์๋์ ์ฐ์ต: Talk About Your Day in English ๐ฃ๏ธ | Daily Routine Conversation (B1โB2) | English Podcast - ์์์ผ๋ก ์์ด ๋งํ๊ธฐ ๋ฐฐ์ฐ๊ธฐ
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Mr. English Channel, where learning English is easy and fun.
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I'm Emily.
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Hey Emily!
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It is so great to be here today.
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I am really happy to talk to our amazing listeners again.
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I know.
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I always look forward to our recording days.
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How is your week going so far?
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It is going really well, thanks for asking.
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Actually, I had a very busy morning today.
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Oh, really?
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Tell me about it, because my morning was super quiet and relaxed.
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Well, my alarm didn't go off at 6 a.m like usual, so I woke up late and had to run around the house.
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Oh no, that is the worst feeling.
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Did you miss your morning coffee?
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No way.
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I never miss my coffee, Emily.
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I just made it really fast and drank it while putting on my shoes.
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That sounds so stressful, but it is actually a perfect example for our topic today.
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We're talking about how to describe your day in English.
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You are so right.
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It is something we do every single day with our friends.
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But how do we start?
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Usually, it's best to start from the very beginning.
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You can use simple words like first or in the morning.
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Right, like when I said I woke up late.
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A good sentence is just, first, I woke up at 7 instead of 6.
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Exactly.
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That's simple and clear.
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And then you can use transition words like then or after that to move to the next activity.
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Mm-hmm.
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Those words are like glue for your sentences.
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So I could say, then I made some quick coffee and left the house.
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Perfect.
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See, you're already teaching the lesson through your stressful morning.
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Hey, I try my best.
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But what about a normal day when things actually go right?
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On a normal day, you might say, first I wake up and stretch.
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After that, I make a healthy breakfast.
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That sounds much nicer than my morning.
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What do you usually have for breakfast, Emily?
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I usually have some oatmeal with fruit and a warm cup of green tea.
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It helps me feel ready for the day.
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Wow, that is very healthy.
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I usually just have toast with butter.
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But hey, it is fast and easy.
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Toast is great too.
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The important thing for our listeners is the structure.
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We use the present tense when we talk about our daily routine in general.
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Ah, that is an important detail.
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So, if it happens every day, I use I wake up, not I woke up.
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Exactly.
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Use the present tense for your regular routine and use the past tense if you are talking about just today or yesterday.
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That makes total sense.
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So, every day I drink coffee, but yesterday I drank tea.
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Yes, you got it.
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It's a very simple rule, but it changes the meaning completely.
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So after breakfast, what is the next step in a standard day?
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Usually people go to work or school, right?
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Right.
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And a great phrase to use here is get ready.
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For example, I get ready for work at 8 o'clock.
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Oh, I love that phrase.
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Get ready can mean brushing your teeth, getting dressed, or packing your bag.
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Exactly.
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It includes everything.
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It saves you from saying 10 small actions in a row. That is true.
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Nobody wants to hear a long list of every time you brushed your teeth.
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Right.
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We want to keep the conversation moving naturally.
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So after you get ready, how do you talk about traveling to work?
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Well, you can say, I commute to work, or just simply, I go to work by car or I take the bus.
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Simple is always better.
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I take the train or I drive to work are excellent options for intermediate learners. For sure.
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Personally, I drive to work and the traffic is usually a bit heavy in the morning.
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Traffic can be so annoying.
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Do you listen to anything in the car to pass the time?
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Oh, always.
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I listen to podcasts or upbeat music to keep me awake and happy.
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That is a great habit.
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Maybe some of our listeners are listening to us right now during their morning commute.
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I hope so.
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If you are driving right now, keep your eyes on the road, but enjoy the lesson.
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Yes, safety first.
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So once you arrive at your office or school, what do you say next?
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You can say, I arrive at work at 9 a.m.
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Or, more casually, I get to work around 9.
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Get to is very common in American English.
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I get to school, I get to the office, I get to the gym.
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It really is.
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I use get to all the time without even thinking about it.
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It just sounds so natural.
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It does.
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And then during the day, you probably take a short break or eat lunch with your friends.
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Oh, lunch is my absolute favorite part of the workday.
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I usually have lunch at noon.
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I knew you would say that.
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Who do you usually eat lunch with when you are at the office?
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I usually eat with my co-workers at a small cafe near our building.
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We like to chat and relax.
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That sounds lovely.
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Notice how Paul said co-workers.
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That's a great word for the people you work with.
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Right.
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It is much better than saying, the other people at my job.
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It sounds more professional.
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Definitely.
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And what about the afternoon?
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How do you describe the hours after lunch?
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Well, the afternoon is usually when I focus on my big projects.
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I might say, in the afternoon, I finish my tasks.
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That is good.
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You can also talk about meetings.
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For example, I have a meeting with my manager at 2 p.m.
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Meetings can sometimes be long and boring, but they are a big part of the day for many people.
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They really are.
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But then the best moment arrives, the end of the workday.
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Yes, the moment everyone waits for.
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How do we say that we are leaving work, Emily?
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You can say, I finish work at 5 o'clock.
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Or you can use a fun phrasal verb like wrap up.
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Wrap up?
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Like wrapping a present?
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Regular words can be funny, right?
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But yes, to wrap up means to finish or complete something.
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Oh, I see.
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So I can say, I wrap up my work around 5 p.m and then I head home.
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Yes, head home is another fantastic, natural phrase.
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It just means to go in the direction of your house.
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I use head home every single day.
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It sounds much warmer than just saying, I go to my house.
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It really does.
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It feels like you are looking forward to relaxing after a long day.
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Speaking of a long day, this is a great moment to pause and talk to our amazing listeners.
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Oh yes, if you are enjoying this conversation and learning new phrases, please take a second to like this video.
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And don't forget to subscribe to Mr. English Channel.
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Share it with a friend who is also learning English.
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We love reading your stories, so today, leave a comment below telling us, what time do you usually wake up?
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Yes, tell us your morning time.
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I promise I won't judge you if you wake up late like I did today.
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Yes, we want to know.
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Now let's get back to the evening routine, Paul.
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So after we head home, what do most people do next?
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For me, the first thing is changing into comfortable clothes.
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Oh, absolutely.
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I take off my shoes and put on my favorite soft clothes immediately.
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It is a great feeling.
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Then, it is time for dinner.
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Some people love to cook and other people prefer to order food.
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Which one are you, Paul?
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Do you cook dinner or order delivery?
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Honestly, I like to cook when I have time.
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It helps me relax after a busy day.
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I cook simple things like pasta or chicken.
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That sounds delicious.
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I also prefer cooking at home.
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It feels healthier and more personal.
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What do you do after dinner to wind down before going to sleep?
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Oh, wind down is a beautiful phrase.
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It means to relax your body and mind before bed.
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Yes, it is like slowing down a machine.
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I usually watch a little bit of television or read a book.
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Me too.
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I like to read a chapter of a book with a small cup of warm tea.
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helps me sleep better.
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I try to read, but sometimes I just fall asleep on the couch with the book on my face.
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That happens to the best of us, especially when we are very tired from work.
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Exactly.
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And then finally, the last step of the day is going to bed.
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You can say, I go to sleep at 10 p.m.
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Or you can say, I hit the sack.
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That is a very common American idiom for going to bed.
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Hit the sack?
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That sounds a little violent, Emily.
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Don't worry, it doesn't hurt.
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The sack just means the bed.
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It is just a fun way to say you are going to sleep.
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I like that.
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I am so tired, I am going to hit the sack.
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It sounds very fluent.
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It really does.
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So now we have a complete picture of a standard day from morning to night.
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We do.
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But what happens if someone asks you, how was your day?
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How do you answer that question in a general way?
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That is a great question.
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You don't always have to tell the whole story.
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You can give a short, general answer first.
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Right.
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Like if the day was good, you can say, it was great, it was pretty good, or I had a productive day.
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Yes.
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Productive is a wonderful intermediate word.
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It means you completed many tasks and did a lot of work.
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I love using that word.
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It makes me feel good about my time.
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What if the day was bad or difficult?
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If it was a tough day, you can say, It was exhausting.
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It was a long day.
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Or, it was pretty stressful.
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It was a long day is a very common phrase when people are just tired from working too much.
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Yes.
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And notice that we don't mean the day actually had more hours.
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It just felt long because we worked hard.
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Right.
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Time moves slowly when you were doing something difficult.
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Exactly.
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It feels like the clock stops moving completely.
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So, Emily, if a friend asks you about your day, Do you usually give a lot of details or just a quick summary?
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It depends on the friend, honestly.
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If it is a close friend like you, I share the small details.
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If it is a stranger, I just say, it was good, thanks.
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That is true.
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You don't want to tell the grocery store worker your whole morning story.
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No, definitely not.
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They just want to scan the food and move to the next person.
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A simple good thanks is perfect.
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So, it is all about context.
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For our intermediate learners, practicing these stories with someone can really help.
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Speaking of practicing, this is the perfect time for a quick shout-out to Mr. English AI.
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Oh, yes.
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Mr. English AI is our amazing smart assistant that helps you practice everything we talk about today.
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It is so cool.
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You can chat with it anytime you want, practice describing your day, and get instant feedback.
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Exactly.
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If you want to improve your speaking skills faster, you should really check it out.
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The link is right in the video description.
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Yes, it is a wonderful tool to build your confidence.
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I highly recommend it.
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Me too.
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I think practicing daily routines is one of the best ways to start using English naturally every single day.
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I agree completely.
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It uses words that apply directly to your real life, so you don't forget them.
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Let's think about some extra phrases that can make a description of a day sound even more interesting.
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What about weekends?
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Oh, weekends are different.
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On weekends, people love to sleep in.
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Sleep in?
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Does that mean sleeping inside the house?
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No. It means sleeping later than you normally do on a workday.
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For example, waking up at 9am instead of 6am.
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Oh, I love sleeping in on Saturdays.
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It's one of life's greatest pleasures.
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It truly is.
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Another great weekend phrase is stay up late.
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This means going to bed much later than usual.
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So, I stayed up late on Friday night watching movies and then I slept in on Saturday morning.
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Beautiful!
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You combined both phrases perfectly in one sentence.
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That sounds incredibly natural.
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Thanks!
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I am practicing my own English lessons here.
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You are doing great, Paul.
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Another Another good phrase for free time is hang out.
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Hang out just means to spend time relaxing with your friends or family without a specific plan.
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Yes.
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Like, on Sunday afternoon, I hung out with my family at the park.
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Perfect.
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Notice that the past tense of hang is hung.
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That is an irregular verb, so it's good to remember.
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Ah, good catch.
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out becomes hung out when we talk about yesterday or last weekend.
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Exactly.
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It's these small details that help intermediate students move up to the next level of fluency.
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It really helps to hear these words used in a real conversation instead of just reading them in a book.
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That is exactly why we make this podcast.
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We want to show how English lives in everyday moments.
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Well, I think we covered a lot of great vocabulary today, from early morning alarms to hitting the sack at night.
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We certainly did.
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I hope our listeners feel more comfortable sharing stories about their daily lives now.
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Me too!
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Remember to use those transition words like first, then, and after that to keep things organized and easy to follow.
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Well everyone, that brings us to the end of our episode today.
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Thank you so much for hanging out with us.
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Yes, thank you all!
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Please remember to like this video, subscribe to Mr. English Channel, and leave your comment about your morning routine.
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We love you guys and we will see you in the next episode.
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Bye-bye!
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Goodbye everyone!
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Have a wonderful day!
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์ด๋ฒ ์์์์๋ ์์ด ํ์ต์๋ค์ ์ํ ์ผ์ ๋ํ์ ๊ดํ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ์งํ์์ธ ์๋ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฒญ์ทจ์๋ค๊ณผ์ ์ํต์ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋ฉฐ, ์์ ์ ๋ฐ์ ์์นจ ์ผ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ์์ํ๊ฒ ์ค๋ช ํฉ๋๋ค. ์๋ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์งํ์๋ ๋ํ์์ ์ผ์์ ์ธ ๋ฃจํด์ ์์ด๋ก ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ค๋ช ํ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋ค๋ฃจ๊ณ ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๊ณผ์ ์์ ๊ฐ๋จํ ๋ฌธ์ฅ ๊ตฌ์กฐ์ ์ ํ์ด์ ์ฌ์ฉ์ ๊ฐ์กฐํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ๋ํ ๋ฐฉ์์ ์ ํ๋ธ ์์ด ๊ณต๋ถ์ ์ ํฉํ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ฉฐ, IELTS ์คํผํน ์ค๋น์๋ ๋ง์ ๋์์ด ๋ฉ๋๋ค.
์ผ์ ๋ํ์ ์ ์ฉํ 5๊ฐ์ง ํํ
- ์ฒซ ๋ฒ์งธ, I woke up at 7 instead of 6. (6์ ๋์ 7์์ ์ผ์ด๋ฌ์ต๋๋ค.)
- ๊ทธ ๋ค์, I made some quick coffee and left the house. (๋๋ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์ปคํผ๋ฅผ ๋ง๋ค๊ณ ์ง์ ๋๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค.)
- ์์นจ์, I usually have oatmeal with fruit and a warm cup of green tea. (์ ๋ ๋ณดํต ๊ณผ์ผ๊ณผ ๋ฐ๋ปํ ๋ น์ฐจ์ ํจ๊ป ์คํธ๋ฐ์ ๋จน์ต๋๋ค.)
- ๊ทธ ํ์, I make a healthy breakfast. (๊ฑด๊ฐํ ์์นจ์ ์ค๋นํฉ๋๋ค.)
- ๋งค์ผ, I wake up and stretch. (๋งค์ผ ์์นจ ์ผ์ด๋์ ์คํธ๋ ์นญ์ ํฉ๋๋ค.)
๋จ๊ณ๋ณ ์๋์ ๊ฐ์ด๋
์ด ์์์์ ๋ค๋ฃฌ ๋ด์ฉ์ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฐ์ตํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์๋ ์๋์(shadowspeak) ๊ธฐ๋ฒ์ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ข์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค์ ๋จ๊ณ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ ํด๋ณด์ธ์:
- 1๋จ๊ณ: ์์์ ์์ฒญํ๋ฉฐ ๋ด์ฉ์ ์ดํดํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด์ผ๊ธฐ์ ํ๋ฆ์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๊ฐ์์ ํ๋ฃจ์ ๋ํด ์ด๋ป๊ฒ ํํํ๋์ง๋ฅผ ์๊ฐํด๋ณด์ธ์.
- 2๋จ๊ณ: ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ ๋ฐ๋ณตํด์ ๋ค์ผ๋ฉด์ ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋งํฉ๋๋ค. ์ด๋, ํํ์ ์ฒ ์ ํ ์ดํด๋ฅผ ์ํด ๊ฐ๊ฐ์ ๋ฌธ์ฅ์ ์ฌ๋ฌ ๋ฒ ๋ฐ๋ณตํด๋ณด๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ค์ํฉ๋๋ค.
- 3๋จ๊ณ: ์์ฃผ ์ฌ์ฉํ๋ ์ผ์ ํํ๋ค์ ๋ฉ๋ชจํ๊ณ ์์ ์ ์ผ์์ ๋ง๊ฒ ๋ณํํ์ฌ ์ฐ์ตํฉ๋๋ค. ์๋ฅผ ๋ค์ด, ์ปคํผ ๋์ ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์๋ฃ๋ฅผ ์ธ๊ธํด๋ณด์ธ์.
- 4๋จ๊ณ: ์์ ์ ํ๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ๊ฒฐํ๊ฒ ๊ธฐ๋กํด๋ณด์ธ์. ๋์ค์ ์ด ๋ด์ฉ์ ์์ด๋ก ๋งํ๋ ์ฐ์ต์ ํ๋ฉด์ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฝ๊ณ ์ ์ฐฝํ๊ฒ ์คํผํน ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ ํฅ์์ํฌ ์ ์์ต๋๋ค.
- 5๋จ๊ณ: ์น๊ตฌ๋ ์ธ์ด ํํธ๋์ ํจ๊ป ๋ํ ์ฐ์ต์ ์งํํด๋ณด์ธ์. ์ผ์์ ์ธ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋๋๋ฉด์ ์ง๋ ์์์์ ๋ฐฐ์ด ํํ๋ค์ ์ ๊ทน ํ์ฉํฉ๋๋ค.
์ด๋ฌํ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ํตํด IELTS ์คํผํน ์ํ ์ค๋น ๋ฐ ์ ํ๋ธ ์์ด ๊ณต๋ถ์ ์ ์ฉํ ์๋์ ๊ธฐ๋ฒ์ ์ ์ฉํ๋ฉฐ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฌ์ด ์ผ์ ์์ด ํํ๋ฅผ ์ฐ์ตํด๋ณด์ธ์.
์๋์์ด๋? ์์ด ์ค๋ ฅ์ ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒ ํค์ฐ๋ ๊ณผํ์ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ
์๋์(Shadowing)์ ์๋ ์ ๋ฌธ ํต์ญ์ฌ ํ๋ จ์ ์ํด ๊ฐ๋ฐ๋ ์ธ์ด ํ์ต ๊ธฐ๋ฒ์ผ๋ก, ๋ค์ธ์ด ํ์์ธ Dr. Alexander Arguelles์ ์ํด ๋์คํ๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ํต์ฌ ์๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฐ๋จํ์ง๋ง ๋งค์ฐ ๊ฐ๋ ฅํฉ๋๋ค: ์์ด๋ฏผ์ ์์ด๋ฅผ ๋ค์ผ๋ฉด์ 1~2์ด์ ์งง์ ์ง์ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ฆ์ ์๋ฆฌ ๋ด์ด ๋ฐ๋ผ ๋งํ๋ ๊ฒโโ๋ง์น '๊ทธ๋ฆผ์(shadow)'์ฒ๋ผ ํ์๋ฅผ ๋ฐ๋ผ๊ฐ๋ ๊ฒ์ ๋๋ค. ๋ฌธ๋ฒ ๊ณต๋ถ๋ ์๋์ ์ธ ์ฒญ์ทจ์ ๋ฌ๋ฆฌ, ์๋์์ ๋์ ์ ๊ทผ์ก์ด ๋์์ ์ค์๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ์์ด๋ฅผ ์ฒ๋ฆฌํ๊ณ ์ฌํํ๋๋ก ํ๋ จํฉ๋๋ค. ์ฐ๊ตฌ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ์ด ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ ํ๋, ์ต์, ๋ฆฌ๋ฌ, ์ฐ์, ์ฒญ์ทจ๋ ฅ, ๋งํ๊ธฐ ์ ์ฐฝ์ฑ์ ํฌ๊ฒ ํฅ์์ํต๋๋ค. IELTS ์คํผํน ์ค๋น์ ์์ฐ์ค๋ฌ์ด ์์ด ์ํต์ ์ํ๋ ๋ถ๋ค์๊ฒ ํนํ ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ ๋๋ค.