Every *mornings *morning, a million people *who *what live in the small towns near London *are catching *catch trains to London.

They're called commuters.

A commuter *s buying *buys his newspaper at the station every morning: then he gets *into *on to the train and reads it until he *will arrive *arrives in London.

He does't talk *at *to the other commuters - these trains are *so *as quiet as libraries!

It's interesting *to see *see a commuters' train when it arrives in London.

When the train stops, all the doors *are opening *open, and hundreds of men in suits get *out *off and begin to walk *quick *quickly across the station.

They all carry umbrellas and *are having *have newspapers under their arms.

*None *Neither of them look at each other; they all look in front of them.

Work begins in most offices *on *at nine o'clock or half-past nine and *finishes *finish at five o'clock.

When the Englishman arrives at his office, he says "Good morning" to everybody, takes *out *off his hat and coat, *washes *wash his teacup, ask his secretary *did *if she enjoyed the film on television last night, and opens all the windows.

He starts work *on *at about ten o'clock.

At eleven o'clock, a women *is coming *comes to the office with a large *pot of tea *teapot, and the work stops.

This is called the tea break, and no Englishman can *to work *work without it.

There's *another *other tea break *on *at three o'clock in the afternoon.

The lunch break is *between *from twelve o'clock to one o'clock or from one o'clock to two o'clock.

People who work in London *don't *doesn't usually have lunch in restaurant: *they go *they're going to a 'sandwich bar', a small shop that sells *sandwich *sandwiches.

They sit there *since *for an hour with one sandwich and a *cup of tea *teacup and *are watching *watch the people in the street.

Or they often *go *are going to a pub; most pubs sell sandwiches and hot lunches.

Some people like the beer in the pubs better *as *than the food...and work very *badly *bad when they go back to the office!

An Englishman usually arrives *home *at home from *work *the work at six o'clock.

When he's put on his slippers, he sits down in an armchair, and reads the evening paper.

After he's *having *had dinner, *he watches *he's watching television with his wife.

He *don't *doesn't often *go *goes out to the cinema or theatre: " *I'm *I've had a hard day at the office," he says.

An Englishman's home is very important to him; people *are saying *say, "An Englishman's home is his castle."

That's why *is he *he's happiest *at *on the week-end when he's at *the home *home all day.

He repairs everything in the house that's *broke *broken, he puts *up *on new shelves, he paints walls.

This is called 'Do-it-yourself': the Englishman likes *think *to think that he *needn't *doesn't need builders or painters *to do *doing these things *by *for him.

On Sundays *he's cleaning *he cleans his car.

He parks the car in front of the house, *as *so that, while he's cleaning it, he can talk to all the neighbours, who are cleaning their cars.

*In *On Sunday afternoons, he works in his garden.

He can always find some grass that he needs to cut or some flowers that he needs to water.

*When *While he goes to *the work *work on Monday morning, he's very tired!