Japan’s farm school – answers

Japan’s farm school

correct the sentences

1. Dressed out Tokyo residents are working in a rice field. Stressed out
2. The cost of an 8 week course is $40. $400
3. The farming methods they learn are common in the Japanese countryside. these methods are almost obsolete – not common at all
4. All people in Japan have an involvement with farming. no, the man interviewed says that as an office worker he has no contact
5. The course has been running for a very long time. around a month
6. Many people in the city are now looking at going into farming. not many (‘still not that many’)
7. People are just looking for a different lifestyle. they are also looking for a business to live on
8. People are moving because there are rats in the city. they are escaping the rat-race – the excessive competition in the city to be successful
9. The woman interviewed works as a computer programmer. no longer, ‘she quit her job recently’
10. The farm course is held in the jungle. the participants are escaping the concrete-jungle i.e. the city