Text: Mr Brown’s Working Day

Mr Brown works for a big firm in London. His firm has good business contacts with a heavy engineering factory in Dublin. Last week Mr Brown went to Dublin on business and stayed about a week there.

On Friday afternoon Mr Brown came back from his business trip. It was too late to go to the office. Besides, he was very tired after the journey. So he took a taxi and went home.

On Monday morning he came to work a few minutes before eight. He entered the office and found a number of business letters on his desk. He sat down and began to look through the letters. Suddenly the telephone rang. He took up the receiver and heard the voice of his chief. The chief asked Mr Brown to come over to his room and discuss the results of the trip.

After the talk with the chief Mr Brown came back to his office and continued his work.

At 11 o’clock he made some telephone calls. While Mr Brown was on telephone his secretary Mary Smith brought him a cup of coffee and biscuits. Mr Brown gave her the answers to the business letters and Mary went back to her office and started typing them.

At 12 o’clock he went out for lunch. He usually has lunch in an Italian restaurant opposite the firm’s premises. In the afternoon he had some visitors. At 5 o’clock he was at a meeting with the agents and accountants and made a report on his trip to Dublin.

That day Mr Brown left the office later than usual. He didn’t come home till a quarter to eight. Linda and William were at home, Margaret and Robert were out. They were at the cinema. They returned home a quarter of an hour later, and they all had supper together. After supper Mr Brown looked through the papers and watched television. Ai half past ten he switched off the TV-set and went to bed.

Vocabulary Notes

Take up the receiver підняти слухавку

The firm’s premises територія фірми

Later than usual пізніше звичайного

Text exercises

1. Ask questions about:

a) Mr Brown’s job; b) the way Mr Brown spent his Monday morning; c) the way Mr Brown spent the second part of the day; d) what Mr Brown did in the evening.

2. Expand the following statements. Add information from the text:

1. Mr Brown works for a big firm in London.2. On Monday morning Mr Brown was very busy. 3. After lunch he also had a lot of things to do. 4. He spent the Monday evening together with his family.

3. Speak on Mr Brown’s working day.

Speech exercises

1. Answer the questions:

A. 1. When do you get up? 2. Do you do your morning exercises? 3. How much time does it take you to do your morning exercises, to wash and dress? 4. When do you leave home? 5. How do you get to your technical school? 6. Do you prefer to go by bus, by metro or to walk? 7. How much time does it take you to get to technical school? 8. How many lessons have you every day? 9. When are your lessons over? 10. When do you come home? 11. What do you do at home? 12. Where do you go in the evening? 13. How do you spend your free time? 14. At what time do you go to bed?

B. 1. How many meals a day have you? 2. What do you have for breakfast? 3. Where do you have your lunch? 4. What do you have for dinner? 5. What do you eat soup with? 6. What do you eat meat with? 7. What do you like for dessert? 8. What does your supper consist of?

2. Translate into English:

1. Я піднімаюсь о 7 ранку. 2. Зазвичай я роблю зарядку під музику радіо. 3. Потім я умиваюся, вдягаюся і снідаю. 4. О 8.30 я їду до технікуму. 5. Оскільки я живу далеко від технікуму, я їду туди на метро чи автобусі. 6. Наші заняття починаються о 9.00. 7. Ми маємо 6 уроків кожен день. 8. О 12.45 -обідня перерва.9. У нашому технікумі є гарна їдальня. 10. На другий сніданок ми їмо м’ясо або рибу з картоплею та стакан кави з пиріжком. 11. 0б 11.15 знову починаються уроки. 12. О 14.50 уроки закінчуються, і я їду додому. 13. О 16.00 я обідаю. 14. Зазвичай я їм суп, кашу або м’ясо і на десерт фрукти, компот або чай з пирогом.15. Після обіду я роблю уроки. 16. Ввечері я дивлюсь телевізор або слухаю радіо. 17. Іноді я ходжу в кіно або театр. 18. О 8 або 9 годині я вечеряю. Я їм шматок ковбаси, салат та кефір або чай. 19. О 23.00 я лягаю спати.

3. Make up sentences using the following words and word combinations:

to get up, to switch on the radio, to do morning exercises to the radio music, to clean one’s teeth, to sit down, to have breakfast, far away, by metro, it takes me…, a lunch hour, to have dinner, to get home, to consist of, to listen to the radio, to watch TV, to go for a walk.

4. Tell about your working day.

5. Read and retell the story:

One day a gentleman wanted to see Sir Isaak Newton just before dinner time. Newton was busy and worked in his study. The visitor sat down in the dining-room and waited for Newton. Soon the servant (слуга) brought in Newton’s dinner. It was a chicken in a covered dish (блюдо). An hour passed and Newton did not come. The gentleman began to feel hungry. He lifted the cover, saw the chicken and began to eat it. Then he covered the dish and told the servant to boil another chicken. But before that was ready, Newton went to have his dinner. Seeing the gentleman Newton said:

“I beg your pardon, Sir, but allow me to have my dinner first, for I am hungry.”

Then he lifted the cover, but finding the dish empty, he said, “Oh, I remember, I had my dinner already.”

6. Act out the following situations.

1. You are talking with your friend. Tell what you (your girl-friend, sister) did yesterday morning (afternoon, evening).

2. Speak about one of your busy days in the technical school.

3. Interview your friend. Ask him about his daily routine.

A Dialogue:

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