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~istening language practice
A typical weekend • useful verbs • prepositions

1 Complete gaps 1-3 with the phrases from the box.
REMEMBER THIS
There are three extra phrases.
Some words have more than one meaning.
can you describe your can you do ]
Run:
what
are
~ you what do you
[ A to move very fast, by moving your legs faster than
what does your what's your
when you walk, e.g.
run a marathon, run to school
Extract from Students' Book recording d•Aipj MP3•~
B to organise or be in charge of an activity, business,
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Reporter: it's Friday afternoon and 1 w~""t to R.""ow what organisation or country, e.g. run a company
people do on a typical weekend. Post:
Hello. 1 name? A to send a letter, package, etc. by post, e.g. post a
Simon: Hi, I'm Simon. birthday card to your aunt
Reporter: 2 typical B to put a message or computer document on the
weekend for our listeners? Internet so that other people can see it, e.g. post a
Simon: Sure. My weekends are comment on Facebook
usually busy with football.
I •run I walk a football club 4 Read REMEMBER THIS. Decide if the underlined word
for children in my area. I bbus I coach the kids has meaning A or B.
on Saturdays. it's really nice to watch them- 1 Can you post this letter for me, please? 0
2 My teacher wants me to run the school chess club. 0
they have a lot of fun and the exercise is good
for them. Then on Sunday mornings, I play 3 I run 2km every day before school. 0
with my local team. it's the football season so 4 Can you show me how to post a video on You Tube? 0
I also wat ch football on TV or on the Internet.
WORD STORE 1 D
I really love my weekends.
Prepositions
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lena: My name's Lena.
5 Complete the conversation with t he correct
Reporter: Hello Lena. ______ do on a typical
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prepositions: in, on or at.
weekend?
Ray: Hi Emily, do you want to go for a pizza?
lena: Well, every weekend,
Emily: No, thanks. it's Saturday. I go to the gym on Saturday.
I go t o a different part
Ray Do you do a lot of exercise?
of the city and <take I make
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Emily: Well, o"" a typical weekday, I get up early _ the
hundreds of phot os. I photograph people,
morning and I go for a run.
places and situations- anything that looks
Ray: Even _ Monday mornings?
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interesting or unusual. In the evening, I dlook
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Emily: Yes, every day. _ the weekend, I go running _
at I watch the pictures on my computer and
the afternoon. And I go to the gym.
•send I post the best ones on Facebook. A lot
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Ray: I know why you don't go running _ Saturday or
of people fdiscuss I comment on the photos.
Sunday morning. You're the same as me. I get up
it's really interesting. You can see them there.
7 the weekend.
noon _
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Emily: No, I get up _ the morning but I go swimming.
2 Choose the correct verbs a- f in the recording extract
Ray: Oh wow! Do you go running _ night, too?
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above. Then listen and check.
Emily: Not often! I sometimes go 10 _ the evening but
3 Complete the conversation with the words from only in the summer when it's light and warm. What
Exercise 2. about you? Do you go running?
Paul: In my free time, I nA."" a photography club. Ray: Sometimes 11 _ midnight when Mum and Dad
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Stuart: Really? phone me and say 'it's late! Come home, now!'
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Paul: Yes. 1 ___ a lot of photos of sports events. Do I don't really like sport. I like making videos. I post
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you want to ___ them? them 12 the Internet. You know. _YouTube
Stuart: O K. Where are they? and things like that.
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Paul: On the Internet. I _ __ the photos on my Emily: I know. I don't watch You Tube videos but I know
website. Here they are. some people like them. I sometimes watch films
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Stuart: Very nice. Do people ___ on them? 14 _ TV but not often. I just prefer doing exercise.
Paul: No, they can't. Not on my website but there are it's great. Come running with me later.
some in the local newspaper. Ray: Let's run now, to the pizza restaurant.
5 __ young children to play tennis. Can
Stuart: Hey. I _
you put some photos of us in the newspaper?
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Paul: Of course. What time are the lessons?