IV. Comprehension check
1. Answer the questions:
What time does Cornelia Vanderguilt wake up?
What time does she get up?
Where does she have breakfast?
What newspaper does she read?
What does she do then?
Who does she take a walk with?
What time does she have lunch?
What does she do after lunch?
What does she do at six?
What time does she have her dinner?
What does she do after dinner?
Does she take a shower or a bath before she goes to bed?
What time does she go to bed?
Do you want to have a similar lifestyle?
V. Exercises
1. Read about Mac’s everyday life.
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Mac is a truck driver.
2. He is twenty five years old.
3. He works five days a week.
4. He gets up at six o’clock every day.
5. He eats an enormous breakfast.
6. He drinks two cups of coffee.
7. Then he kisses his wife good-bye.
8. He leaves for work at six thirty.
9. He has lunch at a hamburger place.
10. He comes home at five o’clock.
11. He has dinner and watches TV.
12. He goes to bed at ten o’clock.
2. Answer the questions about Mac’s everyday life.
1. What does Mac do?
2. How old is he?
3. How many days a week does he work?
4. What time does he get up?
5. What does he eat for breakfast?
6. What does he drink?
7. What does he do after breakfast?
8. What time does he leave for work?
9. Where does he have lunch?
10. What time does he come home?
11. What does he do in the evening?
12. What time does he go to bed?
3. Now ask and answer questions about these people.
a) Judith
1. architect; 2. 35; 3. 5 days a week; 4. 7.30; 5. nothing; 6. orange juice; 7. daughter; 8. 9.15; 9. in a coffee shop; 10. 6.00; 11. go out with friends; 12. midnight.
b) Peter and Paul
1. students; 2. 12; 3. go to school / 5 days a week; 4. 7.00; 5. cereal; 6. milk 7. mother; 8. school / 8.30; 9. in the cafeteria; 10. home / 4.00; 11. watch TV; 12. 9.00.
c) Kevin
1. homemaker; 2. 31; 3. not / work; 4. 5.30; 5. toast; 6. tea; 7. wife (she goes to work) ; 8. supermarket / 9.00; 9. at home; 10. wife / come home / 5.30; 11. play with their kids; 12. 10.30.
4. Read about the Fields family, open the brackets using Present Simple.
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The Fields are
(be) a British family. 2.
They
(live) in a small village in the South of England. 3.
Their ordinary day (begin) early in the morning. 4.
John Fields (be) a farmer. 5.
He (get up) at 5 o’clock in the morning. 6.
He
(wash) and (get) dressed. 7.
Then he (make) breakfast and (eat) it. 8.
He
(put on) his coat and (go) outside. 9.
John
(milk/ доить)
the cows early in the morning. 10.
His wife Mary and their children Jack and Rose (not/ get up) so
early. 11.
They (get up) at 7 o’clock. 12.
Mary (feed) the chickens and then she (make) some tea for herself.
13.
The children (not/ like) tea. They usually (drink) milk. 14.
At 7.30 Mary (take) the children to school. 15.
She (go) to work, it (take) her about 30 minutes to get to the
office. 16.
John (not/ go) to the office because he (work) in the farm. 17.
At 4 o’clock the children (come) home from school and John (cook)
dinner. 18.
He (be) a very good cook! 19.
Sometimes Mary (help) him. 20.
The children (not/ help) with the cooking but they always (do) the
washing-up (мытье
посуды).
22.
In the evening John and his wife (watch) TV and (read) books or
magazines about farming. 23.
They sometimes (listen) to the radio. 24.
Their children (not/ watch) TV. 25.
They (do) their homework and then Rose (surf) the Internet and Jack
(play) computer games. 26.
They all (go) to bed at 10 pm. 27.
They (be) usually very tired. 28.
At the weekend they (work) in the garden or (have) a picnic when the
weather (be) warm. 29.
They sometimes (go) to the cinema or (eat) out in a restaurant, but
not very not very often.