1 I find writing poetry very .................................... It helps me to get a truer understanding of myself and gives me a good feeling inside.
2 I enjoy selling the pictures I paint, but it's not very.................................. I only made £300 last year.
3 Gardening is very..................................... It reduces stress levels and calms you down.
4 I've had a..................................... partnership with Jane for several years: she plays the piano and I play the violin. It's been very good for both of us.
5 Doing unpaid work at the hospital has been ……………..experience for me.
6 I would like to be on the club committee, but I've heard it's very…………and I don't have a lot of free time.
6. Translate informal words describing the way people spend their leisure
Bob's a real culture vulture; he goes to every theatre and art gallery he can find. [ big fan of anything cultural]
I'm a bit of a couch potato: I spend hours every day just watching TV. [physically very inactive person]
Mary's a bit of a dabbler: she does a pastime for a couple of weeks, then she gets bored and starts something different, [person who never keeps doing one activity for long]
Francis is a real doer. He never sits round for long and always has some project or other, [person who believes in acting and doing things, not just thinking]
Laura's a shopaholic. She buys all sorts of things she doesn't need, [person addicted to shopping; compare alcoholic: addicted to alcohol]
Solve these riddles
1 I am a vegetable that sits where humans sit. What am I?
2 I seldom sit and talk, I always act. What am I?
3 I am a bird that eats the flesh of art. What am I?
4 I do some of this and some of that, but never all of this or all of that. What am I?