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3) Miren el video «A Typical Day in The Life of Victoria Fontana». Primero en inglés sin subtítulos, y luego con los subtítulos actividos.





a. Indiquen si la siguiente información sobre Victoria es verdadera (true) o falsa (false).


1) Victoria is a teacher.

2) She has cats and dogs.

3) She usually rides a motorcycle.

4) She likes Chinese food.

5) She doesn't like sports.



b. Ahora lean la transcripción mientras escuchan el relato.




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 seven 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 eight thirty in the morning. So I go to my first class, which is in Madrid. In the center of Madrid. And, I have about, maybe four or five classes, depending on the day. Basically, I hop on my motorcycle and go around Madrid teaching class after 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 on Plaza de España, if you can get a table.

Sometimes I don't have time for lunch and I teach untill 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 pretty 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 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.