Exercise3.

So, what’s your daily routine? Here are some tips for taking control of your life. Chose three points you think the most important. Why do you think so?

1. Make a list of all the things you want or need to accomplish in your weekly life.

2. Now look at your list and see which ones need to be done every day. Those might include (a housekeeping routine, emails, phone calls etc.).

3. Plan out your daily routine (a morning routine and an end-of-the-day routine).

4. Don’t schedule every minute of your day, but have certain set times each day when you do these daily tasks.

5. If somebody in your class is more successful than you, it's probably because he/she works harder than you do.

6. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain.

7. You are responsible for your own experience.

8. There are stereotypical responsibilities of mother/ father/ husband/ wife/ the children in the family.

Exercise4.

Choose the odd word out. Prove your choice.

• breakfast, dental floss, lunch, dinner;

• a bathroom, a kitchen, a living room, a bathtub;

• a comb, a brush, a hair drier, baked potatoes;

• a laundry basket, a car, a towel, a vacuum cleaner;

• Shaving cream, soap, toilet paper, a Guinea pig.

You will read & translate a text about hobbies. Ask as many as possible questions about the text.

My Hobby

According to the dictionary, hobby is an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure or an activity that you enjoy doing in your spare time. I have different types of hobby. To begin with I’d like to say a few words about my childhood. When I was a child I enjoyed playing superheroes. So, I have a very big collection of them.

When I was at school I was interested in cooking. My key-friend was a student from India. That is how I learnt how to cook a lot of Indian dishes, from her. I enjoyed cooking myself and tried to cook a lot of food at home. My collection of recipes is small but mouthwatering. For example, I know how to cook Spanish paella. I am sure if you follow precisely the instructions step by step it will be delicious.

One of my hobbies is sport. My sport hobby is tennis and I like skiing and swimming. I can say that some of my friends are simply hooked on jogging and brisk walking. I sometimes play different sport games for health and pleasure. I’m very active. I like to play badminton and to ride a bicycle. My new hobby is roller-skating. Unfortunately, I have never tried wind-surfing, water skiing, and scuba diving.

My other hobby is photography. My mum says I take very good pictures. But I don’t think so. It’s not easy to be artistic.

When I first went to Tunisia (a country in North Africa) it was in 2005, I started to learn French. After French I tried to learn Spanish and Italian. I found it quite complicated and I often confused words and verbs. When I’ve been on holiday in Italy it was quite easy to understand what was going on, but I couldn’t actually form a sentence.

I'm fond of reading. Unfortunately, it’s getting less and less popular nowadays because of the Internet. My friends seldom borrow books from libraries. Some of them are sure this is a complete waste of time. I like reading fantasy books and historical novels. There is a very good library in Arkhangelsk which I use regularly.

I like music. I have a huge collection of albums. I adore the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Elvis Priestly. I very much like folk music and jazz-rock music. I hardly ever go to discos. I have been to a few places like M33. I would probably go to more if there was better music.

We organize extra class activities such as parties and other social activities at our University. I try to participate in most of them. My greatest problem at school was making speech in front of the class. And now I can manage it.

It is a well-known fact that healthy people live longer and their career is more successful. I don’t smoke and take drugs, I don’t drink alcohol, I don’t eat too much chips and sweets, I try to eat more vegetables and fruits, I sleep well without taking sleeping pills and tranquillizers.