Insert prepositions or post-verbal adverbs where necessary:

1. I wake … … seven o'clock and then it is time for me to get … . I like a cold bath every morning, so I put … my dressing-gown and slippers and go … the bathroom. The water feels cold … the morning, but I rub myself hard … a towel and soon I feel quite warm. 2. I brush my teeth and wash my face and go back … the bedroom to dress. I brush my hair, take a clean handkerchief … … the drawer and go ... the dining-room … breakfast. 3 … twelve-thirty I have a break … lunch. Sometimes I go … … lunch and have it at the cafeteria just … the corner. 4. Sometimes … the week-end we go … the cinema or the theatre. But very often we just have a quiet evening… home. We sit and talk, listen … the radio or watch TV. 5. Don't come … my place tonight. I’m going to tidy … my room. 6. I'm short … time. … my way ... the University I must buy tickets … the cinema and call on a friend ... mine who is leaving … Kiev tomorrow. 7. My brother likes to walk … the office … any weather. 8. Do you help your mother … the house? – Of course, I do. I always wash … after meals and do the shopping … week-days. 9. We have enough time to put everything … its place.

Reading and speaking section

Task 1.

Read the text and do the exercises which follow it.

A week-day in john’s family

On ordinary week-days the alarm-clock wakes up John at about 7 o'clock. It's time for him to get up. He jumps out of bed, opens the window wide to let the fresh morning air in. He hates when it's stuffy in the room. Besides, John likes to take a cold shower in the morning, it sets him into a cheerful working mood. Then he rubs himself with a towel if he feels cold, shaves, brushes his teeth and washes his face. In 15 minutes he is through with it. He brushes and combs his hair, takes a clean handkerchief out of the drawer and goes into the dining-room to have breakfast. John has neither time nor inclination to get breakfast ready, thus his wife does it. At breakfast he likes to look through the morning newspapers or to listen to the radio.

In his turn, he takes his little son Benny to the day-nursery, it's about ten minutes' walk from their house. Then John goes to the nearest stop and catches a bus. But often he is late and misses the bus. It doesn't take him long to get to the office, on his way there he meets his fellow-workers and colleagues and they go on together talking business. He begins his work at 9 sharp and works till 12 o'clock, then he has a break for dinner at the canteen. He finishes work and gets home at half past five. His wife is at home. She has a variable working schedule, thus it enables her to organize her daily affairs well. She gets up a little earlier in the morning than her husband. She goes to the kitchen to cook breakfast. After it she clears away the dishes, washes them up and dries. Then she must tidy up the house. Mrs. John does the beds, dusts the rooms, does the carpets with the vacuum cleaner (and sometimes she simply sweeps the floor). She is always short of time and always busy, for she is a great partisan of order and can't stand any mess. Thus, keeping the house takes much of her time. Besides, during the day she normally goes shopping, she manages to give some things to the cleaner's, to buy provisions at the grocery, even to drop in the hairdresser’s to have her hair done. And even in the evening she practically doesn't have time to have a rest. Benny is a naughty boy and his things always need repairing: the trousers are to be darned and the coat is to be mended.

Susan, their elder daughter, helps her mother about the house as much as she can. To dust the books, to put everything in its place, to press linen, to make the bed for her little brother are Susan's duties. In fact, the girl is fond of flowers, thus the window-sill in her room is full of flower-pots. She waters them regularly. Twice a week Susan has music classes. Recently she has made good progress, for the parents presented her with a piano and thus, almost every day she manages to practise her skill. She is a gifted person and promises to play the piano well.

In the evenings they try to get out together. Sometimes they go to the theatre, though not very often, go to the tennis court for a few sets of tennis. On the whole, they are a united, harmonious family.

1. Answer the questions:

• Who is the first to get up in John's family?

• Is John quick to leave his bed?

• How long does it take him to get ready for breakfast?

• Is John fond of cooking meals?

• What must he do before going to work?

• Where does he meet his colleagues?

• John's wife is never short of time and completely filled with herself, is she?

• Who makes the bed for Benny in the evening?

• What are Susan's duties?

• Do they often go out together?

2. Give an account of :

1. John’s week-day

2. his wife’s day.

3. Complete the sentences:

• On weekdays I get up as soon as …

• It takes me long (doesn’t take me long) …

• After taking a cold shower …

• He doesn’t like stuffy rooms, thus …

• On the way to the institute …

• I like to help my mother about the house …

• She can’t stand any mess, so …

• When the carpets need cleaning …

Task 2.

Read the text and speak about children’s chores in an average Russian family.