30 Minute Hobbies & Sport Vocabulary Conversation Practice (with PDF and subtitles)

hello everyone and welcome back to english with lucy and william yeah part three yeah it's your third time isn't it yeah we've had a couple on my personal channel and we did a conversation video the other day on this channel loads of you seem to really like it and have asked for william to come back well i live here so well we thought we would do another but also incorporate your questions so today's topic is past times and hobbies you have a lot of those don't you i've got a few i've got a few i can contribute so i put a post on the community tab asking you what questions you have about british people's hobbies and pastimes and also ours so i think we should have a look okay i have created a pdf for you with lots of the vocabulary that i have pulled from our conversation so click on the link in the description box to download that you enter your name your email address you sign up to my mailing list and it is sent straight to your inbox so don't forget to do that okay so daniel from italy because everyone has said where they're from i think that's so nice daniel from italy has a question about whether we maintain our hobbies or are we super enthusiastic at the beginning and then after a few weeks we give up and get bored yeah i'm pretty good at maintaining my hobbies so i see a lot of things on instagram like crafts and making things and baking beautiful cakes and i always feel so enthusiastic at the beginning and then towards the end i just think it's so much work but with other things like running that's been a hobby i've had for so long and making cards for my family that's another one what are yours mine are mainly sport related hobbies so rugby football golf i could go on if you'd like a few more watching rugby or playing rugby i'd probably watch more than i ever used to because i used to play a lot of rugby but now i don't play as much rugby as i used to but i do both yes so one of will's main hobbies used to be playing rugby but what happened a couple of reasons why i had to stop um the main one being injuries i i used to get injured every saturday playing um i remember you coming home with a fat lip yeah and a fat eye yes well we have a black eye and a fat lip yeah don't we those are common satire and a black clip that's what i know also another reason was time i mean when you start working especially if you work on a farm it's so hard to take time off because you depend on the weather don't you oh we have a lovely question from paulina she is russian but she lives in estonia she says what are your favorite british tv shows good question so the first show that comes to mind is mock the week it's a comedy show based on uh recent news and comedians are on the panel and they make a joke about current affairs yeah that's a great tv show i think i actually recommended that in a video before so great minds think alike uh another one that i always recommend but i absolutely love is the vicar of dibbly i've been watching it a lot recently that will never get old no it's so good because in the uk they've brought out a new equivalent to netflix called brit box and a couple of the tv stations have got together and kind of made a collaboration so all of the old favorite comedies and tv shows are all on this one streaming service and it's not very expensive so i have been going crazy just a little bit here watching all of my old favorite tv programs but the vicar of dibley is a vicar played by dawn french one of my favorite comedians she moves to a very small village in oxfordshire i think and it's about her trials and tribulations of running a church in such a small backwards village yeah so we watch quite a lot of tv shows and films and that's one thing that i always recommend to my students as a language learning tool but a really frustrating situation is when you finally find a film or tv show that you want to watch you're ready to watch it and it's blocked in your country that is where the sponsor of today's video comes 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lucy or just use my code lucy right let's get back to the questions okay we have a good one from muhammad from algeria he asks in general what is the one morning hobby that many brits like doing on their weekends well we've spoken about a fry up before like a full english breakfast that's not a hobby yeah it's not hobby is it eating it's one of my hobbies i think gardening oh that's a good one yeah a lot of british people love gardening well i'm sure people everywhere love gardening especially in lockdown all the garden centers were overrun with people everything was completely sold out the people who normally didn't have enough time to garden well suddenly did and yeah garden centers did a really good trade now everyone's lawns are looking immaculate yes i would say another one could be golf yes that's a very popular sport yes because it's quite relaxed i mean i've never played golf i've got no coordination but what what do you like about it um that used to be my hangover cure at university we've managed to mention hangovers in every video now i think yeah it's good stretch your legs it's um it's quite a leisurely social sport as well you normally do it with at least two to four people uh it's good for a catch-up it's not anyone can play golf really anyone can me well take some people longer than others but you don't have to be exceptionally fit you know it's true if you don't want to walk just order a trolley my grandad played golf until he was in his 90s and he used to win he won champagne and he used to drink it he was such a great man we have one from sanya from india she hopes that we're both safe and well that's very kind of you saying yeah we hope you're well as well yes you're safe safe and well safe and well everyone she asks which hobbies do both you and will share so do we have any of the same hobbies you've got sport as your hobbies mine are running i love exercise classes my favorite ones are body pump which is like a cardio workout with weights i also love bar pilates where you do little movements ballet movements it's not dancing but ballet movements and pilates at the same time the last time you tried doing that was when you were trying to show how to use a gym when was that started doing squats oh yeah chin ups in the last video pilates and doing the gym chin ups looks exactly the same i also like being creative i like cooking and i love making cards for my family for their birthdays what else do i like shopping i hate driving i hate driving that's true but are there any hobbies that we both love and we can do together uh going for long walks in the countryside that's a big part of being a farmer and a farmer's wife to be um yeah i love going on walks i probably enjoy them slightly more than you well i spend most of my day outside walking anyway around the farm so sometimes the last thing i want to do at the end of the day is go for another two three mile walk yeah that's true i guess in general just spending time with our dog and now our cat as well that's something anything that makes them happy i think we are very good with food i cook the food you eat the food we both share the hobby of food but i'm definitely cooking a lot more now that's true will has upped his game oh yes i have to cooking i got served the most beautiful salad today with chicken bacon sweet corn avocado walnuts walnuts coriander even though you don't like coriander you're doing such a good job so ziad from azerbaijan says do people in great britain like motorsports yes i think we're obsessed with them yes i like motorsports your dad likes motorsports yes my dad loves f1 racing but the thing is he's also very efficient with his time so he can never spend hours and hours watching it he records it and then he'll spend like 20 minutes fast forwarding through the highlights so he doesn't give himself enough time to relax the main interesting bits of a formula one race are the beginning the middle where they do the pit stops and then the last few laps everything else is nap time basically it's a bit noisy for me then yeah i found that quite a stressful noise i would like to go i'd like to see what it smells like i imagine it smells like petrol you need um ear defenders oh do you yeah yeah oh maybe i wouldn't like it the noise is i should think it was a lot louder than it is now but still yeah okay we have salma from morocco i think she's also an english teacher actually her name is english with salma so shout out to her she wants to know what are the most common hobbies in england the most common ones football football's definitely up there has to be football fishing i think that is probably one of the most participated sports uh in the country or activities shall we say i don't know if i'd say it's the most popular but maybe it's because i don't talk to many people who fish but there are a lot of fishing lakes and you don't keep the fish do you you just catch them and fly fly fishing you catch them and then release them oh that's a bit mean isn't it but okay prince from sudan says how do we entertain ourselves when we feel bored this is a really depressing answer anytime anyone feels bored they just use their phone don't they no we don't we do okay we do but during lockdown we played quite a few board games oh that's true that's one of the activities that we love doing together yeah the board game about actually all those fun times we had just yeah months of board games and so we found a board game and we fell in love with it it's called patchwork and it's like tetris but in a board game it's very very good i won't try to explain it you need to read the instructions but i will link it down below because it is fantastic and we've bought it for all of our friends and family olivika from india wants to know how we would describe our perfect day sunday yeah well it would be a sunday actually no i prefer saturday because then you know you've still got sunday but a sunday roast forms part of my perfect day so it has to be a sunday yours yeah yeah that's part of mine as well um an afternoon watching a rugby match would be involved in mine sorry sorry i wouldn't have to watch a lot but no i'd watch it just the one would be fine for your perfect day i'd be there watching not understanding what's going on but watching i think it would involve a dog walk seeing my parents and my brother as well that would be part of it and [Music] my friends ellie and felicity just seeing the people you love and i'd also like to go on a run and do an exercise class because that always makes me feel good i'd do that first so this is an interesting one emily hansen who is from turkey wants to know if there are any hobbies that are not common around british people for example extreme sports exotic animals i'm thinking you've lived in new zealand i've lived in spain were there any hobbies that we saw in those other countries that we don't see in the uk so there was one for me in spain paddle there was this sport it looked like tennis but with a really small racket called paddle and i swear i have never seen that sport in the uk but they really took it seriously out there i think they were in the olympics yeah well maybe maybe not i don't know i'm not sure about new zealand i'd say new zealand it's quite a predominantly farming country so they would share quite a few of the things that i would do around here so i'm not sure about new zealand what don't we we don't ski i i was thinking we have no mountains we don't ski but it's very popular to go abroad skiing yeah a lot of people do that i've never been skiing before i've never been to a skiing location that's something i'd like to take you to ski resort you can take me definitely miguel from spain wants to know if we play any musical instruments do you want to start tell them your instrument i used to play a musical instrument and then we ended up selling it to a family member i used to play the drums i played the drums for about six years i think it was five or six years did you do any grades i didn't do grades but i did enter competitions oh yes i did uh i never won oh i always came second or third um but it was at school and i remember one competition in particular i was playing to a soundtrack in the background and uh and i was just in the moment i was just playing along and i completely lost where i was uh looking at the music book and the music in the background had actually stopped and i just carried on playing and everyone in the crowd was just they didn't know whoever to applaud to tell me to stop or i ended up carrying on playing for another 15 seconds so we're going to say 15 minutes no another 15 seconds i was looking at my teacher to the side and he was just like okay you're done you're done well done so my dad plays the drums but he set up a soundproofed room above the garage so that he wouldn't disturb us but the problem was it was next to my bedroom but i used to find it quite soothing i could just hear like a little heartbeat or sometimes a very fast heartbeat in my ear he's much better than i ever was he's excellent my dad at the drums and he also plays the violin and so me and my brother also took up the violin as well and we played until we were 18 and then we stopped but sometimes when i go home i will pick up the violin with my dad and we'll play a duet together that's something i really like doing maybe when i'm older i will buy a violin and play a bit here but i don't have the urge at the moment you can sing loose i don't i don't sing sing i've occasionally seen she doesn't like to sing in public but she sings i do sing every now and again um i only sing for my parents birthdays so if my parents have a party i know that it's their favorite thing when i sing and but even though i find it so embarrassing i will do it for them but that's it but it's my dad's 60th i think soon so i'm getting really nervous that he's going to want me to sing oh we have elif from turkey and they want to know how we spent our time together throughout quarantine well we've already mentioned board games that was a big part of it and they also want to know if we found any new hobbies in this period so i'd say one thing that we did that we'd never done before is zoom pub quizzes so this is a popular pastime for british people we love going to the pub and we also love quizzes so a lot of pubs once a month will host a quiz so you have to get a team between i think one and six people and you pay a fee and then i think the winner takes most of it but normally you donate it to charity yeah we we loved doing that when we lived in the village brilliant yes it gets the village involved basically yes it's really nice it's normally the last wednesday of every month we have a really good friend who is amazing at pub quizzes so we always used to get him on our team yeah he's what you would call a ringer he doesn't live in the village but he's brought in from outside of the village to help your team is that what it's called a ringer a ringer where's that phrase from i don't know but it's it's like when you have a a team a sports team um and you bring someone in from another club who doesn't play for your club that is called a ringer look will's teaching me english now this is amazing thank you and that was really nicely explained actually we started doing pub quizzes on zoom with all of our friends lots of different couples and each week a different couple would organize the questions and when it got to your go your round you went above and beyond didn't you well i i spent a couple of late nights looking into you know everything everything yes basically no no one likes an easy quiz everyone should learn something new by the end of the quiz that's how i feel yes and then you put it in the next quiz that's with a different group of people um so what will did is he looked through all of his friends old facebook photos took the most embarrassing ones possible blocked out their face and had a round where you had to guess which person was in that photo and it was excellent we were in stitches so actually one thing involved you guys um one of will's friends it was his turn to make the quiz and he actually made a round based on my youtube comments um so he showed like crazy comments and we had to guess if they were real or not and it was hilarious because you know i do get some strange comments every now and again um so beware if you comment anything strange you might be in the next quiz because we're in lockdown again but you'll probably never know about it you'll never know tani from india asks if we like extreme sports like bungee diving bungee diving bungee jumping or sea diving bungee diving god that would hurt your neck wouldn't it if you hit the water well i've never done that many extreme sports i've done skydiving but it was indoor skydiving so it wasn't real skydiving not that extreme um you've done a lot more than me though i've i've done two bungee jumps um natter ah crazy and one skydive and all three were in new zealand i'm so glad you did that before i met you because i wouldn't i would have been so worried they were all awesome one bungee jump was into a cannon a cannon into a cannon like a one that you fire bumps yeah i jumped into it and then they shot me out of it [Laughter] okay um and then my second one was off a bridge at a smaller height and then i went into the water at the bottom were you meant to yes okay good right it's done on it's done on weight oh okay if you're very heavy um you're most likely going to go into the water but if you're not quite so heavy and not as tall as me um you've actually got to reach out and touch it and the skydive was in taupo in new zealand and that was from 15 000 feet so i was free-falling for a minute wow yeah it was you don't you don't really believe you're doing it at the time it doesn't feel like you're free-falling in the sky i don't know if i'd do that i am i just have too many things that i love i want to do again oh deborah from india i just read out her name before and you said how nice it was didn't she say again it's a lovely name it's a lovely name um she has asked what is britain's biggest festival so i think the biggest celebration is christmas for us were you thinking like last year christmas rubbish glastonbury yeah we've never been to glastonbury okay that's a hobby in a past time going to music festivals they're very big uh in the uk i went to one when i was 16 reading festival and somebody jumped on my tent and everything was squashed but it was very good but i was thinking more like cultural it makes a lot more sense yeah so christmas is probably the biggest one um but i'm also thinking of frequent festivals as well we have a we have a lot of beer festivals yes so often pubs in the summer normally will put on an event called a beer and cider and normally sausage festival as well to try and bring in more people for that weekend make a big party of it and i love those they're great you get to go there they normally bring in lots of different ciders and beers from all around that you can try lots of sausages sometimes they do a hog roast as well which is where they cook a pig basically and everyone gets given sandwiches with that yeah what other festivals can you think of i'm just thinking of music festivals now art festivals yeah we like a festival in the uk this is a good one okay we have marina from spain she says i'm from spain and here it's always really hot so i'm wondering what do you do in england to have fun outside because it's raining basically all the time oh marina how things have changed yeah so you're right i noticed that when i lived in spain people did a lot more outside to an extent apart from in summer where the heat was basically unbearable in seville um but we just make the most of good weather whilst it's there so when it's a sunny day even if it's quite cold you know it's march or something everyone's got their shorts on people are sunburned people are sunbathing in a pub garden a lot of our hobbies include pubs we're having barbecues barbecues are a massive thing so the difficult thing in the uk is that it's hard to plan trips because you cannot guarantee the weather so i know in spain most people went on well many people went on holiday within spain because you knew that it was going to be sunny perfect for a beach holiday whereas here i once booked over a week in the beach with my family and it rained the entire time i'm not kidding it was like being inside a cloud for the entire time beautiful beach beautiful place but you go on the wrong day and it's awful in the summer when a sunny day is predicted and especially at a weekend everyone packs the car drives two three hours to the nearest beach and you know roasts themselves roast themselves until the monday where we're probably predicted rain yeah but now our summers are actually getting hotter uh we have days of over 30 degrees a bit more regularly now yeah which we aren't used to so we struggle our houses struggle yeah really struggle because our houses are designed to retain heat in winter you know if you have the heating on you need lots of insulin insulation but that means in the summer if the house heats up our houses all our insulation is working hard to retain all that heat still so i know the houses are built differently in hot countries okay we have anastasia or anastasia from turkey lovely name we've had a lot of beautiful names today um they want to know if there are any hobbies that we would like to take up in the future you go first okay well i've got one small one there's a new class at my gym um where they've got a little trampoline with handles i've shown you a video already because i'm so excited about it and you jump to the beach to the music i am so excited to try that when it starts at the gym i think it'd be quite good in spin classes spin spin class i used to do spin but they don't do it at our gym now i go to a very small gym it's just a room where we do classes what would you like to do what would i take up i've mentioned golf i used to play a lot more golf when i was 18. so a few years ago now but i would like to take that up a bit if you had more time if i had more time any other things that you haven't tried before that you would like to try that you think you'd be good at two things i'd like to do i'd like to learn and become fluent in another language oh which one spanish would probably be the most helpful for our relationship i would love that i was better at french at school well no that would be great that means that we can go to spain i can speak spanish we can go to france you can speak french and i can learn it i'd love that voila and the second one would be back to a musical instrument not necessarily the drums but i'd quite like to be good on a guitar or a piano that would be cool we were just talking the other day i said that i'd like to learn to play the piano maybe if we have children and they're learning the piano i could learn with them i think that would be amazing right i think we've covered most of the questions um so thank you so much for all of those submissions they were amazing don't forget that i have created a pdf for you with all of the vocabulary that i have pulled out of our conversation today if you would like to download that click on the link in the description box enter your name and your email address you sign up for my mailing list and it will be sent straight to your inbox did you enjoy today i thought it was brilliant yes i did you've had me on again this is this is becoming a second job for me yeah i wish all jobs were this nice um no i think last time people noticed that you were quite shy but i think this time they'll get to see more of the real you because it's nerve-wracking talking to a camera yeah it's not something i do every day just staring at a big light a big light on a lens yeah yeah um no i still get nervous in front of the camera and i've been doing it for five years so yeah i i think you're doing really really well thank you let me know if you'd like to see more conversation lessons with will because they're really fun to do and we love answering your questions so don't forget to check out nordvpn you can get 68 off nordvpn that's only 3.71 per month every purchase of a two year plan will get you one additional month free and a surprise gift go to nordvpn.com lucy or just use my code lucy don't forget to connect with us on all of our social media i've got my instagram will's got his instagram i've got my facebook don't worry about will's facebook but we've also got my mailing list as well oh and we should mention the personal channel because that's where you star the most i i dabble um yes we also have the personal channel where we do vlogs of our daily life on an english farm so if you enjoyed this lesson and you learned a lot of vocabulary all of those 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Published: Thu Nov 12 2020