'Tick Tock Tick' / Do you waste time? Learning English with Mr Duncan

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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Up out of bed at the crack of dawn.
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I rub my tired eyes with a weary yawn.
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First I'll check my email and look at the news.
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Then it's down to some work
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those minutes I can't lose.
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I glance at the clock and to my utter dismay.
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Tick tock, tick. It's already midday.
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Where did the time go?
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What happened to the day?
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My mind was distracted and the time slipped away.
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Let's look at a video of an old angry cat.
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I'll get some work done after looking at that.
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I watch one short clip
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and then one more and one more.
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Oh, my God. What's the time?
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It's quarter to four.
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Where did the time go?
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What happened to the day?
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My mind was distracted and the time slipped away.
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I had so much to do, but I wasted the time.
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Well, there's always tomorrow.
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I'm sure things will be fine.
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Up out of bed at the crack of dawn.
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I rub my tired eyes with a weary yawn.
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First, I'll check my email and look at the news.
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Then it's down to some work
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those minutes I can't lose.
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I glance at the clock
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and to my utter dismay.
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Tick tock tick...
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It's already midday.
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Where did the time go?
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What happened to the day?
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My mind was distracted.
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And the time slipped away.
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Time is a curious thing.
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It is all around us.
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It is everything.
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It forms the fabric
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of all events,
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past, present, and future.
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Yet we often find that there is never enough of it.
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We always seem to run out of time.
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It is that abundance of time that causes us
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to never have enough hours in our day to complete our plans.
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But why is this so?
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Why do we always seem to run out of time?
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The answer to that question is easy.
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We often fritter away and waste the time we have.
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However much we try to deny it.
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We are all capable of wasting time
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You know how it goes.
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You wake up in the morning with such good intentions and plans for the day,
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but lurking in the shadows, waiting to catch your eye is that thing
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preparing to jump out and grab your attention
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We call this thing a 'distraction'.
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It is something that diverts your attention away from the things you should be doing,
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the important things that need to be done can fade away quickly
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from your mind because of a distraction.
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You might be distracted for just a few minutes.
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But more often than not, you will become so engrossed in the new activity
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and your mind will be so distracted that the time will slip by.
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And before you know what is happening.
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A whole hour has gone by.
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Or even worse. A whole morning
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The frustration caused by wasting time
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comes from our own consciousness of how little time we have.
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You might describe time as a commodity,
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something valuable and overall limited.
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We only have a short time in this world, so every hour, minute
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or even second, a person fritters away
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is indeed a waste of valuable time.
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To fritter away is to waste or squander.
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The word 'fritter' as a verb is waste.
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A person who takes up too much of your time
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might be described as a timewaster.
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Someone who wants to stand talking to you
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about uninteresting topics might be described as a timewaster.
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That person is taking up your time.
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They are using up your precious moments for no good reason.
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I'm sorry I can't hang around here talking to you all day.
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I have things to do.
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Today we are looking at words and phrases connected to wasting time.
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A time waster will waste time.
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They will waste another person's time.
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They do not value time as much as others.
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A time waster might be described as lazy
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if they waste time by being inactive.
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A lazy person wastes time.
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They do not put their time to good use.
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A fruitless task or a pointless activity
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will often be described as a waste of time.
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A person might squander their time.
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They waste their time and in doing so,
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they also waste part of their only life.
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That person is wasting their life away.
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Something we feel is or was a waste of time.
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Can be expressed in many ways.
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'Well, that was a big waste of time.'
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'That's an hour of my life I won't get back.'
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'Well, that was a big fat nothing'
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'What a waste of a day.'
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A futile action might be described
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as a waste of energy or a waste of time.
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You have put a lot of time and effort
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into something, but you've gained nothing.
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It was a waste of time.
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It all came to nothing.
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Do you ever waste time?
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Come on, be honest.
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It would be fair to say that we all waste time
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especially when there appears to be plenty of time to waste.
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A morning looking at your email messages that might lead to you watching a YouTube video
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or maybe a dozen of them.
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It is easy to become distracted and waste an hour
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or even a whole morning doing something you did not intend to do.
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Sometimes we look for a distraction
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so as to avoid doing something unpleasant or tedious.
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Whatever the reason and however much time we waste,
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there is one common factor that always occurs.
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Eventually we end up regretting wasting that time.
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That moment of time comes only once and it was wasted.
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We will never get it back
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Talking of time.
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It is time for me to leave you.
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I hope this lesson has not been a waste of time
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and I will see you again very soon.
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This is Mr Duncan in England saying Enjoy English
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and of course...
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ta ta for now
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