Daily Routine at the C1 Level | Advanced English Vocabulary

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Today you're going to learn how to talk about your daily routine at a more advanced C1 level.
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Talking about your daily routine is something that every language learner does, but most
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of the time it's very beginner or boring.
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So let's talk about how to make that sound more professional, more fluent, and more advanced.
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Welcome back to JForrest English.
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Of course.
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I'm Jennifer.
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Now, let's get started.
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Let's talk about Mark's daily routine.
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Say hello to Mark.
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Mark is a manager, he's married, and he has two young kids.
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Let me tell you about Mark's daily routine at an advanced C1 level.
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And after, I'll explain all the advanced vocabulary and grammar that you can add to your speech.
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The alarm rings at 6:30 AM, signaling the beginning of Mark's day With precision.
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He orchestrates the morning routine, ensuring his two energetic children are dressed and
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fed as the aroma of coffee fills the air.
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Mark reviews his schedule preparing for the day ahead.
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Notice how this daily routine started in a very advanced way, almost a poetic way.
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The alarm rings at 6:30 AM.
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Most students would simply say I wake up at 6:30 AM or in this case Mark wakes up at 6:30
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AM.
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But this is very beginner and boring.
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The alarm rings at 6:30 AM.
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That sounds so advanced.
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Why don't you try that?
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You can say my alarm instead of the alarm.
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You can make it possessive.
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My alarm rings present simple conjugated with my alarm it my alarm rings at.
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Put that in the comments and share what time your alarm rings.
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Which is an alternative to saying I wake up at.
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My alarm rings at.
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As for me, my alarm rings at 5:30 AM signaling the beginning of Mark's day.
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Notice here we have signaling in the ING form.
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This is a present participle.
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It adds description by showing the result of the action with precision.
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Precision means that there was a high level of accuracy.
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This is an advanced noun.
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You can also say with ease.
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With ease.
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Because you want to talk about your daily routine as being easy.
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With ease, he orchestrates the morning routine.
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Again, notice the vocabulary is at that more advanced C1 level.
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To orchestrate means to organize, arrange, or coordinate and notice those verb conjugations.
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Because we're in the present simple and it's being conjugated with the subject he, ** *** is.
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You need to add that as with precision he orchestrates the morning routine ensuring
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notice here another present participle.
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Again it describes the action, ensuring his two energetic children are dressed and fed
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as the aroma of coffee fills the air.
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Notice here aroma is a more advanced way of saying the smell of coffee, the aroma of coffee.
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Mark Review Use his schedule, preparing another present participle preparing for his day ahead.
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Let's move on.
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At the office, Mark transitions into his managerial role, leading a diverse team.
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His day is filled with back-to-back zoom meetings and presentations.
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Mark excels in conveying intricate ideas.
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During meetings and negotiations at the office, Mark transitions into something his managerial
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role.
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Maybe You could say after tending to my children, I have to transition into my marketing role
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Or whatever your next role is.
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At the office, Mark transitions into his managerial role, leading a diverse team again the present
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participle.
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It describes the action his day is filled with to be filled with something.
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This means to contain a lot of now, although contain is a more advanced vocabulary term
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than filled with adding phrasal verbs, idioms and expressions is a great way to sound more
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advanced to sound more.
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See one so to be filled with sounds more advanced than saying contains and back-to-back zoom
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meetings and presentations.
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This means that as one meeting ends, another one immediately begins.
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back-to-back.
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Mark excels in explaining intricate ideas.
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This is AC1 or C2 sentence.
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A more beginner sentence would be saying Mark is very good at communicating complex ideas,
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but notice that grammar difference.
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To excel in something or doing something or to be good at, so you need a different preposition.
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Let's move on.
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As the work day concludes, Mark races against the clock to attend his children's extracurricular
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activities.
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Soccer practice, music lessons and art classes become integral parts of their routine In
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the car rides between activities, Mark cherishes the moments of connection with his children.
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As the work day concludes.
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Concludes is a more advanced way of saying as the work day ends.
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As the work day concludes, Mark races against the clock.
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This is an expression to race against the clock.
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This is when you have to work quickly to complete all your tasks within a limited amount of
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time.
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To race against the clock.
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Soccer practice, music lessons, and art classes become integral parts of their daily routine.
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Integral means essential or necessary.
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It's a more advanced term.
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Let's look at this sentence.
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In the car ride between activities, Mark cherishes the moments of connection with his children.
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This is a complex sentence.
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The first part is a dependent clause, which means it is not a complete sentence.
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But if you add it to an independent clause, then it becomes a complex sentence.
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Using complex sentences is an integral part of sounding more advanced, fluent, and C1,
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let's move on.
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Following dinner, the family reunites in collective activities, whether it's a board game, a movie
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night, or a stroll in the neighborhood.
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Mark, though weary from the demands of the day, revels in the simple pleasures of familial
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bonds.
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Following dinner.
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This is a more way of saying after dinner the family reunites in collective activities.
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This is very advanced and again almost poetic.
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A more B1 everyday way of saying this would be the family spends quality time together.
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One of the activities is a stroll in the neighborhood.
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A stroll is a leisurely walk.
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So if there is a word stroll that means something else to walk leisurely, it sounds more advanced
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to use the one word that communicates that idea.
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A stroll, A leisurely walk.
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Now grammatically you can use to go for a stroll.
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Following dinner, we went for a lovely stroll in the park.
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The verb is go, so it's conjugated in the past.
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Simple went.
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You can also take a stroll following dinner.
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We took the past simple of take following dinner.
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We took a lovely stroll in the park.
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Both are common and equally used.
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Let's learn about how Mark ends his daily routine.
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As the clock inches towards bedtime, Mark carves out a brief period for personal reflection
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by reading, meditating or journaling.
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As he slips into his comfortable bed, he savers the tranquility that descends upon his home
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as the clock inches towards bedtime.
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This is very advanced.
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It sounds poetic as bedtime approaches.
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Clearly sounds more intermediate, more basic than as the clock inches towards bedtime,
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Mark carves out a brief period for personal reflection.
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Buy, buy, and then you have your activities by reading, by meditating, or by journaling.
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You could say I start my day by and then whatever the activity is, I start my day by working
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out for 30 minutes.
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I end my day.
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I conclude my day to sound more advanced.
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I conclude my day by meditating for 15 minutes.
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It's an integral part of my daily routine as he slips into his comfortable bed.
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To slip into is a more advanced, poetic way of saying to get into.
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I get into bed at 10:00.
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I slip into my warm and comfortable bed as the clock inches towards 10:00 PM.
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That sounds very advanced and poetic.
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He savers, he really enjoys.
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He savers the tranquility, the peace and quiet.
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He savers the tranquility that descends upon his home, descends that enters, that fills
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his home AB.
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One student might simply say he enjoys the quiet in his home.
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Now let's look at this whole sentence together, which is a complex sentence and I want you
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to notice the as he and then the other part of the sentence he as he acts he, yx and Y
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being the activities.
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As I prepare my breakfast, I review my back-to-back meetings.
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As I is the dependent clause, which means it's incomplete, you have to connect it to
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an independent clause.
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I review my back-to-back meetings.
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That would be the independent clause O.
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This is a complex sentence, a great way to sound more advanced.
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So now you have learned so much vocabulary and grammatical structures that you can use
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to sound more advanced when you talk about a very simple thing like your daily routine.
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Of course you don't need to Add all of these structures or advanced vocabulary, but even
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using one or two when you're talking about your daily routine will help you sound more
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advanced.
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So do you want me to share more lessons where we review advanced ways to discuss common
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things?
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If you do, then put C1.
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Put C1 in the comments below.
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