House and Home Vocabulary

Hello, everyone! I hope you have had terrific holidays and are ready to invest your time and energy into studying. There is a week left till the holidays end and, hopefully, you are looking forward to the beginning of the second term. I have asked you to learn the vocabulary related to housing, as you remember. To make the job easier, here is a list of vocabulary units to be learned.

Home Vocabulary by Maribella2012

How I really spend my time

Time - this is what we often lack. Not all people are able to plan out their time properly.
As for me, most of my time I devote to studying and homeworks. My day starts at 6 am. Classes start at 8, sometimes later and end at 1 or 2 p.m. After a hard day at the university I need a little rest. I like to lie down on the couch listening to music, watch some series or chatting to my parents or friends on the phone. After a rest, I start doing my homework. This usually takes until midnight.
At the weekend I want to spend more time with my family. The day always goes differently, and in the evenings we usually watch some family film. On occasion, my friend pays a visit to me, because on the weekdays neither she nor I have time to meet.
Sometimes I'm not happy with the way I allocate my time, but I try to fix it and become more organized.

How we spend our time

My task was to conduct a survey about peoples` usual activities and find out what amount of time it takes. Results are the following:

 Sleeping. This takes most of the time. On average working people wake up at 6 a.m. and go to bed at 11 p.m. Students wake up at the same time and fall asleep a little later, about 12 p.m. On weekends everybody sleeps till 10-11 a.m and stay up to 12 p.m.

Work and studies. Toiling masses commonly start their working day at 9 a.m., have their lunch from 1 to 2 p.m and finish at 6 p.m. Students have to be present at the institute at 8 a.m and till 2 p.m their time is dedicated to acquiring new knowledge. Afterwards they usually come home and spend few hours making home-tasks.

Housework. Work about the house never ends. It may take from 2 to 4 hours a day, depending on the size of your flat or house and quantity of people and animals living there. Women work about the house everyday, and men barely help them.

Hobbies. This is very essential part of life. This may be active one – like sports, and may be calm one – like arts, books etc. Majority of my relatives adore sports and dedicate about 4 hours a week to fitness room.

Meals.  At least 3 hours a day are dedicated to cooking and about 2 hours a day are busy with the process of eating 

Leisure. Great deal of people who surround me belong to students. They like to spend their time in the cinema – about once – twice a week. Adults prefer visiting theaters. Once –twice in a month. TV is also in favor. People spend the evening near TVset, watching shows and films – this takes about 2 hours a day.

Phone. Everybody in modern society has a mobile phone. Usually people spend about 1-2 hours talking phone.

Internet. This is like a drug for people from 10 to 30-40 years old. Majority of us spend 4-5 hours a day in the web.

What do we do with our time?

My survey revealed that in Ukraine today as well as in the UK, people spend a third of their day sleeping and eating. It may seem much but it is only 8 hours - the time which a person ought to spend just sleeping. Working or studying, sleeping and surfing the Internet take up much more than half of the day.
On average the Ukrainians spend about 17 hours per week watching TV. However they are using more and more Internet – approximately 20 hours. Not surprisingly, older people use the Internet and watch TV less than the youth do. For example, only one out of four people aged 60 and over says he can use a computer while all the examined teenagers say they use computer every day.
During the week, 72% of adults are up by 7 am. 68% of students stay at university or at school at least till 3 pm and then come back home, do their leisure time activities and their homework. Adults spend much more time working that the youth studying. Two thirds of the examined people come back home later than 6 pm.
People generally eat between 6.30 and 7 am, at 1 pm and between 6 and 9 pm. By midnight, 90% of adults are asleep, while a quarter of teenagers prefer surfing the Internet or hanging out with their friends at that time.
At the weekend people get up later (65% after 9 am) and go to bed later. Small difference was revealed between adults and children. Adults spend twice as much time alone as children do.

How Ukrainians Spend Their Time

I conducted a survey this week. The survey showed that most of the time people spend sleeping, study or work, eating, watching TV. On average, people spend 8 hours sleeping. Watching TV is by far the most popular leisure activity. Older people watch it often than younger people, with those aged 57 and over spending twice as much time watching television as those aged 8 to 17.  

On average, students spend about 7 hours doing their homework and spend about an hour doing their hobby. The vast majority, 67 %, do sports. It takes them about an hour a day. Many pensioners are just as active as a youth. 
During the week, adults and children wake up at 7 o'clock in the morning. They work or go to school, at least, until 4 p.m. and then do their homework, have meals or do some form of entertainment. Almost people go to bed at 11 o'clock. On weekends they wake up later, at 9-10, and go to bed later, at 12 o'clock.
People usually have breakfast between 7:00 and 7:30 a.m., have lunch between 12:00 and 13:00 and have dinner between 17:00 and 17:30.
By midnight most of the adults and the children sleep, but someone can work at this time, doing homework, etc.

What do we do with our time?

I have done a research to find out what we do with our time. I have asked 11 people about how much time they spend sleeping, eating, watching TV and doing housework. There were people from 17 to 50 years. According to my research, the average person spends a third of a day sleeping. It is 32, 5 % of day. People generally get up at 7 a.m. and go to bed at 11 p.m. People spend one hour and thirteen minutes a day eating. It is 6, 5 % of day. On average, people spend 4 hours a day or 27 hours a week watching TV (16 % of day). The average woman spends three or four a day doing housework (17 %). I found out that people spend about one hour chatting on the phone and no less than 3 hours using the Internet. Also they do shopping three hours a week. About 60 per cent are not happy with the way they use their time.

How Ukrainians Spend Their Time

My latest research revealed that my relatives and friends spend most of their time sleeping. Working or studying and using the computer take up more than a half the day.

On average, I may say that they spend nearly 40 hours per week sleeping. Of course, not surprisingly that adults and pensioners sleep more than young people. By midnight 95 % of adults are asleep, while 5% are enjoying some free time. In opposite, only 10% of teenagers are asleep by midnight. The vast majority of young people 65 % study or surf the Internet at this time.

During the week 95 % of adults and teenager are up by 8 am. At the weekend, people get up later (seventy percent after 8:30) and go to bed later (85 % are in bed by 2 am). Sixty percent work or study at least 7 hours, sometimes even more, it depends on their timetable. So they are busy until at least 4 pm and then have meals, do housework and homework. Almost half of them spend nearly 5-6 hours using the computer for their study or work.  Only 20 % do some form of leisure activity (watching TV or reading for pleasure).

 As for the time for having meal people generally have breakfast between 7 and 8 am, have dinner between 2 pm and 4, and have supper at 8 pm. All of them prefer home-cooked food to ready meals. Almost all these families eat together at least once per day or even more.

T he research was revealed a difference between adults and young people. Adults spend 6-7 hours per week alone compared with teenagers, who spend 10-12 hours per week socializing and hanging out with their friends.