20.Weekends
1. How do you usually spend your weekends? What do you usually do on weekends?
I spend my weekends in different ways. Sometimes I just relax at home. Sometimes I go out with my friends for a movie. Sometimes I finish my pending work. Sometimes I help my mother in household chores.
2. In your country, do men and women usually do the same kind of things on weekends (or in their free time)?
Gender differences are disappearing nowadays. Mostly men and women do the same kind of things on weekends.
3. When do you spend time with your family?
I spend the evenings with my family. We watch TV together, have dinner together and go for walks together.
4. What did you do last weekend?
Last weekend I went for a movie with my friends. We also had dinner at a restaurant. It was great fun.
5. What do other people in your hometown (or in your country) usually do on weekends?
People do a lot of things on weekends. Some go for outings; some people spend time at home with family; some people visit relatives. So people do different things on weekends.
6. What are you going to do next weekend?
I have not yet made any plan for the next weekend, but maybe I go out with my family for a movie.
7. Is there anything new that you would like to do on weekends?
I would like to learn some new language on weekends. As a plan to go to Canada, so French would be a good option for me. My relatives live in Montréal and it is a Francophone area. So learning French would help me.
8. Do you like working on weekends?
No, I don’t like working on weekends. I prefer to spend time with my family and friends on weekends.
9. Do you think employees should have to work on weekends?
No, definitely not. I think there should be no compulsion on employees to work on weekends. It should be their choice. If they want to earn more, they should be allowed to work.
10. Do you think that weekends now are more important to you, than when you were a child?
Yes, weekends now are more important to me than when I was a child. When I was a child, all days were like weekends. So I did not give importance to weekends. But today, I look forward to weekends.
21.Transportation
1.What’s the most popular means of transportation in your hometown?
The most popular means of transportation in my hometown is the bus. My hometown is on the national highway, and there is bus service to different places every two minutes.
2.How often do you take buses?
I take the bus pretty often, in fact three or four times a week.
3.Can you compare the advantages of planes and trains?
Trains are cheaper then planes, but planes are much faster than trains. In trains you can take as much luggage as you want to, but in planes there is a restriction. Railway stations are there in almost all towns and cities, where as airports are there in only a few places.
4.Is driving to work popular in your country?
Yes, driving to work is popular in big cities, and in places where transport facilities are not so good.
5.Do you think people will drive more in the future?
It is difficult to say about the future, but at the rate at which traffic congestion is increasing on the road, I think people will use public transport more.
6.Would you ride bikes to work in the future?
No, I don’t think I would ride bikes to work, as I think they are not very safe.
7.What will become the most popular means of transportation in India?
I think road transportation will remain the most popular means.
8.Do you prefer public transportation or private transportation?
I prefer private transportation for short distances and public transportation for long distances.
9. How did you come here(get here) today?
I came here/got here by bus/car/bike today.
10. Why did you choose that form of transport?
I chose it because I think it is very convenient and comfortable. (You can add 12 advantages of the mode of transport you used that day)
11. What form of transport do you usually use?
I usually prefer private transport to public transport. I feel that the public transport is not very comfortable and leads to wastage of time.
OR I normally use public transport/bus. It is very convenient, comfortable and easy on the pocket.
12. Is it convenient to take a bus/taxi in your city?
Yes, it is very convenient to take a bus or a taxi in my city. It is a small city and the bus stand and taxi stands are very approachable
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