Active vocabulary

- a working day – рабочий день

- week-days – будние дни

- an alarm clock – будильник

- to wake up – просыпаться

- to get up – вставать

- to do morning exercises – делать утреннюю зарядку

- to make one’s bed – убирать постель

- to take (have) a shower (a bath) – принимать душ (ванну)

- to wash one’s face – умываться

- to brush one’s teeth – чистить зубы

- to have breakfast (lunch, dinner, supper) – завтракать (обедать, ужинать, поздно ужинать)

- to dress – одеваться

- to leave for – отправляться

- to comb one’s hair – причесываться

- to take a bus (a tram, a trolleybus) – ехать автобусом (трамваем, троллейбусом)

- a break – перемена

- to take a rest (to relax) – отдохнуть, отдыхать

- to watch TV – смотреть телевизор

- a telephone chat – разговор по телефону

- to go for a walk – выйти на прогулку

- to wash up – мыть посуду

- to sweep the floor – подмести пол

- to go to bed – ложиться спать

Task 3. Transcribe the following words and practise their pronunciation.

To describe, ordinary, half, an alarm-clock, lazy, a shower, a bathroom, to comb, a quarter, a sandwich, practical, a lecture, a seminar, a canteen, substantial, an hour, to relax, to resume, a chapter, Literature, a subject, extremely, busy, a breath, tired.

Task 4. Answer the following questions on the text.

1. When does your working day begin?

2. What do you do when you get up?

3. Do you do morning exercises every day?

4. When do you leave for the university?

5. How long does it take you to get there?

6. When does your university begin?

7. When do you have dinner?

8. Do you usually have dinner at home or at the university canteen?

9. Do you have a short rest after dinner?

10. Do you sometimes go to the library to get ready for classes?

11. How much work do you have to do?

12. What do you usually do in the evenings?

13. When do you go to bed?

Task 5. Translate from Russian into English using your active vocabulary.

1. Мой рабочий день начинается в 8.30. 2. Он встает в 7 утра и уходит из дома в 8.00. 3. В будние дни у них практически нет свободного времени. 4. Анна живет далеко от Университета, поэтому она выходит из дома в 7.30. 5. Отец обычно обедает в столовой. 6. Каждое утро Дина принимает душ. 7. Он встает, умывается, одевается и выходит из дома. 8. Я обычно добираюсь домой на трамвае. 9. Ты ложишься спать? – Нет. Я собираюсь принять душ, а потом посмотреть интересный фильм.

Task 6. Complete the text with the prepositions of time.

I usually get up ___ 6.30 ___ the morning. I always go jogging ___ breakfast and then I go to work. I work ___ 8.30 ___ 6.00. ___ work I go to the gym for an hour. I don’t go out ___ night very often, only ___ Fridays. I often go away ___ weekends. I usually go on holidays ___ the summer.

Task 7. Read the text “Routines” and answer the following questions.

Think about your daily life. Do you follow the same route to work every day? Do you sit in the same place in class? When you get dressed, do you always put the same leg or arm in first? You probably do, because we all have routines in our lives.

Routines save time and energy because you do them without thinking. That’s why they are so important in the morning when your brain isn’t very active. Here’s Jo talking about her morning routine.

“Oh yes, I always do exactly the same things. I wake up at seven o’clock every morning, but I don’t get up till a quarter past seven. I switch on the radio and listen to the news. Then I go to the loo and I brush my teeth. I have a shower and dry my hair. Then I choose my clothes and I get dressed. I don’t eat anything for breakfast. I just have a cup of coffee. Then I go to work. Yes, it’s always the same.”

Routines are very useful, but they also make you uncreative. So sometimes it’s a good idea to break your routines. Get out of bed on the opposite side. Listen to a different radio station. Take a different route to work. Eat something different for breakfast. Change your routine. You never know, it could change your life.