An Englishman's everyday life

A tipical working Englishman gets up at 7 a.m.a shower, gets derssed and has a quick breakfast usually consisting of toast and jam, or cornflakes with milk. He leaves home at about 8 o’clock so as not to be late work. He usually works from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., but he has an hour’s break for lunch at 12 noon. He spends it in the nearest pub or a fast-food resturant gossiping with his colleagues and having some light meal. He comes back home at about half past five and enjoys dinner withhis family. In the evening, he usually watches television and goes for a walk with his pet. He also likes to drop into a local pub for a pint of beer. A pub is an unoffcial meeting-place, a kind of a club where a working Englishman can relax, listen to music, play darts or bar billiards, iscuss politics, the weather and some local affais with his old friends.
On Saturday moning, the Englishman traditionally does the shopping fir the whole week to come. He usually goes to a local supermarket or drives to a shopping complex outside town where he can buy products chraper and at one place. Duing the day hespends a lo t of time mowing the grass and growing flowers and vegetables in his garden. In the late afternoon he goes to the cinema or to a restauant, visits fiends or spends some of his leisure hour in a club. Sports clubs or hobbies seve the Englishman’s desire to associate and to share his particula passion with others.
On Sunday, the Englishman takes his family to some seaside town to bathe and to have some fun. The ost feqently visited places are Bringhton in the south and Blackpool in the north of England. If he likes finish (often called angling), he heads towards some canal, river or lake and waits for hours beside them to catch fish. He also likes to discover the picturesque countyside and walk long-distance footpaths which cross Britain (the longest one runs from the south-west part of England to the far north of Scotland!). The countryside with its green fields, low hills, rives and small woods is an ideal place for a Sunday excursion.