Habits - Daily routines activities

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Curso: Economia & Gestão. 
Ano Académico: 1˚ ano 
Período: Manha, Tarde & Noite 
Disciplina: Língua Inglesa Lessons 17,18 &19. 
 
Unit 7:My habits 
Objective: Describe daily activities and routines. 
Comunicative functions: Describing daily habits and routines. 
 Describing frequency ( adverbs of frequency & advervial phrases). 
 Expressing time. ( Prepositions of time : at, in ,on) 
 Expressing sequencing ( connectors) 
 Describing jobs. 
Exercise 1: Which of the following activities can be considered: Sports or Exercise? 
 List: baseball - soccer- yoga – rollerblading – weight training – racquetball – bicycling – 
tennis- weight lifting – hiking – golf – skiing – football. 
 
Sports Exercise 
 
 
 
 
 
 Exercise 2: Conversation: Routines 
 A: Read the conversation between Paul ( P) & Marie ( M). 
 
 M: What do you usually do on Saturday, Paul? 
 P: Well, I always gets up very early and go for a run. I frequently work out in the gym and 
 play a lot of sports in the afternoon. 
 M: You look so fit. 
 P: What about you? Do you ever exercise? 
 M : I´m rather lazy , I am afraid, but I play tennis. 
 P: How often do you play tennis? 
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 M: Three or four times, maybe. 
 P: A week? 
 M: No, three or four times a year. 
 
 B: Say True (T) or False ( F) about the conversation. 
1- Paul always gets up very late on Saturdays. ______ 
2- He exercises much. _______ 
3- He is in great shape. _______ 
4- Marie is fit, too. ______ 
5- She plays tennis very often .______ 
6- She plays football three or four times a year._______ 
 
C- Observe the following sentences. 
 What do you usually do on Saturday, Paul? 
 I always gets up very early. 
 I generally go for a run. 
 I frequently work out in the gym. 
 I sometimes play a lot of sports in the afternoon. 
 Do you ever exercise? 
 How often do you play tennis? 
 I play tennis three or four times a year. 
 
Exercise 3: Grammar focus. Study the following information. 
 Expressions of frequency answer the question “ How many time ?” or “ How 
 often?” There are two groups: (A) those denoting indefinite frequency and ( B ) those 
 denoting definite frequency: 
 A: Indefinite frequency adverbs normally have mid- position. 
 Nearly always, almost always 
 Usually, normally, generally, regularly ( = on most occasions) 
 Often, frequently ( = on many occasions ) 
 Sometimes ( = on some occasions) 
 Occasionally (= on a few occasions) 
 Rarely, seldom ( = on few occasions ) 
 Hardly ever , scarcely ever ( = almost never) 
 Never 
 
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 B: Definite frequency adverbs usually have end –position. 
 Once a day ( an hour, a week, a month, a year etc) 
 Twice a day 
 Three times a day 
 Every day ( every morning) 
 Daily, hourly, weekly, monthly, yearly 
 Once every day, twice weekly 
 
Adverbs of frequency Time expressions Connectors 
always every day At for the time of the 
day 
At 5 o ´clock, at night 
First, second 
usually, 
normally 
generally, 
regularly 
once a day 
(week,month, 
year), an hour 
then, next, 
later 
 
On + days and dates. 
On Sunday, on March 
12, 2022, On Sunday 
morning 
Often, 
frequently 
twice a day after that 
sommetimes three times a day before that 
In for longer periods 
In October, in winter, in 
2020, in the future, in 
the morning 
ocassionaly a lot and 
rarely/seldom 
much 
but 
 
Never Finally 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Exercise 4: Study the following chart. 
Asking about the time . Saying the time. 
 
 
 
 What time is it? 
 
 What is the time? 
12:00 It is twelve o ´clock midday/midnight 
1: 00 
a.m 
It is one o´clock in the morning/ a.m 
4. 10 
p.m 
It´s ten past / after four in the afternoon / p.m 
3: 15 
p.m 
It is a quarter past/ after three in the 
afternoon/ p.m. 
5:30 
a.m 
It´s half past/ after five in the morning/ a.m 
8:35 
p.m 
It is twenty five to nine in the evening / p.m. 
10.45 
a.m 
It´s a quarter to eleven in the morning/ a.m 
11:50 
a.m 
It’s ten to twelve in the morning/a.m 
 
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Exercise 5: Write the time, please. 
a. 8.15. __________________________________________ 
 
b. 6:00 __________________________________________ 
 
c. 7:50 __________________________________________ 
 
d. 9:30 __________________________________________ 
 
e. 2: 25 __________________________________________ 
 
f. 12: 45 __________________________________________ 
 
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Exercise 6: Think of the activities you do from morning to evening and make a list of some 
action verbs. 
Action 
verbs 
3rd person 
singular 
form 
Translation 
into 
Portuguese 
language 
Action 
verbs 
3rd person 
singular 
form 
Translation 
into 
Portuguese 
language 
1- 1-wake up 
 
Wakes up acordar 
1- 2- 2-get up 
2- 
Gets up 
1- M 3- make the b 
2- bed 
 
3- 4- 4- 
5- 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
59- 
60-go to bed 
 
Exercise 7: Use ,as many action verbs as possible from the list above, to talk about your 
daily habits and routines or what you usually do _______ 
 every day 
 in the morning 
 in the afternoon 
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 in the evening 
 on weekend 
 on Monday 
 on Sunday 
 at institute 
 in the computing science laboratory 
 at work 
Exercise 8: You are at Alvorecer da Juventude Institute and you meet a classmate. 
Greet him / her and then continue talking about your daily habits and routines. (Include 
action verbs, adverbs of frequency, connectors and time expressions) 
Exercise 9: Write a composition about your daily habits and routines as student of 
Economic and Management. (Include action verbs, adverbs of frequency, connectors and 
time expressions) 
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 Exercise 10: Taļk about one of the member of you famiļy .Refer to : personal information 
 and daiļy habits and routines . 
 Exercise 11: What are their jobs?, Where do they work ? , What do they do? 
 
A: Match the following columns . 
Job workplace Activity/ responsability 
flight attendant shop sell clothes 
chef hotel answer the phone 
Sales assistant Air France repair cars 
teacher office serve passengers 
receptionist garage prepare meals 
mechanic school teach children 
B: Now, use the information from the chart to describe jobs. 
e,g: I am a flight attendant . I work for Air France. I serve passengers. 
1- You ________________. __________________. _______________. 
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2- We _________________. __________________. _______________. 
3- They _________________. __________________. _______________. 
4- She __________________. __________________. _______________. 
5- He ______________. ______________. _______________. 
C: Complete the conversations below. Then , practice them. 
A: __________ do you work ? 
B: I _____ for KLM. 
A: Oh, really?, And what ____ your job? 
B: I ____ a flight attendant. 
A: What _____ you _____ there? 
B: I ______________________ . What about you? ______ you work? 
A: Well, I ______ _____ student, But I have a part- time job. 
B: Really , What ____ you do ?. I ______________.A: Where _____ you _______? 
B: I work ___ __________________. 
D: Use the information above to talk about you and your classmate (partner, friend)´s job, 
workplace, and activity there.