (2) a dragon. He’s a horned lizard.(3) He’s a small lizard. Jimmy is about four inches long with little spikes. (4)

Jimmy lives in Dallas, Texas, with his family. Dallas is the third largest city in Texas with a population of 1.2 million.

Everyone (5) in Jimmy’s family has a hobby. His brother Elmo likes sports. Elmo plays soccer with his school’s team (6).

Jimmy’s sister Elvira swims. She also sings in the school’s choir (7). Elvira really likes (8) music and might join (9) the school band. She wants to learn to play (10) the trombone.

Jimmy’s father, Terrance, likes music too. He plays the guitar and sings. Terrance especially likes to perform (11) at church socials. He also likes to read. He reads the scriptures and occasionally a novel.

Jimmy’s mother, Rebecca, or Becky for short, (12) is very active in the church choir (13). She sings soprano. She leads (14) the congregational singing where everyone sings from the hymn book. She can also play the piano.

Becky also likes to sew and sometimes makes shirts (15) for Jimmy and other family members. They like to show off these (16) shirts to their friends.

Sometimes Becky and Terrance go to dances. This is unusual (17) for dragon parents.(18) Dancing is mostly for teenagers (19). Becky and Terrance especially like to square dance. (20)

Jimmy is trying (21) to learn to play the piano, but he’s not very good at it. His mother makes him practice every day when he’d rather (22) play video games or play outside. (23)

The whole (24) family likes sports. They often (25) go to school soccer and basketball games (26). They even watch games together (27) on TV—especially the World Series. Baseball is their favorite game.

They sometimes even stand (28) and sing during the “seventh inning stretch” (29):

Take me out (30) to the ball game.

Take me out with the crowd (31).

Buy me some peanuts (32) and Cracker Jacks.

I don’t care if I ever get back (33).

Let me root, (34) root, root for the home team (35).

If they don’t win, (36) it’s a shame (37).

For (38) it’s one, two, three strikes you’re out (39)

At the old ball game!

1)       Pues

2)       verdaderamente

3)       lagarto cornudo o sapo cornudo

4)       pinchos

5)       Todos

6)       el equipo de su escuela

7)       coro de la escuela

8)       le encanta

9)       es posible que se junte

10)    quiere aprender a tocar

11)    actuar

12)    para corto

13)    coro de la iglesia

14)    dirige

15)    a veces hace camisas

16)    mostrar estas

17)    inusual

18)    padres

19)    principalmente para jóvenes

20)    contradanza

21)    está tratando

22)    preferiría

23)    afuera

24)    entera

25)    a menudo

26)    partidos

27)    juntos

28)    a veces aun se paran

29)    séptimo tramo de entrada

30)    Llévenme

31)    gentío

32)    cacahuetes

33)    No me importa si jamás vuelvo

34)    gritar animar

35)    equipo del vecindario

36)    ganan

37)    lástima

38)    Porque

39)    golpes y estás fuera