Exercise 2.
Tell about your typical day. The following questions will help you:
1. Do you get up early?
2. Is it easy for you to get up early?
3. Do you wake up yourself or does your alarm-clock wake you up?
4. Do you do your morning exercises?
5. What do you prefer: a hot or a cold shower in the morning?
6. How long does it take you to get dressed?
7. What do you usually have for breakfast?
8. Some people look through newspapers or listen to the latest news on the radio while having breakfast. What about you?
9. When do you usually leave your house?
10. How long does it take you to get to the University (Institute)?
11. Do you go there by bus/trolley-bus or walk?
12. Where do you usually have lunch (dinner)?
13. What time do you come home?
14. How do you usually spend your evenings?
15. Do you have a lot of free time?
16. What time do you usually go to bed?
Exercise 3.
Fill in the table with DO, GET, HAVE, GO, then make up sentences.
shower a bath breakfast lunch/dinner free time lectures / classes a break an idea a job |
your home – work the washing up/ ironing |
home shopping on a picnic out with friends/ family to bed to the gym to the cinema/ theatre |
up dressed tired |
Exercise 4.
Talk about yourself. What do you never /rarely /sometimes /often/ usually / always do on Sundays? Choose phrases from the list below. You can add some of your own ideas.
Do the washing up, go jogging, go to the cinema, go shopping, eat out, watch TV, go fishing, visit museums, go climbing, go windsurfing, meet friends.
Exercise 5.
In pairs, ask and answer questions, as in the example. Then, write a short story about your partner.
How often do you … go to the swimming – pool?
go to the theatre? never
clean your room? every day/month/evening
go fishing? every 3/3 days / Sunday
go out with your family? every 2/3 days / Sunday
play computer games? sometimes
watch TV? once/twice a week/ month
meet your friends?
go shopping?
Example:
How often do you go to the swimming – pool?
I go to the swimming – pool once a week.
Telling the Time
We tell the time in two different ways.
5:40
1. twenty to six
five forty
5:45
2. (a) quarter to six
five forty – five
6:00
3. six o’clock
six sharp
6:15
4. (a) quarter past six
six fifteen
6:20
5. twenty past six
six twenty
6:30
6. half past six
six thirty
Note: a.m. – ante meridiem (before 12 noon)
p.m. – post meridiem (after 12 noon)
Exercise 1.
Fill in the gaps in the chart below
11:15 |
eleven fifteen |
a quarter past eleven |
2:30 |
|
half past two |
7: 50 |
seven fifty |
|
9:20 |
|
twenty past nine |
3:45
|
three forty five |
|
Exercise 2.
Write the times, as in the example.
6:00 a.m. – six o’clock in the morning
6:00 p.m. – six o’clock in the evening
10: 00 p.m.
2:00 a.m.
8:30 a.m.
9:15 a.m.
4:45 a.m.
7:20 p.m.