Written compositions

t. Describe your flat.

2. Describe your friend's flat.

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UNIT 3

Topic: Daily Habits and Activities '

Grammar: 1. The Simple Past Tense

2. Tag-questions

Text: Peter Klymenko at Work and at Home

Peter klymenko at work and at home

I usually get up at seven every morning. I do my morning exercises, have breakfast and go to the University. I usually leave my place at a quarter to eight as it takes me half an hour to go to the University by underground. I arrive there at a quarter past eight. Classes usually start at half past eight. You probably remember that I teach English. 1 give lectures and have practical classes with my students.

I give lectures twice a week: on Monday and Tuesday. І don't give lectures on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. On these days I have practical classes and laboratory sessions. I have two laboratory sessions a week. Each of them lasts 45 minutes.

I'm also engaged in research work. Every Saturday I work at the library,

As for my students, they have sessions every day except Sunday, Sunday is their day-off. They usually have three sessions a day, each of them consists of two periods.

My wife is not a teacher. She is an engineer. Halyna works 5 days a week. Saturday and Sunday are her days-off. She gets up rather early as her working day starts at 8 o'clock, She usually goes to her place of work by bus. It takes her an hour to get there.

As a rule she cooks breakfast every morning except Sunday. On Sunday morning I usually cook our breakfast. She often has lunch at her office. There is a nice canteen at the plant and at 1 o'clock she goes out to have lunch there. .

We usually come home at 7 o'clock in the evening. We have supper, read books and newspapers, watch TV, listen to the nine o'clock news UTN. Sometimes we go for a walk. There is a nice park not far from our house and we like to have a walk there. On our days-off we often go to the cinema or to the theatre, We like to visit our friends and they like to visit us.

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Last Sunday the Lytvynovs visited us. They arrived at 2 o'clock. We had dinner together, played chess, talked on this and that. We spent some hours out-of-doors. We went for a walk to the park and met John Smith there He was very glad to see us. We asked him to join us and we went to the cinema together. A very good film was on that evening. We enjoyed it. We invited the Lytvynovs and John Smith to supper. John told us about London and his workaday affairs.

He does not live in the centre of Lor.don, he lives outside the city. He goes to London by train. He gets up very early in the morning and reaches home late in the evening. But, as he says, there are a lot of advantages of living outside London. Houses are cheaper there. Even a small flat in London without a garden costs quite a lot to rent. There is another advantage of living outside a large city - there is not so much noise and hurry and they can enjoy fresh and clean air of the country. He has a nice garden in front of his house. He is always happy to have a rest from the busy London streets there.

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What time do you usually get up? You leave your place early, don't you? Do you get up very early? Where do you live? What is your place of work? How long does it take you to go there? On which days do you work? You don't work every day, do you? You like to go the cinema on Sunday, don't you? You have breakfast at home, don't you? You have a lot of friends, haven't you? Your friends visited you last Sunday, didn't they? You did not play chess last night, did you? Did you work in the laboratory yesterday? Did you have lectures last week? You did not listen to the news yesterday, did you?