Read the dialogue "Holiday hobbies". Lesie talks about what she likes to do when she has free time.
Simon: Hi! What's your name?
Lesie: My name is Lesie Gregory.
Simon: And do you want to tell us about your hobbies?
Lesie: Sure, I'll tell you about my hobbies.
Simon: OK. What are they?
Lesie: My first hobby is going to the gym. I go to the gym three times a week. I do floor exercises, aerobics classes, swimming and I do weight training.
Simon: Of all those things, what are your favorites? What's your favorite? What's your favorite thing to do?
Lesie: My favorite thing to do is either swimming or what they call aqua-aerobics.
Simon: Aqua-aerobics? What's that?
Lesie: Well, actually, there are different kinds of aqua-aerobics. It's just like an aerobics class but it's in a swimming pool, so there's, so you're not putting pressure on your joints when you're jumping up and down.
Simon: Ah, cool! Any other hobbies?
Lesie: Yeah, um, because it's going to be Christmas soon, I'll be able to enjoy my hobby of baking.
Simon: So what kind of things do you bake?
Lesie: Oh, well, sometimes I bake pies, like pumpkin pies or pecan pies. Pecan pies are very famous where I come from in Florida because we have pecan trees and then sometimes I do cakes, like really rich cakes like red velvet cakes, or carrot cakes, but this year I'm going to be baking cookies.
Simon: Cookies! What kind of cookies, Leslie?
Lesie: Ah, let's see this year's cookies are going to be the traditional Christmas sugar cookie, which is a big cookie in a kind of a Christmas shape, like a Christmas tree or Santa Claus with icing or some colored sugar, very yummy, and some M&M cookies with red and green M&M's.
Simon: Oh, wow! Sounds interesting! OK. I've got a question, or I've got something to ask you.
Lesie: Describe how your cookies taste? Use your three favorite adjectives?
Three favorite adjectives? Soft, moist, and sweet.
Fill in the gaps:
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3. Lesie: Describe how your cookies ...(вставить слово) ?
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7. The knock at the door took me by surprise.
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9. In my opinion, he is the greatest musician of our time.
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16. We always stay in. Why don’t we go out for a change?
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