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How Do You Spend Your Day?

The following is a summary of terms (Key Vocabulary and Expressions) taught in this unit. Puzzles use these words as answers. (See Puzzle Corner in Resources.)
 
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KEY VOCABULARY

Nouns
Jobs/Professions
announcer
architect
carpenter
chef
company director
disc jockey
doctor
engineer
flight attendant
(tour) guide
nurse
police officer
professor
receptionist
sales manager
salesman
salesperson
secretary
security guard
supervisor
teacher
travel agent
word processor

Workplaces
airline
(construction/
electronics) company
department store
hospital
office
radio station
(fast-food) restaurant
school

Classes
business
computer science
mathematics

Time
day
holiday
hour
week
year

Other
clothes
country
(computer) equipment
food
high school
house
instruction
lunch
music
(news)paper
passenger
patient
people
phone
snack
tour
TV
weather report
work
Adjectives
average
full-time
great
interesting
little
long
part-time

Article
an

Verbs
answer
arrive (at)
build
care for
cook
do
get (home)
get up
go (to bed/to school/to work)
have (a job/lunch)
leave
like
love
play (music)
read
sell
serve
sleep
sound (interesting)
spend (your day)
start
stay up
study
take
teach
wake up
watch
work

Adverbs
a lot
early
exactly
home
late
only
pretty (late)
then

Prepositions
about/around (10:00/noon)
after (midnight)
at (night/7:00/noon/midnight)
before (noon)
for (an hour)
in (the morning/the
    afternoon/the evening)
like (Peru)
on (weekends/weekdays/
    weeknights/Sundays)
until (midnight)

Interjection
so

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EXPRESSIONS

Describing work/school
What do you do?
    I'm a/an . . . .
Where do you work?
    I work at/in/for . . . .
Where do you go to school?
    I go to . . . .

Asking for more information
What about . . . ?
Which . . . ?

Asking for and giving opinions
How do you like . . . ?
    I like . . . a lot./I love . . . .
    It's a great . . . .

Expressing interest
Really?
Oh, really?
That sounds interesting.

Talking about daily schedules
How do you spend your day?
    Well, I . . . . Then I . . . .
What time do you go to work/school?
    I leave at . . . .
And when do you get home?
    I get home around . . . .

Apologizing
Gee, I'm sorry.

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