SECTION ONE: PEOPLE Verbs to describe daily routines TARGET VOCABULARY 1

 

TARGET VOCABULARY 1 SECTION ONE: PEOPLE Verbs to describe daily routines

 

Read about Linda Taylor’s typical day below and supply the missing verbs 1-30. Choose from the following: brush finish goes off leave home read buy get dressed have breakfast lie set catch get home have dinner listen to start work eat get up have lunch meet turn off fall asleep go to have a break phone wake up find out go to bed have a shower pop into watch TV   I usually (1)_______________ at 7.00 when my alarm clock (2)_______________. I (3)_______________ it _______________ straight away and then usually just (4)_______________ there in bed for another five or ten minutes before I finally (5)_______________. I go to the bathroom, (6)_______________, (7)_______________ my teeth and then (8)_______________. I usually (9)_______________ - cornflakes, toast, a boiled egg and coffee – at about 7.40. While I (10)_______________ I normally (11)_______________ the news on the radio. I (12)_______________ at about 7.50. I always (13)_______________ Mr Brown the newsagent’s on my way to the station to (14)_______________ a daily newspaper. I (15)_______________ the eight o’clock train to work and usually (16)_______________ the newspaper on it. I (17)_______________ at 9.00 and (18)_______________ at 5.00. At eleven o’clock we (20)_______________ at 12.30 – I usually go with some friends to an Italian restaurant just round the corner. I (21)_______________ from work at about six o’clock and (22)_______________ at 7.00. Most evenings I stay at home and (23)_______________. Sometimes, I (24)_______________ my friends at the pub or (25)_______________ the cinema. Twice a week I (26)_______________ my mother for a chat and to (27)_______________ how everyone is. I nearly always (28)_______________ at 11.00 or 11.15 on weekdays, and the last thing I do before I (29)_______________ is to (30)_______________ the alarm clock for the next day.

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