1. Meet the Anybodys

En este primer apartado vamos a conocer a la familia Anybody. A partir de la escucha y lectura de los textos que hablan sobre un día normal en la vida de esta familia, vas a aprender las actividades que conforman nuestra rutina diaria. Es decir, las actividades que hacemos a diario en casa o en el trabajo.

Si deseamos contar cómo es un día cualquiera en nuestra vida, necesitamos conocer esas acciones en inglés (levantarse, ducharse, desayunar, ir al trabajo, almorzar...) y expresar a qué hora o en qué momento del día las hacemos.

Con la lectura de estos textos que nos explican la rutina de los Anybody y la ayuda de un diccionario, vas a adquirir las herramientas necesarias para expresar cómo es un día normal en tu vida.

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The Anybodys: an ordinary British family

Mr. And Mrs. Anybody and their children are an ordinary British family. They live in a village in the North of Wales. John Anybody, the father, is a clerk in a bank in the centre of the village. Mary Anybody, the mother, works in a big supermarket not far from their house, she is a cashier. Jim and Jane Anybody, the Anybodys’ children, are students. Jim is in year 8 (KS3) and Jane in year 5 (KS2) , this means that Jim is 12 and Jane is 10.

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 The Anybodys: morning routines

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Every day the Anybodys get up at seven o'clock in the morning. They have breakfast together, a typical full English breakfast with eggs and bacon rashers and bread and butter and tea, and then Mr. Anybody goes to work. He leaves the house at about a quarter to eight, he goes by car because the bank is far from their house.

At ten past eight Mrs. Anybody takes the children to school. They go on foot, they do not go by car or by bus because the school is quite near their house and the school opens at a quarter past eight. When she leaves the children, Mrs. Anybody catches bus number 5 to her work; it's just a five minutes ride. She starts work at half past eight.

The Anybodys: luch time

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They never go back home for lunch. Mr. Anybody usually has a snack in a pub that is near the bank and Mrs. Anybody has her lunch at the supermarket canteen. The children take to school their homemade packed lunch, usually a sandwich and a piece of fruit or half pint of milk and sometimes, but not very often, a chocolate bar or a chocolate biscuit.

At ten past five in the evening Mr. Anybody picks Mrs. Anybody up outside the supermarket supermercado and five minutes later they fetch the children from school and they all go home.

The Anybodys: in the evening

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It is half past five in the evening. The Anybodies are at home. First thing they usually do is have a nice cup of tea and some biscuits but today they are not having biscuits, they are having slices of a wonderful plumcake that Mr. Anybody’s mother baked yesterday.

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After tea they all start doing their tasks. Mum and dad do the housework tasks while the children do their homework, if they have any. When Jim and Jane have no homework to do they usually help their parents with the housework. There are always easy tasks they can perform.


At about seven they have dinner. On week days it is Mrs. Anybody who cooks dinner but at weekends Mr. Anybody usually prepares some of the children’s favourite dishes of Italian food, he is an expert cooking pasta and making pizza!

Aquí te dejamos algo del vocabulario que ha aparecido en los textos. Se trata de acciones que sirven para describir nuestro día a día cotidiano. Anótalas en tu cuaderno para que, más adelante, puedas empezar a hablar de tu rutina: