A Typical Day

English learning video-activity

This is a video for elementary English students practicing the present simple. The video is about a typical day in the life of Victoria Fontana (Profesora de Inglés).

  

Aquí podéis hacer una actividad con un video. Es para alumnos principiantes de inglés y en ella se practica el presente simple. El video es sobre un día típico en la vida de Victoria Fontana.

Video-activity by Steven Starry
Alcorcón, Villaviciosa, Leganés

Activity 1: Watch the first part of the video and answer the question.

First, watch the first part of the video and answer the question: "What does Victoria study?" (See the answer below on this page and at the end of the first part of the video. The video in the first part of the video is repeated in the second part, but with subtitles.)
Primero mira la primera parte del video y responde a la pregunta: "¿Qué estudia Victoria?" (La respuesta se indica al final de la primera parte del video y más abajo en esta página. La primera parte del video se repite en la segunda, pero con subtítulos.)

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Answer to the question "What does Victoria study?": She studies painting.
Respuesta a la pregunta "¿Qué estudia Victoria?": Estudia pintura.

Activity 2: Vocabulary: Verbs.

Do this vocabulary matching activity to practice the verbs in the text: Victoria's Typical Day Matching 1.
Haz esta actividad de vocabulario para practicar los verbos del texto.

Activity 3: Listen to the text and type the verbs.

Listen to the text and type the verbs in the spaces: Victoria's Typical Day Simple Cloze.
Escucha el texto y escribe los verbos en los espacios.

Activity 4: Vocabulary: the rest.

Do this vocabulary matching activity to practice the rest of the vocabulary in the text: Victoria's Typical Day Matching 2.
Haz esta actividad de vocabulario para practicar el resto del vocabulario en el texto.

Activity 5: Listen to the text and type the vocabulary words.

Listen to the text and type the vocabulary words in the spaces: Victoria's Typical Day Difficult Cloze.
Escucha el texto y escribe las palabras de vocabulario en los espacios.

Activity 6: Mixes: Put the words in the correct order

Put the words in the correct order to make a sentence: Victoria's Typical Day Mix Activities.
Para hacer esta actividad coloca las palabras en el orden correcto para hacer una oración.

Activity 7: Quiz: More vocabulary practice

Type the vocabulary words in the spaces, then listen to the text: Victoria's Typical Day Quiz.
Escribe las palabras de vocabulario en los espacios y luego escucha el texto.

Activity 8: Quiz: Answer the questions about the text

Choose the correct answer for each questions: Victoria's Typical Day Quiz 2.
Elige la respuesta correcta para cada pregunta.

Complete text

Hi, I'm Victoria Fontana from MadridTeacher.com and this video is to help you learn English. Today, we're going to be working on the present tense. I'm going to tell you about a typical day in my life so that you can practice listening to the use of the present tense for habitual actions. So, a typical day . . .

Well, I wake up at around 7 o'clock depending on the day. The first thing I do is eat. The most important thing to do is to eat breakfast. So, I make myself some coffee and some toast and I also feed my cats, which is also important for them. Usually, I start class around 8:30 in the morning. So, I go to my first class, which is in Madrid, in the center of Madrid. And, I have about, depending on the day, maybe 4 or 5 classes, depending, basically I hop on my motorcycle and go around Madrid teaching class to class.

If I have a break around one o'clock, I make lunch and, sometimes I make my own lunch, sometimes I have to eat at a restaurant. My favorite place is the Chinese restaurant in Plaza de España, if you can get a table.

And, then I continue having class, or sometimes I don't have time for lunch and I teach all the way till about 4 o'clock and at 4 o'clock I'm starving and I have something to eat quickly at home or if I have to go again to a restaurant.

After that, I have my own classes. I study painting in the afternoons, so from 4:30 to 8:30, I'm in class. We do oil painting, figure painting, still life and all kinds of things you can imagine that you do in a painting class. And after the painting class, I go to the gym. I like to practice . . . , I like to play sports and right now I'm in boxing class. And that goes from 9 o'clock to 10 o'clock at night. And after boxing, I'm just about exhausted, and once again it's time to eat, and I go home and make dinner.

After dinner and after I make sure my cats have eaten as well, I usually watch TV maybe for a little while or get stuff prepared for the next day and go to bed.

Thank you for watching. I hope you're learning something and keep studying. Come back to MadridTeacher.com. Thanks.

Verbs list.

come back - volver
continue - continuar
do - hacer (Tanto "do" como "make" significan "hacer". La principales diferencias son estas: se utiliza "make" con acciones más creativas, por ejemplo, "make a cake", "make the bed". Se utiliza "do" para actividades, para trabajo y cuando no se sabe exactamente lo que se hace, por ejemplo, "do the shopping", "do work" y "do something".)
eat - comer
feed - alimentar, dar de comer
get - conseguir, coger
go - ir
have - tener, tomar
have to - tener que
help - ayudar
hop - saltar (hop on - montar)
learn - aprender
like - gustar
make - hacer
make sure - asegurar
play - jugar
practice - practicar
prepare - preparar
start - empezar
starve - morirse de hambre
study - estudiar
teach - enseñar
tell - contar, decir ("tell" va seguido siempre de alguien, por ejemplo, "tell Steve", "tell somebody")
wake up - despertar
watch - ver (el verbo "watch" se utiliza para cuando se habla de ver una actividad.)
work - trabajar
Practice this vocabulary: Victoria's Typical Day Matching 1

Vocabulary list from text (toda la lista)

work on - trabajar sobre
we are going to be working on - vamos a estar trabajando sobre
the present tense - el tiempo verbal presente
tell somebody - contarle a alguien
so that - para que
habitual actions - acciones rutinarias
well - bien
wake up - despertar
depending on - dependiendo de ("depend" normalmente va seguido de la preposición "on")
the first thing I do - lo primero que hago (no "the first I do")
the most important thing - lo más importante
so - asi que
make myself - hacerme ("myself" es un pronombre reflexivo, por ejemplo: "I cut myself" - me corté)
feed - alimentar, dar de comer
which - lo cual
about 4 classes - alrededor de 4 clases
maybe - quizás
hop on - montar en
class to class - de clase a clase
If I have a break, I make lunch. - Si tengo un descanso, hago la comida.
break - descanso
my own - mi propio/a
have to eat - tener que comer ("I have to eat" = "Tengo que comer")
place - sitio
if you can get a table - si puedes conseguir una mesa
then - luego (Ver then comparado con "after something" y "after that")
all the way till - todo seguido hasta
till / until - hasta (no hay diferencia entre estas dos palabras)
I'm starving - me muero de hambre
quickly - rapidamente
again - otra vez
after that - después de eso
I study painting - estudio pintura
afternoon - despues del medio día aproximadamente desde las 12.00 hasta las 17.00 o 18.00
oil painting - pinturas al óleo.
figure painting - pinturas o cuadros de la figura humana.
still life - un cuadro o dibujo que representa objetos inanimados.
all kinds of things - todo tipo de cosas
all kinds of things you can imagine that you do in a painting class - todo tipo de cosas que te puedas imaginar que se hacen en una clase de pintura
gym - gimnasio
right now - ahora mismo
boxing class - clase de boxeo
that goes from 6 to 7 - eso va de 6 a 7
just about exhausted - casi exhausto
once again - una vez más
make sure - asegurar
After I make sure my cats have eaten - Después de asegurarme de que mis gatos han comido
as well - también
a little while - un rato
get stuff prepared - preparar las cosas
I hope - espero
come back - vuelve
Practice this vocabulary: Victoria's Typical Day Matching 2.

More Activities:

Grammar: Presente Simple.

Practica algunos verbos:

Verbs Pictures List

Activities Pictures list

Most Frequent Verbs List

Textos de alumnos corregidos:

Daily Routines - Homework assignments corrected
Textos escritos por alumnos con su corrección correspondiente- intermediate.

Two written texts about mobile phones corrected
Dos textos corregidos sobre teléfonos móviles.

Linkers for showing chronological order: Chronological order.

Victoria Fontana's Website:

VictoriaFontana.com - With samples of her work. Con muestras de su trabajo.

Print activity:

Imprime la actividad en formato pdf Print A Typical Day Lesson. (Todos los profesores de inglés individuales tienen permiso para utilizar esta actividad en sus propias clases de inglés mientras se mantenga el logo de MadridTeacher.com a plena vista.)

Haz click con el botón derecho y selecciona "guardar como" para bajar el MP3.

Speaking activity:

My Typical Day Speaking - Practica el tema hablando.

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