文体爱好这个话题由于和考生的生活比较贴近，所以一般都会被认为比较简单。在第二部分的卡片中，有泛泛要求描述hobby或favorite activities的，也有直接要求描述physical activity, collection或photographing的。有些考题没有规定讨论的方向，只问业余爱好：
◆ What your hobby is?
◆ Why you have this hobby?
◆ Why you like it?
◆ How long you have been doing this?
◆ Why you like it?
面对这些考题，《每天三小时冲刺雅思口语》的主编沙莎老师提醒各位雅思考生，无论你事先准备好是体育运动还是收藏都可以很顺利的用上。但是现在的很多考题都把范围缩小，给考生的准备造成一定的困难。比如下面这些考题针对的都是体育运动：
◆ When you started the activity?
◆ When you work out?
◆ How you benefit from the activity?
◆ What sport you like to play?
体育运动是一个比较重要的考点。我们来看下面这张卡片：
{真题回放}
Describe A Physical Activity
Describe your favorite physical activity.
You should say:
What activity you like to do?
How you do it.
How you benefit from it.
And explain why you like it.
{原创范例} If you gave me a choice of staying at a five star hotel and enjoying the inviting gourmet food or sleeping in my tent and having trail lunches, my tent and camp meals would win hands down. Because I am crazy about hiking. Actually I am a hiking freak.
在这段话的开头，沙莎老师用了一个对比选择的形式。把五星级酒店，美酒佳肴和帐篷，粗茶淡饭做了对立，以此突出徒步旅行对我的吸引力之大。这是一种很有新意的开头，和上一讲中的较为traditional的topic sentence开头法有很大不同。
运用这种创意型开头是为了在考场中博取高分的，值得想要高分的同学学习。但是切忌死记硬背，我们要学的是方法。此外，沙莎老师指出，这里有个非常地道的表达方式win hands down，表示"轻易获得成功"。还有freak这个词，表示"怪人"，由指"对某事相当痴迷的，有点偏执的人"。
{原创范例} The first time I heard about hiking is when I visited my uncle five years ago. He lives in Maine, America, near the National Park. He talked me into it. And every time I go to visit him, I get to go hiking.
这一段介绍了我是如何接触到hiking的。看上去和卡片上的三个问题都没有联系，但是却和整体内容配合紧密。这种回顾历史的方法是防止我们没话讲的一种很好的策略。
{原创范例} Before every exciting journey, we pack basic outdoor clothing, enough water, sun blockers and of course digital cameras into our hiking backpacks. And we will never forget to familiarize ourselves with the local trails. After all these preparations, we go hit a trail.
这段讲的是出行前的准备工作。其实讲到体育运动的时候，不需要讲一些技术性很强的运动，即使你选择的是足球、篮球一类的运动也应该尽量避免描述运动过程，避免使用一些专业性强的词汇。在这里可能大家对sun blocker不太熟悉，其实就是相当于sunscreen之类的防晒产品。hit a trail变体于hit the trail，表示"出发"。
