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Spotlight on Russia talks to Marina Smirnova – a 12-year-old student from St Petersburg.
Hi, my name is Marina Smirnova. I'm 12 years old and I live in the beautiful city of St Petersburg. My daily routine is typical of most students my age. I get up at 7:00 am and after a quick breakfast I walk to school. School starts at 8:30 am and finishes at 2:00 pm from Monday to Friday. There are 30 students in my class and every day we have 5-6 lessons. Each lesson lasts 45 minutes with a 10-minute break in between. My favourite lessons are History and Maths. They are both very interesting. We have lunch in the school canteen during the longer break in the afternoon. We have many exciting things to do at school after classes. On Tuesday and Thursday I have guitar lessons. After school I go home and eat a snack before I start doing my homework. We always have lots of homework to do and it usually takes me 2-3 hours to finish it. Around 6 o'clock in the evening, I have dinner with my family. I enjoy this time because on weekdays it's the only chance we have to relax and be together as a family. After dinner, I usually watch TV. I like watching sports and music shows. Sometimes I play a game of chess with my father. Most nights I go to bed at 10:30pm and read for a while before I go to sleep.
DISCUSS • What time do you usually wake up? Do you have late nights, or do you always go to bed early? Have you got a strict daily routine? What do you usually do every day? How different is it in different seasons? • How similar is your daily routine to Marina's?
Model answers (change the personal details to your own):
1. My daily routine
I usually wake up at 7:00 on school days and at about 9:00 at weekends. I sometimes have late nights at weekends, but on school days I go to bed early, at about 10:30. Yes, I have a fairly strict routine from Monday to Friday. Every day I get up, have breakfast, go to school, do my homework, have dinner with my family, and then relax. In summer my routine is different: I wake up later, have no lessons, and spend more time outside. In winter I go to bed earlier because it gets dark early.
2. How similar is my routine to Marina’s?
My daily routine is quite similar to Marina’s. Like her, I get up at about 7:00, go to school in the morning, and do my homework after school. I also have dinner with my family in the evening. The main differences are that I sometimes stay up later than 10:30 at weekends, and I don’t have guitar lessons. My school day also finishes later than Marina’s.
How to answer a similar task
- Use the present simple for routines: I wake up, I go, I do.
- Answer every sub-question directly: wake-up time, late nights/bedtime, routine, daily activities, seasons.
- For the comparison, use like her, both, also, but, the main difference is... and check facts from the text: Marina gets up at 7:00 and goes to bed at 10:30.
- Check that each sentence has a subject and a present-simple verb.