People in conversation – Anne-Maj – answers
Answers.
PART 1:
1. She lives in Trollhätan. X It’s spelt Trollhättan.
2. She gets up: 5.30. X 4.30 ‘I get up at half-past four’
3. She has a shower every morning.
‘to begin with I will of course have a shower’)
4. She goes to Gothenburg by train. X ‘we take the car, drive to Gothenburg’
5. Gothenburg is 8 miles from Anne-Maj’s town. X ‘eight Swedish miles’ ‘So is that eight kilometres?’ ‘Yeah.’
6. She begins work at 7.45. ‘I start work at quarter to eight’
7. She spends 8½ hours at work, including her lunch break.
She works from 7.45 to 4.15 which equals 8½ hours.
8. She has lunch at 12.30. X ‘between 11 and er, half-past’
9. She brings her own lunch from home. ‘I take my own.’
10. She often has fish for lunch. X ‘Very often we… I have pasta and different sauces.’
11. On Sundays she has potatoes. X ‘and some days I have potatoes and meat’
12. After work, Anne-Maj goes to meet her husband at his office. X ‘he’s coming to pick me up at my work’
13. The return journey takes 1 hour, 15 minutes.
They leave at 4.15 and they get home at half-past five.
14. Anne-Maj and her husband have a big dinner when they get home. X ‘we use to have er, some tea and sandwich’
15. If it’s nice weather when they get home they go for a walk. X ‘And if it’s um, nice weather perhaps we’ll go out in the garden and do some gardening.’
16. They go to bed at 9.30.
‘half-past nine’
PART 2:
1. At the weekend Anne-Maj and her husband stay in bed until around 7am.
2. For breakfast they have bread, coffee, juice and some tomatoes.
3. They then sit and read the paper for about an hour.
4. After breakfast on a Saturday they go to a gym and exercise
5. After that they usually go shopping.
6. In the evening they try to see some friends.
7. On Sunday they sometimes play golf for five or six hours.
8. On Sunday evening/s they have a special dinner.
9. In the summer they often have a barbecue.