Free English Class! Topic: Our Daily Routines! 🐕⏰🥙 (Lesson Only)

Well hello and welcome to this english lesson about Daily

Routines. Daily routines are all of the things that most

people do everyday on a regular basis. There are the things you

do from the moment you wake up in the morning until you fall

asleep at night. And we'll talk about those two things as well

as we go through this lesson. It's interesting that as you go

through your week and as you go through each day there are

things that you just do repeatedly. Regularly. Things

that you do all the time. Notice I used a number of

different ways to describe actions that we just do over

and over again as human beings. So daily routines are all of

the things that you do on a regular basis. Pretty much

everyday of your life. The very first thing you do in the

morning is you wake up. When you are asleep and when you go

from the process of sleeping to being awake. That is what I

call waking up. What time did you up this morning. I woke up

at 630 this morning. So you're sleeping and then when you go

from the state of sleep to being in a state of

wakefulness. Those are big words. We say that you wake up.

I usually wake up around 6: 30. On the weekends I wake up

around seven o'clock. That's what time I usually wake up in

the morning. But this is a little bit different. For me

there's a difference between to get up and to get out of bed

and to wake up. So I wake up but I don't always get up right

away. Sometimes I wake up and I'll just kind of lay there for

a little bit and I'll think about all of the things I need

to do that day. Sometimes I'll wake up and I'll look at the

clock and I'll think to myself ah I'll get up in 5 minutes.

I'll just lay here and think for a little bit first. So to

get up or to get out of bed that's the time where you go

from being in bed to actually standing up at least in my

opinion. Now English speak sometimes use these in a more

general way but for me I usually say oh I woke up at 630

I got out of bed at 645 that does happen sometimes and then

usually it's a good idea to make the bed to make the bed

this means you put all of the blankets back nice and smooth

maybe you fluff up the pillows a little bit but when you get

out of bed usually the first thing you do is you make the

bed so instead of leaving all the blankets all crumpled up or

in a pile. You kind of nicely pull them tight and you make

the bed so that it looks and is ready for you to sleep in it

later that day. One of the first things many people do in

the morning is they use the bathroom or they go to the

bathroom. So in the morning when I get up after I get out

of bed and after I make my bed I usually use the bathroom. Now

this does mean that I'm using the bathroom. I don't I'm not

going into any detail about what I'm doing in there but it

does mean that I'm using the toilet. Okay? So I would say

I'm going to go to the bathroom and then I'm going to go

downstairs or I'm going to go use the bathroom. I'm going to

use the bathroom and then I'm going to go downstairs. So yes

in the morning a lot of people usually use the bathroom not

always right away. But at some point in the morning you

probably have to use the bathroom. Especially if you had

a lot to drink the night before when you get up in the morning

you might have to go to the bathroom or use the bathroom

right way. And then if you're really good and you follow a

good routine you might be able to exercise or to work out. So

exercise is a general term. So that could involve lifting

weights or running or doing anything that's good for your

body. But you might say after I get up in the morning I like to

work out. I like to go for a run. I like to go for a walk.

So I like to go for a walk. Interestingly in English. If I

say I'm going to go walk or if I say I'm going to go for a

walk when you say go for a walk it sounds more like exercise

okay I'm going to run to the store that sounds like you're

just going to run to the store because you want to get there

fast but if you say I'm going to go for a run it usually

means exercise. So sometimes you can see this I'm trying to

kind of go in order. Your daily routine might be in a slightly

different order and it might not include this one. But

usually in the morning after I get up and after I use the

washroom or use the bathroom. I like to exercise. I like to go

for a walk. Some people like to work out. They like to lift

weights. Some people like to go for a run. And if you have a

dog if you have pets there's a few things you might do. You

might take the dog for a walk. Sometimes it's good to take the

dog for a walk in the morning or to walk the dog. There's a

couple ways of saying it in the morning. So I get up early

because I need to take the dog for a walk. Or I need to take

my dog for a walk. Or I get up early because I need to walk my

dog or I need to walk the dog in the morning. So dogs need

exercise too. This is how dogs get exercise. Their owners take

the dog for a walk or they walk the dog. And if you have a cat

it's a little simpler. You might just let the cat out. You

could say oh I'm going to go downstairs and have a cup of

coffee and I'm going to let the cat out. So you might have a

cat. The cat might sleep in the house at night. And in the

morning you make a point of opening the little cat door or

opening the normal door to let the cat out. Maybe the cat

needs to explore the neighbourhood a little bit. So

in the morning another thing you might do is you might let

the cat out. And then you might feed your pet. So you might

take your dog for a walk. And then you might feed your dog.

Or you might let your cat out. And when your cat scratches on

the door because they want to come back in you might then

feed your cat. You might feed your fish. You might feed a

bird. Maybe you have a pet bird. But sometimes one of the

things people do as their daily routine is they feed their cat

or they feed their dog. And then if you have kids or other

people in the Sometimes you will wake up the kids. So I'm a

parent. I have children. Sometimes my children get up on

their own. But sometimes I need to wake up the kids. Sometimes

I need to knock on the doors of their bedrooms and say hey time

to get up. So depends on it depends on how old they are. My

kids are old enough now that they set their own alarms. They

set an alarm clock. And so they usually get up themselves. But

if one or two of isn't up. I sometimes need to wake up the

kids. I need to go and make sure that they're awake so that

they don't miss the bus and so that they can go to school. Um

maybe you have a roommate that you need to wake up sometimes.

If you don't have kids that can happen too. And then you make

breakfast. So there's a difference between making

breakfast and eating breakfast. In the morning after I have

done some other things. I go to the kitchen to make breakfast.

I like to make breakfast usually fairly early in the

morning. If I go for a walk I go for a walk without having

eaten breakfast. There's a complex sentence for you. But

when I get back I like to make breakfast. I usually fry some

eggs. I might have some toast. I might have some oatmeal. But

it's nice to make breakfast. You could say cook breakfast. I

like to cook breakfast. But in English we use the word make a

lot when we're talking about the kitchen. We'll say things

like oh I'm going to make some toast. I'm going to make some

eggs. Uh I'm going to make breakfast. I'm going to make

waffles. And then of course what do you do after you make

breakfast? You eat breakfast. I like to eat breakfast right

away after I make it. I like my eggs hot. If I have toast I

like my toast hot as well. And you can also use the verb to

have. You can say oh I'm going to have breakfast. In a

few minutes do you want me to make you an egg? I might say

that to Jen. Or Jen when are you going to have breakfast? Or

when are you going to eat breakfast? The sentences are

completely interchangeable. But it simply means to sit down and

to eat the food that you made. And then after that I like to

have a shower. I like to take a shower. There's two ways to say

it. You can even say I'm going to grab a shower. So we

use the English verb to grab for a lot of weird things. You

could even say oh I'm going to grab some breakfast then I'm

going to grab a shower. It's very informal though. Normally

I would say I'm going to have breakfast at seven. I'm going

to take a shower at 730 or I'm going to have a shower at 7

thirty. And of course a shower is water and use soap to clean

yourself. So that when you go to work that day you you smell

fresh and clean. Now if you like to have a bath or take a

bath it's the same verb. If you like to sit in the bath you

could say oh I'm going to eat breakfast and then I'm going to

have a bath or I'm going to take a bath. And then there's a

whole bunch of other things you do depending on who you are.

You might put on makeup. You might brush your teeth. You

might shave. You might comb your hair. You might brush your

hair. By the way this this is a comb and this is a brush. So

there are a lot of things you do usually right before you go

to work or go to school if you leave the house. Um you might

comb your hair, brush your teeth. Um you might cut your

fingernails. Uh you might put on makeup etcetera etcetera.

That's why I put etcetera up here because there are many

things that you do at that time of the day. And then you get

dressed. Um so in the morning after I'm after I've had a

shower. I like to get dressed. So this morning as well I got

dressed about half an hour ago. I put on this white shirt. I

put on my watch. I put on my wedding ring. So notice to get

dressed is the general term. You get dressed in the morning.

But when you Talk about individual items you use the

verb to put on. So I put on my shirt. I put on my pants. I put

on my socks. I put on my underwear first. I put on my

watch. I put on my ring. And so now I am dressed. So that is

definitely one of the things that you do when you talk about

your daily routine. You get dressed. You put on your

clothes. After you get dressed you will most likely make a

lunch. I like to make a lunch everyday. I like to pack a

lunch everyday. These mean the same thing. Okay? So if I say

after I have a shower I go to the kitchen and I make a lunch.

Um or I go to the to the kitchen to pack a lunch. It

means I'm going to make a sandwich I might get a banana.

I might get some fruit or vegetables and put them in a

lunch bag and I will take them to work. Because I don't like

to buy lunch. I like to make a lunch. I like to pack a lunch.

Interesting thing with English. If it's lunch time you would

say I'm going to make lunch. But when you get a lunch ready

in the morning to take to work or to take to school you say

you go you make a lunch or you pack a lunch. And then you need

to grab your things. This is a general term. And I do use it

every morning. Like I grab my phone. I grab my keys. I grab

my wallet. Um I make sure that I put on my wedding ring and

put on my watch. But I grab my laptop. I grab my lunch because

I made my lunch earlier or I packed it. So I grab all of my

things and then I get in my vehicle. And that's exactly how

you would say it. Um I'm leaving in 5 minutes. I'm just

going to grab my things and then I'm going out to the van.

You'll hear me say that to my children. Uh and then I head to

work or I go to work. You could use either of these. Both mean

that you are basically going from your house or home to your

place of work. It might be school as well. But you might

say I'm going to head to work. Jen might say to me what time

are you going to head to work today? What time are you going

to go to work? And I'll just say oh I'm going head to work.

Today I'm going to head to work at ten. Um yesterday I headed

to work at around eight in the morning. So when you head to

work or go to work it means the same thing. It means that you

are basically leaving your house and going to work. And

maybe you need to go to school. I know some of you are still

students. So it not everyone will be going to work everyday.

Some of you will go to school. In order to learn things. If

you're a parent you might need to drop the kids off. We also

some Times say that you need to drop off the kids. Basically my

kids go on a bus. My younger kids go on a bus. My older kids

come to school with me. Um but if they need to be at school at

a certain time I might need to drop them off. So to drop off

the kids means to bring your kids to school. Which by the

way you could say that too. You could say I need to bring my

kids to school tomorrow morning. Or I need to drop the

kids off at school. It just means to give a ride. And then

you might need to drive to work. Um maybe you drive by

yourself. Maybe you carpool which is when you drive to work

with other people. You could also use carpool as a verb. You

can say I carpool to work. Which means that you go to work

with other people. Maybe to save money. Because gas is so

expensive right now. This might be required. Um in order to

have a balanced budget and not run out of money. You might

need to drive to work with other people. Or you might take

the bus. You might take the train. You might take the

subway. You might take the metro. We use the verb to take

in most of these situations. I take the bus to work. I take

the train to work. I take the subway. I take the metro. Now

again a bus is definitely this vehicle here. A train is on a

track with a whole bunch of cars and it's usually above

ground. A subway is usually below ground. And a metro is

just another name for a subway. It really depends on the city

you're in. Um I know in Toronto they have the go train. And

they have the subway. So there's two different ways to

travel. But instead of driving to work you might take the bus.

You might take the train. You might take the subway. You

might take the metro. And then you get to work. Um I find this

is a funny phrase though. Um you could say Bob what time do

you get to work? And I could say I like to get to work at 9

AM or I like to get to work at 10 thirty. But if you say to

someone get to work it means you want them to start working.

Hopefully I didn't confuse you there. What I'm trying to talk

about here is we use the phrase to get to work to arrive at

work in the same way. Um Joe likes to get to work at 8 AM.

Joe likes to arrive at work at 8 AM. Both of those sentences

have thus Meaning. It just means the moment you actually

walk in the door at work. And then you need to say hi. It's

just really nice. If you have co-workers after you get to

work after you arrive at work it's nice to say hi. It's nice

to say hello. How's it going? Pretty good how are you? I

think if you watched my video earlier this week you'll

realize that most of the simple greetings are the greetings we

use. When I get to work I say hi. I say hello. I say how's it

going? I say how are you doing today? Um I say how are you?

Those are all just very common. Probably how's it going? Uh

according to the stats I kept. How's it going? It's probably

one of the most common ways to say hi. Hey how's it going?

Pretty good. How are you? That's your standard English

greeting at work. But when you get to work it's nice to say hi

to everyone. And then I've jumped forward of the day.

Obviously you're going to do some work. But at a certain

point in the day you're going to take a break or you're going

to take a coffee break. So usually in a normal workplace

around 10 AM you'll have a 10 or 15 minute break. This is

pretty standard in North America. You start work at

seven or eight or 9. And midway through the morning you take a

coffee break or you take a break. We've called them coffee

breaks but not everyone drinks coffee anymore. But it can

still be a common term. When I was a construct worker we would

take a coffee break at 10 AM and at 2: 30 PM in the

afternoon. It was really nice. And then at a certain part of

the day you're going to eat lunch or you're going to have

lunch. You can use both verbs again. Um at my work we

actually eat lunch at 11 forty-five. We have lunch at

114-five. We have an early lunch at school at my work. Um

so if you are someone who likes to pack a lunch if you like to

make a lunch and you bring it to work at lunch time you will

eat lunch or you will have lunch. So both of those are

common very common verbs. If you were to ask someone you

could say hey what time are you going to eat lunch today? Or

what time are you going to have lunch today? Um do you want to

eat lunch together? Do you want to have lunch together? And

then here we are. We're at the end of the of the work day

already to finish work. At a certain point in your day maybe

at four o'clock or five o'clock depending on where you work you

will finish It's really nice to finish work at the same time

every day. Um if someone said to you hey do you want to go

out after work and if they didn't know when you were done

they might say what time do you finish work and you could say

oh I finish work at four o'clock. Or I today I'm not

going to finish work until five. So basically this just

means the end of your work day. And then it's nice to say

goodbye. So when you get to work it's nice to say hello.

It's nice to say how's it going to people. But when you leave

the workplace it's nice to say goodbye to your colleagues as

well. You might do this by saying see you tomorrow. That's

probably the most common way to say goodbye. You could say

goodbye or you could say bye. Um but I think for me and this

might be different in other places in the world. When I

leave work I almost always say see you tomorrow or if it's

Friday I'll say see you Monday. Or have a good weekend like

later today on a Friday. I might say bye everyone. Have

have a good weekend. I might say that as my way of saying

goodbye to my colleagues. And then if you have kids you might

need to pick up the kids. So if you are someone who earlier

used the phrase drop off the kids. If you had to drop the

kids off at school. Or if you had to drop off the kids at

school. Couple ways of saying it. You might need to pick up

the kids at the same time. Or sorry at a later time. You

might have to go and you might need to pick up the kids from

school or from daycare or from wherever they are. And then if

you have fun colleagues and if you have extra time you might

go out after work. I don't do this very often. I do this

maybe twice a year. Twice a year someone at work might say

hey Bob we're going to go out after work. We're going to have

beer and wings. Do you want to come with? And then some

colleagues and myself we might go out after work. To have a

little snack to have something to drink. Um I used to do this

a lot more when I was younger. But I think when you get older

and you have kids and you have a lot of stuff to do a lot of

errands. Uh you don't do this as often. But younger people

often will go out after work. Maybe once a month they'll say

hey we're going to go out and get some food. Do you want to

come? And usually Bob the Canadian says no. I'm a boring

colleague I think. I should go out after work with my

colleagues more often. Uh and then you go home. Uh plain and

simple. This is how you say it. Um okay I'm done work. I'm

going to go home. Uh at the end of the work day when I finish

work I go home. It's really nice to go home after a long

day at work. So simply the opposite of going to work or

heading to work is that you're going to go home. In fact you

could say I'm going to head home. Okay. Um I might be on

the phone with Jen and I might say hey I just have a few

things left to do at work and then I'm going to head home.

Okay so I'll see you in 15 minutes. Or something like

that. So to go home at the end of the day the thing you do

when you are all done your work day. And then of course you

might before you go home you might need to run errands. You

might need to run some errands. So this is the act of doing all

the little things in life that you don't do everyday but you

do quite often. You need to get groceries. You need to get your

mail. You might need to pick up your laundry if it's at the if

you if it's at the dry cleaner. I don't do that. I do my own

laundry at home. Um you might need to pick your dog up. Maybe

you bring your to a place that takes care of it during the

day. We don't do that but some people do. You might need to

just do a few errands. You might need to go to the bank.

You might need to do all of the typical things that you might

need to do throughout the week. So to get changed. When I get

home I like to get changed. I wear a shirt with a collar to

work. And I wear like dress pants they're called. I don't

wear jeans to work. But in order to feel comfortable I

like to just wear jeans and a T-shirt. So when I get home I

like to get changed. To get changed means to put different

clothes on. Um I think this is a very common thing for people.

Um people come home from work. Maybe they're wearing a tie or

a dress or a skirt. They're wearing some very formal

clothing. And when they get home in order to relax they

like to get changed. So they just like to we say it this way

too sometimes. I just like to throw on jeans and a T-shirt.

Uh and sit on the couch and have a cup of tea. So this guy

I imagine came home from work and decided wanted to get

changed so he put on a T-shirt, a comfy shirt, and a pair of

jeans. I like to make supper or I like to make dinner. Again I

use these words the same way. Um Jen and I usually make

dinner around four thirty. We like to make supper around 430

and then we like oh that's the wrong slide. This is the one.

We like to eat dinner or eat supper around five or 530. So

to make supper means to cook supper. You could also say

that. Um but generally we use the word make because it's a

very general generally general It's a very general word. Um

usually everyday Jen will make supper around 430 or five. Um

most days Jen makes supper in the winter. But in the summer

when Jen's busy on the farm I usually make supper. I'm

usually the one who makes dinner. Um but it's to prepare

food. That's what that would mean. To and then sometimes you

order take out or you get take out. So in Canada we would call

this take out. Um we might even say you might order delivery.

Which means you get a pizza delivered to your house.

Takeout is when you make a phone call Or you order online

and then you go to the restaurant and pick your food

up in boxes. And then you take it home to eat it. So you might

order take out or get take out. I think in Britain they call it

take away. Um but in Canada in my area at least we call it

take out. Um sometimes Jen and I will order take out or we'll

get take out and then we'll eat restaurant food at home. Uh we

talked about eating dinner and eating supper already so I'll

move on. Uh and then you need to do the dishes or you need to

wash the dishes. Uh some people are lucky and they have a

dishwasher. I do not have a dishwasher. Uh so after supper

every night we do the dishes. So that means we put soap and

water in the sink. Uh we put the dishes in and then we wash

and scrub them and rinse them and dry them. So after we eat

supper we will do the dishes. A very common activity that many

do after they eat. You need to I think they call this the

washing up in Britain. Don't quote me on British English

though. I'm just going by what I hear when I watch British

television. But we would say to do the dishes or to wash the

dishes. So plates, cups, spoons, forks. Um and then to

clean up the house. We don't do this every night. We actually

do this more on the weekends. But usually we will sweep the

floor. When we do the dishes usually one person will sweep

the floor. And another person will wipe the table off or wipe

off the table. On a Saturday though we will vacuum and we

will do other types of cleaning. But often after

supper we will clean up the house. We will just tidy things

up a little bit. And then maybe you want to unwind. So this is

an English verb that means to relax. So you might just sit in

a chair and read a book. Uh you might just sit and chat for a

little bit. But to unwind usually means to relax after

work. Okay so after work after you've done some chores and

some errands when you finally sit down at the end of the day

you might sit down to unwind. Which just means to relax a

little bit. Usually by six o'clock or 6 30 at night

especially in the I'm I'm able to just sit down and to unwind

a little bit. I'm able to sit down and relax. It's a nice

feeling. And you might sit down to watch the news. Maybe you're

someone who likes to watch the news. I used to watch the news

a lot. I don't watch the news as much anymore. But this was

something that I used to do quite regularly after supper

every night. And we still do a bit but I don't think as much

as we used to. Maybe you like to read book. Maybe that's one

of the things you do to unwind. You take some time to sit and

read a book at night. Which of course I think you know what

reading a book is. Maybe you like to watch some TV. You

might want to watch some Netflix. You might want to

watch some YouTube. All of those phrases are very common.

Um sometimes I sit on my computer because I want to

watch some YouTube videos or I want to watch Netflix or I

want to watch another streaming service like Amazon Prime but

sometimes you just want to watch TV or some TV to watch

Netflix or some Netflix or to watch YouTube videos or to

watch some YouTube videos. So hopefully you heard all those

variations there. And maybe you want to check social media.

Maybe you really really enjoy grabbing your phone at night.

There's the verb grab again. Just going to grab my phone and

check Instagram. I'm just going to grab my phone and

check Facebook. We use the verb to check a lot. Uh when we're

talking about social media. You could also say that someone's

on social media a lot like ah he's you know if you're talking

about teenagers oh she's on social media all the time.

That's the same as you know looking at Instagram or

Facebook or one of the other main social medias apps. And

then eventually you're going to say good night. So you might

say good night to your kids. Um you might say good night to

your spouse. You might say good night to someone on the phone.

Maybe you phone your mom or dad every night to say good night.

Um but one of the one of the last things you do at the end

of the day is that you say good night to people. And then

you're going to get ready for bed. So when you get ready for

bed this involves maybe putting on pajamas. This involves maybe

doing things like you're going to use the bathroom or go to

the bathroom. Um it includes things like maybe you're going

to brush your teeth. Um there's a variety of things that you do

to get ready for bed. I know because I'm old one of the

things I do is I take my medication. So I have to take a

pill every day and I do that at night. It's part of it's one of

the things I do when I'm getting ready for bed. Um so

when I am done when I'm going to go to bed. I usually get

changed. Um so I'm not going to describe what I wear to bed.

But I get ready for bed by getting changed. I brush my

teeth. I usually take my pill. Uh I usually go the bathroom or

use the bathroom. Those are all the things that I do when I am

getting ready for bed. So one of the last things you do is

you get ready for bed. And then you get in bed. So you can say

you get in bed. You go to bed. You get into bed. All of those

are equally common in English. Uh at the end of your day you

might also by the way have a shower or take a shower at

night. It can depend on what kind of work you do during the

day. When I'm teaching I have a shower in the morning. In the

summer when I'm not teaching and I work on the farm I have a

shower before I go to bed. So it depends how dirty your work

is. When you work on a farm you get dirty. Your hands get

dirty. Your neck gets dirty. Your everything gets dirty

because you're working outside. So you might have a shower at

the end of the day. And then you're going to get in bed. Get

into bed. Go to bed. And then you need to set your alarm

clock or you need to set your alarm. I still have an old

fashioned alarm clock. Most people these days just set an

alarm on their phone. But you need to set your alarm or you

need to set your alarm clock. Um if you need to get up early

the next morning. Maybe you don't. Maybe it's the weekend

then you want to make sure that your alarm is not set. Because

you the worst thing for me is when the alarm clock goes off

at 630 on a Saturday morning and I don't need to get up. But

sometimes you need to set your alarm or you need to set your

alarm. I don't know who gets up at 9 AM but that must be really

nice. And then the very very last thing that you will do is

you will fall asleep. We sometimes say go to sleep. Like

I go to sleep at 10 PM or I didn't yeah I think fall asleep

is the actual act of going from being awake to being asleep or

to sleeping. So I think the very very last thing that most

people do in day is they will fall asleep. And then hopefully

you don't toss and turn. Uh hopefully you don't have

nightmares or bad dreams. Hopefully after you fall asleep

you just drift off and have beautiful dreams about awesome

things in life. That would be really cool. But definitely the

last thing you do in your day in your daily routine is to

fall asleep.