Part 7. ARE YOU COUCH POTATO?

ARE YOU COUCH POTATO ?

Centuries ____________________ , people ____________________ ____________________ have much free time , because everybody was working too hard . In Britain in the nineteenth century , people ____________________ more spare time , but because the Victorians hated relaxing and doing nothing , they invented football , rugby and cricket . People took up more gentle activities too , ____________________ gardening bird ? watching and train spotting , and it ____________________ even possible simply to watch a sport and give the impression that you were actually doing something . But now , there ____________________ a new type of person who thinks that lying on the sofa watching television ____________________ Sunday afternoon or reading the newspaper ____________________ cover to cover is the ____________________ ____________________ activity they can manage . This is the twenty - first century couch potato . For them , every activity is too ____________________ trouble , and laziness is an art form ! So how ____________________ you spend your free time ?