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Unit 6  Reading & Listening Activities 

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Reading 1 Read the text. Find five differences
between life in Japan and life in your
Hello from Japan! country.
1 Konichiwa! My name is Takashi. I’m ten 1
years old and I live in Tokyo, the capital of 2
Japan. Japan consists of four main islands 3
near the coast of Asia in the North Pacific 4
Ocean.
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2 I want to tell you about a typical day
in my life. In the morning, I eat breakfast 2 Read the text again. Can you guess
at a low table called a kotatsu. We sit on what these words are in your own
mats with our legs under the table. After language? Don’t use a dictionary!
breakfast, I walk to school. In Japan, we 1 main (paragraph 1)
start school after our sixth birthday. I have 2 mats (paragraph 2)
to go to school from Monday to Friday and
3 bow (paragraph 3)
every other Saturday, too!
4 chopsticks (paragraph 3)
3 Every morning we bow to our sensei
(teacher) and say, O hayougozaimasu (Good 5 a waste of time (paragraph 4)
morning). Calligraphy is an important 3 Did you find the text interesting? Why/
subject at school. I think that Japanese Why not?
is probably the hardest written language
in the world. We have to learn 2,000
characters called kanji and two different Listening
alphabets! What’s more, each of them has
1 6 You are going to listen to four
forty-eight letters. When it’s lunchtime, we
short conversations. Listen and answer
eat in our classroom. Our sensei (teacher)
the questions.
eats with us, and we serve the food to
each other. We don’t eat with knives and Conversation 1
forks in Japan, we eat with chopsticks. We 1 What does the girl wear in the end?
have rice and drink tea with almost every Conversation 2
meal. At school we also have to clean the 2 Why isn’t the boy happy?
classroom and hallways, and the toilets. We 3 How do the boy’s parents feel?
even clean the erasers!
Conversation 3
4 After school, when we’re at home,
we have classes with private tutors. We 4 Who is going to the party?
sometimes even have classes on the 5 Why can’t the boy go to the party?
weekend because our parents think that it Conversation 4
is a waste of time if we only play! 6 What is the problem?
7 What solution does the boy suggest?

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