Week 4, Day 7

Revision Day


This week we have practised
the following topics:


Daily Routine.
Holidays
Seasons and Weather
Household Chores
Health and Medical Care

Friendship

1) Look at the pictures, listen to the dialogues and tell 6 stories. Record your voice. Listen to your voice. Compare your story and the text in the last training (Training 3).



DAILY ROUTINE

 HOLIDAYS

SEASONS AND WEATHER

HOUSEHOLD CHORES

HEALTHAND MEDICAL CARE

FRIENDSHIP

2) Revise the topic texts in Present Simple. Record them and compare them with the original texts.

32. My Working Day

41. Public Holidays

23. Household chores

9. Colds and Flu

15. Friends

32.My Working Day

41.Public Holidays

23.Household chores

9.Colds and Flu

15.Friends

3) Revise Black Jack Comes Back, Chapter 7






Black Jack Chapter Seven Part One

EN Black Jack Chapter Seven Part Three 

EN Black Jack Chapter Seven Part Four

To download Black Jack Comes Back program go to www.sapcrystals.com choose one of the platforms: Windows (Personal Computer), MAC (Macintosh), iOS (iPhones, iPads), Android (smartphones, tablets) and follow the instructions.





Daily Routine
Training 3
If you are a student and have to earn extra money, your daily routine can be very busy. The young person from this conversation seems to be in that position. Every Monday he gets up at five o’clock in the morning because he has to be at Eddie’s Diner at six o’clock. He washes dishes there until two o’clock. Then he goes home and sleeps for an hour. After that he rides his bike in the park. In the evening he has dinner with his friends and then goes to his Spanish class. He tells his friend that sometimes he likes being so busy and sometimes he doesn’t.


Holidays

Training 3

Bob’s favourite holiday is any holiday that gives him a long time off school. The summer break doesn’t count because it’s not for a holiday. He says that Easter is his favourite, he really likes hunting for Easter eggs. His whole family makes Easter eggs and hides them, then all the children look for them. Tim prefers New Year’s Eve. He loves staying up late and watching one year change into the next. And he doesn’t mind drinking champagne.

Seasons and Weather

Training 3

Fred asks Paul about the coldest place he has travelled to. Paul answers that it was Finland. He was in Finland in January and it was minus 20 degrees. He had to wear about six layers of clothing. He went skiing and ice skating on frozen rivers. It was lots of fun. He also went to saunas. It was perfect weather for saunas. They drank Finnish vodka and sweated. He would like to go to Finland again but only in summer.

Household Chores

Training 3

Nick phones his mother and asks her to come to his house. His house is very dirty and he wants his mother to help him clean it. Nick’s mother refuses to come because she is very tired. She tells her son that he is fifty-one years old and he can do the housework himself. But Nick doesn’t know how to do it. His wife can’t do it either, because she is ill and has to stay in bed. His children are at the beach with Uncle Butch. His cleaning lady won the lottery and now she doesn’t clean houses and Nick can’t find a new cleaning lady. In the end Nick’s mother agrees to come. She tells him that he is a baby, but he is her baby.

Health and Medical Care

Training 3

Jane doesn’t feel well. She has a headache and her throat hurts. Linda tells her that she should go home and rest. But Jane says that she has no time to be ill. She has to go to rehearsal. She is in a play and it’s very important for her to be there. Linda doesn’t think that it’s a good idea. She tells her that if she goes to rehearsal when she is sick, she will make herself worse. She advises her to go home, lies down, drink lots of juice and tea and eat lots of garlic. Jane is worried that if she doesn’t rehearse, the play will be terrible. Linda explains to her that if she rehearses today, she might become more sick. And if she gets worse, maybe there will be no play for her. Besides, if she goes today, she might give the cold to the other actors. In this case there really won’t be any play.

Friendship

Training 3

Susan is asking Jenny to double date for her. Jenny refuses to do that, but Susan insists because she thinks that Jenny owes her. She lent Jenny her new dress for a date. Jenny says that lending a dress is different from asking her to double date. Susan pleads with Jenny to help her. She doesn’t know Todd, her date, very well and she is worried that they won’t have much in common. She promises Jenny that if she doesn’t like her date, Luke, they will go home. In the end Jenny agrees to go, but she wants to borrow that new dress again and the shoes too.

TOPIC TEXTS

32. My Working Day

There are five working days in a week. I work eight hours a day. Work starts at 8 and finishes at 5 o’clock. I come home at 6 o’clock. My working day is long and tiring. There is always a lot of work. I phone our clients and answer the phone calls. I also type price lists and do other office work. The lunch break is from 1 to 2 p.m. I can have short coffee breaks, too. I have a comfortable working space. There are five people in the office. We usually meet at the end of the day. We discuss our results then. The meeting is starting now.

41. Public Holidays

We haven’t got many public holidays. We have got about eight of them. March 15, August 20, October 23, Christmas and Easter are public holidays in Hungary. They are days-off. We don’t work then. People stay at home with their families. They can travel or go hiking. They can visit their relatives. There are often fireworks on holidays. Children like them. Christmas and Easter are my favourite holidays. There are some old Christmas and Easter traditions. We give each other nice presents at Christmas. We paint eggs at Easter. Christmas is coming now!

23. Household chores

Nobody likes household chores, but everybody has to do them. Household chores are boring. But they are very important. I just hate them. I have a lot of household chores. And my boyfriend hasn’t got any. There are always a lot of dirty dishes after dinner. And we haven’t got a dishwasher. So I usually do the washing-up after dinner. Sometimes there is dust on the furniture. So I dust the furniture every week. Fortunately, I have a washing machine. So I never do the washing by hand. I don’t vacuum, either. So, after all, my boyfriend has one household chore.

9. Colds and Flu

Colds and flu are dangerous. They are a real problem during winter. A lot of people get flu or a cold then. You can catch flu on a bus or even in the hospital. If you catch a cold, you cough, sneeze and even have a fever. You can’t work with flu. You can’t even visit your friends. You can spend a week in bed or more when you have the flu. You drink hot tea. You take medicine. There are a lot of medicines for colds and flu. But they don’t work. At least, they don’t help me. Fortunately, I don’t catch colds very often. And I don’t have a cold now.

15. Friends

There are a lot of good people in the world. There are some really nice people. They are my friends. Friends are important. I have got a lot of good friends. They are very helpful. We can talk, dance, eat out and listen to music together. I can tell my friends anything. Friends can always help you. My best friend’s name is Diana. She can dance very well. She has got dark eyes and a nice smile. We have got the same hobbies and interests. I often phone and e-mail my friends. Unfortunately, we don’t meet very often now.