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  • Hello and welcome everyone, I am Niharika and in today's lesson we are gonna talk about

  • hobbies and interest. Well when you talk about hobbies and interest, it's a great way to

  • make new friends, to get to know someone better.

  • So, in this lesson we are gonna learn how to ask about someone's hobbies and how to

  • reply. So here I have three questions and these questions would help you to ask someone

  • about their hobbies and interests. So they are very basic, they are very simple, I don't

  • want it to be tricky, so lets get started with it. So the first one is, what do you

  • like doing? So, again as I said, its very basic and very simple, when you meet someone,

  • probably you know you are in a restaurant and your friend brings in her fiancé along

  • with her, so of course now you wanna start talking to this person. So there are various

  • things that you would talk about and talking about hobbies would really help you to get

  • to know him better. The right question would be, so what do you like doing? That's how

  • you would ask, another question here is, What sort of hobbies do you have? Now this question

  • would be perfect in a situation when you are on a date, you meeting a new girl or probably

  • meeting a guy, that"s the right question to pop, what sort of hobbies do you have? So

  • of course the person will start replying and you would get to know that person much better.

  • So go ahead and ask this and then the third question is, what do you do in your free time?

  • Again this is very basic and very simple, so I'm sure it would not skip your mind ask

  • what do you do in your free time? So free time is basically, when you're doing nothing

  • and you like to get busy with something that you really like, so that's what this question

  • is all about. What do you like to do in your free time? So hobbies and interests are something

  • that you like to do in your free time, something that you are very happy to be busy with, so

  • these are the questions that you can use, but how to reply to these questions is a little

  • tricky, so lets learn that. Here are some phrases that would help you to reply to the

  • questions that we've learnt . The first one is again very basic and simple, I like or

  • I love. So I like Football, I love Swimming, so now I like or I love will be followed by

  • a noun or by a Gerund, which is the Ing form. So you can say, I love football or I love

  • photography or you can use the gerund form like, I like watching football, so this is

  • something that you really like or you love to do, its very simple and at times, if you

  • just end up using this expression that, I love watching football or I love tennis or

  • I love playing tennis. Its so basic that, it would just sound as if you are a little

  • baby answering to that question. So lets get to some other expressions, that would be much

  • better. The second one is, I spend a lot of time, now here when you say, I spend a lot

  • of time, you do not follow it with a noun. It is always followed by a gerund or by the

  • Ing form, for example, I spend a lot of time clicking pictures, so this phrase is always

  • followed by the Ing form. I spend a lot of time watching TV, I spend a lot of time playing

  • tennis, so this is the way you would reply. The third expression that I have for you is,

  • I am really into Football. So, again when you end up using this phrase, I'm really into

  • something, you either follow it with a noun or you follow it with a gerund, which is the

  • Ing form. Now if you want to just keep it very basic, you can just say, I am into swimming

  • or I am into clicking pictures. If you wanna keep it simple, but if you want to emphasize

  • in something, so for emphasis you end up using the word really or quite. I'm quite into clicking

  • pictures these days or I'm really into swimming, so here you emphasize on your hobby, the reason

  • because, you really like doing it. You want to show your enthusiasm and your interest

  • to that other person, when you're replying to his question. Then the forth one is, I

  • am keen on, so I am keen on knitting or I am keen on skating, so again when you end

  • up using this expression, you can follow it with a noun, its followed by noun or, its

  • followed by a gerund, but yes it is another expression that would help you to answer about

  • your hobbies to talk about your hobbies, I am keen on reading books or I am keen on yoga,

  • which means that you like doing yoga and then the last one is I enjoy, so I enjoy reading,

  • I enjoy swimming, I enjoy playing football, I enjoy clicking pictures. So these are certain

  • hobbies that you can talk about by starting your phrase using, I enjoy. Again this phrase

  • will be always followed by a gerund form or Ing form. So these are the expressions that

  • you can use, but as we said that when you are talking about your hobbies, it gets a

  • little tricky. These phrases are pretty basic that would help you to start talking about

  • your hobbies, but wouldn't it be nice, if you give more details about it, now how do

  • you give the details about your hobbies? Well, we are gonna have a look at it

  • So here are some phrases that would help you to talk about your hobbies a little more,

  • like as I said, if you just end up saying, I love football or I love swimming and that's

  • about it, your conversation ends there, no point right, you would not really get to know

  • the other person or the other person would not really go ahead and talk to you about

  • little more things, so why not give a reason to why you have this hobby? why do you like

  • doing something? So, how do you use this? How do you put it in words? Well, lets have

  • a look. It keeps me fit, so for example, If someone asks you that, So Niharika what do

  • you like to do in your free time? And I say that I love yoga or I love swimming, so I

  • would add a reason to it, why I love swimming or why I love doing yoga? Is because it keeps

  • me fit, so this is the way you would add a reason. Another one is , It gets me out of

  • the house. So if you say that, I like watching movies, I spend a lot of time watching movies,

  • then probably you like watching movies in the theatre. You go to the cinema and end

  • up watching a movie, so that gets you out of the house, so you would again give a reason

  • saying that, it gets me out of the house, I really like watching movies and it gets

  • me out of the house. Then the next one is, Its exciting. So probably you really like

  • photography and you think that its so exciting, you think that clicking different pictures,

  • clicking the sky, clicking the cars, clicking the people around you, that is so exciting.

  • So this is the way you would reply and give a reason, that why you like it and then the

  • forth one is, Its interesting. So probably you like arts and craft and you find it very

  • interesting. There's nothing else that you would really like to do except for this, so

  • the reason because, its very interesting for you, so go ahead tell that person that you

  • find this interesting that's exactly the reason why you like doing it, so these are couple

  • of reasons, there are lot more reasons, if you know any please do write into us, but

  • now we are gonna look at some adjectives. Now you would wonder that how adjectives gonna

  • help, when we are talking about our hobbies and interests. Well, it will, so the first

  • thing that we learnt is questioning that, what do you do in your free time or what are

  • your hobbies? what sort of hobbies are you into? So, this is the way we ask the question,

  • then we learnt how to reply to it and then we learnt how to give a reason to it. And

  • now comes the adjectives. Now here you are describing your quality, you were telling

  • that person, because I am creative or because I am outgoing or because I'm active or socializing,

  • that's exactly the reason, why I love doing this, I'll help you with some examples, so

  • creative, so when I'm talking to the other person about my interests, I'm gonna say,

  • you know I really like painting, maybe because I think that I'm very creative and add a reason

  • and I think its exciting. So this is the way you have spoken a lot about your hobby. Next

  • one outgoing, so probably you are a very outgoing person and that's why you love hanging out

  • with friends, so hanging out with friends or going for shopping is one of your hobby,

  • so you could say, you could use this adjective by saying, you know I'm a very outgoing person

  • and that's why I love hanging out with friends. Next one is, Active, so probably you are very

  • physically active person and that's the reason, you love playing football or you love swimming

  • , because you are very active. So here again, you are describing your quality and that's

  • exactly the reason, why you like doing something. And then the forth one here is, Socializing,

  • so probably you go out with friends again, which means you like to socialize. So, socialize

  • is another quality of yours and that's why your adding to your statement that why you

  • like hanging out with your friends. So hope these expressions are helpful to you, we all

  • love talking about our hobbies and our interests, so this lesson should definitely help you

  • to talk much more about it and go ahead, whatever your current obsession is, talk about it,

  • so that you make new friends. I'll be back with a new lesson soon. Till then you take care.

Hello and welcome everyone, I am Niharika and in today's lesson we are gonna talk about

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