Match the highlighted words or word combinations in the text with their definitions. 1. the activities and experiences that constitute a person's normal existence;

1. the activities and experiences that constitute a person's normal existence;

2. a regular journey of some distance to and from one's place of work;

3. an interval during the school/university day:

4. a plan of the times when particular events are to take place;

5. a situation in which a lot of things are happening or being done;

6. to reach in time and board;

7. I put on my clothes;

8. a situation when two people meet by arrangement;

9. the act or process of copying data from one computer system to another or to a disk;

10. to cut something into small pieces with a knife or other sharp implement.

Exercise2.

How often do you do these things? Use the frequency adverbs or adverbial phrases from the box:

always usually not often/often sometimes never once/twice/ three times a week/ a month/ a fortnight hardly ever four or five times a year or less less than once a year
come on time /come in time spend most of time in the kitchen
listen to music start the day by getting up at 11 o’clock
wake up at 6 am & do yoga make a cup of tea in the morning
eat junk food work in the garden
shampoo and condition the hair clean the windows
use body scrub to wash the body take tranquillizers or sleeping pills
buy magazines or journals find it difficult to relax
read books dry the hair with a hair drier
send or receive emails/ check emails do the dishes
have on-line conversations clean the house
go to the cinema, theatre do the cooking
go out to the Disco\Nightclub\to a bar take a bath
go out on Friday or Saturday nights do the ironing
come to work late do the washing
act lazily do crosswords
put on makeup make the bed in the morning

 

Exercise3.

So, what’s your daily routine? Here are some tips for taking control of your life. Chose three points you think the most important. Why do you think so?

Make a list of all the things you want or need to accomplish in your weekly life.

2. Now look at your list and see which ones need to be done every day. Those might include (a housekeeping routine, emails, phone calls etc.).

3. Plan out your daily routine (a morning routine and an end-of-the-day routine).

4. Don’t schedule every minute of your day, but have certain set times each day when you do these daily tasks.

5. If somebody in your class is more successful than you, it's probably because he/she works harder than you do.

6. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.

7. You are responsible for your own experience.

8. There are stereotypical responsibilities of mother/ father/ husband/ wife/ the children in the family.

Exercise4.








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