Free-Time Activities: Music, Film, Food and Sport
Talk about your free time in Polish. Learn the words for music, film, food and sport, and how to say what you like, each shown with its English meaning.
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Free time in Polish
This module builds your Polish vocabulary for your free time: music, film, food and sport, and how to say what you enjoy. Each Polish word is shown with its English meaning, so you learn to read it and use it at the same time.
The four kinds of fun
The topic has four parts. Learn the word for each one first.
Places you go, things you do
Some free-time words name a place you go to. Others name something you do.
Match the Polish to the English
- muzyka
- film
- jedzenie
- sport
- Music
- A film
- Food
- Sport
The Polish word for the cinema
Which Polish word means the cinema?
- kino
- restauracja
- koncert
- pływać
Saying what you like
To give an opinion about your free time, use lubić, which means to like, or uwielbiać, which means to love. To say you prefer one thing, use woleć. If something is boring, it is nudny.
Match more words
- kino
- restauracja
- pływać
- oglądać
- The cinema
- A restaurant
- To swim
- To watch
Which are activities?
Select the TWO words that name something you DO, not a place.
- pływać
- śpiewać
- kino
- restauracja
An evening out
Put this evening out in order.
- Leave your home
- Eat at the restaurant: restauracja
- Watch a film at the cinema: kino
Free-time words in Polish
In Polish, music is _____. A film is _____. Food is _____. To swim is _____. The cinema is _____.
Spot the right Polish meaning
Tap the TWO statements that are TRUE.
- muzyka means music.
- kino means the cinema.
- film means a restaurant.
- sport means to swim.
- jedzenie means a concert.
The Polish word for to sing
Which Polish word means to sing?
- śpiewać
- pływać
- oglądać
- lubić
Which word fits?
For each situation, choose the correct Polish word.
- You want to watch a film on a big screen. Where do you go?
- You are hungry and want a meal out. Where do you go?
- You love a band and want to hear them play live. Where do you go?
Your turn: write in Polish
Write two or three sentences IN POLISH about your free time.
- Say what you like with Lubię… (I like ...) followed by a verb, which needs no ending change: Lubię pływać (I like to swim), or use oglądać (to watch) or śpiewać (to sing)
- Name a free-time thing: muzyka (music), sport (sport), film (a film) or jedzenie (food)
- Name a place you go: kino (the cinema), restauracja (a restaurant) or koncert (a concert)
- Careful: after Lubię a NOUN changes its ending (the accusative case), so if you are not sure of the form, follow Lubię with a verb instead