Sport activities are the first option for most students. Joining to a football, basketball, hockey, handball or volleyball team are interesting ways of doing exercise and having a good time. Teenagers can also play tennis, go to the swimming pool, or work out at a gym. The good side of sport activities is that they help you to stay fit and healthy. Most sports are also funny, like team sports. You can practice sport alone or with your friends, and you can also meet new interesting people. The bad side of this kind of activities is the possibility of having an injury. If you aren’t careful, you can easily fall down and break an arm or a leg. And if this happens, you won’t be able to practice any sport or do any physical effort for a long time. Many young people do sport because they want to be like their idols. They want to play tennis as well as Nadal, or be as good at football as Messi, so they train a lot of hours. This is a good reason for practicing sport, too.Another good option to spend your free time is going to the park. There are lots of parks in all cities, and you can go alone, with your family or with your friends. In a park, you can read a book or have a nap. You can also kick a football around. And, if you want, you can take a picnic basket and a picnic rug and have a picnic. But remember: be careful with ants. This activity have one advantage: you can stay outdoors, surrounded by nature, but you don’t have to do physical efforts. You can just relax. The problem is that going to the park is only an option in a good, sunny day. You can’t have a picnic during a storm.
Teenagers that don’t want to be outdoors can stay at home. They can spend their free time
watching a good film or any TV programme. There are many types of films to see, like comedies, action films, horror films and thrillers, romantic and musical films, documentaries, Science fiction and fantastic films… And there are also hundreds of different TV programmes, like soap operas, talk shows, sport programs, documentaries, and more. When you are bored of TV programs and don’t want to rent a film, you can switch on your computer. Nowadays teenagers love to surf the Internet for hours, where they can talk with their friends using social networking sites, blogs or chat programs. They can also research images and videos, download music and know what is happening all around the world visiting news websites. And when there isn’t any interesting thing in the Internet, they can use the computer or a game console to play videogames. Watching TV can be very 
funny, and there are lots of good films you can choose. When you are surfing the Internet, you can find really interesting news, videos or programs. Internet, like telephones, also helps you to be in contact with your friends, even if each of you live in a different city or country. And it’s proved that videogames help to train your brain and your intellectual abilities. But, like all things, abusing of TV and computers can be really harmful. If you usually spend a lot of hours in front of TV, you’ll probably have to do some extra physical exercise if you want to keep fit and with good health. Despite these problems, TV and computers are two of the best friends of bored students at their free time.Many young people prefer going out with their friends to stay at home all day. If they decide to go out, there are many things they can do. They can go for a walk, play any sport or go shopping. They can go out to a bar, or go out for a coffee, if they want to sit and talk. They can play billiards, bowling, chess, cards, too .They can have dinner at a restaurant, have a barbecue, go to the swimming pool, or any other activity that they all enjoy. Finally, at night they can go to a disco, to a party or to a concert. These are perfect options if you want to keep in contact with your friends, meet new people, or both things. Although you’ll prefer to stay at home if you are ill or if all your friends have gone for holidays and you are alone. Going out is what most young people do at weekends.
Finally, some people prefer cultural and artistic activities. In a normal-sized city, this kind of people has many cultural locations and events to attend. They can visit a museum or an art gallery, go to the zoo or the aquarium, read novels and comics, listen to music, study something interesting or write in their diary. They can learn to play a musical instrument, too, like guitar, piano, flute, violin, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, drums… There are also many, many arts and crafts to learn and practice, like drawing, painting, sculpting or making furniture. These are interesting and relaxing activities most people can practise, even when some of them are a bit expensive (like going to museums, concerts or operas).
As we can see, there are thousands of different activities to choose when young people have some free time to spend. There are the same number of activities to do as the number of teenagers they can practise them. Some of these activities are healthier (like sports), some of them are more ecological (going to the park or going for a walk), and some of them are more instructive (going to museums or doing cultural activities) than others. But all of them are recommendable things, as there are other activities some people do that can affect their own health or health of people who are around them. Activities like breaking benches and bins, burning rubbish containers or stealing things are really insane leisure activities, because they are bad and harmful for the one who does them and for the rest of us. So, in conclusion, we have the possibility of spending our free time doing funny and interesting activities, wherever our likes are.
by Javier López Gómez, 1º BACH B
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