It’s a hard life

Yesterday was a normal schoolday for Yumiko, a fourteen-year-old student at Higashi High school in Tokyo, Japan.

At 6.15 am, while you were probably still sleep, Yumiko was getting ready for school. She did some homework then, at 7.30, she left home and travelled for an hour by train to get to school. Her first class started at 8.40. she had four lessons in the morning, and she sat in the same seat all the time. In Japan, students stay in the same classroom and wait for their teacher.

There’s a cafeteria or a canteen at Yumiko’s school so, at 12.30, she stayed in her classroom with her classmates and ate her packed lunch. She had 50 minutes for lunch and then had two more classes.

At 3 pm classes finished and it was time for o shoji. This is when the students clean the school. Yumiko helped to tidy the classroom and, after that, she went to baseball club and practiced for two hours. Every student in Japan goes to a club after school. Some of the clubs, like Yumiko’s baseball club, even meet every Saturday and Sunday as well.

After baseball, Yumiko had a burger and then took a 30 minute train journey to a special school called a juku. She stayed there for three hours, studying for her exams. Yumiko likes going to juku because she says it’s more fun than normal school, and more interesting. Her parents don’t mind paying because they hope it will help her to get into a good university. About 60% of Japanese high school students take these extra classes. Finally, Yumiko went home and did another hour’s homework before she went to bed – at midnight.

And you thought you a hard life!

2 Answer the questions.

a) What time do lessons start in Japan?

b) How much time do students have for lunch?

c)What time do lessons finish?

d) Are extra evening classes popular?

e) When did she go to sleep?

3 Retell the text.

SPEAKING

1Speak on the given topics

a) My typical day.

b) How do you relax after hard working day?

c) The hardest day in my life.

d) Wake up is hard to do.

e) Working day of my parents.

2 Work in pairs. Discuss about each given professions’ working day.

1 taxi driver 2 actor/actress 3 teacher 4doctor 5architect

3Describe your working day from Monday till Friday.

WRITING

1 Complete the sentences with the words in the box.

get (x2) get up get to get on get off get into (x2) get out of get dressed get ready get home

a) I usually ................... at seven, but on Sunday I stay in bed all morning.

b) Yumiko wants to.................... a good university.

c) I always have a snack when I...................... from school.

d) This is our station. Quick! We must..........................

e) Hurry up and.................. _ for school! Have you got all your books?

2 Correct the mistakes in the text.

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