library

Anne Greene works in a . She is a

librarian. She takes care of the books and lends them to
whoever comes to borrow them. She likes her job very much
because it gives her the opportunity to meet all kinds of
people interested in all kinds of books. She doesn’t like it too
much because of the dust and because she never has a
moment’s rest.

Her desk is always tidy and clean.

At the moment she is putting some books on the shelves. This is
one of the things she likes to do best. She is about to leave work and head back
home. She is going out with Mark tonight. He is going to propose and Anne knows it.
She is very anxious.

Questions:
1. What is Anne’s job? What does she do?
2. What does she like about her job?
3. What doesn’t she like about her job?
4. Is her desk always a mess?
5. What is she doing at the moment?
6. What is she about to do?
7. What is she doing tonight?
8. What does Anne know?
9. How does she feel?
 This is Mark. He is a businessman.

oil company

He works in the relations department for an important

, Maddox Oil. He makes contracts with only foreign business people. His job
is very demanding and he almost never has a day off. His girlfriend, Anne is
very understanding and they never argue about anything. He loves her very
much and wants to spend the rest of his life with her.
He is faxing important information to a partner in the Middle East
right now, but he is also thinking about his meeting with Anne tonight. He
doesn’t want to admit it, but he is very nervous.

Questions:
1. What is Mark doing for a living? What’s his job?
2. Who does he work for?
3. What does he do there?
4. Why does he never have a day off?
5. Do Anne and Mark ever argue about anything?
6. What does Mark want to do for the rest of his life?
7. What is he doing now?
8. What is he thinking about?
9. What doesn’t he want to admit?
 This is Mrs. Greene, Anne’s mother. She is a housewife and this

is her lovely house: . She doesn’t have a job. She

stays home, cooks and takes care of the house and of her
children. She is a hard working woman. She loves flowers, but
she doesn’t have too much time to take care of the back garden
and she is very frustrated about that. She hopes for better
days when all her children are going to have their homes.
She is gathering flowers from her personal garden now and she is

chatting with her neighbour, Mrs. Johnson. She is a

housewife too. She is married to Mike, a very well known journalist. They have no
children.
She is offering Mrs. Greene a fresh cup of coffee sugar free, just
the way Mrs. Greene likes it. They are good friends even though Mrs. Johnson is
a lot younger then Anne’s mother.

Question: 7. Why does she feel

1. What does Mrs. Greene frustrated?
do for a living? 8. What does she hope
2. Does Anne know her? for?
3. Does Mrs. Greene have 9. What is she doing now?
a job? 10. Who is Mrs. Johnson?
4. What does she do all 11. What does she do?
day long? 12. Who is she married to?
5. Is she a lazy woman? 13. Do they have any
6. What does she love? children?
 14. What is Mrs. Johnson 16. Is Mrs. Johnson older
doing right now? than her neighbour?
15. How does Mrs. Greene
like her coffee?

Hi! My name is Mike Johnson and I’m a journalist.

city

I live in a big . I like my job

because it gives me the opportunity to travel and see things
most people don’t. I don’t like it because I’m always on the
road and I wish I could stay home and spend more time with
my wife. We are planing to have a baby next year.
Now I’m trying to write a report about a very important
event in the politic life of our city. It’s very hard and I’m
trying to decide either to give it up and go home, or stay for another hour and
write. But I’m sure my wife is going to call me up soon, so I’m going home.

Questions:
1.What is Mike Johnson’s profession?
2. Where does he live?
3. Why does he like his job?
4. Why doesn’t he like his job?
5. What does he wish?
6. What are Mike and his wife planing for next year?
7. What is he doing right now?
8. What is the report about? Is it easy to write?
9. What is he trying to decide?
10. What is he sure off?
 
 Grammar questions:

- Why do some of the verbs in the text end in –s and some

in –ing?
- What tense are these verbs? Complete the following table
with some of them:

- Which auxiliary verb is used to form questions and

negatives in the Present Simple? What about in the Present
Continuous?

 Practice:
1. Ask and answer questions about the people in the
presentation.

Example: (Anne) … married?

Is she married?
No, she isn’t.

1. (Mike) Where … live?

2. (Anne) Where … work?
3. (Mark) What … doing?
4. (Mike and his wife) … have any children?
5. (Mrs. Greene) … drink coffee with lots of sugar?
6. (Mark) Who … thinking off?
7. (Mrs. Johnson) … younger than Mrs. Greene?
8. (Anne) … like dust?
9. (Mike) … a well-known journalist?
10. (Mrs. Greene and Mrs. Johnson) … good friends?

2. Your opinion.

1. Do you think Anne is happy because Mark is going to ask her to

marry him? Is she going to say yes or no?
2. Do you think Mrs. Johnson is an unhappy married woman
because her husband is almost never home?
3. Is Mark nervous because he can’t wait to ask Anne’s hand in
marriage? Or is he nervous because he doesn’t know what she is going
to say?
4. Do you think Mrs. Greene is happy with her life? Does she want
to change anything?
5. Does Mike feel guilty because he doesn’t spend too much time
with his wife?

3. Read the dialogue below and complete the table.

A What do you do?

B I’m an interior designer. I decorate people’s houses, and give
them
Ideas for furniture and lighting.
A And what are you doing at the moment?
B Well, I’m not working on a house. I’m working on a hotel. I’m
Designing a new dining room for the Hilton.

work do is doing
 4. Make up similar dialogues with some of the jobs below.

a conductor a driver a
sailor
a pianist a fireman a farmer