Verbs

1. Spend / waste time doing.

What do you think? Match the two parts to make sentences about how people in Britain spend their time.

2. Can you remember?

From memory, can you complete the sentences?

3. Write questions.

Looking at the pictures below, write down questions similar to the example.

 

For example:

How many hours a week do you spend exercising?

When you have finished compare your questions with the suggested answers.

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4. How long does it take?

It takes Londoners three hours a week to get nowhere.

This means roughly the same as:

Londoners spend three hours a week getting nowhere.

Change these sentences in the same way.

5. Questions.

Write the questions for these answers.

 

It takes Tom an hour to walk to work.
How long does it take Tom to walk to work?

1.	It took Harry two hours to do his homework.
2.	It took Joyce 15 years to write Ulysses.
3.	It takes me 10 minutes to get dressed.
4.	It took them 24 hours to fly to Australia.
5.	It took her a week to paint the kitchen.
6.	It takes me 15 minutes to get home from work.
7.	It takes Jenny an hour to have a bath.
8.	It took Kubrick about 10 years to make a film.

 

Now compare your answers.

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