Grade 5 Free Time and Hobbies Speaking Activity: Free-Time Interview

Learning Objectives

• Students will be able to ask "What do you like doing in your free time?" and "How often do you ___?" in natural conversation.
• Students will be able to record a partner's spoken answers accurately in written form.
• Students will be able to report information about another person using third-person sentence frames.

How to Use This Resource

• Pair students up and give each pair one handout, or one copy per student if you want individual written records. Model the interview process yourself with one confident student before releasing pairs to work independently — ask a hobby question, get a genuine answer, and think aloud about how you'd record it in the table. Circulate while pairs interview each other, then bring the class back together for a few students to report back on what they learned about their partner.

Classroom Activity Ideas

• Turn the Report Back stage into a short "Guess Who" game: one student describes their partner's hobbies without naming them, and the rest of the class tries to guess which classmate is being described. It adds a light competitive element to what would otherwise be a fairly quiet reporting stage.

Differentiation

SUPPORT: Reduce the number of hobbies each pair interviews about from five to three, and allow students to write single-word answers in the table before attempting full sentences in the Report Back stage.
ON-LEVEL: Students complete all five interview rows and report back using the full sentence frame.
CHALLENGE: Complete the Extra Challenge section — asking a follow-up question or making a comparison between two hobbies — with every hobby in the table, not just one.

Assessment

Use the Free Time and Hobbies Grading Rubric to score this activity, focusing especially on the Communication & Participation and Talking About Preferences and Frequency criteria, which this activity targets most directly.

Teacher Tips

Encourage students to ask a genuine follow-up question if their partner's first answer is very short ("I like reading" with nothing more) — a simple "Why?" or "How often?" often gets a fuller, more interesting answer and models the kind of real conversation this activity is meant to build toward.

What's Included

• 2-page speaking activity handout
• Editable DOCX version
• Print-ready PDF version

Additional Files

• Free Time and Hobbies Speaking Activity.docx (DOCX)

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