What do you usually do?
Listen for frequency words and times. Decide which activity is daily, frequent, occasional, or absent.
Full recording
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What do you usually do?
Listen for frequency words and times. Decide which activity is daily, frequent, occasional, or absent.
- Interviewer: Che cosa fai di solito la mattina?
What do you usually do in the morning?
- Nina: Mi alzo alle sette e faccio colazione.
I get up at seven and have breakfast.
- Interviewer: Come vai al lavoro?
How do you go to work?
- Nina: Prendo sempre l’autobus.
I always take the bus.
- Interviewer: Pranzi a casa?
Do you have lunch at home?
- Nina: No, mangio spesso in ufficio.
No, I often eat at the office.
- Interviewer: E la sera?
And in the evening?
- Nina: Qualche volta esco, ma non torno mai tardi.
Sometimes I go out, but I never return late.
Before you listen
Read the task, but do not read the transcript. On the first listening, identify the situation and result. On the second listening, note the target details.
- Che cosa fai di solito la mattina?· What do you usually do in the morning?
- Mi alzo alle sette e faccio colazione.· I get up at seven and have breakfast.
- Come vai al lavoro?· How do you go to work?
- Prendo sempre l’autobus.· I always take the bus.
Transcript check
Use the transcript only after the two listening passes. Read each line aloud and compare its rhythm with the recording.
- Pranzi a casa?· Do you have lunch at home?
- No, mangio spesso in ufficio.· No, I often eat at the office.
- E la sera?· And in the evening?
- Qualche volta esco, ma non torno mai tardi.· Sometimes I go out, but I never return late.
In context
The words of this lesson in sentences from other A1 lessons.
- Faccio colazione a casa.· I have breakfast at home.Tappa 4 · A normal weekday
- Lavoro in ufficio.· I work in an office.Tappa 4 · A normal weekday
- Torno a casa alle sei.· I return home at six.Tappa 4 · A normal weekday
- La sera leggo un libro.· In the evening I read a book.Tappa 4 · A normal weekday
- La sera corre nel parco o legge.· In the evening he runs in the park or reads.Tappa 4 · Marco’s weekday
- Poi lavoro dalle nove alle cinque.· Then I work from nine to five.Tappa 4 · My normal day
- Non torno subito a casa.· I do not return home immediately.Tappa 4 · My normal day
- La sera studio italiano.· In the evening I study Italian.Tappa 4 · My normal day
- Oggi è lunedì e lavoro da casa.· Today is Monday and I work from home.Tappa 4 · A short diary entry
- Non sono a Firenze per lavoro.· I am not in Florence for work.Tappa 1 · My first profile