大学英语3unit 1 book 4概要.ppt

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: How College Students Spend Their Leisure Time. In your composition, you should use at least six words or phrases from the box below: leisure activities popularity personality gender pursuing entertaining relaxation limited take one’s mind away appeal to bury one’s head in piles of books How College Students Spend Their Leisure Time When we take a look at leisure activities of college students, we find the popularity of pastimes varies according to personality, gender, and financial situations. Some students like to spend their leisure time pursuing their hobbies indoors. Others look for outdoor relaxation, even taking part in such adventurous activities as rock climbing or bungee jumping. Generally speaking, male students are fond of participating in sports, playing computer games, surfing on the Internet, and watching kung-fu movies, while female students love chit-chatting, shopping, watching soap opera, and knitting （编织）. If they can afford it, some students will go to pop stars’ concerts, take picnic, or invite some friends over for a dinner or a party. All these activities are entertaining and appealing to students because of their curiosities and their desires to escape from the limited world of the classroom. As a form of relaxation, leisure activities take their mind away from academic pressure. As an English proverb goes, “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.” After recreational activities, students usually will feel relaxed, more refreshed, and ready to start stressful school work. However, for some students, learning is a full-time job, and they even invest their leisure time studying. They like to bury their heads in piles of books, ignoring everything else. They have a sense of achievement from reading novels, working on pa