Daily activities

• DAILY ACTIVITIES
• Unit 3 – Advanced Textbook

• Talking About Daily Activities

• Language Input
• Useful Expressions
• Ideas
• Secretary
• Businessman
• Singer
• Example
• Task

 May I ask you some questions about your job/ your/ daily activities?

•  May I ask you some questions about your job/ your/ daily activities?
•  What time do you arrive at your office/ go to work/
• have lunch/ dinner
•  What do you usually/ often do in the morning/ afternoon/ evening?
•  And then? / After that?

• At + time (7: 15 / 1: 00 p.m / eight o’clock
• In the morning / In the afternoon / In the evening
• At noon / At night
• First / First of all, I …
• Then / Next / After that, I …
• I wish you would … / I hope that …

• A secretary’s activities
•  Opening the mail and answering customers’ letters
•  Meeting the manager
•  Having a meeting
•  Arranging appointment for the boss
•  Writing reports
•  Working in group to discuss plans

• A businessman’s activities
•  Having meetings/ business lunch
•  Signing contracts
•  Working on the computer
•  Playing sports/ golf
•  Attending an exhibition
•  Reading documents

• A singer’ s activities
•  Getting up late
•  Going to the gym/ going to the spa/ attending a club
•  Rehearsing with his/ her group
•  Performing
•  Having an interview
•  Participating an party

• Mai is a secretary of a trading company. Work in pairs to complete the conversation between her and a journalist. Practice the dialogue with your partner.

Journalist: Hi, Mai. May I ask you some questions about your job?

• Journalist: Hi, Mai. May I ask you some questions about your job?
• Mai: Yes, of course.
• Journalist: What time do you arrive at your office?
• Mai: At (1) , because I always begin my work at eight o’clock.
• Journalist: (2)
• Mai: I’m very busy in the morning. First of all, I open the mail and answer customers’ letters.
• Journalist: And then?
• Mai: Well, I (3) and (4) .
• I have lunch at noon.

• 7: 50

• What do you usually do in the morning?

• meet the manager

• have a meeting

Journalist: (5)

• Journalist: (5)
• Mai: In the afternoon, I continue my work at 1: 00 p.m.
• Journalist: (6)
• Mai: Yes. I (7)
• and (8) . Sometimes I have to work overtime.
• Journalist: You’re a busy girl. (9)
• Mai: Although I have to do the same thing every day, I still like my job because I’m working with a good staff.
• Journalist: Thank you, Mai. I wish you would get promotion soon.

• What time do you begin your work in the afternoon?

• Are you busy in the afternoon?

• arrange appointments for my boss

• write reports

• Do you like your job?

• You are a TV reporter. Interview your partner, a businessman or a singer, and then report his/ her routine to your class.