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Vocabulary everyday actions Grammar likes and dislikes
1 a Match a verb from A with a word or phrase in B. 2 a Complete the texts with words from the boxes.
A B
love like stand keen hate
1 read a a bus
2 listen b to bed late
3 get up c on the phone
4 stay d early
5 go e your emails Andreas (26)
6 chat f nothing Germany
7 watch g in bed late ‘I can’t stand doing
8 check h to the radio nothing. I really (1)_____
9 do i TV holidays where people
10 catch j magazines lie on the beach all day
– I can’t understand it. I
e so I get
b Use the phrases above to complete the absolutely (2)____ doing exercis
for ten
sentences. up early every day and run
not very
You can read magazines kilometres before breakfast. I’m
tball. When I
while you are waiting for (3)_____ on team sports like foo
like surfing
the dentist. go on holiday, I do water-sports
lking and
and sailing. I quite (4)_____ wa
cycling too!
3 Complete the dialogues using phrases from the box. Vocabulary time phrases
don’t mind quite keen on not very keen on really like 5 Complete the sentences with
absolutely love can’t stand like the correct prepositions.
Reading
4 a Read the text quickly and match the headings in the box to the
correct time of day.
b Read the text again. Mark the sentences true (T) or false (F). Dan
1 Your brain works best in the middle of the day. 4 _____ the summer, he goes
2 The best time to do a crossword is early morning. to the beach to meet people.
3 It’s a good idea to go to the dentist between 1 and 3 p.m. 5 He always goes out with
4 Food tastes good in the early evening. This makes you hungry. friends _____ the evenings.
5 The best time to eat dinner is just before you go to bed. 6 _____ weekends, he goes to
6 It is good to do exercise in the evening because your muscles are warm. parties or out to the cinema.
Liz 1
Paul
Reading
4 a Read the text and choose the best title. I press the buttons to make our order. A big
• The future of shopping mechanical hand moves across the
window. It picks up a box of eggs and drops it
• The coffee shop
onto a shelf. The arm moves left and right
• 24-hour banking for the future collecting our order. It’s fun to watch, better
than normal shopping.
It sells bread, milk and cigarettes. But Shop 24 is Then, disaster: the eggs are broken and the
not a good place to talk to the shopkeeper - door closes before I can take my shopping out.
because there isn’t one. Sandy is watching. He started Shop 24. He read
Shop 24 is a new idea for shopping in the UK. It’s about a shop like this in Belgium. Now there
a very big vending machine, the size of a shop. It’s are two Shop 24s in town, and he hopes to
open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. introduce fifty more in the UK.
Is this the future of shopping? We tried it. Our We finish our shopping in a local shop. It’s
shopping list: eggs, milk, brown bread, ham, toilet much better than Shop 24 but it isn’t open
roll, fresh coffee, aspirin, vegetables, chocolate. twenty-four hours a day. We ask the cashier
It starts well. Shop 24 has eggs and milk. There about the new vending machine shop. 'I think
are toilet rolls, aspirin, and lots of chocolate. But people will use it late at night. But people
there is only white bread and there isn’t any ham. don’t really like technology. Most people
There are no fresh vegetables and there is no would prefer to talk to a face.'
fresh coffee.
b Read the text again and answer the questions. 6 The cashier thinks that people will continue
1 What is different about Shop 24? going to local shops because
a It has no staff. a customers prefer people to new technology.
b It has no customers. b Shop 24 doesn’t have enough things to sell.
c It sells robots. c local shops will stay open for twenty-four hours.