15511 a day in the life of shelley egg part 1

A day in the life of Shelley Egg
Shelley Egg is 26 years old. She is an
executive assistant at Chicken’s Lay Eggs
Limited. She works for the Director of the
company, Mr Mc Cluck. In order to get to work
by 9am, she sets her alarm for 6:20am.
She makes her bed and then brushes her
teeth at 6:30am. She washes her face
and gets dressed. At 7:00am she cooks her breakfast.
She eats her breakfast slowly so that she does not
get heartburn.
Shelley likes to keep her house
tidy. After breakfast she tidies her house. She leaves her house
at 8:45am. She walks to work everyday except when it rains.
Her friend Anne gives her a lift if it rains.
One of the jobs she does is to sort
papers which she does at 9:50am. At
10:30am she orders Mr Mc Cluck’s lunch
from his favourite restaurant. At 11:00am
she posts the mail at the red postbox
outside the post office
which is next door to
Us, which is Mr Mc
favourite restaurant.

Nuggets Are
Cluck’s

She leaves work at 17:30pm each day.
the 17:45pm bus to the tennis courts. Anne
her for a game of tennis. She does this

day, except Thursdays.

She catches
often meets
every week

On Thursdays she goes to visit her
is old and needs help because uses a
walks. She carries the groceries for him
to his house.

grandfather. He
stick when he
from the shops

Shelley studies for her business
22:00pm each night. She then watches
news at 23:30pm. She is very tired and
by 23:45pm. She sets her alarm and
eyes to sleep.

certificate at
the late night
gets into bed
closes her

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Rosemary Aitken

Use the passage to complete the following activities, the first one is
done for you.


1. Write out the times that Shelley:
a. brushes her teeth - half past six in the morning.
b. cooks breakfast - ________________________
c. walks to work - __________________________
d. posts the post - __________________________
e. studies - ________________________________
2. Write the answers to the following questions in your book,
remember to use full sentences.
a. What time did Shelley wake up?
b. What did Shelley do at 11am?
c. Who does Shelley play tennis with?
d. Why do you think that Shelley posts the post at 11am?
3. Fill in Shelley’s diary use the passage for clues.

Thursday
06:00 *wake up at 06:20am
06:30
07:00
07:30
08:00
08:30
09:00
09:30
10:00
10:30

11:00
11:30

26 January 2012

4. Using the example above draw at table into your book and
write out your own diary.

Use the passage to complete the following activities, the first one is
done for you.


1. Write out the times that Shelley:
a. brushes her teeth - half past six in the morning.
b. cooks breakfast - seven o’clock
c. walks to work – quarter to nine
d. posts the post – eleven o’clock
e. studies – ten o’clock at night
2. Write the answers to the following questions in your book,
remember to use full sentences.
a. What time did Shelley wake up? At 6:20am
b. What did Shelley do at 11am? She posted the mail
c. Who does Shelley play tennis with? She plays with
Anne
d. Why do you think that Shelley posts the post at 11am?
The post office is near to Mr Mc Cluck’s favourite
restaurant and she needs to fetch the lunch
which she ordered.
3. Fill in Shelley’s diary use the passage for clues.

Thursday
26 January 2012
06:00 *wake up at 06:20am
06:30 brush teeth
07:00 make breakfast
07:30 clean kitchen
08:00
08:30 *walk to work 8:45am
09:00
09:30 *9:50am sort papers
10:00
10:30 Order lunch for Mr Mc Cluck
11:00 Post mail
11:30 Fetch Mr Mc Cluck’s lunch from
Nuggets Are Us
4. Using the example above draw at table into your book and
write out your own diary.