Complete the tag questions

a) Steve is a vet,…? b) They are not farmers, …? c) You have no pets, …? d) Your cousin has a parrot, …? e) Jane is speaking on the telephone,..?

f) They usually spend their holidays in the Caucasus, …? g) His friend lives in Paris, …? h) My sister didn’t study English at school,.…? i) My mother bought a new suit, …?

Module 4

Unit 7

Daily Routines

Vocabulary

7.1 Listen and repeat the times.

1:00 – It’s one o’clock.

1:10 – It’s ten past one.

1:15 – It’s a quarter past one.

1:30 – It’s half past one.

1:40 – It’s twenty to two.

1:45 – It’s a quarter to two.

7.2 In pairs, ask and say the times.

A: What time is it?

B: It’s seven o’clock.

3:20 5:50 9:15 11:30 2:45 6:35 7:05

Note

- You can also use numbers to say the time. E.g. 9.15 – nine fifteen.

- In Britain, the twenty-four-hour clock, e.g. 23:30, is only used for programmes, timetables and notices.

- 10 a.m. – ten o’clock in the morning

- 3 p.m. – three o’clock in the afternoon.

- 6 p.m. – six o’clock in the evening

- 11 p.m. – eleven o’clock at night

- Noon, midday – 12:00 hours

- Midnight – 24:00 hours.

Number the words below from the shortest time to the longest time.

Day hour fortnight year second month minute week century

1 second

7.4 Match the columns A and B and make sentences like in the example.

Example: 6:15 to wake up I wake up at a quarter past six.

A B

6:20 to get up

6:25 to go to bed

6:30 to meet one’s friends

7:00 to return home

7:15 to have lunch

7:35 to leave the house

8:00 to have breakfast

12:00 to go jogging

17:00 to arrive at the university

17:35 to have a shower and get dressed

18:20 to have dinner

20:30 to make one’s bed

23:05 to do one’s homework

7.5 Match the symbols with the household jobs.

The cooking the shopping

the vacuuming the laundry

the washing up the ironing

7.6 Make notes of things you did yesterday. Now say what you were doing at the periods:

1 from 7 a.m. till 8 a.m.

2 from 8 a.m. till 1 p.m.

3 from 1p.m. till 11 p.m.

Example: Yesterday from 7.30 till 7.45 I was having breakfast.