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Lesson 2:: Daily Activities

1. Greg wakes up early and checks his email while listening to the radio before studying. Jennifer tries to study but is noisy with her siblings watching TV and playing games. Amanda's mornings are crazy as she eats breakfast in the car while her husband drives without breakfast. Alex and his wife quietly read the newspaper over breakfast without much talking. 2. The document lists typical morning routines like getting out of bed, washing your face, brushing teeth, showering/bathing, getting dressed, and examples of filling in the blanks of a girl's morning routine. 3. It also discusses telling time using phrases like "it's eleven o'clock" and examples of writing out times of day. The

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Lesson 2:: Daily Activities

1. Greg wakes up early and checks his email while listening to the radio before studying. Jennifer tries to study but is noisy with her siblings watching TV and playing games. Amanda's mornings are crazy as she eats breakfast in the car while her husband drives without breakfast. Alex and his wife quietly read the newspaper over breakfast without much talking. 2. The document lists typical morning routines like getting out of bed, washing your face, brushing teeth, showering/bathing, getting dressed, and examples of filling in the blanks of a girl's morning routine. 3. It also discusses telling time using phrases like "it's eleven o'clock" and examples of writing out times of day. The

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LESSON 2:

DAILY ACTIVITIES

1. What’s a typical morning like in your home?


 Greg O’Neal: Well, I’m pretty busy. I get up early and check my email. I listen to
the radio. I don’t watch TV on weekdays. Then I study.
 Jennifer Lee: Noisy. I try to study, but my brother and sister make a lot of noise.
They don’t care. My sister watches TV and my brother plays games on the
computer.
 Amanda Sanchez: It’s crazy. We get up late, so I eat breakfast in the car. My
husband doesn’t have breakfast—he drives.
 Alex Stern: Well, my wife and I read the newspaper. I have breakfast and my
wife has coffee. We’re pretty quiet. We don’t talk a lot.

1. Things to do every day


Here are the things you usually do started from you get up in the morning until you
go to bed in the evening.

In the morning in my Starting my day


bedroom
To wash your face
To get up To brush your teeth
To stretch To wash your hair
To yawn To have a shower
To be half-asleep To have a bath
To have a lie-in To shave
To open/to pull the blinds To go to the toilet
To open the curtains To get dressed
To switch the light on To cut your nail
To make your bed To blow dry your hair
To comb your hair
Running my day In the evening

To go to work/campus/school To have dinner


To water plants To read a novel
To cook To lock the door
To go shopping To draw the curtains
To go back from To close/pull down the blinds
work/campus/school To sleep/fall asleep
To have a rest
To have a nap
To have lunch
To watch TV/a movie
Exercise

This is what Lisa does every morning. Fill in the missing word. Don’t forget to
conjugate the verbs.

First, she (1) ____________ out of bed. Then she goes to the bathroom. And she has
(2)__________. Water falls on her head like rain. She uses shampoo to (3) ________ her
hair and conditioner to make it softer. She (4) _________ her armpits with a razor.
After that she (5)__________ her hair. It is dry in no time. Finally she (6)_________ her
finger nails with her nail clipper. Now she is ready to begin a new day.

2. Time and dates

a. What time is it now?

1. 2. 3. 4.

0
11:00 2:05 04:15 10:30
It’s eleven o’clock It’s five (minutes) past It’s quarter1 past It’s half2 past ten
It’s eleven two four It’s ten-thirty
It’s two-oh-five It’s four-fifteen
5. 6. 7. 8.

06:45 12:00 12:00


08:50
It’s a quarter to It’s twelve a.m It’s twelve p.m
It’s ten (minutes) to
seven It’s midnight It’s noon
nine It’s eight-fifty
It’s six-forty-five
1
A quarter here means a quarter (1/4) of an hour
2
Half here means half (1/2) of an hour
Exercise

Look at the clocks and tell what time it is.


What time is it?

……………………… ……………………………….. …………………………..

…………………………………………………. ………………………….
(Pictures are adopted from: Touchstone Student’s Book1. Cambridge University Press.)

a. Days of the week

a. Put the letters in correct order to write the days of the week.

drifay shutyard trasuyad dmonya dyasnu


yaddewnse sdatuye

M T W T F S S
Friday

b. Answer the questions


Remember
1. What day is today? To ask about times, use
2. What day is tomorrow? What time…..? or When……..
3. When is your next English course?
4. What’s your favourite day of the week? What time is your music lesson?
5. On what day were you born? When is your music lesson?

A. GRAMMAR

Simple Present Statement


I eat breakfast. I don’t eat lunch. Verb endings he, she, it
You have coffee. You don’t have tea. get gets
We get up late. We don’t get up early. watch watches
They read the paper. They don’t read books. play plays
He listens to the He doesn’t to CDs study studies
a. Complete the sentences.

1. I don’t like (not/like) mornings.


2. In my family, we __have___________________ (have) breakfast together.
3. My mother_______doesn’t not watch__________________(not/watch) TV.
4. My father_______has_____________________(have) coffee.
5. My parents_______talk______________ (talk) a lot.
6. I _____________do not_____________(not/read) the newspaper.
7. I__________________check__________(check) my e-mail after breakfast.
8. My best friend_________doesn’t get up_________________(not/get up) early in the morning.
(Source: Touchstone Student’s Book1. Cambridge University Press.)

The simple present tense


A. The main use of the simple present tense is to express habitual actions or something that
happens all the time or repeatedly, or something that is true in general:
He smokes. Dog barks. Cats drink milk.
B. The simple present tense is often used with adverbs or adverb phrases such as: always,
never, often, sometimes, usually, every week on Mondays, twice a year, etc.:
How often do you wash your hair? We usually go away at weekends.
I watch football match every Sunday it rains in winter.

The Simple Present Tense: Yes/No questions and short answers


In simple present tense yes/no questions, a form of the verb docomes before the subject
with verbs other than be. Use does with he, she, and it. Use do with I, you, we, and they.
In these questions, the main verb always appears in the simple form. The appropriate
form of do appears in short answers.

Affirmative questions Affirmative answer Negative answer

Do I look like my mother? Yes, you do No, you don’t

Does he/she/it do work? Yes, he/she/It does No, he/she/it doesn’t

Do we/you/they need change? Yes, we/you/They do No, we/you/they don’t

Negative Questions

Don’t I need a ticket? Yes, you do No, you don’t

Doesn’t she/he need change? Yes, she/he does No, she/he doesn’t
Doesn’t it bite? Yes, it does No, it doesn’t

Don’t we/you/they leave soon? Yes, we/you/they do No, we/you/they don’t

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