“Jobs in Japan” - reading comprehension

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Excerpt

ON WEEKENDS Hamto Kawaguchi becomes a very modern Japanese father. He cooks. He cleans. He plays with the kids. But come Monday, Haruto crawls back into the role of an oldstyle Japanese employee. Rising at 4 a.m., he leaves his wife, Hisako, and three children and dutifully boards the train for Nagoya so he can arrive at his offi ce by 9. A salesman for the Teikoku Hormone Manufacturing Co., Haruto, 41, spends the week as a tanshinfunin, the Japanese term for husbands whose jobs separate them from their families. Until Friday night, when Haruto returns, Hisako copes alone with the kids’ baths, homework and problems. […]

Task

1. The title of the text asks a question. Before you read the text look at the heading of this page and write possible answers to the question. Read the text quickly and compare.




2. Pre-reading: Read the text again and put the missing sentences (A-G) into the correct spaces in the text (1-7).




3. Extracting main ideas: Choose the sentence which you think best illustrates the main idea of the text.




4. Checking comprehension: Read the text again and decide whether the following statements are true or false.

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Keywords: adults, family, heading, japanese, job, main-idea, reading, true / false, work