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.

     

How Ukrainians Spend The Time

This survey revealed some average activities Ukrainian people spend time on. I’ve asked 25 people including 5 pensioners over 60 years old and 4 children about 12 years old. The vast majority of interviewees are under-aged students of the Tavrida National University.

The main time-taking part of the day is sleep. Sleep takes an average person about 8 hours a day, which is approximately the third part of all time. The second popular way of spending time is watching television. On average, it takes about 3 to 4 hours a day to watch favourite TV shows and series. As pensioners have more spare time than anyone else, most of them spend about 5 to 6 hours a day watching the soap operas and other programs.

It’s startling that the vast majority or interviewed students spend at least 1 hour a day reading for pleasure. Anyway, about 45% do not consider reading as an important part of their weekly activity. Surprisingly, 88% of children under the age of 12 read more than their older companions. Moreover, 95% of pensioners prefer newspapers to book.

99% of interviewees generally get up about 6 o’clock usually to have enough time to eat in the morning and wrap their bag for school or university. Being a great thrill, most pensioners get up early daily, including weekends, whereas 95% of younger generation’s representatives usually sleep until 10 a.m.

The vast majority, 90% stay up late daily because of studying or communicating with friends via social networks. Most of students, 98% don’t eat in the morning before university or school. Pensioners, all of a sudden, eat just 2 times a day instead of recommended norm of 3-to-5 ingestion.

According to the held survey, most people spend about 33% of their time sleeping, watching TV takes 23%. 20% of all time is studying (intellectual work), which includes reading as a broadening-horizons activity. About 15% of time takes leisure, which is different with most of the pensioners, whom it takes about 20-25%. The rest part of time, about 10%, is covered by different less time-taking things, such as eating and cooking, for instance.

My survey

My survey revealed that people in the age of 15 to 25 have enough free time. Sleeping, educational, leisure and sport activities take up more than half the day. People in this age group spend 8 hours sleeping, 4 hours for education, leisure and sport activities.

Watching TV is the leisure activity that occupies the most of the time (3 hours per day), accounting for about half of leisure time, on average, for age 15 and over. Socializing, such as hanging out with friends (going to the cafes, cinemas, theaters and grooming) is the next most common leisure activity, accounting for nearly three-quarters of an hour per day.

There are a little group of people who spend 2 hours of their time on joining some new hobbies such as: doing clothes, dancing, photography, making jewelry and gardening.

On an average day, nearly everyone age 15 and over engaged in some sort of leisure activity, such as watching TV, socializing, chatting on the phone, and girls like gossiping for many hours, shopping, listening to music and cooking. Time spends on reading for personal interest, playing games and using a computer for leisure is what our people do on a weekend.

Surprisingly, very few of my respondents feel that they waste their time. Some of them think that chatting on the phone and watching TV is the way to waste time. Also, some very hard-working students wants to waste one day of their limited life, they devoted it to relaxing and doing nothing, reading and walking.

We spend our time in mindless activities, especially on weekend and when we are tired or even exhausted.

How I really spend my time

Time, it seems, is what we're all short of these days. Now I want to tell you how I really spend my time. As you know I am a student and studying takes most of my time. 

I come home an average at 2 or 3 o’clock. Then I usually eat, but sometimes I can go to bed. Eating takes me about 20 minutes. Then I begin to do my homework. An average it takes me about 6-7 hours. But I try to make small breaks. At this time, I can listen to music, chatting on the phone with my family, with my boyfriend or drinking tea with my flatmate. 

To tell the truth I'm not happy with the way I use my time. Unfortunately, I don't have much spare time, because I try to study very hard.  I really like English and I want to teach little pupils, therefore I always find time for preparing lessons and doing my homework. But I want to spend less time doing it.

If I have a little bit more free time, I will make some sports because dream about perfect body.  Also I want to go out more with my boyfriend because he will leave soon and we won't meet for a long time.

I wanna spend more tome with my family, especially with my mother, because I understand how much I love her. I enjoy her company very much. One more thing, I dream about dancing too. I'm really into  it, and I'm going to use my spare time for it.

How I really spend my time

Time, it seems, is what we are all short of these days. The world is moving faster and faster. We spend time in vain, but we do not have time for the really important things. As for me I do not completely happy how I use my time. As you know I am a first year student at the Department of Foreign Languages, Tavrida National University. My common day starts with getting up at 6 a.m. My lectures begin at 8 a.m. and finish at 2 p.m. It takes me 20 minutes to return to the hostel. Cooking and eating dinner takes me an hour. Further I let myself to relax in a half an hour. At this time I prefer listen to music or to take a nap, because it makes me more fresh and energetic. Then I do my homework, it takes me about 6 hours. Frankly speaking, I think that it is too much, but sometimes I have to do my tasks even longer. That is why I go to bed near midnight or later. I try to spend my weekend with my family. But probably the only thing I can afford on the weekends is to sleep a bit longer, but generally I also spend a whole day doing homework. In future I would like to do my tasks quicker and spend more time doing exercise and hanging out with my friends.

How I spend my time!

In today’s fast-moving world we have a lot of to do, so in my opinion time is by far what we’re all really short of these days.

As for me I’m not always happy how I use my time, I think I could spend it better. Basically almost all my time I spend doing my homework, for the same reason I use the Internet a lot. I also spend my time doing housework such as cleaning  floors , washing dishes  and vacuuming carpets , but it isn’t my mother’s requirement I do it because I just  love when the house clean. It’s a pity that I have   little spare time, if I have some I try to spend it usefully. I do physical activities such as cycling, jogging, skating and playing volleyball. As now it’s getting colder and colder I spend less and less time for sport and it’s also quite hard for me to get up at 05.30 and do some exercise.

   Unfortunately, I don’t always have enough time for my hobbies dancing and reading.  Frankly speaking, the other thing on which I’d like to spend my time is hanging out with my friends. We see each other only at the weekends or even rare as some of us study in others cities.

All in all, I think I’m a lucky one as I have no time to do nothing.

How I Really Spend My Time

Everybody has ever thought about the way they spend their time and how they could spend it better. The results of the recent researches amazed me and I decided to count out the approximate amount of time-wasting activity I do daily. I was shocked.

As a student of one of the most demanding department of the Tavrida National University, studying takes the vast majority of my time. Firstly, I spend at least five hours attentions lectures; secondly, I come home and do homework for the next day. It isn't easy, but I try to cope with the amount of new information I get every single day.
I'm broad-minded person, so that I have loads of interests and hobbies. Getting to know new information is the most important thing in my life - moreover, it's the age of globalization, so you need to know more than ever before - that's why I keep reading books, no matter how little time I have. I am also into cross-stitching a lot, but nowadays, I haven't got a couple of spare minutes to make a single cross. One of my biggest hobby is singing. I'm a big fan of Lara Fabian and Mariah Carey, so I have a classic music taste, and I put myself a target to be close to the vocals they produce. I'm not a splendid singer, but I can sing and enjoy it at least. Singing takes me much time.
I spend about 2 hours a day communicating with my friends and relatives. I prefer to hang out on fresh air, but at the moment I spend outside less time than I used to. That's why I have to manage with taking to the remote friends via "Skype" or else.
Enlisted above facts are important daily activities and they take me about 17 hours including sleep. The rest 7 hours are taken by the so-called time-wasters. For instant, the most common time-waster in the city is public transport. You spend roughly an hour en route to the university and back home. Personally, the incapacity to allocate time efficiently and occupying the blanks of time with unimportant activities such as preparing one more cup of tea, sitting and doing nothing and so on...
Notwithstanding, I absolutely enjoy the way I spend my time, so I would change nothing, because this defines my personality and I like it.

How I spend my time

My today’s work day compared to my school’s work day hasn’t changed very much. Since I have been student my alarm goes off at twenty to six, and my day starts. Studying takes most of my time. I come home an average at 3 o’clock and begin to prepare my homework at 4 o’clock. Doing homework takes from 4 to 6 hours. I don’t do it all the time, but sometimes it really takes all of my time. O course I digress by texting with my friends, chatting on the phone and using the Internet. I go to bed at 11 o’clock. My work doesn’t suit me. It is very boring and unhappy. All days are very similar. The same situation I had at school, but nevertheless I find out some time for handing out with my friends then. Studying at the university is more difficult than at school. Of course I want to spend less time doing homework, but I understand that now studies is one of the main points in my life, and my future depends from my today’s pains and work. Socialising makes the life of anyone more interesting and happy. And for me it is very important too. Unfortunately I can’t meet my friends every day and spend a lot of time with them. My friends also very busy. At the weekend we all meet together and have a good long talk.

How I Spend My Time

  How I Spend My Time

       People spend their time in different ways. Some people enjoy going in for sports, others prefer watching TV or playing computer games.

      As for me, I spend most of my time studying and doing my homework. Sometimes I feel very exhausted after a hard day at the University, so I need a couple of hours to relax. In this case I prefer to stay alone lying on the sofa and listening to music in my room. Music helps me to relax and feel refreshed.

        At the weekend I usually help my parents with the housework. My household duties are to clean the second floor of the house and to water the flowers.

No wonder that the vast majority of young people have some duties at home although many of them aren’t happy about it. Of course, watching TV or playing computer games is much more interesting than tidying the house or doing the washing up, but I think that our parents need our help and we have to remember about it. It is necessary to share duties at home so that our parents could have a rest.

         Frankly speaking, I’d like to spend more time walking and hanging out with my friends, because it is necessary for me to have a day for a rest so that I will be able to continue my study successfully, but in general I’m happy with the way I use my time!

        All in all there are a lot of ways to spend our time. And we choose the way  which suits our preferences.

Yes, I am happy with the way I use my time!

How do we really spend our time? If we look out of a window we may see a lot of people who are in a hurry. It happens because most of them can`t plan their time properly. I also have an intensive timetable but in general I`m satisfied with the way I use my time.

The main thing in a life of every student is studying and most of us do our best to succeed in the chosen sphere of knowledge. I am not an exception. Every weekday I spend about an hour and a half doing my homework and preparing for the lessons. You may say that it is too little and you`ll be right. However, when it is a weekend I try to do my homework on all the subjects I can in order to relieve myself for the following week.As I am a rather active person I do a lot of other activities which take much time. For example, I spend about 6 hours per week attending photo courses and approximately 3 hours going to swimming pool.When it was warm enough I also went jogging. However, the weather became colder so I don`t have such an opportunity now. I really miss it because jogging charged me with energy.It is not strange that I may be tired after all these activities. However, I can`t live in the other way. If I have some free time I try to do anything but not just lie on a sofa and watch TV. Even when I want to watch this or that TV show I do it partially.Despite I like the way how I spend my time there is one thing which really annoys me. I hate travelling by bus. It takes too much time just sitting and doing nothing. I live in the suburb and I have counted that I spend about 10 hours per week en route. I try to use even this time, though. I learn new words or revise the material I learnt in the university.All things considered, I am very busy nowadays but I`m not sure I`ll ever be less busy than I am now. But in comparison with other people I have enough time to do things which I really like.

What time is it?

For those of you who find it difficult to tell the time in English, here is a game: Clock game.
Good luck! Let me know if you manage to win!

Numbers Practice

Good day! I suppose you might find some additional practice in numbers, fractions and decimals useful. Please, follow the link   time4english  and click the Login button. When the next page opens, click Lower Intermediate. Scroll down the page and do the following exercises:
4A Numbers - 100 to 1,000,000 (Vocabulary)
4B Numbers - 100 to 1,000,000 (Listening)
4F Fractions (Reading)
4G Fractions (Listening)
4H Fractitions and Decimals (Reading)
4I Fractions and Decimals (Listening)
4J Operations (Reading)
4K Operations (Listening).
Some exercises consist of several pages, so after you have completed one page, press the NEXT button at the bottom of the page.

Listening: How do we really spend our time?

Hello! How about some listening practice?
What do you waste time doing?
After doing the exercise, give your answer to this question in the comments to the post.

Who am I?

Read the numbered descriptions the students of our group completed about themselves. Decide which student wrote each one. Give your arguments.

Student 1.
I'm quite good at cooking. I'm not very good at sports. I spend a lot of time reading. I don't spend enough time watching TV. I really love drawing. I spend a lot of time listening to music. I spend too much time shopping. I really love chatting on the phone. I don't have enough time for playing computer games. I don't spend much time relaxing and doing nothing.

Student 2.
I spend a lot of time surfing the Internet. I really love shopping. I'm quite good at cooking. I'm not interested in playing computer games. I don't have enough time for relaxing and doing nothing. I'm not very good at doing my homework in Latin. I absolutely hate doing housework. I don't spend my time chatting on the phone. I'm not very good at knitting. I really love dancing.


Student 3.
I spend a lot of time using the Internet. I really love listening to music. I spend too much time texting my friends. I'm really into reading. I'm not interested in watching TV. I don't have enough time for cooking. I don't spend much time hanging out with my friends. I'm quite good at singing. I don't like doing my homework.

Student 4.
I spend a lot of time doing my homework. I don't have enough time for doing housework. I really love reading. I spend a lot of time watching TV. I'm not very good at cooking. I really love shopping. I spend a lot of time using the Internet. I don't spend much time playing computer games. I really love drawing. I really love playing badminton. I spend a lot of time walking. I absolutely hate doing nothing.

Student 5.
I don't have enough time for cooking. I'm quite good at volleyball. I don't spend much time listening to music. I absolutely hate playing computer games. I'm not interested in gardening. I really love shopping. I spend a lot of time doing my homework. I'm not very good at using the computer.

Student 6.
I spend a lot of time using the Internet. I really love shopping. I spend too much time doing homework. I don't have enough time for chatting on the phone. I don't spend much time walking. I'm not interested in playing computer games. I don't have enough time for relaxing and doing nothing.  I'm quite good at cooking.  I like to spend my time drawing. I really love texting my friends. I don't spend much time watching TV. I spend a lot of time listening to music.

Student 7.
I spend a lot of time chatting on the phone. I really love shopping. I'm really into dancing. I'm not very good at cooking. I don't have enough time for relaxing and doing nothing. I absolutely hate playing computer games. I spend too much time doing exercise. I'm not interested in football. I really love reading. I absolutely hate watching TV. I don't have enough time for walking. I'm not very good at using the Internet. I really love listening to music.

Student 8.
I spend a lot of time doing my homework. I spend too much time texting my friends and reading. I'm quite good at cooking. I absolutely hate playing computer games. I am not interested in shopping. I'm not very good at using the Internet. I don't spend much time doing housework. I am really into learning English. I spend a lot of time listening to music. I don't have enough time for watching TV. I'm not very good at swimming. I'm really into writing essays.

Student 9.
I spend a lot of time listening to music. I absolutely hate playing computer games. I don't have enough time for walking. I absolutely hate doing housework. I spend too much time using the Internet. I'm not interested in reading. I really love relaxing and doing nothing. I am not very good at cooking. I don't have enough time for hanging out with my friends. I spend a lot of time doing exercise. I like cycling.

Student 10.
I'm really into listening to music. I spend too much time hanging out with my friends. I absolutely hate doing housework. I don't spend much time relaxing and doing nothing. I really love chatting on the phone. I'm quite good at cooking. I spend a lot of time reading. I don't have enough time for playing computer games. I spend too much time singing. I absolutely hate being lazy. I am really into learning languages. I really love praising people. I am quite good at playing the piano.

My Best Friend

Friendship is very important for me. I'm happy because I have a faithful friend. Her name is Kseniya. 

We met 4 years ago at the birthday party of our mutual friend. It turned out we had a lot of common interests. And now I want to tell you what she looks like. 

Kseniya is pretty in her own way. She is slender and not very tall, with shoulder-lenght, straight and blond hair. She has very beautiful green eyes with thick eyelashes. My friend has a straight nose that makes her more pretter. Her smile is sincere and charming. 

As for her character. She is clever, purposeful and hard-working at the same time. So, she trys do everything in the best way. Kseniya always achives her goals. Also my friend is very kind and helpful. She always supports and helps me in difficult situations. Kseniya  is very responsible and reliable too. She never lets me down. My friend is easy-going and everybody communicates with Kseniya with pleasure. Of course, she has a negative qualities. Kseniya can be too impulsive and excitable at times. Also my friend like to criticize and sometimes her criticism hurt feelings of others. 

As for her interests. My friend is fond of reading books and she has a lot of them at home. She is also loves to write different stories; by the way, when Kseniya was a child, she wanted to be a writer and now she dreams to be a journalist. I think that it's suited profession for her. Her interests also include: travelling, museums, art, cooking and music. Kseniya knows a lot of interesting facts about music, famous people and history. She certainly is  hard-working person, but to tell the truth sometimes she goes out to party or disco and return home very late at night - or rather, early in the morning. As you see Kseniya is different in her behave.

So, I think we are good friends, because we can rely on each other, cheer each other up, keep each other's secrets. I hope that our friendship will last for very, very long time.