Practice and Writing Routines
Practice and Writing Routines
Practice and Writing Routines
I… work
My mother … study
My father … exercise
My … drive to class/work
2. remember: Use at with specific times The bank opens at nine o’clock.
and in the phrase at night. We relax at night.
3. To show when an activity begins and She works from nine to five-thirty.
ends, use from . . . to.
4. Use until to talk about an activity that The bank is open until four o’clock.
continues up to a specific time.
5. A sentence can have more than one He wakes up at five-thirty in the morning.
prepositional phrase.
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For Prepositions of Time (Part 1), see Unit 2, Lesson 3.
To be less specific, we use around and about.
Unit 3 leSSOn 2 91
6 WRITE & SPEAK. Complete each sentence with an object. Then share your statements with
a partner.
1. I speak . 4. I listen to .
8. Paulina has two dogs. She walks them in the park every morning.
6. The teacher wants to meet with . She has a question about your homework.
PR ACTICE
9 Complete the exercises.
1. thinks / about / He / Linda / every day He thinks about Linda every day.
B Look at the sentences in exercise A. Replace each object with an object pronoun.
her
He thinks about Linda every day.
2 BEFORE YOU WRITE. Complete the chart with information about your job as a student.
What do you do in class? At home? What advice do you have for new students? Use the
chart from exercise 1C as a model.
My Job as a Student
in Class At Home
Advice:
3 WRITE a paragraph about your job as a student. Give advice for new students. Use the
information from your chart in exercise 2 and the paragraph in exercise 1A to help you.
Good writers indent the first line of a paragraph. To indent, begin the first
line of a paragraph five spaces to the right.
I am a teacher. I work from 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. I teach four English
classes. In class, I write on the board. I ask a lot of questions.
4 SELF ASSESS. Read your paragraph. Underline the verbs in the simple present. Then use the
checklist to assess your work.
I did not put be in front of other verbs in the simple present. [3.1, 3.3]
I used the base form of the verb for imperatives. [3.9, 3.10]