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A day in the life of a student
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| Student Stas Kovalenko | Student Lesya Borisova |
| At 7.30 a.m. my alarm goes off. It is very loud. I need that to wake me up. I lie for a while, but finally crawl out of bed at about 7.45. As my classes begin at 8 o’clock I don’t have time to do morning exercises or have breakfast (and don’t often have anything for breakfast, you know, I’m living in a hall of residence) – I just quickly wash my face, dress and rush to the university. My faculty isn’t far from my hall of residence – it’s only a five-minute walk from it. I study at the faculty of mathematics. Usually we have three or four double periods a day which finish at 12.35 or 2 p.m. After the first double period I have a snack in a snack bar and after classes I have lunch in our student canteen or we cook something for lunch in a hall of residence by ourselves. It’s often fried potatoes with meat or fish, some salad or soup. I like borsch very much, but I can’t make it. After lunch I have a nap and then have football practice for the faculty team. I do my homework in the evening. It takes three or four hours. My homework always gets done at roughly 11 p.m. After that I either surf the Internet or chat with my friends. You know I like my hall of residence mainly because of the number of friends I have there. We talk about politics, girls, our teachers, football, everything! I go to bed late after midnight, so it’s not easy to wake up in the morning. | I usually get up at 6 in the morning. You may ask me why I get up so early. Well, the thing is, I live in Makeevka, and it takes me more than an hour to get to my university. I ‘m not hungry in the morning, but my mother always makes me eat something. I often have fried eggs, tea or coffee and a sandwich for my breakfast. I leave home at 7 a.m. and take a trolley-bus to the bus station where I take a bus to Donetsk. I arrive at university five or six minutes before classes. I don’t like being late. It’s rather strange that students living in a dormitory which is near the university are often late. I usually enjoy university if I cope with my university work. I hate feeling left behind. I take a course in applied mathematics. My course is interesting, but some subjects are very difficult, and Calculus is the most difficult of all. It takes me two or three hours to do my homework in Calculus. I do my homework immediately after dinner when I come home after classes at about 3.30 p.m. All my homework takes roughly five hours. So at about 9 p.m. I can relax. I either watch TV or play computer games. I sometimes go out with my boyfriend, but I always try to go to bed at 11 p.m. because having a good sleep is very important to me. When I was at school I went to a swimming-pool twice a week, but now I have absolutely no time for any sports. It’s much harder to study at university than at school! |
Task 1. Find in the text:
1. The time the students get up.
2. The reason why Stas doesn’t have breakfast and Lesya does.
3. How they get to their university.
4. Who sleeps in the afternoon.
5. Who usually plays sports.
6. Whose homework takes longer.
7. The reason why Stas likes his dormitory.
8. The time they go to bed.
Task 2. Join the sentences with either … or
Example
After that I sometimes surf the Internet and I sometimes chat with my friends.
After that I either surf the Internet or chat with my friends.
1. I sometimes have coffee and I sometimes have tea for my breakfast.
2. In the afternoon I sometimes play football and I sometimes do my homework.
3. In the evening I sometimes watch TV and I sometimes go out with my friends.
4. After the first double period I sometimes have a sandwich and I sometimes eat in a student canteen.
5. On Saturday evenings we sometimes go to the cinema and we sometimes play cards.
Task 3. Read through Stas’ story again and write ten questions that the interviewer might have asked him
Examples
What time do you get up?
Do you like getting up?
Task 4. Share your questions with a partner. Did you have many similar questions? Write down any that you did not think of
Task 5. Interview your partner using the list of questions you made in the previous task. Ask additional questions if you want to. Make notes of his/her answers to write a piece called ‘A day in the life of…’ about your partner. Show him/her your draft. Discuss possible corrections before copying out a final version
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