20 English Phrases for Talking About Hobbies

Someone asks "What are your hobbies?" and you say... "I like watch movie and listen music." Grammar mistakes and all. 😅 You are NOT alone — and today Emma and Jack fix that forever! In this complete 20-minute English lesson, you will learn 20 essential phrases for talking about hobbies — PLUS the one grammar rule that fixes almost every mistake — slow, clear, and perfect for A1, A2, and B1 English learners! 🎨✅ After this video, you will describe your hobbies naturally, grammatically correctly, and confidently — just like a native English speaker! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ THIS VIDEO IS FOR YOU IF: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ You say "I like watch movies" instead of "watching" ✔ You are not sure when to use GO, PLAY, or DO ✔ You want to sound natural describing your interests ✔ You want real English for meeting new people ✔ You are an A1, A2, or B1 English learner ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 THE GOLDEN GRAMMAR RULE: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Enjoy/Like/Love + ING → "I enjoy watching movies" ✔ GO + ING → "I go swimming, I go running" ✔ PLAY + THE (instruments) → "I play the guitar" ✔ PLAY (no THE, for sports) → "I play football" ✔ DO (general activities) → "I do yoga" ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 20 PHRASES YOU WILL ALSO LEARN: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Keen on • Into • A passion for • Unwind ✔ Hands-on • Take up • Give up • Get into ✔ Collector • Leisure time • A creative outlet ✔ Outdoorsy • Social hobby • Solo hobby ✔ Beginner level • Skilled at ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎭 4 REAL CONVERSATIONS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎬 Scene 1 — Meeting someone new at a café 🎬 Scene 2 — A coffee break chat at work 🎬 Scene 3 — Discussing hobbies at a dinner party 🎬 Scene 4 — A disappointing cancelled hobby class ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💬 WRITE IN THE COMMENTS: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👇 Question 1: What is your favourite hobby? Write it in English below! 🎨 👇 Question 2: Describe your hobby using at least 3 phrases from today! Is it a social hobby or a solo hobby? We read every comment! ❤️ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 JOIN THE TALK NORA FAMILY: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ SUBSCRIBE — New English lesson every week! 🔔 Hit the BELL — Never miss a video! 👍 LIKE — Help more learners find this lesson! 📤 SHARE — Send this to someone who needs it! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 ABOUT TALK NORA: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Talk Nora is your #1 daily English learning channel! 🎙️ Emma and Jack help you speak English confidently with fun real-life conversations, vocabulary lessons, and daily English practice — perfect for A1, A2, and B1 learners worldwide! 🌍 📌 New video every week — never stop learning! 📌 Learn English. Share your passions. Sound natural. 🎨 #learnenglish #EnglishConversation #EnglishPodcast #EnglishForBeginners #DailyEnglish #ESL #SlowEnglish #TalkNora #EnglishListening #SpeakEnglish