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Sarah gets up … 7 o'clock. She puts on her dressing-gown and slippers and goes … the bathroom. She cleans her teeth, has a shower, does her hair and goes back … her room. Then she wakes … her room-mates and leaves … the University. Her classes start … 8.30 but she usually leaves the hostel … half … 7 to drop … the cafeteria … breakfast. She usually has a cup … coffee or tea and some sandwiches. She is … her third year and according … her time-table she has three or four classes a day. She always works hard … her classes and she is very tired … them.
4. Read about Helen's day and insert the appropriate verb from the following list:
Brush, buy, catch, eat, fall asleep, find out, finish, get dressed, get home, get up, go to, go to bed, go off, have breakfast, have dinner, have lunch, have a break, have a shower, leave home, lie, listen to, meet, phone, pop into, read, set, start to work, turn off, wake up, watch TV.
I usually 1) … at 7.15 when my alarm clock 2) … I 3) … it … and then usually just 4) … in bed for another 5 or 10 minutes before I 5) …. I go to the bathroom 6) …, 7) … my teeth and then 8) …. I usually 9) … cornflakes, a soft-boiled egg, toasts and coffee at about 7.50. While I 10) … I certainly 11) … the news on the radio. I 12) … at about 8 a.m. I always 13) … Mr. Green the newsagent's on my way to the station to 14)... a daily paper. I 15)... the 8.10 train to work and usually 16)... the newspaper in it. I 17)... at 9.00 and 18) … at 5.00. At 11 o'clock we 19) … for tea or coffee and I always 20) … at 12.30. I usually go with my friends to the cafeteria just round the corner. I 21) … from work at about 6 o'clock and 22) … at 7.00 Most evenings I spend at home and 23) …. Sometimes I 24) … my friends at the pub or 25) … the cinema. I always 26) … my mother to 27) … how everyone is. I usually 28) … at about 11.15 on weekdays and the last thing I do before 29) … is to 30) … the alarm-clock for the next day.
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5. Match each sentence from A) with the most suitable from B):
А.
I. She always gets up at 6.30 a.m. on weekdays.
2. Max goes in for swimming, he has his training four days a week.
3. The hostel isn't far from their University.
4. Mary is especially interested in learning languages.
5 Jack returns home very tired after his classes.
6. I have so little spare time that even on Sundays I go to the library to read for seminars or to write my theses.
7. Late at night Fred feels tired and sleepy. Nevertheless he always reads one of his favourite books in bed.
8. All she can do on Sundays is to sleep till 11 o'clock, watch TV, listen to music and read something in English.
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1.Before starting to do his homework for the next day he takes a cold shower.
2. Reading is his hobby.
3. She is known to be an early riser.
4. It usually takes them 10 minutes to get there on foot.
5. By the end of the week she gets extremely tired. Her only wish is to have a rest.
6. It isn't necessary for him to do his everyday morning exercises.
7. You'll often meet her in the language laboratory listening to different texts and dialogues or in the reading-hall working with a heap of foreign papers and magazines.
8. So you see every day I'm as busy as a bee.
