A BALANCE BETWEEN WORK AND FAMILY?

Here you will find a video with some very shocking scenes, so let's watch it and we will comment if something like is or is not happening in our society and in our country.

Questionnaire daily routines by Yolanda

QUESTIONNAIRE  ABOUT THE DAILY ROUTINE IN THIS VILLAGE.

NOTE: THIS QUESTIONNAIRE IS ANONYMOUS AND VOLUNTARY.

1.  On the working days, what time do you get up? And ...  At the weekend?
Usually I get up at a quarter past six.
2. Do you have  breakfast at home or in a bar?

I always have a good breakfast at home.  I have a glass of milk and a piece of  toast, a piece of fruit and a lot of cookies or cereals.  I need around fifteen minutes  to have my breakfast.

3. Do you have a shower in the morning or in the afternoon?
Normally, I have a shower before having breakfast and then I make the bed.
4. What time do you arrive at work?

I arrived at my job at half past seven, I´m working in  an office in Zaragoza and I get off work at three o´clock.

5. Where do you have lunch?

At home, I prefer to eat there and after lunch I have a cup of coffee with a piece of chocolate.

6. How often do you practise sport?

Twice a week, more or less, usually  at the weekend, because  from Monday to Friday I do another things.

7. At the weekend, what do you do?

When Friday  arrives I go to another village, there I practise several activities and  I meet my friends.

Thank you for helping us doing this questionnaire.

DAILY LIFE IN ENGLAND

 Have a look at this website, there you will find a lot of articles about different cultural topics and questions.  Choose one or two of them and learn about it, after reading you will have to expose to the rest of the class your findings and your impressions.

Here it is the link

DAILY SCHEDULE LISTENING

Try this listening.  

You have different on-line exercises about it such as multiple-choice, short-answer questions, some mixed-up sentences and some sentence and vocabulary matching.  You have as well the script.

HAROLD'S DAY

Listen to Harold's day 
and complete the filling gap exercise about him.

START HERE

And now speaking about your daily routine.

• What time do you get up?
• What do you do first?
• And after this, what do you do next?
• Then, what happens?
• What time do you do that?
• What is your next step in your daily routine?
• What time do you have lunch?
• What do you do after lunch?
• And what time do you have dinner?
• What do you usually do after dinner?
• What time do you go to bed?
• Which is the most important moment along your day?
• ... ....  ....  .... 

SPEAKING ABOUT DAILY ROUTINES

1. What time do you get up?
2. What do you do just after you get up?
3. What's the first thing you use to do in the morning?
4. What's your daily schedule?
5. How often do you drink a cup of coffee?
6. What time do you get off work?
7. Do you do the housework?  How do you help at home?
8. Do you have time for yourself?  How do you spend it?
9. Where do you have dinner?
10. Do you like watching TV?
11. What's your favourite hobby?
12. What do you do bebore going to bed?
13. What's your weekend like?

Stand up and make some dialogues with your classmates to find out their daily routines.

LET'S TALK A BIT about this photo

Here you can see a photograph, think about it and comment it.  Would you be able to imagine this man's personal life and his daily routine?

ANOTHER PHOTOGRAPH

 Let's speak a bit about this photograph.  What do you think is this person's daily routine?

SPEAKING ABOUT PEOPLE LIFE (a photograph)

 Here you are a photograph to comment together at class.  

Could you imagine what is her daily routine?

Have a look at this article, choose one of the usual real problems, read it and later speak a bit about it.

OPEN HERE

DAN IN REAL LIFE Trailer

Good evening,

Come and watch the trailer of this film:  'Dan in Real Life'.   Can you imagine the plot?  After watching the trailer, could you make a summary about the film?

If you think it is necessary, watch the same trailer in Spanish: "Como la vida misma" just to check your understanding.

Take your seat and enjoy it!

Loli

TASK: DAILY ROUTINES

    With this 4th task, we are going to speak about our daily routines -work, free time activities, meal timetables and any other aspect you want -, we are going to practise telling and asking the time, writing a postcard, showing cultural differences and timetables...
    Come on, it's time, don't lose your time!  Choose a task from the following ones and work on it.

    1.- Tell us which are your daily routines, I mean what you do everyday as usual as well as the time you use to do it and your personal feelings about the respect.

    2.- Build a dialogue asking a classmate about his/her daily routine and trying to guess his/her agenda for each day of a normal week.  You both can make comparisons about your routines while making that dialogue.

    3.-  You are on a holiday trip, write a postcard to your best friend telling him/her about the special days you are spending in there while doing what you like more.

     4.-  Make a summary about the cultural differences between Spain and Ireland.  Speak about the different timetables and activities.  You can have a look at this material.


    5.-  Imagine your idol's daily routine and describe it.  You can choose any person, any singer, any actor or actress, any sportsman or sportswoman, just the one you like more and allow free rein to your imagination.

       6.-  Write on a week schedule the different activities you use to do.  It will be like your diary for this coming week or your diary about the last week, as you want.  And don't forget to put the time you will do or you did the different activities.

Best wishes,
Loli