Choosing the activity that matches a student's free time.
Which of these is a hobby?
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Respuesta correcta: C)playing chess
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "playing chess". A hobby is by definition something a person does regularly for pleasure, and the three distractors are all things a student has to do or must do to keep going. Knowing that hobby means chosen and for enjoyment is what lets a student answer questions about what somebody does in their free time, which is a common topic in the reading section.
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Respuesta correcta: C)playing chess
A)doing homeworkHomework is assigned work that has to be completed, so it is not a chosen leisure activity.
B)going to schoolGoing to school is an obligation of the timetable rather than something chosen for pleasure.
C)playing chessPlaying chess is a regular activity done for pleasure, which is exactly what a hobby is.
D)going to bedSleeping is part of the daily routine rather than a hobby, since nobody chooses it as a pastime.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "playing chess". A hobby is by definition something a person does regularly for pleasure, and the three distractors are all things a student has to do or must do to keep going. Knowing that hobby means chosen and for enjoyment is what lets a student answer questions about what somebody does in their free time, which is a common topic in the reading section.
Pregunta 2
Pregunta 2 · D3Bloom: Remember
Choosing the preposition for a free-time activity with a time expression.
Which sentence says that a student plays football in the afternoon?
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Respuesta correcta: A)She plays football in the afternoon.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She plays football in the afternoon". Time expressions have their own prepositions, and in the afternoon is the one students most often get wrong by reaching for at or on from Spanish. Fixing the pattern for the parts of the day now pays off directly in the telling-time material of the same period.
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Respuesta correcta: A)She plays football in the afternoon.
A)She plays football in the afternoon.In the afternoon is the standard English expression for that part of the day.
B)She plays football at afternoon.At does not combine with the word afternoon in English, which needs the preposition in.
C)She plays football on afternoon.On is used with days and dates, and it does not take afternoon without the word every.
D)She plays football of afternoon.Of does not express time in English, and the phrase of afternoon does not exist in this use.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She plays football in the afternoon". Time expressions have their own prepositions, and in the afternoon is the one students most often get wrong by reaching for at or on from Spanish. Fixing the pattern for the parts of the day now pays off directly in the telling-time material of the same period.
Pregunta 3
Pregunta 3 · D4Bloom: Understand
Reading a short text about how two students spend their free time.
Read: "On weekends, Andrés goes to the football club. His sister María stays at home and reads." What does María do in her free time?
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Respuesta correcta: B)She reads at home.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She reads at home". Two activities in one short text, one per person, make the student resolve the reference before answering, which is the standard reading trap. The distractors include Andrés's activity and two plausible inventions, so the item separates careful reading from filling in what seems likely.
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Respuesta correcta: B)She reads at home.
A)She plays football.The football club is what Andrés does, and the text does not place María there.
B)She reads at home.The text states that María stays at home and reads, which describes her weekend activity directly.
C)She plays chess with Andrés.Nothing in the text mentions chess or any game between the two of them.
D)She stays at the football club.The club belongs to Andrés, while María stays at home, so the two activities are not shared.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She reads at home". Two activities in one short text, one per person, make the student resolve the reference before answering, which is the standard reading trap. The distractors include Andrés's activity and two plausible inventions, so the item separates careful reading from filling in what seems likely.
Pregunta 4
Pregunta 4 · D4Bloom: Apply
Using the verb to like with a free-time activity.
Which sentence correctly says that a student likes playing guitar?
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Respuesta correcta: D)She likes playing guitar.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She likes playing guitar". The verb to like takes the gerund for activities, and the third person singular ending has to be right at the same time, so two separate pieces of grammar have to succeed together. This combination is what the free-time questions in the exam actually require, since asking what someone does in their free time almost always involves a form of to like.
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Respuesta correcta: D)She likes playing guitar.
A)She like playing guitar.The subject is third person singular, so the verb has to be likes rather than the base form like.
B)She likes play guitar.The bare infinitive play is not used after likes, which takes the -ing form in this pattern.
C)She likes to play guitar.The to form is also possible with likes, but guitar must then take the article, so this version is incomplete.
D)She likes playing guitar.After likes the gerund form playing is used, so this is the standard way to name a liked activity.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She likes playing guitar". The verb to like takes the gerund for activities, and the third person singular ending has to be right at the same time, so two separate pieces of grammar have to succeed together. This combination is what the free-time questions in the exam actually require, since asking what someone does in their free time almost always involves a form of to like.
Pregunta 5
Pregunta 5 · D4Bloom: Apply
Choosing the verb that goes with a particular free-time activity.
Which verb goes with the activity "to take a photograph"?
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Respuesta correcta: B)take
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "take". Some activities have a fixed verb in English that Spanish does not share, and photograph is one of the clearest cases since Spanish also uses a literal word for taking. Learning these as phrases rather than translating word by word is what lets a student talk about hobbies without producing odd sentences.
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Respuesta correcta: B)take
A)doDo is a general verb for activities, but the fixed English phrase for a photograph is take.
B)takeTake is the verb English uses with a photograph, as in to take a photograph of something.
C)makeMake is used for things that are produced rather than for a photograph, which is taken by someone.
D)getGet names obtaining or receiving something, and it is not the verb for producing an image.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "take". Some activities have a fixed verb in English that Spanish does not share, and photograph is one of the clearest cases since Spanish also uses a literal word for taking. Learning these as phrases rather than translating word by word is what lets a student talk about hobbies without producing odd sentences.
Pregunta 6
Pregunta 6 · D4Bloom: Apply
Answering a question about free-time plans with a friend.
A friend asks: "What do you usually do after school?" Which answer is the most natural?
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Respuesta correcta: A)I usually play basketball with my friends.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "I usually play basketball with my friends". A good answer to what do you usually do needs the adverb that signals a routine, plus an activity that belongs to the speaker personally. The three distractors each fail the question in a different way, by reporting the present, the activity in general or a past event, which makes the choice a genuine test of what the question requires.
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Respuesta correcta: A)I usually play basketball with my friends.
A)I usually play basketball with my friends.This names a regular activity with company, which is what a friend is asking about.
B)I am playing basketball now.The present continuous reports what is happening at this moment rather than the usual routine.
C)Basketball is a sport.This is a general statement about the activity and says nothing about what the speaker personally does.
D)I play basketball three hours ago.The time marker three hours ago points to the past, which does not answer a question about a usual routine.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "I usually play basketball with my friends". A good answer to what do you usually do needs the adverb that signals a routine, plus an activity that belongs to the speaker personally. The three distractors each fail the question in a different way, by reporting the present, the activity in general or a past event, which makes the choice a genuine test of what the question requires.
Pregunta 7
Pregunta 7 · D4Bloom: Apply
Using the present simple for a hobby that is a fact rather than a plan.
Which sentence correctly describes what a student does on Saturdays?
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Respuesta correcta: C)Every Saturday she swims at the pool.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "Every Saturday she swims at the pool". Every plus a day name fixes the present simple, and the other three options each substitute a tense that does not fit a settled routine. Students often reach for a future or continuous form because English allows them elsewhere, so seeing why each is wrong in this particular sentence matters more than remembering the rule by heart.
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Respuesta correcta: C)Every Saturday she swims at the pool.
A)Every Saturday she will swim at the pool.Will points to a single future occasion rather than to a habit repeated week after week.
B)Every Saturday she is swimming at the pool.The present continuous would suggest something happening at the moment, and every Saturday marks a settled routine instead.
C)Every Saturday she swims at the pool.The present simple with every marks a regular occurrence, which is what a weekly routine requires.
D)Every Saturday she is swim at the pool.After the auxiliary is the bare infinitive needed, so swim is correct here and the sentence has no tense problem.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "Every Saturday she swims at the pool". Every plus a day name fixes the present simple, and the other three options each substitute a tense that does not fit a settled routine. Students often reach for a future or continuous form because English allows them elsewhere, so seeing why each is wrong in this particular sentence matters more than remembering the rule by heart.
Pregunta 8
Pregunta 8 · D4Bloom: Analyze
Checking what a text says about two hobbies.
Read: "Julia paints. She also plays the guitar, but she doesn't play the drums." Which is true about Julia?
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Respuesta correcta: A)She plays the guitar.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She plays the guitar". The text contains a positive and a negative about the same category, and reading a negative alongside a positive is exactly where students misread. Attributing the correct activities to the correct person, and noticing what the sentence rules out, is the analytical work the exam rewards in its longer reading items.
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Respuesta correcta: A)She plays the guitar.
A)She plays the guitar.The text names the guitar as something she plays, in a sentence that contrasts it with the drums.
B)She plays two instruments.She plays one instrument, the guitar, and the text rules out the other.
C)She plays the drums.The text says explicitly that she does not play the drums, which is the opposite.
D)She only paints and does nothing else.Playing the guitar is a second activity the text explicitly records.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "She plays the guitar". The text contains a positive and a negative about the same category, and reading a negative alongside a positive is exactly where students misread. Attributing the correct activities to the correct person, and noticing what the sentence rules out, is the analytical work the exam rewards in its longer reading items.
Pregunta 9
Pregunta 9 · D4Bloom: Analyze
Finding the error in a sentence about a hobby.
A student writes: "My brother like playing video games in his free time." What is the problem?
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Respuesta correcta: D)The verb does not agree with the subject.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "The verb does not agree with the subject". Everything in the sentence is correct except the verb form, and the three distractors name plausible-sounding faults that are not present. Isolating the one real error among several things that merely look unusual is the checking skill that separates a student who writes accurately from one who guesses.
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Respuesta correcta: D)The verb does not agree with the subject.
A)The gerund is wrong after a preposition.Playing is exactly the form required after the preposition in, so the gerund is not at fault.
B)A hobby cannot be a video game.Video games are a normal leisure activity, so there is nothing wrong with the activity itself.
C)The preposition is wrong before a hobby.In his free time is the standard English phrase for this idea, and in is the correct preposition.
D)The verb does not agree with the subject.My brother is third person singular, so the verb has to be likes rather than the base form like.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is "The verb does not agree with the subject". Everything in the sentence is correct except the verb form, and the three distractors name plausible-sounding faults that are not present. Isolating the one real error among several things that merely look unusual is the checking skill that separates a student who writes accurately from one who guesses.
Pregunta 10
Pregunta 10 · D4Bloom: Evaluate
Choosing the best way to present a hobby to the class.
You have to present your favourite hobby to the class. Which presentation is best?
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Respuesta correcta: B)My favourite hobby is photography. I take photos on my phone, and I like taking pictures of buildings in my city.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is the one that names the hobby and then gives evidence from the speaker's own life. A presentation has to give the listener something they could repeat afterwards, and the three distractors each fail by being general, empty or purely emotional. Choosing specific evidence over general approval is the evaluative habit that also wins marks in the written description tasks.
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Respuesta correcta: B)My favourite hobby is photography. I take photos on my phone, and I like taking pictures of buildings in my city.
A)Photography is a hobby that many people have.This is a general statement about other people and says nothing at all about what the speaker does.
B)My favourite hobby is photography. I take photos on my phone, and I like taking pictures of buildings in my city.This names the hobby, says what the student actually does and gives a specific detail, which is what a presentation needs.
C)I have a hobby and it is my favourite one.This announces that a hobby exists without naming it, so the class learns nothing.
D)I like it very much and it is fun.This expresses a feeling without naming the activity, so it does not answer the task at all.
💡 Explicación
The correct answer is the one that names the hobby and then gives evidence from the speaker's own life. A presentation has to give the listener something they could repeat afterwards, and the three distractors each fail by being general, empty or purely emotional. Choosing specific evidence over general approval is the evaluative habit that also wins marks in the written description tasks.
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