Name: ___________________________________________

Date: ______________________________________________

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Chapter
Work, Play, Sleep

Additional Practice 1
Reviewing Vocabulary
In Chapter 3, you study words and phrases for writing about daily activities. Do the following
activity to review the vocabulary from the chapter.

Complete the sentences with the words and phrases from the box below. Three answers
won’t be used.

do chores go shopping pay bills

do dishes go to bed play basketball
do homework go to work play tennis
get dressed listen to music take the bus
get up make breakfast watch TV
go hiking make dinner work out

My family is always very busy. My wife, Janelle, gets up very early in

(1)
the morning every day. She (2)
at the gym until around 7:30. Then
she goes home and (3)
for everyone. I wake up the children at that
time. They choose their clothes, and then they (4)
. Then they eat and

(5)
to school. After that, my wife and I (6)
. After work
and school, we come home and (7)
around the house. Of course, the
children also (8)
for their classes. My wife helps them. During that
time, I (9)
because I’m good at cooking. After dinner, the children

(10)
in the living room or go outside to (11)
in the
driveway. My wife and I put on a CD and (12)
and read the
newspaper. Sometimes we just talk as we (13)
from dinner, or we

(14)
. Finally, we all (15)
around 9:00 or 10:00 p.m.

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Additional Practice 2
Reviewing Grammar
In Chapter 3, you study the simple present.
• affirmative statements Example: I work every day. Ralph works on weekends.
• negative statements Examples: We don’t get up early on Saturdays.
Marissa doesn’t take classes at City College.
• time expressions Examples: They get together in the evenings.
We talk on Mondays from 8:30 to 9:30.
He does the chores after dinner.

Circle the correct choices in the sentences below.

1 Carlos and Carrie take / takes English classes at / on Mondays and Wednesdays.
(a) (b)

2 I gets / get up from / at 6:30 every morning.

(a) (b)

3 We works / work out at the gym every day from 7:00 in / to 8:30.
(a) (b)

4 Yi-xing doesn’t / don’t sleep late on / in weekends.

(a) (b)

5 Okasana does pay / pays bills on / after work.

(a) (b)

6 Alex doesn’t / don’t study in / at night.

(a) (b)

7 Many of my friends doesn’t / don’t check e-mail at every day / every day .
(a) (b)

8 Our children make / makes us breakfast in / on Saturday mornings.

(a) (b)

9 Patricia doesn’t / don’t work every day from / at 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

(a) (b)

10 He go / goes to the club on / in the middle of the afternoon every Saturday.

(a) (b)

11 Maria and her family go / goes to the movies together in / on Sundays.

(a) (b)

12 My mother do makes / makes lunch for me in / at the mornings.

(a) (b)

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Additional Practice 3
Revising and Editing
Revising
In Chapter 3, you learn to connect your ideas with the connecting words either and or.

Read a student’s sentences. Complete the sentences with either or or.

I live in an apartment with two friends, Clara and Soraida. On weekends, we do

different things. Soraida watches a lot of TV. She watches either sports (1)
programs (2)
reality shows. Clara doesn’t watch TV. She is very athletic.
She goes running (3)
swimming during her free time. I don’t go running

(4)
swimming, but I play team sports. On weekends, I play (5)
soccer (6)
basketball. We all like to go out in the evenings on weekends.
We go (7)
to a restaurant (8)
to the movies.

Editing
In Chapter 3, you learn about using commas with time expressions at the beginning of sentences.

Read the sentences below. Find five missing commas and add them to the sentences.

I live with my parents and my two brothers. We are all very busy during the
week. We don’t see each other very much. In the mornings we all get up at
different times. In the evenings we all get home at different times. After school I
go to the library or the gym, Noe goes to work at a restaurant, and Adam plays
basketball or baseball with his friends. My father works at night. After dinner he
leaves for work. On weekends my parents don’t work. The whole family tries to do
things together then.

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