ALL ENGLISH 4U · B2 GRAMMAR · UNIT 4
100% Original Practice TestHobbies, Sport and Gamestopic vocabulary · phrasal verbs · collocations · word patterns · word formation
Lantern Yard Activity Weekend · 88 questions · Exercises A–I
Vocabulary Reference — Hobbies, Sport and Games
Choose words by meaning, structure and context. Study the guide, then help a community team organise a leisure festival.
At Lantern Yard, a good choice begins with meaning: identify the activity, the person involved and the result. Then check the whole phrase and the grammar around it.
How to Form It
Choose do, play or go
Do commonly goes with exercise activities: We do yoga before the gates open. Play commonly goes with games and team sports: The neighbours play volleyball behind the hall. Go + -ing describes many recreational activities: We go cycling along the canal.
Positive: Farah plays chess after work.
Negative: Farah does not play chess during her shift.
Question: Does Farah play chess competitively?
After does or does not, use the base form play. These are useful combinations, rather than a rule that predicts every sport: learn each activity as a complete phrase.
Choose win, beat or score
Win + event/prize: The neighbours won the relay.
Beat + opponent: They beat the visiting team.
Score + goal/points: They scored twelve points.
Positive: Our team won the final.
Negative: Our team did not win the final.
Question: Did our team win the final?
Irregular forms matter: win → won → won; beat → beat → beaten. After did, return to win or beat.
Places and equipment
Follow the sport: tennis court + racket; football pitch + ball; golf course + club; athletics track; ice skating rink; boxing ring; cricket bat; hockey stick; fishing rod. The strings in a racket distinguish it from the solid face of a cricket bat.
People and their jobs
A coach trains participants; a captain leads a team. A football referee applies the rules during play; a tennis umpire makes on-court decisions. Competitors enter contests, opponents compete against each other, and spectators watch. An audience watches or listens to a performance. A professional earns a living from the activity; an amateur does it without practising it as a paid profession.
Clue Words & Patterns
Keep the whole combination
Emre is keen on carving wood. On is a preposition, so an -ing form follows. The teacher encouraged Emre to carve a simple shape. Encourage uses a person followed by a to-infinitive.
We would rather cycle. / We would prefer to cycle. Both express preference, but the following verb form changes. In look forward to meeting, to is a preposition; it does not introduce an infinitive.
Particles and word families
Take up a hobby means begin it; give up a hobby means stop it. Put off an event means postpone it; carry on means continue. Get over an illness means recover. Warm up before exercise and cool down afterwards.
Check the role of a missing word: compete → competitor names a person; create → creativity names a quality; safe → safety names a condition; patient → patiently describes an action. Meaning can require a negative prefix: suitable → unsuitable.
The instructions were clear. / The teacher explained them clearly. An adjective describes instructions; an adverb describes explained. A suffix alone cannot decide the answer: read the full sentence.
Watch Out & Common Mistakes
Choose the right object
Wrong: Our team won the visitors.
Better: Our team beat the visitors.
The visitors are the opponents. Win takes the event or prize; beat takes the opposing person or team.
Remember the preposition
Wrong: We look forward to meet the sculptor.
Better: We look forward to meeting the sculptor.
To belongs to look forward to and acts as a preposition, so it takes an -ing form.
Place a pronoun correctly
Wrong: The concert clashed with the fair, so we put off it.
Better: The concert clashed with the fair, so we put it off.
In a separable phrasal verb such as put off, an object pronoun goes between the verb and particle. With a noun, put off the concert and put the concert off are both possible.
Self-check 1: We won / beat the final. Which verb fits, and why?
Won the final. The final is a competition, rather than an opposing person or team.
Self-check 2: Complete: The guide prevented us ___ entering the closed rink.
From. Prevent someone from doing something is the required pattern.
Self-check 3: Why does careful become carefully in: The instructor checked the harness ___?
Carefully is an adverb describing how the instructor checked it. Careful would describe a person or thing instead.
Before you answer: identify the meaning; name the grammatical role; check the complete phrase; check the verb form, spelling and any negative prefix; read the completed sentence aloud.
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