Unit 32: AN INTERVIEW

Vocabulary

bath	/bɑ:θ/	n
breakfast	/ˈbrek.fəst/	n
catch	/kætʃ/	v
dictate	/dɪkˈteɪt/	v
dinner	/ˈdɪn.əʳ/	n
dress	/dres/	v
Duchess	/ˈdʌtʃ.es/	n
get up	/get’ʌp/	v
interview	/ˈɪn.tə.vju:/	v
interview	/ˈɪn.tə.vju:/	n
life	/laɪf/	n
lunch	/lʌntʃ/	n
ordinary	/ˈɔ:.dɪ.nə.ri/	adj
reply	/rɪˈplaɪ/	v
reporter	/rɪˈpɔ:təʳ/	n
rest	/rest/	v
tell	/tel/	v
then	/ðen/	adv
until	/ʌnˈtɪl/	prep
wake up	/weɪk’ʌp/	v

People’s names

First name		Last name
Female	Male
	RobinPhilip	Knight

Geographical names

- Wessex

Expressions

at that time

to catch a bus

to go to bed

to dress for dinner

to have breakfast

to have lunch

to have dinner

to have a bath

Listening

Robin Knight, the television reporter, is interviewing the Duchess of Wessex for the programme “The English At Home”.

Robin: Now, Duchess… tell us about an ordinary day in your life.
Duchess: Well, I wake up at seven o’clock…
Robin: Really? Do you get up then?
Duchess: No, of course I don’t get up at that time. I have breakfast in bed and I read “The Times”.
Robin: What time do you get up?
Duchess: I get up at ten.
Robin: What do you do then?
Duchess: I read my letters and dictate the replies to my secretary.
Robin: …and then?
Duchess: At eleven I walk in the garden with Philip.
Robin: Oh? Who’s Philip?
Duchess: Philip’s my dog.
Robin: What time do you have lunch?
Duchess: I have lunch at twelve thirty.
Robin: And after lunch?
Duchess: Oh, I rest until six o’clock.
Robin: … and at six? What do you do at six?
Duchess: I dress for dinner. We have dinner at eight o’clock.
Robin: What time do you go to bed?
Duchess: Well, I have a bath at nine thirty, and I go to bed at ten.
Robin: Thank you, Duchess… you certainly have a busy and interesting life!

Now please answer these questions.

1. Who’s interviewing the Duchess of Wessex?
- Robin Knight is.

2. Does she wake up at eight?
- No, she doesn’t.

3. Ask “What time?”
- What time does she wake up?

4. Does she have breakfast in the kitchen?
- No, she doesn’t.

5. Ask “Where?”
- Where does she have breakfast.

6. Does she read ‘The Times” Magazine?
- No, she doesn’t.

7 Ask “What?”
- What does she read.

8. Does she read her letters?
- Yes, she does.

9. Does she dictate the replies to her husband?
- No, she doesn’t.

10. Does she walk in the garden with her secretary?
- No, she doesn’t.

11. Ask “Who … with?”
- Who does she walk with?

12. Does she have lunch at twelve?
- No, she doesn’t.

13. Ask “What time?”
- What time does she have lunch?

14. What does she do until six?
- She rests until six o’clock.

15. What does she do at six?
- She dresses for dinner.

16. Does she have dinner at seven?
- No, she doesn’t.

17. Ask “What time?”
- What time does she have dinner?

18. Does she go to bed at nine thirty?
- No, she doesn’t.

19. Ask “What time?”
- What time does she go to bed.

Language Summary

What	do	I you we they	do? read? think?	What time	do	I you we they	do it? have dinner? get up?
	does	he she it			does	he she it