My daily routine in the USA

1. Start watching the video. It stops and asks you to complete or order sentences.

2. Click here to listen to a conversation. Don't look at the script. Listen and do the quiz (three times). Then listen and read the script.

Frequency

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Glossary:
stir-fry: salteado / revuelto
rent: alquilar
rarely: hardly ever- casi nunca

Conversation one:
1. What does she do on the weekend (American English)?
2.  Where does she sometimes go?
3. How often does she go to the lake? Why?

Conversation two:
1. What does she usually have for dinner?
2. How often does she eat stir-fry? Why?

Conversation three:
1. How often does he take the bus to work? Why?
2. How often does she drive to work? Why?

Conversation four:
1. How often does she go to the movies (American English: to the cinema)? Why?
2. What does he do?
3. Is Internet fast?

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Frequency

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Prepositions of Time

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DAILY ROUTINES

Practise the vocabulary 1

Practise the vocabulary 2

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LISTENING ACTIVITIES

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Listen to Leslie and answer the questions. Check your answers in comments.
What does she do at...

9.00 o'clock  ___________________?
9.30 am        ___________________?
10.00 o'clock  ___________________?
1.00 o'clock   ___________________?
5.00 o'clock   ___________________?
6.00 o'clock   ___________________?
8.00 o'clock   ___________________?
9.00 o'clock   ___________________?
11.00 o'clock ___________________?
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Daily routines

It's American English: take a shower or a bath (BrE- have a shower or a bath), on weekends (BrE- at weekends).

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF DENNIS COOK


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A day in the life of Dennis Cook. from Silvia Feinmann on Vimeo.

1. How old is Dennis?
2. How old is his wife, Tricia?
3. What time does he wake up?
4. What does he do after he gets up? Order these sentences.
a) He has a shower.
b) He cleans his teeth.
c) He goes to the bathroom.
d) He shaves.
5. What does he put on (clothes)?
6. What does he take upstairs?
7. What do they have for breakfast?
8. What does Tricia do at breakfast?
9. What does he always do before he leaves the house?
10. How does he go to work?
11. What does he do?
12. What time does he come home after work?
13. What do they do after dinner?
14. What time do they go to bed?

Frequency

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Everyday activities

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1. What time is it? 
2. Where is she? 
3. What time does the film start? 
4. What does he do when he travels by bus?
5. What does he do at 1pm? 
6. How does he eat? 
7. What time does Tom wake up?
8. What time does he get up?
9. What time does Alex wake up and get up?
10. What does she have for breakfast?
11. Does she have a bath? Why? Why not?
12. What time does Tom go to bed?

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My daily routine

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Everyday activities vocabulary

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More words here.

A song here.

Sally's family

Listen and answer the questions. Check your answers in "comments".

1. Where does Sally Milton live?
2. What does she do?
3. Who's Tom?
4. What does he do?
5. Who are Kirsty and Nick?
6. What do they do?

My Family

Click here to listen and answer the questions. Rachel is talking about her family. Check your answers in "comments".

1. Where's Rachel from?
2. Where's their house?
3. Who's Steve?
4. How old is he?
5. What does he do?
6. Who's Grace?
7. How old is she?
8. What does she do?
9. Who's Bob?
10. How old is he?
11. What does he do?

Family

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Family relationships with saxon genitive here.




Family tree:

- Exercise one
- Exercise two

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Saxon Genitive

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Vanessa

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1. How old is her brother?
2. How old is Vanessa?
3. What time do they have breakfast?
4. What does her mum do?
5. How does her mum go to work?
6. What time does her mother get home?
7. How does her father go to work?
8. What does her father do?
9. What time does he get home?
10. How does Vanessa go to work?
11. Where does she work?
12. What time does she start work?
13. Vanessa is a web designer. What does she say about her job?
14. What time does she have lunch?
15. What time does she finish work?
16. At night her parents __________________________, read or __________________________.
17. Vanessa __________________________ jokes. She wants to be a comedian. She tells jokes to her parents. Sometimes they laugh. Sometimes they don't.
18. On __________________________ she goes downtown to a __________________________ and tells her jokes. It's __________________________ and it's her dream.
19. What time does she go home?
20. When does she get home?
21. What can she do on Sundays?
22. She has a pretty __________________________ schedule.

Glossary
joke: something funny
downtown: in or near the center of a city or town
pretty: very
schedule: a plan of activities

Morning routines

Sarah and John talk about their morning routines. First do the quiz and then listen and read the script.

My Life

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PART 1                 Complete the notes

John is ______________ years old. He lives with ______________ in their ______________ in ______________.

PART 2                 Answer the questions

1.      What time does John get up?

2.      What does he do after that?

3.      What exercise does he do?

4.      What do they have for breakfast?

5.      What time does he get to work?

6.      What does he sell?

7.      How many sales does he make?

8.      What time does he leave work?

PART 3                 Answer the questions

1.      Who cooks dinner?

2.      What don’t they eat?

3.      What does Sarah do?

4.      When do they play tennis?

My Family

PART 1                   Answer these questions:

1.      Where’s María from?

2.      Who’s Anna?

3.      How old is Anna?

4.      Where does she live?

PART 2                  Match the names with the people in Anna’s family. How old are they?

Mum                   Jessica                  _________

Dad                     Archie                  _________

Brother               Liz                       _________

Sister                  Tom                      _________

Dog                     Patrick                  _________

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Daily routines

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Listen to Melissa talking about her daily routine. Answer the questions. Check your answers in "comments".

1. What time does she get up?
2. What time does she leave for school?
3. How does she go to school?
4. What time does she have lunch?
5. Where does she have lunch?
6. How does she go home in the afternoon?
7. What does she do before *tea?
8. What does she do after tea?

*tea: BRITISH a meal eaten in the evening (dinner)

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Expressions of frequency

Exercise one