Lesson 78 👩‍🏫 Basic English with Jennifer Using⌚BEFORE and AFTER

Do you have a daily routine?

A daily routine is what you do every day.

When do you usually wake up?

When do you have breakfast? When do you go to work or school?

When do you eat dinner?

This is all part of your daily routine.

Let's talk about our day. We can use the words "before" and "after."

What comes first? What comes later?

You can practice with Flavia and Andreia.

Okay, ladies. Let's talk about food. In the morning, we have

breakfast. Right? What's after breakfast? Lunch. And after lunch?

Dinner. Dinner. What's before dinner?

Lunch. And what's before lunch?

Breakfast. Uh-huh. There can also be snacks.

Snacks. Snacks can be anytime.

I like to snack after breakfast. I like to snack after lunch.

I like to snack before lunch, and I like to snack after dinner. I snack a lot.

Snacks.

I think especially after dinner we like to eat snacks, and in the afternoon.

Snacks can be anytime.

Okay. Let's talk about our mornings. Our mornings. The first thing we do in the morning is

we wake up. Okay. Now the question is what do you do before breakfast?

And what do you do after breakfast? Okay? So we have breakfast...

What do we do before?

So, for example,

I like to get dressed before.

I wake up, and I get dressed before breakfast.

Dress? Get dressed. Dress? Put on clothes. Oh. Right?

I like to get dressed before breakfast. Right? Do you get dressed before breakfast?

Or do you get dressed after breakfast?

So you get.... Watch. Watch. Do you get dressed before breakfast or after breakfast?

After breakfast.

So give me the whole sentence. When do you get dressed? I get dressed

before...after...after! I get dressed after breakfast. Mm-hmm. What did she say?

She gets dressed before...

after breakfast. Uh-huh. Can you ask Flavia? When...?

When you...when do you...when do you get dressed?

I get dressed

before...before breakfast. What did she say?

She...

get...she gets dressed before breakfast. Before breakfast? Yeah. Yeah. How about me? Do you remember?

You get...you get dressed before?

Before breakfast. Yes, I get dressed before breakfast. And you get dressed after breakfast. Okay. Good. Um...

I take a shower in the evening. Do you take showers in the evening or in the morning?

In the evening.

In the morning.

In the morning. So when do you take a shower? If you get dressed...you wake up, and what do you do first?

I take a shower

before...before get dressed.

Before I get dressed. Mm-hmm.

So listen. When you have "before" and "after," we can speak with short phrases or long ideas.

I can say, "Before breakfast, I get dressed."

"Before breakfast." Or,

"Before I have breakfast, I get dressed."

So we can say, "Before breakfast, I get dressed" or

Or

"Before I have breakfast, I get dressed."

So you can make it a short idea or a long idea.

When does she take a shower?

When does Flavia take a shower?

She take a shower...she takes a shower

before

you, no, before she

before she gets dressed. Mm-hmm. She takes a shower...she takes a shower before

[she] gets dressed. Before she gets dressed.

Mm-hmm. So before breakfast, she takes a shower and she gets dressed. Okay?

Um, what do I do?

I brush my teeth. Right? I like to brush my teeth in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon, and the evening, right?

Some people brush their teeth before breakfast.

I like to brush my teeth after breakfast. I eat, and then I brush my teeth. So I brush my teeth after breakfast.

When do you brush your teeth?

After breakfast. Yeah, that makes sense. Do you brush your teeth after lunch?

Sometimes. Right? If we have time, if we're home, if we have a toothbrush. Okay?

Um, when do you brush your teeth?

So you have breakfast. Then after breakfast you get dressed. When do you brush your teeth?

I brush my teeth

before get dressed. Before I get dressed.

Before I get dressed. Mm-hmm.

So you brush your teeth before you get dressed.

I brush my teeth after breakfast.

Very good. Yes, you can also say that.

Now, sometimes men...usually men have short hair, and they're very quick. They brush their hair. They're done.

Ladies, we have long, long hair. We need to brush. We might use hair spray.

So it's a process. Right? We say "do my hair."

I need to do my hair. I need five minutes to do my hair.

I need ten minutes to do my hair. Right? How many minutes do you need to do your hair?

I need five minutes to do my hair.

Ten minutes. I need ten minutes. Because...

Dry. Dry. I dry my hair. Or I blow dry my hair. I need ten minutes. I need ten minutes because

I blow dry

blow

blow dry my hair.

Blow? Blow with a...the blow dryer. It has a fan. I blow dry my hair.

I blow dry my hair, so she needs ten minutes to do her hair because there's a lot of work.

How many minutes do you need?

Five minutes.

Do you do your hair before you get dressed or after you get dressed?

After get dressed. After I get dressed. After I get dressed,

I do my hair.

After I get dressed, I do my hair. So let's try this. With the morning. Wait. What else might we do?

Oh. This is important. We do our hair and we do makeup. A little bit of makeup. A little bit.

So, you put on makeup.

Put on.

Put on makeup.

I need...if it's a little bit of makeup, I need five minutes.

If I do lots with the eyes, ten minutes. Right? I need ten minutes to put on my makeup.

I usually do my hair. After I do my hair, I put on my makeup.

So that's what I do. I have my breakfast. After a breakfast, I brush my teeth,

I do my hair, and I put on my makeup. Okay?

Flavia, tell me about your morning. What do you do and when? So first you wake up, and then what?

After take a shower..after I take a shower,

I

I get dressed.

After I get dressed, I

I have breakfast.

And here you could also just say then

"after breakfast." After breakfast. After breakfast, what do you do? After breakfast, I brush my teeth.

After I brush my teeth. I

I do my hair.

After I do my hair, I put on my makeup.

All right, so let's try this. Let's talk about the day. You have breakfast and after breakfast, what do you do?

After breakfast. After breakfast, I go to school. What do you do at school?

I study. Mm-hmm. Okay, then in the afternoon, you have lunch.

Right?

After lunch, do you study more?

Yes.

Okay, and then what happens later?

Before...after study...after I study,

You can say, "After I study..." After I study,

I come come home. Mm-hmm. Or you say, "I come home before dinner." Okay?

I come home before dinner.

Tell me about her day. Okay. When does she go to school? When does she come home?

After breakfast, she goes to school.

Before she has lunch,

she studies.

Does she study after lunch? Yeah. Okay. And then?

Before dinner, she comes

home. Very good. She comes home. She comes home. Okay.

When do you like to exercise? Before.

Okay. The whole sentence.

I exercise

before dinner. Mm-hmm. Do you exercise before dinner?

Yeah, I exercise before dinner. Good. I know that um

Flavia has a dog, and

dogs need exercise.

Let's ask Flavia

when

the dog gets exercise. What can you ask her?

When...?

When do you walk the dog?

I walk my dog on the weekend.

And I know, um, cats like to eat. They have to eat not just on the weekend. Right?

Every day.

The question is when. Can you ask her about

when the cat gets to eat?

When do you feed the cat?

When?

I feed my cat

after my breakfast

and, uh, after dinner.

Uh-huh. So two times a day. Good. Yes.Two times a day. You can ask Flavia

about the dog. When does the dog eat? When do you feed your dog?

I feed my dog

after I came...come to school? After I come home.

After I come home and before dinner.

Very good. Before dinner. Okay.

Um, first we make dinner. After we make dinner, we get to eat dinner. What do you like to do after dinner?

There are many things that we can do.

Or maybe there's other things. Okay?

You can decide.

What do you do in the evening? You can tell me what happens before dinner and what happens after dinner.

Um, before dinner, I work. After dinner, I do the dishes and then

sometimes I play the piano. Yeah. After dinner. Yeah. How about you?

After dinner I

no, before

Before dinner, I study.

After dinner, I watch TV.

Before watch TV...before I watch TV...before I watch TV, I take a shower.

Good job. Why don't you ask? Let's find out what Flavia does...in the evening.

What...what do you do...what do you do

What do you do

in...in the evening?

After dinner, I watch TV.

Do you study?

No.

After watch

After I watch TV,

I take a shower.

After I take a shower,

I go to bed.

Yes. Good and today we're practicing "after" and "before." When we talk,

we don't usually say, "After this, I do that. After that...after...after."

You can use other words.

So, for example,

if there are two, three, four things, you can use "before," "after"...we can use "then."

Right? So after dinner, I watch TV. Then I

read or then I take a shower.

And then I go to bed, so you can also use "then." "Then" or "and then." And then...

I go to bed.

Okay? Okay. So if you're using "after" many times,

use "after" less and use "and then."

And then I study.

Okay. Yeah, so I have breakfast.

After breakfast, I take the dog for a walk, and then I

I

start working.

Let's review some of the vocabulary. Repeat after me.

Your turn. Tell me about your evening. What do you do in the evening? Practice speaking out loud.

That's all for now. As always, thanks for watching and happy studies!

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