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Exercise 12
Exercise 13
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- I always __________________________________.
- I almost always ______________________________.
- I often __________________________________________________.
- I usually __________________________________________________.
- I sometimes ________________________________________________.
- I never __________________________________________________.
- I rarely__________________________________________.
- I hardly ever ______________________________________________.
- I _________________________________________________ in bed.
10.I _____________________________________ at 6:30 in the morning.
- I ____________________________________________ for my mother.
12. ________________________________ before I go to work.
13. I __________________________________________ with my sister.
14. I ________________________________________ at my workplace.
15. I ____________________________________ in the street.
16. I ____________________________________________ very often.
17. I _______________________________________ on my own.
18. I ______________________________________________ secretly.
19. I _______________________________________ but it’s a bad habit.
20. I ________________________________________ but I want to stop.
21.I ___________________________________ but my children don’t like it.
22.I ___________________________________ but I want to do it more.
23. My best friend _____________________________________.
24. My favourite celebrity ________________________________________.
25. My grandparents ___________________________________________.
26. My next door neighbour ______________________________________.
Fill the gaps below with verbs:
- I _________________ in a bed which is too short. – Mr Tall
- My alarm clock ________________ up everybody in my town. – Mr Noisy
- I wake up and go back to sleep and wake up and go back to sleep and then _______ up. – Mr Lazy
- I ______________ coffee with marmalade in the morning. – Mr Silly
- I _______________ seven slices of toast and one packet of cornflakes for breakfast. – Mr Greedy
- I break my toothbrush every time I ______________ my teeth. – Mr Strong
- I leave cornflakes on the floor after breakfast. – Mr Messy
- I break my front door when I _______________ my house. – Mr Strong
- I _______________ to work in one minute. – Mr Tall
- I ________________ on a farm, bumping into apple trees to make the apples come off. – Mr Bump
- I ________________ half a pea for lunch. – Mr Small
- I __________________ breakfast in the evening. – Mr Lazy
- I sleep standing on my head. – Mr Impossible
SMALL TALK – BUSINESS ENGLISH
Small Talk in Business- Present Simple Questions with be and do
- how business?
- how long you here in Tokyo?
- how much overtime you do?
- how often you visit the US?
- how the weather now in your country?/ what the weather like in your country?
- how things?/ how you?/ how life?
- how work?
- how your hotel?
- it often snow here in February?
- it usually so busy here?
- sorry, what your name again?
- this seat free?
- this the right place for the talk on life insurance in the Middle East?
- what exactly you do in your job?
- what kind of company you work for?
- what the weather like in your country?
- what you do in your free time?
- what you do?/ what your job?
- what your company do?
- what your company’s bestselling product?
- what your most famous product?
- where you from?/ where you come from?
- where you usually travel on business?
- where your company based?/ where your company’s HQ?
- who you work for?/ what your company’s name?
- who your main competitors?
- why you here at this trade fair?
- you enjoy your job?
- you have a business card?
- you live near here?
- you often travel abroad on business?
- you still work with Leonardo?
- your company a large company?
- your hotel near here?
- your office far from here?
Man/ men or woman/ women?
- You can’t ask an Iraqi ________ “How is your daughter?”
- In Japan, _________ usually have to serve the tea in the office.
- In the USA, soccer is mainly a sport for __________.
- In Scotland, ________ wear a kilt (like a skirt) on their wedding days.
- In Thailand, _______ and _________ can’t hold hands in public, but it is okay for a woman to hold hands with a __________, or a ________ to hold hands with a ___________.
- In Saudi Arabia, _______ can’t drive cars.
- An unmarried __________ cannot get a visa to visit Iran.
- In England, _________ usually do the cooking, but ________ often cook spicy curries, do the washing up and cut the roast chicken and roast turkey.
- Rounders is a British sport that is similar to baseball and is usually played by __________.
- In Italy, a _________ (called Befana) brings the children their Xmas presents.
- In Sweden 47.3% of MPs (Members of Parliament) are ________.
- When you go into a European church, ________ should take their hats off and _______ should leave their hats on.
- In France _________ kiss ___________ on the cheek when they meet, and _________ also kiss _________. In Russia and the South of Italy, _________ also sometimes kiss _________.
- In a 2005 survey, 46% of Japanese ________ said they are very happy with their lives but only 31% of Japanese _______ said they are very satisfied.
Present Simple cultural customs bluffing game
Read the British customs that your teacher tells you to. How many do you think are true?
Once a year it is the custom for women to cook flat cakes in a frying pan and race down the street, throwing the cakes (called pancakes) into the air and catching them in the pans. |
Sometimes men tie bells to their legs and dance in the street, waving their handkerchiefs in the air. |
It is an old custom to tie ribbons to a tall wooden post and dance round it until all the ribbons are wrapped round the post. |
Once a year a group of men roll a large cheese down a steep hill, and then run down after it. |
Once a year children in Britain traditionally make a model of a man from paper and old clothes and put it on a big fire. |
It is traditional to put apples into a bowl of water and try to pick them up with your teeth on one day in the year. |
People sometimes communicate with each other by lighting big fires on the tops of hills. |
Sometimes young men sit over a river on a long tree trunk which has been covered with fat and try to knock each other off it by hitting each other with pillows. |
Once a year, the King or Queen gives a small gift of money to twelve poor people. |
In one town people stand on flowerpots in the middle of the street, and someone tries to knock them off the flowerpots with a dead fish on a piece of string. |
Exercise 23: Would like to / want to