Part 3. The daily programme.

WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS:

on week-days to wake (woke, woken) smb. up to turn [tɜːn]  smth. on (a tap) to have a shower ['ʃəuə] sandwich ['sænwɪʤ] to make smb. do smth. to walk [wɔːk] by midday [ˌmɪd'deɪ] to have smth. for dinner It takes me two hours [auəz] to do it. either ['aɪðə] … or… daily news [njuːz] Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

в будние дни будить кого-либо включать что-либо (кран) принимать душ бутерброд заставлять кого-либо что-либо делать ходить пешком к полудню есть что-либо на обед Чтобы сделать их, мне нужно два часа. Либо… либо… Что произошло за день Кто рано ложится и рано встаёт, здоровье, богатство и ум наживёт.

The daily programme.

On week-days the alarm-clock wakes me up and my working day begins. It’s seven o’clock. I make the bed and go to the bathroom where I turn on the hot and cold taps. Then I clean (brush) my teeth. Sometimes I have a shower.

Usually I’m not very hungry in the morning. So I have a cup of tea and some sandwiches. Sometimes my mother makes me eat some porridge.

As I live not far from my school I usually walk there. I like to walk there in any weather. Every day I have six or five lessons and I’m always in time for my classes. My lessons at schools begin at nine and are over at about two o’clock. During the break I have a snack, but by midday I feel very hungry. For dinner I have vegetable soup, meat or fish and some fruit. After dinner I have a short rest: I read or watch TV. Then I do my lessons (home-work). It takes me about two hours to do it.

After that I either read or go for a walk.

In the evening my parents come home and we have our supper together. At supper we discuss our daily news. After supper I read a book or watch TV. I go to bed at ten o’clock. As a good proverb says, “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”.

Exercise 1. Translate into Russian: working day; to go to bed; to have a short rest; during the break; to live not far from school; to clean teeth; to make somebody eat porridge; to be in time for classes; to feel very hungry; to go for a walk; to have vegetable soup; after supper.

Exercise 2. Find the equivalents of these expressions in the text:в будни; хорошая поговорка гласит; читать книги и смотреть телевизор; вечером; вместе ужинать; выпить чашку чая; идти в ванную; в любую погоду; перекусить; делать домашнюю работу; уроки в школе; застелить постель; принимать душ; утром; идти пешком в школу; каждый день; приходить домой.

Exercise 3. Describe your morning on week-days/ your Sunday breakfast/ your life at the college/ the way you spend your free time after studies.

Exercise 4. Fill in the prepositions if necessary:

1. I go … bed … ten o’clock.

2. … dinner we discuss our daily news.

3. He lives not far … his college and always walks … there.

4. Usually I am not hungry … the morning.

5. … week-days the alarm-clock wakes me … at 7.

6. I make … the bed and go … the bathroom.

7. She is always … time … the classes.

Exercise 5. Divide the words and phrases into three groups, describing appearance, flat, weather, working day.

To wake up, dark short hair, puddles in the streets, to walk, furniture, to go to bed, damp earth, thunder and lightning, tall and thin, wardrobe, to clean the teeth, to burst into leaf, to read books, strong, sun rays, slim and slender, curtains, bedroom, north wind, kitchen, icy sheet, to discuss daily news, big blue eyes, to do homework, grey sky, fair hair, to make the bed, straight nose, living room, to take a shower, good-looking, Indian summer, snowflakes, to be in time, balcony.

Exercise 6. Make up the questions covering the content of the text for your fellow-students to answer them.