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scheduled lunch with a potential client. They discuss business over sparkling water, pasta and a cup of
coffee.
At 2:30 p. m. he is back at his office, eager for several more hours of frantic meetings and phone calls. At
6:00 p. m. John phones out for delivery of dinner to keep him going through the next two to three hours he'll
spend at his office.
John gets home at 10:00 p. m. just in time to sit down to a bowl of frozen yoghurt and a reran of this
season's most popular drama series before turning in.
II. Make brief notes of John's daily routine. Use these times as a guide.
7:00 7:45 2:30 10:00
7:15 12:00 6:00 - 9:00 1:00
III. Answer the following questions:
1. What takes up most of his time?
2. What things do you dislike about his daily routine?
3. Is his daily routine always the same?
4. Is his daily routine very different from yours? How?
5. What do you think about his social life? What daily routine may his girlfriend have?
6. Is he happy? Why?
7. What problems may arise if John gets married and starts a family? Will children fit into this hectic
schedule?
IV. Work in groups of two.
Student A: You are going to interview John. Ask him questions about his daily routine, and ask anything
else you like. (E. g. How he feels about his life, what he likes about his work, his future plans).
Student B: You are John. Answer the interviewer's questions about your daily routine. When you are
asked about other things, invent suitable answers.
Exercise 16
Pair work: Talk about your busiest day. Ask the following and more:
1. What's your busiest day?
2. What do you usually do?
3. What time do you get up?
4. Where do you usually have breakfast, lunch?
5. What do you usually do after classes?
6. What time do you usually go home?
7. What do you do at the end of the day?
8. What do you do in your spare time?
9. What time do you usually go to bed?
10. What activities do you enjoy? Which do you dislike?
Exercise 17
Imagine you can do what you like and work where you want. Plan your daily routine. When you are
ready tell the class.
Exercise 18
I. Carry out a survey titled "How to Organise Your Day". Ask your fellow students:
1. how much time they spend: working, sleeping, washing and getting dressed, eating and drinking,
shopping, travelling, doing housework, studying, reading, watching TV or listening to the radio, performing
other leisure activities, doing nothing;
2. which activities they enjoy doing and how long they spend on them;
3. which activities they do not enjoy doing and how long they spend on them;
4. if there is something they don't have time to do or would like to spend more time doing;
5. if there is some way they could organise their time differently and how.
II. Make notes and analyse the results of the investigation. Write a short report giving the results of your
survey. Use words and expressions like these:
None of...
A great many of...
Hardly any of... Some of...
Very few of...
A large number of.
Not many of...
A lot of...
The majority of...