These templates are great for helping your esl young learners consolidate more than just the hobbies vocabulary you see depicted in the pictures. Use them to activate useful structures too and even as speaking props in dialogues.

You can choose whether to focus mainly on listening, speaking or even reading and writing – the choice of templates and activity suggestions make it easy to differentiate according to your needs.

painting, drawing, singing, listening to music, playing the piano, reading, playing chess, dancing, playing card games, collecting cards, playing board games, playing video games, playing with lego, playing the guitar, making jewellery, watching videos.

• ‘can’ for ability

e.g. I can sing. Can you sing? Yes, I can. No, I can’t.

• Describing frequency

e.g. I sometimes/never draw

• Present simple with verb collocations

e.g. She plays video games. They play card games. He plays the guitar.

• Present continuous

e.g. You are reading. I am playing video games.

• Expressing likes/dislikes

e.g. My favourite hobby is… / I like/don’t like/don’t mind/hate…

Classroom language

Is it…? Yes, it is. No, it isn’t. What is it? It’s.. It’s…

Can you find…? I can see … Where’s….? Here it is! It’s here. Where does this go? Like this?

Whose turn is it? It’s my turn. It’s your turn. Turn it over. Pick one.

Can I have..? Here you are. Thank you. You’re welcome. Colours, pencil, crayons, pens, scissors, paper, card, cut, fold, open, trace