1 Look at the cover of the magazine and answer
the questions below.
• What is the name of the magazine?
• Who is it for?
• What is the article inside the magazine about?
• How old is a teenager?
• Can you say the names of the days in English?
• What is the day today? Is it your favourite day? Why? Why not?
2 Read the article which Melanie wrote about her daily routine for Bravo magazine, then read the statements and mark them as true (T) or false (F).
3 Fill in: do, have, go, make. Then use the collocations to make sentences, as in the example.
1 shopping 4 my bed 7 lunch 10 a cake
2 a shower 5 my homework 8 home 11 for a walk
3 breakfast 6 the washing-up 9 the housework 12 a nap
e.g. I usually go shopping in the afternoon.
4 Read the article in Ex. 2 again and underline the adverbs of frequency. Then make sentences using the notes below.
e.g. She always gets up and has a shower at eight o'clock in the morning.
5 How often do you do the following activities? Tick the appropriate boxes in the questionnaire below.
6 Now, in pairs, ask and answer questions as in the example below.
e.g. SA: How often do you help with the ironing? SB: I never help with the ironing. What about you? SA: I sometimes help with the ironing. How often do you...? SB: I always...
7 • What do you always do on weekdays?
· What do you usually do during the weekend?
8 Add the prepositions and put the words in the correct column.
the weekend, the morning, Tuesday, Wednesday afternoon, nine o'clock, Sunday morning, the evening, half past three, Monday night, the afternoon, a quarter to one, Christmas, May, Christmas Day
11 Complete the sentences below giving
reasons, as in the example.
9 Match the opposites in the list with the adjectives below.
busy, sad, ugly, horrible, wide awake, late, bored, noisy
1 pretty* 5 happy*
2 excited* 6 sleepy*
3 early* 7 lazy*
4 peaceful* 8 lovely*
10 Read the text below and choose the correct sentence for each gap.
a People work in their gardens or wash their cars.
b I can stay at home with my family.
c I can even hear the birds in the trees.
d Cars, buses and people go past our house all day.
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