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

1 Speak on the given topics

1. My typical day.

2. How do you relax after hard working day?

3. The hardest day in my life.

4. Wake up is hard to do.

5. 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

3 Describe 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

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

2. Yumiko wants to a good university.

3. I always have a snack when I from school.

4. This is our station. Quick! We must

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

2 Correct the mistakes in the text.

16 Ways to de-stress

1. Take your off watch.

2. Switch of your mobile phone.

3. Don’t eat your braekfast on your feet – down sit and enjoy eat.

4. Put with your most comfortable clothes.

5. Don’t running after the bus – let it go.

6. Smel the roses.

7. Give upp the gym.

8. Fall on love.

9. Only switch in your television if there’s something you really want to watch.

10. Throw away or give away any clozes you haven’t worn for the past two years.

11. Hav a laugh.

12. Hang up your clothes when you take them of.

13. Spend ten minuts doing absolutely nothing.

14. Walk.

15. Only do the ironning if you love it.

16. Put on you favourite music and turn up down the volume.

3 Correct in the sentences phrasal verbs.

1. 1 I always switch on my shoes before I go into my house.

2. 2 If I want to relax, I put on all the lights and sit in silence.

3. 3 When I want to look my best, I give up a suit.

4. 4 I could never switch off coffee- it’s the only thing that keeps me awake.

5. 5 The first thing I do when I get to the office is take off my computer.

Questions for computer based-testing

1 Here are you shoes. Put _____.

a on them

b them on

c it on

d on it

2 I can’t find my keys. Can you help me ________?

a look them for

b look for them

c for them look

d them for look

3 Coffee is bad for you. You need to ______

a it up give

b give up it

c it give up

d give it up

4 Your mobile is ringing.

a Turn it off

b Turn off it

c It turn off

d It off turn

Glossary

English	Russian	Kazakh
Staff	Штат, персонал, кадр	Кадр, штат
Employee	работник	Жумысшы
Decent salary	достойная зарплата	Жаксы айлық
Resigned	ушел в отставку	Жумыстан кету
Ironing	гладить	үтіктеу
Employee	работадатель	Жұмыс беруші
Staff	штат	штат
Retirement age	Пенсионный возраст	Зейнетке шығу жасы
Department store	универмаг	универмаг
Force	Сила	Күш

SIW: Writing a report ‘My friend’s unusual day’. Ask a partner about his/her working day. Try to find out some interesting facts about his/her daily routine.

Office hours: exercises a,b,c [1, p. 153]

References:

Main literature

1. “New English File” by Clive Oxenden and Christina Koenig for Pre-intermediate level. Student’s book. Oxford University Press. 2010.

2. “New English File” by Clive Oxenden and Christina Koenigfor Pre-intermediate level. Work book. Oxford University Press. 2010.

3. New Inside out by Sue Kay & Vaughan Jones for Pre-intermediate Student’s book. Macmillan, 2013

4. Messages 3 (for Kazakhstan) by Diana Goodey, Noel Goodey and Miles Graven for Pre-intermediate. Student’s book. 2012.

Additional literature

4. Романович А.Ю.,Михайлович Е.Д. Brush up your English, Устный экзамен по английскому языку без проблем Москва 2008

5.“Essential grammar” R.Murphy. Second edition. Pre-Intermediate level. Cambridge University Press. 2009.

HAND-OUT Discipline: English as a foreign language Lexical theme: My close friend (Appearance) Pre-intermediate Grammatical theme: Present Continuous Practical lesson 4 Assistant-Professor A. K. Tassyrova

Warming-up: Give the equivalent of the proverb in Kazakh/ Russian. The best mirror is an old friend.

GRAMMAR: Present Continuous

Positive	Negative	Question
I am eating	I’m not eating	Am I eating?
You are eating	You’re not eating	Are you eating?
He/she/ it is eating	He/she/it isn’t eating	Is he/she/it eating?
We are eating	We’re not eating	Are we eating?
You are eating	You’re not eating	Are you eating?
They are eating	They’re not eating	Are they eating?
We form the Present Continuous like this: be+ing form. Eg. I am eating We use Present Continuous : to talk about actions and situations in progress now: The bus is coming to talk about actions and situations in progress around now but not exactly at the moment we speak: What are you doing this days? –I’m learning Spanish. We don’t usually use Present Continuous to talk about opinions or thoughts: I like tennis (NOT I’m liking tennis) We don’t usually use this verbs in Present Continuous tense: like know hate love understand believe mean remember want

Here are the common Present Continuous questions. They all mean ‘How are you?’: How is it going? How are you getting on? How are you doing?