Write the story of a typical day in your life

Compare yourself with a member of your family, another student in the class, or a famous person.

Compare the work of Jenny Hopper and Gary Hoffman. Make use of the following grid.

ACTIVITY

GRAMMAR EXERCISES

■ Ex. 1. Complete the following stories about Gary Hoffman and Jenny Hopper. Put in the correct simple present form of the verbs in brackets.

a) Gary Hoffman is a Cambridge graduate. He is 27. He (work) with Barclays. He is a Retail Sales Manager. He (like) practical business of banking. He is responsible for branch work. He (help) branch managers with marketing. His job (take) him out of the office lour days out of five. A typical working day (begin) at 7.30 when he in the office to dictate notes and go through the post and the financial press. At 9.00 Gary (give) instructions to his team and (talk) over their work for the day. For the rest of the morning he is in conference with other branch managers. They (look) at progress over the year so far. At 12.00 he (have) a buffet lunch and then (go) back to work. In the afternoon Gary (run) a seminar on selling techniques. From 4.00 to 6.30 he is in a meeting with the region's Retail Director. Gary is answerable to him. They (review) the day and discuss the next day's schedule. Very often he (have) an appointment at one of the branches with customers.

b) Jenny Hopper is an Oxford graduate. Jenny is, 29. She (work) with Lloyds. She is a Corporate manager. She is part of a team of seven Corporate Managers. They (deal) with corporate business at three branches. They (provide) finance to many businesses from all sectors. Jenny is also responsible for international business development. A typical business day (begin) at 8.15 when she (go) through the post. At 8.45 Jenny (have) a meeting and (discuss) business development and staff problems. At 9.30 she (consider) a proposition from a building company. The company (want) the finance to expand. Jenny (make) notes on the case. At 10.30 she (have) another meeting with a company which (want) to buy a new factory. Jenny (make) notes on this meeting too. At 12.30 Jenny Hopper (receive) two important clients. They (discuss) her proposals and then Jenny and her colleague (give) the clients lunch in the branch dining room. It (make) a pleasant change from a sandwich. At 3.30 new clients (come) and (present) their plans. At 4.30 she (write) a report to the head office and finally (leave) for home.

	JENNY HOPPER	GARY HOFFMAN
Education
Occupation
Position, post
Place of work
Responsibilities
Work schedule

■ Ex. 2. Tom hasn't got a girl-friend. The Find-a-Friend Club wants to help him. Look at Tom's answers to the club's questionnaire and make up sentences about him.

№	QUESTIONNAIRE	YES	NO
1.	Are you tall?	ü
2.	Are you short?		ü
3.	Are you thin?		ü
4.	Are you heavy?	ü
5.	Are you athletic?	ü
6.	Are you active?		ü
7.	Are you shy?	ü
8.	Are you outgoing?		ü
9.	Are you a student?	ü
10.	Are you English?	ü
11.	Do you come from London?		ü
12.	Do you read books?	ü
13.	Do you watch a lot of TV?		ü
14.	Do you play computer games?	ü
15.	Do you like music?		ü
16.	Do you stay home very much?	ü
17.	Do you often visit people?		ü
18.	Do you like sports?	ü
19.	Do you like animals?	ü
20.	Do you go for walks?		ü
21.	Do you drive?	ü

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