Questions

Exercise 1. Answer the following questions.

1. Have you got a big family?

2. How many people are there in your family?

3. Have you got any brothers or sisters?

4. Who is the youngest person in your family?

5. Who is the oldest person in your family?

6. What are your relatives like?

7. Who is the smartest, the kindest, the friendliest or the most stupid in the family?

8. Who is the most beautiful?

9. What are their interests?

10. When are their birthdays?

11. When is your birthday?

12. Have you got many friends?

13. What are their names?

14. Who is your best friend?

15. What sort of person is he/she?

16. Are your hobbies the same or different? What are they?

17. Who is better at English: you or your friend?

Exercise 2. Compare yourself with a relative or a friend. Use three as ... as sentences and three not as ... as sentences. Use the adjectives.

1) funny	7)young	13) blond	19) stupid
2) lazy	8)good	14) dark	20) long
3) old	9) beautiful	15) bad	21) friendly
4) easy-going	10) tall	16) short	22) big
5) patient	11) intelligent	17) fat	23) talented
6) shy	12) thin	18) smart	24) ugly

Social english Time Expressions

- Excuse me, what time is it?
- What's the time? / Can you tell me the time?	- Yes, sure / It's ... o'clock. - I'm sorry. My watch is wrong / slow / fast.
- Thanks./ Thank you.	- You are welcome./ Any time.

Exercise 1. What's the correct time?

Example: It's half past two by your watch. But your watch is five minutes fast.

- The right time is twenty-five minutes to three.

1. It's quarter to five by your watch. But your watch is five minutes slow.

2. It's twenty past six by your watch. But your watch is ten minutes slow.

3. It's quarter to eight by your watch. But your watch is five minutes fast.

4. It's thirty-five past one by your watch. But your watch is ten minutes slow.

5. It's seven minutes past nine by your watch. But your watch is two minutes fast.

Exercise 2. What is the difference between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.?

Look at the chart and check your answer.

a.m.	morning	00.00 - 11.59
	afternoon	12.00 - 17.59
p.m.	evening	18.00 - 23.59

NOTE:

00.00 = midnight

12.00 = midday (noon)

!!! in the morning/in the afternoon/in the evening/in the daytime

BUT: at night/at midnight/at noon

Exercise 3. Match the times that are the same.

Example: 03.00 - 3 a.m. - three o'clock in the morning.

1. 03.00	2 p.m.	three o'clock in the afternoon
2. 15.00	8 p.m.	two o'clock in the afternoon
3. 20.00	3 a.m.	eight o'clock in the morning
4. 08.00	8 a.m.	three o'clock in the morning
5. 14.00	3 p.m.	eight o'clock in the evening

Exercise 4. What is the time? Practise saying the time.

11.08; 7.30; 1.45; 2.25; 00.00; 6.40; 5.15; 7.53; 9.30; 8.05; 23.10; 17.20; 12.00; 5.30; 20.15; 10.45; 15.45.

Unit 4

A DAY IN THE LIFE

Focus on

Use of English

Grammar

the Present Simple Tense

Adverbs of Manner, Place, Time

Frequency and Degree

Word Order: Adverbs

Too/either

So do I/Neither do I

Adverbs: Comparative and Superlative forms

Further Practice: Articles

Like doing

Reading Speaking	Daily Life
	Spare Time
	Likes and dislikes

Social English

Directions

USE OF ENGLISH

Grammar

The Present Simple Tense

The Present Simple Tense is used to talk about:

repeated actions or habits

Every evening my parents stay at home and watch TV.

permanent situations

Mr. and Mrs. Smith live in Bristol.

general truth

The river Amazon flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

Positive form

I You We You They	live	in Kiyv
He She It	plays studies goes	the guitar. Computer Science. very well.

Exercise 1. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

1. I ___ to bed at 11.00 p.m. (go).

2. Jack ___ fluent French. (speak).

3. Her children ___ game shows and cartoons. (enjoy).

4. She always ___ funny jokes. (tell).

5. My sister and I often ___ to read newspapers in English. (try).

6. People ___ personal computers at home. (use).

7. It ___ him about half an hour to get home from college. (take).