UNIT

4
DAILY
ROUTINES

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Warm- Up Questions:
 What do you do in your free time?
 What do you do in the morning?
 What do you do in the afternoon?
 When do you do in the evening?
Activity 1
Learning Vocabularies

Match the vocabularies in the box below with the correct

definition!

Wake up Take a bath Go home

Do praying Do homework Play
Watch Have lunch Have breakfast
Brush your teeth Study Have dinner
Read Tidy up Go to bed

1. You do this at the dinner table with your family

2. You do this to make your body and hair clean
3. You do this after you wake up
4. You do this when your alarm clock goes off in the
asleep
5. You do this in the morning because it is the most
important meal of the day
6. You do this so you can meet your friends and learn
new things
7. You do this after school because your teacher will get
angry if you don't
8. Your dentist will be pleased if you do this twice a day
9. You do this in the afternoon when your classes at
school have finished
Grammar and Language Focus

 Simple Present Tense

This tense is used to express actions or activities that occur in the
present or occur repeatedly as daily habits.

a. Verbal Sentence Pattern

(+) S + V1 [s/es] + O + Comp

(-) S + do/does + not + V1 + O +
Comp (?) Do/does + S + V1+ O +
Comp?
Examples:

1. (+) I study English every Wednesday

(-) I don‟t study English every Wednesday
(?) Do I study English every Wednesday?
2. (+) She always goes to market on Sunday
(-) She doesn‟t always go to the market on Sunday
(?) Does she always go to the market on Sunday?
3. (+) They always work in the office
(-) They don‟t always work in the office
(?) Do they always work in the office?

I V1 She V1 + s/es
You He
We It
They do Syauqi does
 b. Nominal Sentence Pattern

(+) S + be [is, am, are] + Noun/adjective

(-) S + be [is, am, are] + not + Noun/
adjective (?) Be [is, am, are] + S +
Noun/Adjective?
Examples:
1. (+) Hasni is an Arabic teacher
(-) Hasni is not an Arabic teacher
(?) Is Hasni an Arabic teacher?
2. (+) My father and my mother are smart.
(-) My father and my mother are not smart.
(?) Are my father and my mother smart?
3. (+) They are students
(-) They are not students
(?) Are they students?

Exercise
Choose the correct form of the verb in simple present tense!

Examples:
I ( buy / buys) a kilogram of sugar on
Monday. He (buy/ buys ) a kilogram of sugar
on Monday.

1. They always (cook/ cooks) fried rice every Sunday

2. She often (drive/ drives) the car in the morning.
3. You (is/ are) not a soldier.
4. Zainab (do/ does) not come to your party.
5. (Do/ Does) we usually watch TV in the night?
6. My friend (describe/ describes) about his father to me.
 Adverb of Frequency
It is used to describe how often something occurs.

Adverbs of
Percentage Example Sentences
Frequency
100 % Always My mom always speaks English
She almost always eats bread in the
95% Almost always
morning.
90% Usually I usually have spaghetti for
dinner.
80% Generally You generally go to the market.
70% Often I often read holy Al-Quran.
70% Frequently I frequently go to bed at 9 pm.
I sometimes play football in
50% Sometimes
the afternoon.
30% Occasionally I occasionally eat meatball.
10% Rarely He rarely sees me in the night.
10% Seldom My brother seldom watches TV.
5% Hardly ever He hardly ever eats banana.
5% Scarcely ever My sister scarcely ever calls me.
0% Never I never eat Pizza.

Adverb of Time
It is used to tell when the action of a verb is carried out

in the morning...in the afternoon.... in the night...

everyday.... every monday.... every week....
every month.... every year.... today....
  Connectors
We can use connectors as the bridge to link words or sentences.
It helps to build up coherent relationships within the text.

First,…. Then….. Next…..

Afterward,….After that,…..Finally,....

 Telling the Time