People in conversation – Tammy 2 – answers

Answers.

Exercise 1: Questions

1. What time does Tammy get up? at about quarter to seven
2. Who does she share her bed with? her dogs
3. What does she do before she gets dressed? She has a shower.
4. Who does she give some milk to after she’s made her coffee? her dogs

Exercise 2: True/False

1. Tammy always has breakfast before she goes to work. (F ‘sometimes have breakfast, sometimes don’t, depends on how I feel’)
2. She listens to the radio news every morning. (F ‘sit and watch the morning news’)
3. She leaves her home at between quarter and ten to eight. (T ‘I go to work about quarter to eight, ten to eight’)
4. She knows what operations are planned from the day before. (F ‘once I get to work I find out what we’re doing’)
5. She doesn’t usually have a break in the morning because she’s too busy. (T ‘I don’t tend to have a break in the morning ‘cos it tends to be non-stop or there’s always problems to sort out.’)

Exercise 3: Gap-fill

Tammy:
Typically get about 10, 15 minutes for lunch and then get back, back to it and send early if I can and try to get patients through as quickly and as efficiently as possible. Try to have a bit of a laugh with them ‘cos they usually come up they’re quite scared. Er, once the last patient’s out, I make sure everything’s OK in Recovery, get changed, go home, take the dogs out for a walk.

Exercise 4: Questions

Track 4

1. What do you think the word ‘knackered’ means in the first sentence? tired/exhausted
2. Which two sports does Tammy play regularly? hockey and rugby
3. What is the latest Tammy goes to bed during the week? 12.30
4. How much sleep does she get if she’s lucky? four hours
5. How much sleep does she usually need? two hours