Read the text and make up short dialogues about your daily programme, using active vocabulary.

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At roughly 7.30 a.m. my radio alarm buzzes. It blasts me into loudness of the morning. I lie for a while deciding whether to pretend to be fatally ill. This trick usually doesn't work, but I try anyway. My mother never believes me and I finally crawl out of bed. By this time it is 8 a.m. - the time I used to leave the house for school.

As I work in a shop which sells jeans on Saturday, I only have a lie-in on Sundays. I have my Sunday breakfast at about 3 p.m., followed by lunch at 5.30 p.m. My mother doesn't approve, and my father thinks it is a big joke. I think it is neither disastrous nor funny- it's crucial. I usually enjoy school if I'm up-to-date with my schoolwork. I hate the feeling of being left behind with anything. I enjoy school mainly because of the number of friends I have there, I also hate being alone. Another good reason for coming to school is to see my boy-friend, Craig, who I meet every lunchtime. However, I don't let this interfere with my schoolwork. After school I either have basketball practice for the school team, or I go home to get myself ready to go out with Craig, I see Craig almost every evening. He says he doesn't mind what I look like but I like to feel as though I've made an effort. I either do my homework before I see him, during the time I see him, or when he leaves for the bus at 11 p.m.- which would explain why I get up so late. Either way my homework gets done.

When I go to bed I often think about possible careers and dream of becoming rich and famous due to an outstanding talent that no one has discovered yet. Then I allow myself to worry about anything and everything, to worry about school, money, my future, the next day, what I look like, what people think about me and what I could do to change the way people think about me.
I usually fall asleep at about 1 a.m. when I've worried myself silly.

1 really enjoy looking after young children. They are so interesting. It was my ambition to be a nanny or nursery nurse, but efforts to make me change my mind eventually succeeded. “You're too bright.” “There's no money in it.” “You'd get bored.” “You’d be able to get a far better job.” I suppose I could baby sit until I have children of my own. I’m looking forward very much to having children, but I'm not keen on the idea of being a stereotypical mother/housewife. I also want a career and a good one, but doing what? I wish I knew! My father continuously asks whether I've made up my mind yet. Now I'm concentrating on getting good exam results so that I’ll have a solid base to move in any direction - preferably upwards.

Task 4.

Read the text “The Use of Leisure” and answer the questions after it.

THE USE OF LEISURE

By the way in which a man uses his leisure his character can be told - more surely than by the way he does his work. For most men work is necessity in order to gain a living. Vast numbers of men have not even been able to choose what work they would do, but have been forced by economic necessity to take the first job that came their way. But in their leisure time they do what they really want to do and their real selves are reflected in their actions.

Some people are completely passive during leisure hours. If such people go out they go to some place of entertainment where no effort is required by them, a cinema, a dancing hall, and if the latter, they do not dance but simply sit and watch others dancing.

A different type of person hurries home from work full of eagerness to begin on some scheme which he has been planning for his leisure time. Perhaps his hobby is carpentry or model engineering, or gardening, or he might wish to write, or to study some subject in which he is interested. This is the creative type of character. For him, leisure hours are full of promise and he can look back on them with satisfaction when he reviews what he has achieved in them.

Leisure should be refreshment; it should send a man out with fresh spirits to battle with the problems of life. Sometimes this freshness comes not from doing anything, but by filling one's mind with fresh springs of beauty. Many a man gets full value from his leisure by contemplating nature, listening to music, or reading noble books. By this sort of occupation he may not have made anything that he can show, but he has none the less recreated his own source of inspiration and made his own mind a richer and fuller treasure house. This is the true use of leisure.

1. Why can a man's character be told by the way he uses his leisure?

2. What types of men are there by the way they spend their leisure?

3. What do passive people do during leisure hours?