UNIT 6

DAILY ACTIVITIES
Objectives

After completing this lesson, students should be able to ;

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

A. Telling Daily Habits

Text A Text B

I live in the capital city of Bali, Bagus gets up at half past seven every
Denpasar. I get up at six o’clock in the day, and has his breakfast at eight
morning, and have breakfast at seven o’clock and starts working at half pat
o’clock. I study from 8 am until nine. He works in an office; he has two
12.30pm. I go to and from school by secretaries and two telephones. He
motorbike. I always do my home works doesn’t work on Saturdays and
from 7 until 9pm and I go to bed at Sundays. He likes meeting people and
10pm. I really like my program and very sociable.
lecturers.

What jobs do you think the persons in text A and B ?

A ; a student
B ; manager

B. Using Present simple

Adverb of frequency: always, usually, often, sometimes, seldom, never, every

day, every week, once a week, twice a month, three times a year, very much /
very often, etc.

Auxiliary verbs: Do/ does, have/has

Dialogue 1
Marry : “What time do you go to bed, James?”
James : “I go to bed at 10.000.”
Marry : “And before that, what do you do?”
James : “I watch TV or do my home-work.”
Marry : “Do you always do your home-work at night?”
James : “Not always. Sometimes I do my home-work in the afternoon.
It depends on how much homework I’ve got.”
Marry : “I see. So you sometimes go to bed at different times.”
James : “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 really, 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 be trouble for you?”
Robert : “No, not at all, because I always drive pass your house on my way to
the office.

Questions
1. What does James do in the evening? Do his homework or waching TV
2. What does he do after that? He goes to bed
3. What time does he go to bed? At 10.00
4. How does Jane go to work? She using a car or public transportation if her car is
broken
5. When does she go to work by public transport? When her car broken
6. Does he like to go to work by public transport? No he don’t really like it.
Why/ Why not? Because it’s not economical and it takes a lot of time, too.
Language Summary
To ask about somebody’s daily activities, you say:
What do you do In the afternoon?
In the morning?
In the evening?
At 10.00?

To answer those questions, you say :

In the afternoon, I do my homework.
I go to school.
I watch TV.
I have lunch.
I study at school.

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

 What time do you go to bed?

When
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.
Exercise 1

Fill in the blank spaces with the following words.

Do does he they go
Goes usually sometimes at in

1. Does he play basketball?

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

Exercise 2a
Put the verb in brackets in to the sentence in the right position with the correct from.
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)
The children plays football in the street.
2. Students the library in town every Monday. (visit)
Studenst visits the library in the town every morning.
3. The man with the pink shirt always his wife if she goes anywhere. (accompany)
The man with the pink shirt always accompanies his wife if she goes anywhere.
4. I to the radio broadcast al most everyday. (listen)
I listens to radio broadcast almost everyday.
5. Ani and I together on the project. (work)
 Ani and I works together on the project.
6. Women usually carefully. (drive).
Women usually drives carefully.
7. Johny pretty well. (sing)
Johny sings pretty well.
8. A farmer never a beautiful shirt at work. (wear)
A farmer never wears a beautiful shirt at work
9. We the news at 9 PM. ( watch)
We watchs the news at 9 pm.
10. Mary and I every Sunday morning. (jog)
Mary and I jogs every Sunday morning.

Exercise 2b
Paraphrase the sentences using adverbs of frequency like : usually’, sometimes,
’always, often, ever, seldom, never ,almost never, regularly and frequently.
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.

James plays football frequently two time a year.
2. My father has gone to the movie once in his life.
My father almost never gone to the movie.
3. Today, Ina is sick. She cannot go to school then.
Today Ina is sick she seldom go to the school
4. The office is Always open at 7 AM. But she goes to the office at 8.
She usually goes to office at 8.
5. If I have time, I usually go to a music concert.
I never go to music concert.
6. Ani lives in the other side of the town, but she usually goes to her parent’s house
about 4 or 5 times a week.
Ani regularly goes to her parent’s house about 4 or 5 times a week
7. It rains here for about 8 or 9 months each year.
It rains sometimes 8 or 9 months each year.
8. He is a Moslem. He doesn’t know what is inside a church.
He ever now what is inside a church.
9. He comes to his girl friend whenever he has time.
He often come to his girl friend.
10. My wife and I go the movie about 3 or 4 times a month.
 My wife and I always goes to movie 3 or 4 times a month.

Exercise 4
Look at the picture below and describe what the person does from the morning until night.

He usually wake up at five o’clock in the morning. At six o’clock he has his shower, after
that he has his breakfast at half past seven. He continuing goes to the school at quarter to
eight. He start teaching his class at eight o’clock until two o’clock. He leave his jobs at a
quarter past two, and than he has his lunch at thirty past two. He playing volleyball at
three o’clock with his friends, after that he take a bath at thirty past four. And than he
watch TV from five o’clock until seven o’clock. He start study at thirty past seven until ten
o’clock and he went to his bed at quarter past ten.
Exercise 5

Correct these sentences !

1. She isn’t write a letter every week. writes

2. Does Carol needs an umbrella ? umbrellas

3. Norma is teaches Spanish. teach

4. Who does cooks in your house ? house’s

5. Those magazine has wonderful photos. These magazine

6. Does Cathy likes basketball ? basketballs

7. This are my friends. They

8. Do they wants any eggs ? egg