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Lesson 1 Topic: Daily life WID:

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- Vocabulary about activities
- Telling the time
- Present simple and adverbs of frequency
Skills ...... pts/10
- Read multiple text to choose the correct
answer
- IELTS Reading: Sentence completion

Exercise 1. [Activities – Telling time] Choose the correct daily routine activities and put the appropriate time
on the clock. Don’t forget to put the verb in the correct form.
go to bed, have breakfast, have dinner, have lunch, get up, go to school

Peter ________________ at eight o´clock.

Jean_________________ at twenty to nine.

We _________________at nine o´clock.

James _________________ at half past one.

 Our family _________________ at nine o´clock.

Jack _________________ at half past ten.

Exercise 2. [Activities] Complete the paragraph on the right with the words on the left.

arrive v. fall asleep v. get up v. hang out v.

do exercise v. fly v. go to bed v. have v.
enjoy get dressed v. go home v. take a bus v

My Daily Routine
Some of my friends think I have a boring daily routine, but I like it. I usually (1)___________________ at about
6:00 or 6:30 in the morning, after my alarm clock wakes me up.
First, I brush my teeth, and shave, and wash my face. Then, I (2) ___________________ and go downstairs to
(3) ___________________ breakfast with my family. I always have coffee, cereal, and lots of fruit. I (4)
___________________ to work because I don’t like to drive, and I always (5) ___________________ at my
office before 8:00. I’m never late for work. Five o’clock is my favorite time of the day because I finish work and
(6) ___________________ and see my wife and two children again. We eat dinner together in our dining room
at around 6:00, and after that I (7) ___________________ with my wife and kids at home. We really (8)
___________________ watching our favorite TV programs together, but two or three times a week I (9)
__________________ in the evening, so I can stay strong and healthy. This is very important! Finally, at about
9:30, I (10) ___________________, read for a while, and then (11) ___________________. Sure, some people
think my daily routine is a little boring – but on weekends and holidays I love to (12) ___________________
airplanes for fun!

Exercise 3. [Adverbs of frequency] Write the sentences using a word from the box.

everyday always often hardly ever all day occasionally never

Eg: 0. Hiro goes to restaurants two or three times a week.

 Hiro often goes to restaurants.

1. Haruko always gets up early. 

2. Hiro goes to the gym once a year. 

3. Haruko stays in seven nights a week. 

4. Hiro studies from 9.00 to 5.00 

5. Haruko doesn’t have a shower in the morning. 

6. Hiro goes to the cinema about six times a year. 

Exercise 4. [Present simple] Use the following verbs to complete the sentences. Sometimes, you need the
negative.

believe eat flow go grow

make rise tell translate

1. The earth goes round the sun. 6. An atheist ________ in God.

2. Rice doesn’t grow in Britain.
3. The sun _________ in the east.
4. Bees _________ honey.
5. Vegetarians __________ meat.
7. An interpreter _________ from language to
another.
8. Liars are people who ________ the truth.
9. The River Amazon ________ into the Atlantic
Ocean.

Exercise 5. [Present simple] Write questions for the following words in the bracket.
1. Romi goes to school (by bus)
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2. The teacher explains the lesson (in front of the class).
_______________________________________________
3. My daughter always washes her hair (twice a week).
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4. Fenny invites (Bimo) to come to her birthday party.
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5. Olga sings the song (beautifully).
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6. Harry doesn’t go to school (because he is sick).
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7. (Her mother) cooks rice in the kitchen.
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8. Thalia always (has breakfast) before going to school.
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9. Mario celebrates (his birthday) in September.
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10. Sammy closes the window (because it’s going to rain).
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Exercise 6. [Present simple] Complete the book review with the present simple of the verbs in brackets.

Exercise 7. [Reading- Multiple text] Read the text and answer the questions
Alex, US
It wasn’t really a class but I learnt a lot of words. Many years ago, I was on a cycling holiday in a remote part of
Spain and I had an accident. I was taken to the nearest A&E department, where no-one spoke English. I could
get by with everyday Spanish, but didn’t know any medical words. The staff looked after me and, by the time I
left, I knew the words for all the parts of the leg and how to describe pain in Spanish. And it has stayed with
me to this day!
Mike, UK
On a ferry, of all place. We were on our way to France from the UK and suddenly a French lady appeared and
gave us a leaflet about a language class on board. I must admit I was a bit skeptical about how much we could
pick up in such a short time. But there was nothing much else to do so we went along. We practiced ordering
things in a shop and café, and it was great fun. The best thing was actually using the language on the other
side of the Channel.
Cerys, Wales
Not a class in the usual sense but I got a lot of speaking practice in a tunnel in Japan! I was on a packed train
using my ‘teach yourself Japanese’ book and CD. What I really wanted was to speak to a real person but I
didn’t feel confident to start up a conversation and everyone was very reserved. Suddenly, we broke down in
the middle of a long tunnel. It was such an unusual thing that it got everyone talking. I found out that I knew
more than I thought.
Lydia, Greece
Under the stars! A new language school had opened in my town and I was really keen to sign up. I thought
learning English with a native speaker would help me top up what I already knew from school. I arrived for the
first class and found the place in darkness. The electricity had failed but rather than cancel the classes, the
teachers used different spaces outside the school. All the local cafés were full of other students, so we ended
up on the beach. It was a strange first lesson but it really broke the ice.
A. Read the chat room posts quickly. What question are they answering?
a. Where’s the best place to learn a second language?
b. Where’s the strangest place you’ve had a language class?
c. Why do you like learning languages?
B. Read the post again. Write the correct names.
Who…..
1. didn’t think they would learn much? _______
2. still remembers what they learnt? _______
3. was surprised by how much they knew? _______
4. wanted to improve on their current level? _______
5. didn’t know specific vocabulary? _______
6. wasn’t learning with a teacher? _______
7. practiced again soon after the class? _______
C. Complete the sentences with the missing prepositions. Look back at the post if you need to.
1. It’s funny how I forget some words but others stay ______ me.
2. An intensive course is a good way to top ______ your English.
3. I went ______ to a German class with a friend and really enjoyed it.
4. The most difficult thing is often starting ______ a conversation.
5. Where can I sign ______ for Italian classes?
6. We’d like to find ______ about Russian classes in our area.

Exercise 8. [IELTS Reading: Sentence Completion] Read the text and answer the questions
SOLAR COLLECTOR
Solar collectors absorb heat from the sun's rays. They can be used to effectively heat and cool buildings. The
most common type of collector for space heating is a flat plate designed to absorb both radiation falling
directly on it, as well as radiation scattered by the atmosphere.
Collectors are usually panels of aluminium, copper, or steel. The panels are usually painted black. The black
colouring inhibits reflection and encourages absorption. Insulation is placed behind the collector to prevent
heat loss.
The collector is covered with glass or plastic. This layer allows short-wave radiation - or light - to enter the
collector, As the radiation passes through the glass or plastic, it is transformed from short-wave radiation to
long-wave radiation - or heat. Long-wave radiation cannot pass through the glass of plastic back into the
atmosphere. Therefore, the heat is trapped within the collector. Collectors are usually placed at an angle to
maximise the amount of radiation falling on them.
A transfer agent (air or water) is circulated through the collector and becomes heated. As it leaves the
collectors and travels through the heating ducts of a house, it warms the air inside the house or brings hot
water to sinks, tubs, and appliances. With solar collectors, storage is a problem: great amounts of heat must
be stored for nighttime use and for use during cloudy days

Complete the sentences. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.
1. Solar collectors can heat and cool houses with heat absorbed from _________.
2. Collectors are coloured black to prevent __________.
3. Glass and plastic are used to cover and the collector so that short-wave radiation can _________.
4. The glass or plastic cover on the collector helps to trap the __________.
5. For nighttime and cloudy days, heat needs to be _________.

Exercise 9. [IELTS Reading: Sentence completion] Read the text and answer the questions

What is happening to our planet?

Sometimes humans kill animals indirectly. Few places on the planet are untouched by humans.
The ever-increasing human population needs more space. Industries use more and more
of the Earth’s natural resources. The result: in less than one hundred years, as many as two
hundred known species of birds and mammals have vanished.

How? Many natural habitats are disappearing. The Earth’s rainforests are being destroyed,
along with their inhabitant. Changes in the planet’s ozone layer and in its climate threaten
all animals, including humans.

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter asked for an official study of the environment. What, he asked,
would our planet be like in the year 2000 if present trends continue? This study was done by
several U.S government departments at the direction of Dr Gerald Barney. Published in
1980, the Global 2000 Report to the President provided startling warnings and predictions about
the fate of the Earth if we do not make changes in the way we treat it.

The report predicted, among other things, that “between half a million species - 15 to 20 percent
of all species on earth could be extinguished by the year 2000”. It warned of more hardship for
the Earth’s human inhabitants as well - more starvation, for example.

This report strongly urged the government to take immediate action, it gave recommendations
for change. By the time the study was completed, Ronald Reagan had been elected president
and his administration ignored the report.

The 1980s were not a good decade for the environment. It is likely that a global report now
would be bleaker than the one published after the 1970s. Many environmentalists wonder if we
can stop the destruction of our planet before it too late. When, they ask, will humans realize that
they are not meant to be masters of the Earth, only one of its guests?

Complete the sentences. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for
each answer.

1. Humans kill animals indirectly because industries need more and more of the _ natural
resources _ on the Earth.

2. The changes in Earth’s _ rainforest _ as well as its climate are harmful to all animals.
3. The official study of the environment in 1977 was directed by _ President Jimmy Carter _.

4. One of the difficulties which humans were warned of by the report is __________.

Exercise 10. [IELTS Reading: Sentence completion] Read the text and answer the
questions

The life of the European bee - eater

A brilliant movement of colour as it catches its food in the air, the European bee - eater moves
between three continents.
True to their name, bee - eaters eat bees (though their diet includes just about any flying insect).
When the bird catches a bee, it returns to its tree to get rid of the bees poison, which it does very
efficiently. It hits the insect's head on one side of the branch, then rubs its body on the other.
The rubbing makes its prey harmless.
European bee - eaters (Merops apiaster) form families that breed in the spring and summer
across an area that extends from Spain to Kazakhstan. Farmland and river valleys provide huge
numbers of insects. Flocks of bee - eaters follow tractors as they work fields. When the birds
come upon a beehive, they eat well - a researcher once found a hundred bees in the stomach of a
bee - eater near a hive.
European bees pass the winter by sleeping in their hives, which cuts off the bee - eater's main
source of food. So, in late summer, bee - eaters begin a long, dangerous journey. Massive flocks
from Spain, France and northern Italy cross the Sahara desert to their wintering grounds in West
Africa. Bee-eaters from Hungary and other parts of Central and Eastern Europe cross the
Mediterranean Sea and Arabian Desert to winter in southern Africa. 'It's an extremely risky
stratagem, this migration,' says C. Hilary Fry, a British ornithologist who has studied European
bee-eaters for more than 45 years.
'At least 30 percent of the birds will be killed by predators before they make it back to Europe
the following spring.'
In April, they return to Europe. Birds build nests by digging tunnels in riverbanks. They work
for up to 20 days. By the end of the job, they've moved 15 to 26 pounds of soil - more than 80
times their weight.
The nesting season is a time when families help each other, and sons or uncles help feed their
father's or brother's chicks as soon as they come out of their eggs. The helpers benefit, too:
parents with helpers can provide more food for chicks to continue the family line.
It's a short, spectacular life. European bee-eaters live for five to six years. The difficulties of
migration and avoiding predators along the way affect every bird. Bee-eaters today also find it
harder to find food, as there are fewer insects around as a result of pesticides. Breeding sites are
also disappearing, as rivers are turned into concrete-walled canals.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
1    Bee-eaters’ prey are bees and other ____________.
2    Bee-eaters need to remove the ___________ from bees before eating them.
3     There is plenty of food for bee-eaters on agricultural land and in ______________.
4     Bee-eaters migrate to spend the winter in different parts of _____________.
5     Because of __________, almost one-third of bee-eaters do not survive migration.
6     Bee-eaters make nests in ____________, which they build themselves.
7    When nesting, the ___________ receive food from different family members.
8 One problem for bee-eaters is ____________, which have reduced the amount of food
available.
WRITING PORTFOLIO 1
Topic: Write a paragraph describing your daily routine. You can mention:
 Do you exercise in the morning? How often do you go to the gym?
 Do you study or work? What do you do?
 What school/ college do you go to?
 What were your favorite subjects in school?
 How do you spend your free time?
 Do you participate in sports? What sports do you like? What sports are you good at?
 What is your favorite food? Do you eat a balanced diet? Do you live a healthy life?
You should write 150 – 200 words.
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