Exercise 174 Read and translate the text.

Ann McGregor lives in London. She’s thirty-four and works for the BBC. She interviews people on an early morning news programme called The World Today. Every weekday she gets up at 3.30 in the morning because the programme starts at 6.30. She loves her work because it is exciting and she meets a lot of very interesting people, but she loves her weekends too.

Exercixe 175

Read what Ann says about her weekends and fill in the gaps with the correct form of the verbs in the box.

live chat visit

relax eat bring

stay go listen

cook live go out

have arrive get up

like come leave

On Fridays I _______ home from the BBC at about 2.00 in the afternoon and I just ___________. On Friday evening I don’t ___________, but sometimes a friend ___________ for dinner. He or she _________ the wine and I ___________ the meal. I __________ cooking! We _____________ to music or we just __________ .

On Saturday mornings I ___________ at 9.00 and I ________ shopping. Then in the evenings I sometimes ____________ to the theatre or the opera with a friend. I __________ opera! Then we ___________ in my favourite Chineese restaurant.

On Sunday … Oh, on Sunday mornings I ______________ in bed late, I don’t _________ until 11.00! Sometimes in the afternoon I ____________ my sister. She ____________ in the country and ___________ two children. I ___________ playing with my niece and nephew, but I ________ early because I _______ to bed at 8.00 on Sunday evenings!

Exercise 176

Read and translate the text.

Tessa Saunders works for Knight and Day. Knight and Day is an advertising agency with offices in London and New York.

Tessa lives in Wimbledon. She usually gets up at six thirty. She goes to work on the Underground.

Tessa earns a good salary, but her job isn’t easy. She usually starts work before nine in the morning and never finishes before seven or eight in the evening. Sometimes she leaves the office after nine or even ten o’clock. She often goes to bed after midnight and doesn’t get very much sleep - perhaps five or six hours.

Tessa has a friend called Roger Mitchum. She doesn’t see him very often. He lives in San Francisco. He works for a big company that makes computer software.

Exercise 177

Complete the questions and answer them.

1. Who ......... Tessa work for?

2. ............ she earn a good salary?

3. When .............. she usually get up?

4. When .............. she usually start work?

5. ............ she usually leave the office early?

6. How much sleep ............ she usually get?

7. Where .............. her friend live?

8. What .............. he do?

Exercise 178

Read and translate the text.

Two people, two jobs

Roger and Tessa are friends, but she never sees him any more because he lives in San Francisco. He works for a software company there. He earns a very good salary.

Roger often travels to countries in Asia and South and Central America, but never to Europe.

“In future, we hope to sell more of our software in Europe. But at the moment I have no reason to travel there,” he says.

When Roger is in San Francisco, he usually gets to his office at 8.30 a.m. and leaves around 5.30 p.m. His weekends are usually free.

Tessa’s job with an advertising agency in London is interesting, but she works very long hours. She often leaves the office at eight or nine in the evening and often works at weekends, as well.

She sometimes travels to Spain and Italy.

“I go there to discuss plans with clients. But my agency also has clients in Germany, France and Greece. I hope to travel there in the future too,” she says.