1. Complete the conversations with a word or phrase from the box to make a phrase with day.

the day before yesterday a day off

Have a good day every day
go out for the day bad day
six days a week one day
the day after tomorrow all day
the other day twice a day

1. I saw Ahmed the other day. He seemed to be very happy with his new job.
2. I’m so tired. What I need is _______________ work.
3. I’m sure they’ll get married _______________.
4. It’s so boring. We do the same things _______________. I need a change.
5. It’s my uncle’s birthday _______________. I must remember to send him a card.
6. ‘Right. I’m going. I’ll see you tonight.’
‘All right then. _______________! Don’t work too hard!’
7. It’s Thursday today, and we arrived here _______________ - on Tuesday.
8. All she wants to do on holiday is sit by the swimming pool _______________ and relax.
9. You need to take this medicine _______________ - first thing in the morning and before going to
bed.
10. The information centre is open _______________ - it’s only closed on Sundays.
11. After so much time at home, we decided to _______________, so we went to the beach.
12. It was a _______________ today – I was late for work, had an argument with my best friend
and lost my handbag.

2. Choose the correct verb.

1. Who cooks/is cooking the dinner? It smells great!

2. Do you know/Are you knowing what that sign means?
3. My parents are coming/come to stay with us every Christmas.
4. I don’t like/’m not liking tea.
5. Eva comes/is coming home to spend Easter with us this year.
6. We have/’re having a birthday party on Sunday. Would you like to come?
7. Do you want/Are you wanting any more bread?
8. Normally, I take/’m taking the train to work but this week I walk/’m walking.

3. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form (Past Simple or Present Perfect).

1. I stayed (stay) with my grandparents a lot when I was younger.

2. The couple next door _______________ (live) there for twenty-five years: I’m sure they’ll never
move.
3. Gordon _______________ (start) his first business in 2001.
4. So far this year, we _______________ (save) over $500.
5. Before becoming a banker, my brother _______________ (study) abroad for several years.
4. Put the verbs from the box into the gaps using Past Simple.
Sugar and Spice by Madness
take buy find rain
be x2 know think come
I thought I'd seen you round before
Then you _______________ knocking on my door
You _______________ only 16 years
And yet you _______________ away all of my fears

I held your hand and then I _______________

I was the one and only one for you
We _______________ married at 21
Expecting any day our first born son

Yeah yeah yeah

And that Sugar and Spice
Everything was so nice
Now it's all come undone
Has it's course just been run

We _______________ a flat in Golders Green

A second hand fridge and a washing machine
You _______________ a job in Marks and Spencers
Filling shelves sure it was pretty senseless

But every day at a half past five

I'd be waiting at the station for you to arrive
I'd take your hand and walk you home
And if it _______________ we'd shelter in the Hippodrome

Yeah yeah yeah

And that Sugar and Spice
Everything was so nice
Now it's just not the same
It's bitterness and pain
5. Read an interview with William McBride,
a traffic warden. Fill in
the gaps a-f in the article
with questions 1-6.

c 1. What excuses do people give you?

__2. What are the good things about the job?
__3. Does everyone pay their fine?
__4. Why did you become a traffic warden?
__5. Is it a dangerous job?
__6. What do traffic wardens do?

6. Read the article again. Find the

information from statements 1-6 in the text
and match them with a-f.

f 1. Not everyone has to pay a parking fine.

__2. Traffic wardens help the police a lot.
__3. Some traffic wardens can film people
who argue with them.
__4. William had another job before he
became a traffic warden.
__5. Traffic wardens hear some unbelievable
excuses.
__6. Some people like traffic wardens.

7. Which professions are unpopular in your

country? Why?
8. Do these things normally happen in the morning (M), the afternoon (A) or the evening (E)?

a. dream about smth d. get dressed g. have a shower j. switch off the m. alarm goes off
b. fall asleep e. get into bed h. have smth to eat alarm n. go to work
c. feel tired f. get out of bed i. set your alarm k. turn off the light o. come home
l. wake up
Choose five things from the list and mark the time when these things take place in your day.
e.g. you set your alarm in the evening or before I go to bed or when I last check my phone…

9. The text below gives advice about falling asleep and waking up. Which tips are about falling
asleep (F) and which are about waking up (W)?

Early to Bed, Early to Rise…

➔ - Get an alarm clock, and put it as far away as you can. If you don’t have to get out of bed to turn it
off, then it’s no good having one. And remember that two is better than one… but set the second
clock ten minutes later than the first one, and put it in the same place as the first one! W
➔ - Don’t spend longer than thirty minutes trying to fall asleep. If you can’t get to sleep after half an
hour, get up and do something quiet, like reading. Only go back to bed when you feel tired.
➔ - Drink a glass of warm milk fifteen minutes before you go to bed – it helps you to relax – or have a
light snack. But avoid coffee, tea or alcohol: they contain chemicals which will make it difficult for
you to sleep.
➔ - Make sure all the clocks in the house are ten minutes fast before you go to bed (and try to forget
you did this when you wake up the next morning).
➔ - Get a friend to phone you early in the morning. And hope that your friend is better at waking up
than you are… and is able to have an interesting conversation at 7 a.m. to help you wake up.
➔ - Go to bed earlier. It may be difficult at first, but they say that an hour of sleep before midnight is as
good as two hours after midnight.
➔ - Have a warm bath – it’s a great way to relax. But you shouldn’t stay in there too long. More than
twenty minutes and you will lose all your energy. And the bath isn’t the best place to fall asleep!
➔ - Pretend your alarm has gone off. Imagine you have to get up, have a (cold!) shower, make
breakfast, etc. The more you imagine it, the more you want to go to sleep!

10. Match the words/phrases in bold in A with the words/phrases which mean the same in B.
A B
Get an alarm clock Buy/set/switch on
have a light snack cheap/late-night/small
ten minutes fast after the correct time/at the correct time/before the correct time
Get a friend to phone you ask/find/look for
they say that an hour of sleep people in general/your friends/your parents
it’s a great way to relax big/expensive/wonderful
But avoid coffee, tea or alcohol drink/do not have/try