Pre-reading task

1) Check the meaning of these words in your dictionary

2. Explain the meaning of the words above

a weekday – a working day, usually from Monday to Friday

Reading practice

1. Read the following phrases of time in a three – stress rhythmic groups:

at a quarter past seven; at half past six, at a quarter past three, at half past one, half past nine; a quarter past ten.

2. Read the following word – combinations, observing the strong form of the preposition on and the weak forms of the prepositions of, for:

on weekdays, lasts for 45 minutes, play chess for 2 or 3 hours, when an interesting program is on, fond of sports.

3. Read the following phrases as 3 stress rhythmic patterns:

I 'get up at 'six o’c'lock

I 'do my 'morning exer'cises

Our 'classes 'start at 8 o’c'lock

My 'working 'day be'gins

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