Work in pairs. Write down the names of three people you know. Exchange papers and find out about each person.
Example:
A: Who’s Sarah?
B: She’s my best friend.
A: What does she look like?
B: She’s tall and slim, with long black hair and green eyes.
A: What is she like?
B: She’s funny, friendly and talkative.
6.10 What type of person are you (your friend)? Write a short paragraph about you (your friend) (40-60 words).
Example: I’m very sensible. I don’t do childish, silly things. In short, I’m not a silly billy. My friend Pete is a chatterbox because he can’t stop talking. Our lecturers are often angry about him. But I like that we are different.
Modifications:
a scatterbrain – forgetful, disorganized
a lazybones – doesn’t like to be active
a nosey parker – curious, likes to know other people’s business
a killjoy – boring, doesn’t like to have fun
a high flier – ambitious, achieves success easily
a workaholic – very hardworking, loves to work
a troublemaker – causes problems between people
Topics for discussion.
1. What are the traits of an ideal wife/husband? Do you think it’s good to live with an ideal?
2. What makes a student popular/unpopular with others?
3. What do you think is more important: beauty or character?
4. Speak about your pet’s character.
Grammar
Must / have to / mustn’t / don’t have to / needn’t
Must– our own decision Have to– decisions taken by other people. Have to– for tenses and forms that are not possible with must. Mustn’t - prohibition Needn’t / don’t need– decision was made by the speaker Don’t have to – the speaker reports someone else’s decision. | I mustlearn English. You mustcome back before 10 p.m. We have toget up very early to be at school on time. I have towrite two essays by Monday. I had togo to bed early last night. I hate having toget up early. You mustn’tleave the class during the test. You needn’tcome before 9 o’clock. He says we don’t have tocome before 9 o’clock. |
1. Fill in must or have to.
1. You … study hard to know English well.
2. It looks like raining. You … take your raincoat.
3. The students … do their homework regularly.
4. He … stay at home. His mother is ill.
5. You … tell her this news. She is waiting for it.
2. Fill in have to, has to, don’t / doesn’t have to, didn’t have to, had to or won’t have to.
1. It’s Sunday tomorrow so I … get up early.
2. There’s no school tomorrow, so the children … go to bed early.
3. We went to a restaurant yesterday, so we … cook.
4. Lucy feels better now, so she … take the medicine.
5. It was very cold yesterday so I … wear a coat.
6. She … wear glasses or else she can’t read.
7. I can’t go out tonight. I … study for my exam.
3. Fill in the gaps with mustn’t or needn’t.
A teacher is speaking to his students before a test.
“You are going to have a test today. Your test papers are on your desks. You … begin until I tell you. You … hurry; you have plenty of time. You … speak during the test. You … copy your friends’ work and you … open any of your books. You … write in pen; if you prefer you can write in pencil. You … stay when you are finished; you can leave if you want to, but you … be noisy. When you leave you … wait for your friends outside the classroom. Wait outside the building! Finally, I wish you all good luck. You can begin now!”
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.
Reading