Do You Really Hate Weekends?

Week 4^th -6^th May

Hello! How are you?

What did we do in our last lessons?

We continued describing symptoms and giving advice.

·         Good morning. What’s the matter?

·         Last week I was enjoying in the park when I got a terrible sore throat. At home, I was surprised to see that my eyes were very red. It isn’t a cold, but I don’t feel right.

·         It sounds as if you have hay fever and are allergic to the pollen from trees and plants.

·         Stay inside and keep the windows shut.

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·         Good afternoon, doctor.

·         Good afternoon. What’s the matter?

·         I have a headache and a backache. In fact, all my body aches.

·         Do you have a temperature?

·         Yes, I think so.

·         You may have the flu. I’m going to write you a prescription for some tablets.

·         Stay in bed, drink a lot of water and take these tablets three times a day for one week.

 You can practise some listening exercises clicking here. Listening - Health issues  

Can you believe that some people hate the weekend?

It’s true, some people do!

Marco, a waiter from Brazil. He never goes anywhere and he never does anything except work. On Friday and Saturday nights they’re usually full. They don’t leave the restaurant until1.30 a.m. They close on Sunday after lunch but when he gets home he’s so tired that he doesn’t want to see anybody or do anything!

Kirsten is a German housewife. She says that now she has more things to do at the weekend that the rest of the week. During the week she has somebody to help her. They would like to relax at the weekend but nobody can relax with two children around. Their flat is small so there’s nowhere you can go for peace and quiet.

Steve is a football coach from the UK. The weekend is more stressful than the week because it’s when they have their matches. His friends know it; that’s why nobody invites him out on a Friday. He usually has something light to eat and goes to bed early. If his team won, they go out to celebrate. If the team loses, they’re too depressed to go anywhere.

	PEOPLE	THINGS	PLACES
	-body /-one	-thing	-where
SOME	Somebody/someone	something	somewhere
ANY	Anybody / anyone	anything	anywhere
NO	Nobody / no one	nothing	nowhere
EVERY	Everybody / everyone	everything	everywhere

1.    Use ‘some’ and its compounds in affirmative sentences.

·      I saw somebody at the station and I thought it was him!

2.    Use ‘any’ and its compounds in negative and interrogative sentences.

·      Did you buy anything at the shop?

·      Have you been anywhere last weekend?

3.    Use ‘no’ and its compounds mainly for short answers.

·      Who did you see in the shop? Nobody.

·      What did you find in the market? Nothing. Nothing interesting, actually.

Remember that in English it is incorrect to use a double negation.

I saw nobody.

I didn’t see anybody.

I didn’t see nobody.

And to finish the class and the week, we read and listened to the story of a man who was trapped in a lift during a whole weekend! Dani told us about his experiences of being trapped in a lift! Yes, more than once! Luckily he isn’t claustrophobic and he wasn’t trapped more than one hour!