8 That's Really Interesting!

Unit 8 VOCABULARY 1 1 Listen and read. Most people have a hobby. Some children collect things, play in a musical group, or grow vegetables. Creative people often paint or take photos. Video games are popular, too. What hobbies do you enjoy? Many video games are for one person. You play alone. But it’s more fun to play with a friend. Choose your avatars. Then compete. To win the game, you must get many points. The person with the highest score wins. In other video games, you play together with a friend. You don’t compete. You cooperate. When you use the controller, you can see your avatars move on the screen. 2 Listen and say. collect What do you collect? a musical group What’s your favorite musical group? creative Many creative people like to take photos and draw. take photos I love to take photos of animals. enjoy Do you enjoy video games? alone I like to play video games alone. an avatar Can I see your avatar? compete Do you like to compete? a point I have seven points already! score What’s the score? together Let’s play my new video game together. cooperate I like to cooperate more than compete! a controller There are three controllers in this game. a screen Look at the screen.

SONG 1 Listen, read, and sing. What’s Your Hobby? What’s your hobby? What do you like to do? What’s your hobby? I have a hobby, too! The boy who has the highest score wins the video game. The girl who collects a fossil wants to learn its name. Who enjoys a comic book? Who likes to compete? I collect stuffed animals because I think they’re sweet. What’s your hobby? What do you like to do? What’s your hobby? I have a hobby, too! The boy who takes a photo sees it on the screen. The girl who reads about dinosaurs can see them in her dreams. Do you like to cooperate? Do you like to work alone? I like to talk about my hobby on my new cell phone. It’s fun to be creative and show what you can do. Collect, compete, cooperate. I have a hobby. Do you? What’s your hobby? What do you like to do? What’s your hobby? I have a hobby, too!

GRAMMAR 1 Describing people with who The person who has the highest score wins the game. I know a boy who collects movie posters. We have three cousins who play in a musical group together.

VOCABULARY 2 1 Listen and repeat. a comic book A boy in my class collects comic books. a bug Some people are scared of bugs, but I love them. a dinosaur I think that dinosaurs are really interesting. a fossil My brother collects old fossils. a stuffed animal My mom gave me a stuffed animal for my birthday. GRAMMAR 2 Direct and indirect objects Show the comic book to James. = Show James the comic book. My dad gave this fossil to me. = My dad gave me this fossil. My mom bought stuffed animals for them. = My mom bought them stuffed animals.

READING 1 Listen and read. HIDE and SEEK Geocaching is a fun outdoor hobby. It’s like a game of hide and seek, with the hiders leaving clues for the seekers to find. Here’s how it works: The hiders hide a box, or cache. Inside the box, they put some “treasure”—small objects for you to find—and a notebook. If you want to be a seeker, or geocacher, you use an app that tells you where there are caches near you. Then you look for the cache. To help you find it, you need to have your smartphone with online clues, or a map and compass. You should also take a pen or pencil and a few small treasures to leave for other people. When you find the cache, you look for the notebook inside. Then you write your name and the date. Then you look at the treasures in the box and choose something you like to take away. You might choose a small toy, an ornament, or a little book. Don’t forget to leave another treasure in its place! Geocaching is a great way to explore new places and make new friends. Many geocachers also help to clean up the places they visit by picking up garbage they see along the way. One geocacher says it’s a great hobby because “It gets the whole family outside and doing something fun together. I love it!”