Lesson 7 – Everyday Documents in Our Lives

Lesson 7 – Everyday Documents in Our Lives

Topic

Documents and Texts We Use Every Day

Grammar Focus

Countable & Uncountable Nouns
some / any / no

1. Warm-up

Discuss.

How many emails do you get every day?

Do you still write letters?

What documents do you always carry with you?

Do you enjoy reading magazines or books?

What's the funniest advertisement you've ever seen?

Have you ever forgotten to pay a bill?

Do you keep a diary?

Which is better: paper books or e-books?

2. Vocabulary

3. Reading

The Office Manager's Very Strange Monday

Emma is an office manager, but every Monday something funny happens.
On Monday morning, she opened her email and found 57 new messages. One message said:
"Please don't forget the office cat's birthday!"
Emma didn't even know the office had a cat.
Then she found an advertisement that said, "Become a millionaire in three days!" She laughed and deleted it.
Next, her boss asked, "Emma, where is my licence?"
She looked everywhere—under a book, inside a magazine, and even behind the coffee machine. Finally, she found the licence inside a funny comic. Nobody knew why it was there.
After that, a customer arrived and asked to pay a bill. Emma reached for the payment card machine, but it wasn't on her desk. Five minutes later, she found it... in the office fridge, next to the milk.
Before lunch, Emma had to complete an important form for a new employee. She almost wrote her lunch order instead of the employee's name because she was already thinking about the menu at the café across the street.
When lunchtime arrived, she ordered the biggest sandwich on the menu. The waiter smiled and said, "Good choice!"
Back at work, Emma found a letter from the company director. She thought it was something serious, but inside was only a thank-you card that said:
"You survived another Monday. Congratulations!"
Later that afternoon, she read an interesting article in a business magazine called How to Stay Calm at Work. Unfortunately, she spilled coffee on the first page before she finished reading it.
Finally, Emma looked at the diploma hanging on her office wall and smiled.
"I studied for four years," she said, "but nobody taught me how to find a card machine in a fridge!"
That evening, she wrote everything in her diary.
She wrote:
"Today I answered 57 emails, found one licence, lost one card machine, completed one form, paid one bill, read half an article, and survived another Monday. Tomorrow will definitely be easier… probably." 😄

Grammar

Countable

Uncountable

money

information

paper

news

homework

some / any / no

I have some emails.

Do you have any messages?

I have no money.
I don't have any information.

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