Colégio Técnico da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Date: ________________________________________________________

1 Name the actions shown on the pictures below. Refer to the words in the box .

Don’t make noise-

Have coffee – have
breakfast-
a b c
listen to
the radio – get up
late

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d e

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Check the sentences you can fully understand

1.( ) I listen to the radio in the morning

2.( ) My brother makes a lot of noise in the morning.
3.( ) My wife has coffee in the morning
4.( ) We get up late.
5.( ) My husband doesn’t have breakfast

B Mark T (true) or F (false) in accordance to your own

1.( ) I watch TV in the morning.
2.( ) I check my email in the morning.
3.( ) My brother plays computer games.
4.( ) I don’t get up early.
5.( ) I don’t read the newspaper in the morning.

C Fill in the blanks with the words in the box

Talk - read - drive- eat breakfast

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1-Alicia _________ very well 2- The Boys _____________ a lot

3-Mr. Tanaka ___________the newspaper every day.

4- Heather ______________ in the car.

2 What’s your morning like

A Vocabulary bank
boring tiring quiet challenging
noisy busy exciting ordinary

how would you rank the following adjectives

positive negativ neutral

e
01 busy
02 boring
03 quiet
04 challenging
05 tiring
06 exciting
07 noisy
08 ordinary

B Check out how people ask and answer questions to describe their mornings
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Conversation 01
Reporter: What’s your morning like?
Gisele Bündchen: It’s pretty busy.
Reporter: What do you do in the morning?
Gisele: I get up early, have breakfast with my family , then I take the kids to
school.

Conversation 02
Reporter: What’s your morning like, Neymar?
Neymar: It’s too busy.
Reporter: What do you do in the morning?
Neymar: well, I wake up around six, then I take a shower. After that, I eat
breakfast and read the newspaper . So, I drive to the Barcelona sports center.

C Getting to know each other

Interview 3 partners to find out what their mornings are like

Useful language:
What’s your morning like? Is your morning boring/busy/quiet/tiring/etc?
What do you do in the morning?
Questions I Partner 01 Partner 02 Partner 03

C Writing
Report what you have found about your partners’ morning

Useful language:
I talked with ……./ Paulo told me that his mornings is…/ Julia, she told me that her morning
is….
Verbs: talk, get up early, wake up, have breakfast, eat breakfast, have breakfast, come to
school, study, Listen to music, send messages, watch TV, read the newspaper, have classes
Transition words: then, so, after that
Time expressions: early, late

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Partner 01

I talked with Gustavo. He told me that his morning is tiring and exciting. Gustavo also
told me that he gets up early, so he takes a shower and has breakfast. After that he takes
the bus to school.

Partner 02

I talked with Luisa. I found out that Luisa’s morning is pretty busy. She wakes up early and
comes to school. Luisa comes to school by bus. Luisa listens to music in the bus

Partner 01

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3 What’s a typical morning like in your home?

A Pre-listening
You are going to listen to some people saying what a typical morning is like in their home.
Mark the sentences you think they will say.

1.( )I listen to the radio in the morning

2.( )My brother and my sister don’t make a lot of noise in the morning.
3.( )My wife and I watch TV in the morning.
4.( ) We get up very early.
5.( ) My husband cleans the house.
6.( ) My family has soup for breakfast.

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B Listening
Listen to people describing their morning routine. Mark the parentheses according to what
you hear.
Greg Jennifer Amanda Alex Stern
1-This person and his
wife don’t talk a lot.
2-This person checks
his emails .
3-This person’s sister
watches TV.
4-This person gets up
early.
5-This person eats
breakfast in the car
6-This person tries
To study.
7-This person doesn’t
Watch TV on
weekdays.

Lesson 02

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1 FOCUS ON FORM Simple present

We use the simple present form of the verbs to talk about habits, routines.
How to structure a sentence in the simple present

Affirmative: Subject + verb + complement

I get up early very day

Negative: Subject + auxiliary verb + main verb + complement

Don’t or doesn’t
Many Brazilians don’t like soccer

Interrogative: Auxiliary verb + subject + main verb + complement

Do or does
Do students study Portuguese in Chile?

Simple present- Third person of singular

Affirmative Form
General rule: the verb takes ‘s’ when we make an affirmative statement about he, she, it.
Eg: My best friend lives in a different country

To live to drink to eat

I live I drink I eat

You you You

He He he
She lives She drinks She eats
It It It

We We We
You live You drink You eat
They They They

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Second Rule- When we make an statement (affirmative form) about he, she, it, the main verb
will take ‘es’ if it ends in: s, sh, ch, x, z, o

To watch to go to wash
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 I watch I go I wash
You you You

He He he
She watches She goes She washes
It It It

We We We
You watch You go You washes
They They They

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Third Rule: When we make an statement(affirmative form) about he, she or it and the main
verb ends in ‘y’ preceded by a consonant the letter ‘y’ will be replaced by ‘ies’

To study to cry to fly

I study I cry I fly

You you You

He He he
She studies She cries She flies
It It It

We We We
You study You cry You fly
They They They

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Note this: If the auxiliary verb is does or doesn’t the main verb won’t take s, or es, or ies
Eg.
Does your best friend watch horror movies?
No, my best friend doesn’t watch horror movies.

2 Putting focus on Form

Rodrigo is trying to learn English by interacting with
other teenagers around the world. Rodrigo has just
posted some information about his family’s routine.

A Read Rodrigo’s sentences, then fill in the blanks with

the right form of the verbs in the box

Talk study get up read have do drink watch eat

I __________ early every morning. In my family, we ________ breakfast together, but we

(1) (2)
____________________ a lot. My mother just _________coffee, she _____________
(3) neg. (4) (5) neg
Anything in the morning. My sister _____________ at school in the afternoon. She ______
(6) (7)
Her homework at night. My brother _____________ to the internet in the afternoon, after
(8)
that he ______________ TV. My parents ___________TV, they __________ books and
(9) (10) (11)
the newspapers.

B Write 5 sentences about your mornings. Compare with a partner.

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C Pair work Talk about your family and what they do in the mronings.
ModeL:
A: My mom likes mornings. She sings in the shower.
B: My mom doesn’t sing in the shower, she makes breakfast for the family .
A: My brother goes to school in the morning.
B: My brother also goes to school in the morning.
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3 Pronunciation – s endings of the verbs

/s/ /z/ /iz/

likes listens relaxes
gets studies watches

A Listen to the following sentences. Do the verbs ends in : /s/ /z/ or /iz/

/s/ /z/ /iz/

01 My mom sings in the shower.
02 My dad gets up early.
03 My mom uses an alarm clock.
04 My friends exercises in the moring.
05 My brother goes on the internet.
06 My co-worker checks his email.
07 My sister likes morning.
08 My dad relaxes on the weekends.