Fill in the Blanks Part 7. ARE YOU COUCH POTATO?Online version Read the text and complete it with the missing words. Lee el texto y complétalo con las palabras que faltan. by Patricia Achicanoy 1 had is not from like exciting ago on most do was did much 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 ?