UNIT 4 : MY CAREER

Vocabulary: Days of the week.

Grammar: Demonstratives pronouns, There is/There are, questions with how
many/much, Prepositions of time.
Exercise According to your schedule, choose 3 subjects you like and make sentences saying
what days and/ or what time you start and finish them.

Model example: On Friday I take a special subject called “Mineral Concentration”

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Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcxmWhY-zx8

Grammar . uses and examples

http://www.cambridge.org/grammarandbeyond/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/
Grammar_and_Beyond_1_Unit_4.pdf
TASK 1 UNIT 4
........... many
glasses on the table.
There is Is there
Are there There are
........ many lamps
on the wall ?
There are There is
Is there Are there
.............. many conveyor belts
here.
There are Is there
There is Are there

Prepositions of Time - at, in, on

We use:

 at for a PRECISE TIME

 in for MONTHS, YEARS, CENTURIES and LONG
PERIODS
 on for DAYS and DATES

in
at on
MONTHS, YEARS,
PRECISE CENTURIES and LONG DAYS and
TIME PERIODS DATES

at 3 in May on Sunday
o'clock

at in summer on Tuesdays
10.30am

at noon in the summer on 6 March

at in 1990 on 25 Dec.
dinnertim 2010
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at in the 1990s on Christmas

bedtime Day

at sunrise in the next century on

Independence
Day

at sunset in the Ice Age on my

birthday

at the in the past/future on New

moment Year's

Look at these examples:

 I have a meeting at 9am.

 The shop closes at midnight.
 Jane went home at lunchtime.
 In England, it often snows in December.
 Do you think we will go to Jupiter in the future?
 There should be a lot of progress in the next
century.
 Do you work on Mondays?
 Her birthday is on 20 November.
 Where will you be on New Year's Day?

Notice the use of the preposition of time at in the

following standard expressions:

Expression Example

at night The stars shine at night.

at the weekend* I don't usually work at the

 weekend.

at I stay with my family at

Christmas*/East Christmas.
er

at the same We finished the test at the

time same time.

at present He's not home at present. Try

later.

Note that in some varieties of English people say "on the

weekend" and "on Christmas".

Notice the use of the prepositions of time in and on in

these common expressions:

in On

in the morning on Tuesday

morning

in the on Saturday
mornings mornings

in the on Sunday
afternoon(s) afternoon(s)

in the on Monday
evening(s) evening(s)
When we say last, next, every, this we do not also
use at, in, on.

 I went to London last June. (not in last June)

 He's coming back next Tuesday. (not on
next Tuesday)
 I go home every Easter. (not at every Easter)
 We'll call you this evening. (not in this evening)

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Task 2- Unit 4: Complete the sentences with the correct form of “There is/there
are” and “Preposition of time (in/on at)}”
There is/There are

1. a laptop on the desk.

2. some students in the courtyard.

3. so many issues with the new software.

4. any interesting books in the school's library?

5. magazines on the table.
6. a swimming pool at your college? No, .'

Prepositions of time

1.
The course begins ……….. 7 January
2. I'll phone you on Tuesday morning ……. about 10 o'clock, okay ?

3. Noe's brother is an engineer but he's out of work ……. the moment

4. He doesn't work ……. Sundays

5. We wear warm clothes…..... winter.

6. I completed my work …… two hours.