EY Y03 L15 Eyesight


  1. How much time do you spend each week looking at screens? Tell us about how and when you use personal computers, tablets and smartphones.
  2. Who in your immediate family wears glasses? What do they wear them for?
  3. Do you wear glasses or contact lenses? If yes, what do you wear them for? How old were you when you started needing them? How much does it impact your daily life? If no, how good is your eyesight?
  4. Do you ever wear sunglasses or do you consider them too garish and feel too self-conscious?
  5. Glasses these days can be fashionable and consumers are willing to pay significant amounts of money on them. Eye surgery or contact lenses, equally, can be very expensive. How and where do you or would you buy glasses, contact lenses or eyewear? Does wearing glasses suit you? Why do you think that?
  6. These days, 90% of Asian schoolchildren are nearsighted. This includes children in Japan. Is this simply due to the explosion in the use of tablets and smartphones?

Question 1

I spend around 5 hours a day using technology with a screen. The most common device I use is a PC or tablet.

Question 2

My wife wears glasses or contact lenses all the time.

Question 3

No, I do not, my eye sight is fairly good.

Question 4

I sometimes wear sunglasses in summer. But the sun feels a little weaker in Japan than in New Zealand.

Question 5

I would buy them as a gift for my wife or children.

Question 6

I am not sure about that. I would need to see the data, both current and historical.

Tough Vocabulary

- English - - Japanese -
fairly good かなり良い
current data カレントデータ
historical data ヒストリカルデータ