DAILY ACTIVITIES

Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to:

 Ask about somebody’s daily activities;
 Describe his/her or other people’s daily activities;
 Use adverbs of frequency.

Dialogue 1

Marry : “What time do you go to bed, James?”

James : “I go to bed at 10.00.”
Marry : “And before that, what do you do?”
James : “I watch TV or do my homework.”
Marry : “Do you always do your homework at night.”
James : “Not always. Sometimes I do my homework in the afternoon. It
depends on how much homework I’ve got.”
Marry : “ That’s true.”

Dialogue 2

Robert : “Do you usually go to work by car, Jane?”

Jane : “Yes I do, except when my car is broken. So I go to work by public
transport.”
Robert : “Do you like that?”
Jane : “Not rally, because it’s not economical and it takes a lot of time, too.”
Robert : “How about if I take you to work?”
Jane : “I’d love to, but would it trouble for you?”
Robert : “No, not at all, because I always drive past your house on my way to
the office.”

1. What does James do in the evening?

2. What does he do after that?
3. What time does he go to bed?
4. How does Jane go to wwork?
5. When does she go to work by public transport?
6. Does he like to go to work by public transport?
Why/why not?
REMEMBER

To ask about somebody’s daily activities, you say:

 What do you do in the afternoon?

in the morning?
in the evening?
at noon?
at 10.00?

To answer those questions, yo say:

 In the afternoon, I do my home-work.

morning, I go to school.
evening, I watch TV.
At noon, I have lunch.
At 10.00, I study at school.

To ask about the time of somebody’s particular actiivity, you say:

 What time do you go to bed?
do your parents
they
does your mother
he
she
 What time do you go to work?
go to school?
have lunch?
take a rest?

To answer those questions, you say:

 I go to bed at 10.00
at 10 pm
at midnight
at different times
in the evening

To use adverbs of frequency in a question:

 Do you usually go to work by car?

always
someetimes
seldom
often
ever
never
regulary
frequently
To answer those questions,you say:
 Yes, I do. or No, I don’t.
we do. we don’t.
they do. they don’t.
he does. he doesn’t.
she does. she doesn’t.

Exercise 1

Fill in the blank spaces with the following words.

do does he they go
goes usually sometimes at in

1. Does ....................................... play basketball?

2. He ........................................ to work at different time.
3. James ................................... comes here by car. But now he comes on foot.
4. ................................................. Mary and I have to see the director?
5. We don’t watch TV ...................................... the morning.
6. The world news is on TV ....................................... 9 PM.
7. ................................ I eat out in the restaurant, especially when I have a lot of money.
8. Do you know what .......................... do every Saturday night?
9. We ................................. fishing with our grandfather in the village.
10. ............................... John know that he has to be here now?

Exercise 2a

Put the verb in brackets into the sentences in the rightposition with the correct form.
For example:
He..... to my house every Saturday night. (come)
He comes to my house every Saturday night.

1. The children..... football in the street. (play)

2. Students .......the library in town every Monday. (visit)
3. The man with the pink shirt ......always his wife if she goes any where. (accompany)
4. I ......to the radio broadcast almost every day. (listen)
5. Ani and I .......together on the project. (work)
6. Women usually ......carefully. (drive)
7. Johny .....pretty well. (sing)
8. A farmer never ..... a beautiful shirt at work. (wear)
9. We ...... the news at 9 PM. (watch)
10. I and Mary .........every Sunday morning. (do jogging)

Exercise 2b

Paraphrase the sentences using adverbs of frequency like;

usually, sometimes, always, often, ever, seldom, never,
almost never, reguarly, and frequency.
For example:
I jog in the morning about seven times a week.
I jog regularly every morning.

1. James plays football two times a year.

.........................................................................................
2. My father has gone to the movie once in his wife.
.........................................................................................
3. Today, Ina is sick. She can not go to school then.
.........................................................................................
4. The office is open at 7 AM. But she goes to the office at 8.
..........................................................................................
5. If I have time, I go a to music concert.
..........................................................................................
6. Ani lives in the other side of the town, but she goes to her parents’ house about 4 or 5 times
a week.
..........................................................................................
7. It rains for about 8 or 9 months each year.
..........................................................................................
8. He is a moslem. He doesn’t know what is inside a church.
..........................................................................................
9. He comes to his girl friend whenever he has time.
10. My wife ans I go to the movie about 3 or 4 times a month.
..........................................................................................

Exercise 3

Look at the table below and compare what people do at particular times.

For example:

In the moning Andy Brown stays at home.

Name Activities
Morning Afternoon Evening At Night
Andy Brown Stay at home Work Work Sleep
James Daniel Stay at home Work at office Watch tv Sleep
Anne Margaret Study at school Study at library Do home work Sleep
David Clark Sleep Stay at home Watch tv Guard office

Exercise 4

Ask your friends about their daily activities, then put the infomation into the table below. For
example:

U : “What do you do in the morning, Anthon?”

A : “In the morning , I jog.”
U : “What do you do at noon?”
A : “I prepare to go to my campus.”
U : “What do you in the afternoon?”
I : “I study at my campus.”
U : “And in the evening, what do you do?”
I : “I watch Tv or do home assignment.”
No Name Activities
. Morning Noon Afternoon Evening Night
1. Anthon do jogging prepare dinner study at watch tv or sleep
campus assignment

Exercise 5

Answer the questions by yourself.

I : “What do you do in the morning?”

U : ................................................................
I : “What time do you go to school?”
U : ...............................................................
I : “What do you do after you come home from school?”
U : ...............................................................
I : “what time do you study English?”
U : ................................................................
I : “Do you watch TV until late at night?”
U : .................................................................
I : “Then what time do you go to bed?”
U : .................................................................

Don’t forget

Adverbs of frequency Adverbs of time

Sometimes in the morning
always in the afternoon
usually in the evening
often at night
never at noon
ever at midnight
regularly at midday
frequently
almsot never
seldom
once (one time)
twice (two times)
three times
four times
five times
in a day
in a week
in a month
in a year
in one’s life