Objectives: • to practise listening for the main idea and detailed information

Lesson 4 A day in the life of …
Objectives:
• to practise listening for the main idea and detailed information
• to practise reading for the main ideas
• to talk about the working day
• to talk about parents’ working day
Activity 1a
Objective: to introduce new words
PP read the words, guess their meaning, check them in the Wordlist and
write them in their ExBs. Then they should listen and repeat them.
Activity 1b
Objective: to raise awareness of advantages and disadvantages of different
kinds of jobs
Ask PP to answer the questions.
Activity 2a
Objective: to practise listening for the main idea
Ask PP to listen to the CD and say what they like and dislike about this job.
CD script
Hello, I’m Anna Moran. I’m 24 and I work as a secretary in the Town Planning
Department. My typical day begins at 7.30 am. An hour later I leave the house
and walk to my Government Building. It usually takes 15 minutes. Before 9,
when work starts, I have a cup of coffee with my friends. I work in a huge
department with twenty other typists and office staff. There is a lot of coming
and going throughout the day. From 10.30 until 11 o’clock I have a tea break.
Every day I go to the cafeteria with my friends and there I meet other people
from different departments. Then after the break I meet with other secretaries
for a planning meeting. Work for the rest of the day is negotiated and then
distributed. The planning meeting involves discussions and decision-making
and lasts thirty minutes. Work continues until 12.30 pm and then I finish for the
day. I’m working flexi-time. Another day I will work much later to make up the
working week. But on a day like this I’m free to go shopping or relax.

Activity 2b

Objective: to practise listening for detailed information
Ask PP to listen again and complete Anna Moran’s timetable.
Key:
7.30 a.m. – Anna gets up
8.30 a.m. – Anna leaves the house to walk to work
8.45 a.m. – Anna gets to work, then has a cup of coffee with her friends
9.00 a.m. – Anna works
10.30 a.m. – Anna has a tea break for 30 minutes in the cafeteria
11.00 a.m. – Anna attends the planning meeting for 30 minutes
11.30 a.m. – Anna works
12.30 p.m. – Anna finishes work; on some days she works until a later time
Activity 2c
Objective: to talk about parents’ working day
Encourage PP to talk about their parents’/guardians’ work.
Activity 3a, 3b
Objective: to practise reading for the main ideas
PP read the letter and say what ‘Take your daughter to work’ day is. Then
they answer the questions.
Activity 4
Objective: to give freer oral practice on the topic of the unit
PP work in pairs. They ask and answer about their parents’ job.
Suggestion: You could assign Word Building Exercise 1 and/or 2 here or for
homework. They practise words with hyphens (flexi-time) and words ending in
-ist (dentist).