UNIT 3.

ACTIVITIES
Talking about Daily Routines

Grammar

3.1. Present Simple

Complete the sentences with the correct form (positive (+) or negative (-) of one of the verbs below.

eat switch on read discuss like start enjoy arrange chat

1. David _____ work at 9.00(+). He ________ his computer and ______ his emails (+).
2. Hattie and Gita ________ when they’re busy (-).
3. Gustavo ________ in restaurants every day (-).
4. Debbie ________ the training course with her boss (+).
5. She’s a Personal Assistant; she ________ a lot of meetings and conferences (+).
6. Steve ________ boring tasks (-), but he ________ speaking to new people (+).

3.2. Questions
A. Put the words in the correct order to make questions.

1. Where leave Gita the does post-its?

2. in What do does Gita the afternoon?
3. often she Where does go work after?
4. Gita go How does work to?
5. chat pub in the Who does to she?
6. Allie doesn’t Why like manager her?

B. Match questions (1 – 6) to answers (a –f).

a) By bus.
b) To the pub.
c) To her friend Allie.
d) Because he’s bossy and lazy.
e) On Hattie’s phone, next to her computer screen, on her desk, etc.
f) She writes reports and does a lot of paperwork.

3.3. Complete the text with the correct options. Choose A, B or C.

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Gita’s friend Allie

Allie’s parents 1________ Jamaica, but they 2________ in Britain. Allie 3 ________ 35 years old and she’s
married. She has two 4 ________; two boys. Allie 5 ________ early and she 6________ breakfast for her
family. They 7 ________ home at 7.30. Allie 8________ to work 9________, but her husband Charlie 10________.
He works in a hotel 11 ________ their house.
Charlie 12 ________ his job, but Allie 13 ________. She 14 ________ it. What 15________ to do?
She would like to find a new 16________!

1A. come from B. comes from C. come in

2A. lives B. live C. life
3A. has B. are C. ‘s
4A. children B. childrens C. childs
5A. gets up always B. always gets up C. gets always up
6A. making B. make C. makes
7A. leaves B. go out C. leave
8A. goes B. go C. gos
9A. in bus B. by bus C. on bus
10A. doesn’t B. does C. don’t
11A. next B. near C. front
12A. loves B. love C. like
13A. don’t B. doesn’t C. likes not
14A. detests B. hate C. dislike
15A. is she want B. she wants C. does she want
16A. work B. job C. employ

Vocabulary

3.4. Prepositions
Fill in the gaps with at, for, in, by, on, to. You need to repeat one of them.
1. Jake goes to work _____ foot because it’s very near.
2. I travel to work _____ underground.
3. When I arrive _____ the office, I always have a coffee.
4. My father works _____ a pharmaceutical company. He works _____ a laboratory.
5. We have lunch _____ one o’clock.
6. I send the reports _____ my boss.

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3.5. Prepositions of Place

Choose the correct option of the words in italics.
1. I live on the third floor of a block of flats; the second floor is below/ on my floor and the fourth
floor is over / above my floor.
2. The block of flats is behind / between a bank and a supermarket.
3. I always have some money on / in my bag.
4. My grandparents have a house on / in the beach.
5. If you spend a lot of time opposite / in front of a computer screen, you get tired eyes.

3.6. Vocabulary in Context

Write the correct words for the definitions; the first letter of the word and the number of letters are
given.
1. How do you call a large vehicle used for transporting goods? l- - - -.
2. What do the Americans call the ground floor? f- - - - - - - - -.
3. Name two verbs that mean dislike a lot: d - - - - - / h - - -.
4. What’s a synonym for reserve? b - - -.
5. What is the noun for the verb travel? t - - -.
6. How do you call a person you work with? c - - - - - - - -.
7. This is a piece of paper with the name of a product. You stick it on a box or package: l - - - -.
8. This is a computer program you can use to calculate many things: s - - - - - s - - - -.
9. How do you call an organized collection of data? d - - - - - - -
10. When you take a person to various places they don’t know, e.g. in a company or city, you s - - -
them r - - - -.

Writing

3.7. Timesheets
A. Maria’s Timesheet
Put the sentences in the correct place and complete the timesheet.

Timesheet of Maria Evans from ABC Computers

Date: Monday 12 June

Morning:

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Lunch:

Afternoon:

Evening:

At 8.30 I meet the participants.

In the evening I do some administrative work.
Today I leave home at 6.00 because I have to travel to Liverpool.
At 18.00 I say goodbye to my students and take the train back home.
I start a new IT course at a clothes company there.
At 13.00 I go for lunch in a restaurant with the Human Resources manager.
From 13.45 to 16.45 I help my students make their own company profiles.
There are 10 people attending the course; five men and five women.
We take a quick coffee break until 17.00.
I spend the last hour of the day reviewing and correcting my students’ work.
From 9.00 to 12.00 I show them how to create a company profile on Facebook.
We talk about other courses the company is interested in.
I write a report about the day’s training session and plan the session for the next day.
During the last hour before lunch I answer all their questions.

B. Debbie’s Timesheet
Complete the timesheet with the words in the box.

discuss canteen problems programmes website visit desk break install fix
office meeting report brochure start email

C. Now make the text more natural by introducing the adverbs of frequency and sequencers in the
box. Some words can go in more than one place.

Finally, normally First, usually often always In the end, Then, After that

Timesheet of Debbie Stoker from the IT department

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Monday 19 August

Morning:
I ______ work at 9.00. I have a __________ with my boss to _______ the work for the day. I have
to update some __________ like Photoshop, AutoCAD or InDesign for my colleagues in the
Marketing department. They need them to finish a __________that describes our new
products and services. I check my __________ and try to solve different __________ people have
with their computers. I don’t have a __________; I just get a coffee from the machine and
drink it at my __________.

Lunch:
At one o’clock I go for lunch. I eat in the__________ . I go back to work after an hour.

Afternoon:
Between two and five o’clock, I __________ the Human Resources and Customer Services
departments and __________ some new software. I go to Finance and Accounts to __________
a technical problem. I return to my __________ and write a __________ about the day’s work.

Overtime:
The boss asks me to stay a bit longer to upload some information on the company
__________. I go home at quarter to seven.

Translation

3.8. English into Spanish

A. Match the question words in A to the translations in B.
A B
where what who how when cómo quién dónde cuando porqué
what time how long why qué cuánto tiempo a qué hora

B. Translate the questions into Spanish.

1. Where does your husband work?
2. What time do you leave home?
3. Who do you have breakfast with?
4. Why does your sister want a new job?
5. What do you do at the weekend?

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6. How do you go to the office?

3.9. Spanish into English

A. Translate the words into English.
1. estante (n) 5. material de oficina (n)
2. cajón(n) 6. cajero automático (n)
3. tijeras (n) 7. tablón (n)
4. impresora (n) 8. pasillo (n)

B. Translate the sentences into English.

1. El gimnasio está en el sótano.
2. El papel para la impresora está en el almacén al fondo del pasillo.
3. A mi mujer no le gusta mucho su trabajo.
4. ¿Te gusta escribir informes?
5. Odio rellenar hojas de Excel.
6. Me encanta trabajar en equipo.

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