Jim and Annie Taylor live in Orlando, Florida with their two children. Jim is a hotel manager. He works at Disney World. He likes his job very much because he meets lots of interesting people. Annie is a secretary. She works part-time at a lawyer's office.
 The children go to school. They are 10 and 13 years old. This is a typical day for the Taylor family: Annie wakes up at 6.30. She gets up and makes breakfast. At 7 she wakes Jim and the children. They all have breakfast in the kitchen. At 7.30 Jim goes to work. At 8.30 Annie drives the children to school because their school is near her office. Annie finishes work at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. At 3.15 she fetches the children from school. On their way home they stop at a super-market and buy food for supper. At home the children do their homework and Annie prepares supper. At 5.30 Jim comes home from work. At 6 the Taylors have supper. The children go to bed at 8 o'clock. Then Annie and Jim watch the news and a film on television. They go to bed at 11.

LiYan is a teacher in China and has a very long day. She gets up at 5.45 and starts work at 6.30 when the children come. Yan goes home at 12.00 when the children have their lunch break. She eats, then sleeps for 40 minutes. She's back at the school in the afternoon, from 2.00 till 5.30. From 5.30 till 6.30 she has another break, for her evening meal (at home). After this break she goes back to the school again till 9.00 in the evening. Then she goes home. She goes to bed at 11.00.Yan works seven days a week, but on Sunday "only" from 2.30 in the afternoon till 9.00. She has long holidays, but she often has to work in her holidays.

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Deng BingYu is a factory worker in Haimen in China. He gets up at 7.15 and starts work at 8.00. At 12.00 he goes home for his lunch. After lunch BingYu sleeps for 20 minutes, then he starts work again at 2.00. People at the factory finish work at 6.00, but workers in shops and other service jobs work longer: shops are open till late in the evening. BingYu works five days a week and has seven days holiday a year. His son Ning Bing is a teacher: he has eight weeks holiday in the summer and three weeks in the winter. But Ning Bing works at his school in the holidays too. He teaches new students and checks "holiday homework".

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Jang Wenwen is a teenager in her last year at school. Her school is 30 kilometres from her home, and she lives at the school. The school day is very long, with breaks when children go home for their lunch and their evening meal. This is not practical when you don't live near the school. Wenwen works very hard — in the final year she has school on Sunday, too. And in the school holidays she does "holiday homework". She lives at home then, but goes to the school from time to time: teachers check her homework and give her new homework. They work three or four weeks in the holidays, too.

                                                              
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