STARTER UNIT 1 : GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY

Match the digital times with the times in words.

• 09:10

• It's ten past nine.

•  04:55

• It's half past two.

• 02:30

• It's five to five.

• 06:45

• It's a quarter to seven.

• 08:50

• It's ten to nine.

When I get up in the morning, the first thing that I do is __________ (vahe) a shower. I then go to the kitchen and make breakfast. After breakfast, I __________ (hrbus) my teeth. Then I ____________ (mtee) my friends and we ___________ (atchc) the bus to the college. At college, we study all day, but we have a break for lunch at twelve o'clock. At four o'clock, we ___________ (elave) and __________ (og) home by bus. In the evenings, I usually _____________ (htawc) TV, unless I have a lot of homework. I always ___________ (od) my homework in the evenings. At night, I ___________ (og) to bed and quickly _____________ (lfal) asleep.

Hi Sam, I'm having a great time here in France and I'm learning lots of French. My host family are very nice. They __​ (a)   __________in an apartment in an area called Pantin, and they both __​ (b)   ________ as journalists. They ______​ (c)   ​ ​ ​ ​​ and (d)   home before me. I ___​ (e)   ________ breakfast at about 8 a.m. and then go to the language school. I usually walk there.

• live
• work
• leave
• get up
• have

Hi Anna, I've got a new job! It's in a supermarket and I ___________there every Saturday. I _____________ at 8am and the shop ___________ at 9 a.m. I tidy and fill the shelves, ______________ the floors and work at the checkout. My manager is very nice. She _____________ me what to do and never shouts.

(a)   (b)   (c)   (d)   ​ (e)  

• work
• clean
• opens
• start
• shows
• works
• cleans
• open
• starts
• show

Match the following

• 08:20

• It’s twelve o’clock.

• 10:05

• It’s twenty-five to four

• 03:35

• It's a five past ten.  

• 05:15

•  It’s a quarter past five.   

• 12:00

• It’s twenty past eight.

1.      My friends and I often play/plays basketball together at the weekends.

• play

• plays

My brother work/works for a computer company in the city.

• work

• works

  I go to a college where everyone study/studies different languages.

• study

• studies

My grandparents come/comes from a small village in Germany.

• come

• comes

My lunch break begin/begins at 12 p.m. and finish/finishes at 12:45 p.m.​ (a)   ​ (b)  

• begins
• begin
• finish
• finishes