Leisure, Culture, Experiences & the Art of Switching Off

Essential Question

If entertainment is supposed to help us relax, why do we sometimes finish our free time feeling more tired than before?

Entertainment has never been more accessible.

Within seconds, we can:

stream a film • play a game • listen to music • visit a virtual museum • watch short-form videos • attend an online event • communicate with friends • explore another culture

Yet having unlimited entertainment does not necessarily mean using leisure time well.

Modern leisure raises surprisingly complex questions:

Do hobbies make us happier?
Is watching a series for five hours really relaxation?
Why are live experiences still valuable when everything is available online?
Should employers care about employees' work-life balance?
Has entertainment become another form of consumption?

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of the module, students should be able to:

• understand extended B1+/B2 texts about entertainment, culture and leisure;

• identify main ideas, supporting details and implied meaning;

• recognize paraphrases and contextual synonyms;

• understand reviews, recommendations and event descriptions;

• discuss hobbies and leisure preferences precisely;

• evaluate films, performances, museums and attractions;

• compare live and digital entertainment;

• discuss work-life balance and recovery;

• distinguish active, passive and social recreation;

• make and justify recommendations;

• use sophisticated evaluative adjectives;

• distinguish -ed / -ing adjectives;

• use comparative and superlative structures;

• use relative clauses;

• use modals for recommendations;

• use First and Second Conditionals;

• use linking devices accurately;

• complete ЄВІ-style lexical and grammatical tasks.