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Hi friends, welcome back to Daily English Talk.
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Hey everyone, I'm Tom and this is Lily and we are your English learning friends.
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And if this is your first time here, we are so glad you found us.
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Please write your English level in the comments.
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We are talking about a day in an American life.
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Like, what do real people actually do from morning to night?
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Right.
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Not the movies, not the TV shows.
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Real life.
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Coffee, commutes, lunch breaks, all of it.
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And we have so many natural, everyday phrases for you today.
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The kind of English you actually need.
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So, grab your notebook, get comfortable, and let's do this together.
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But first, we have a question for you.
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Ooh, yes.
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So, later in this episode, Tom is going to tell us a story about something very funny that happened to him during his lunch break at work.
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Oh no, are we really doing this?
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We are absolutely doing this.
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So here is the question for you.
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Great.
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Just great.
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What do you think happened to Tom at lunch?
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Did he forget his food at home?
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Did he spill something?
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Or did he order the wrong thing completely?
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It's worse than all of those options.
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Ooh!
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Okay, so comment below, You were right.
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Okay, Tom, let's start from the very beginning of a typical American day.
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What time do most people wake up?
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Oh, people wake up early, like 6 or 6 :30 in the morning.
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Yeah, Americans love an early morning.
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Well, love is a strong word.
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More like they have no choice.
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Okay, fair.
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So, you wake up, what's the very first thing most people do?
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Grab their phone and check it for like 15 minutes.
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Yes, that is too real.
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you grab a coffee.
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Oh, coffee is very serious in America.
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Very serious.
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Some people make coffee at home, some people stop at a coffee shop on the way to work, but almost everyone has coffee in the morning.
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And then what?
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You head to work?
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Exactly, you head to work.
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Some people drive, some people take the subway or the bus, some people work from home now, which is very common.
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Oh yes, working from home became really popular in recent years.
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walk to your home office.
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Or your kitchen table.
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Or your couch, let's be honest.
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So then you work through the morning, and around noon or 12 o 'clock, you take a lunch break.
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Yes, lunch break.
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And this is where your story happens, right, Tom?
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Yeah, we'll get there.
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We'll definitely get there.
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After work, usually around 5 or 6 p .m., people go home and then they do things like cook dinner, hang out with family, watch TV, or go to the gym.
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And on weekdays, most people go to bed around 10 or 11 p .m.
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hang out, go to bed.
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Simple, busy, and very, very caffeinated.
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Perfect description!
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Okay, let's talk about something important in today's conversation.
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Did you notice we used a lot of verbs together, like "grab coffee" or "head to work"?
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Yes, these are called verb + noun combinations, or we can call them collocations.
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A collocation is when two words go together naturally in English.
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Native speakers always use these combinations.
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They sound very natural.
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For example, we don't usually say "take a coffee" in the morning.
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We say "grab a coffee." And we don't say "go to work" only.
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We also say "head to work." Both are correct, but "head to" sounds more casual and natural.
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Another example, we hang out with friends, not spend time with in casual conversation, just hang out.
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So today, we are going to teach you the most important daily routine collocations.
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These are phrases that real Americans use every single day.
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Learn these and your English will sound so much more natural.
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Ready?
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Let's go.
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Okay, phrase number one: wake up.
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Wake up.
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This means to stop sleeping and open your eyes.
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Very simple, very important.
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I wake up at 6 :30 every morning, but honestly, I hit the snooze button like three times first.
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Oh yes, the snooze button.
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That is a very American habit.
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culture.
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Now let's practice.
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Repeat after me.
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Wake up.
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I wake up at 6 :30.
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I wake up early every morning.
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Great job!
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Phrase number two.
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Grab a coffee.
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Grab a coffee.
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Grab means to quickly take something.
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So grab a coffee means to quickly get a coffee.
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I always grab a coffee before I do anything in the morning.
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It's like my brain doesn't turn on until that first sip.
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Same.
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I actually went to work once without my coffee and I forgot my own name for like the first hour.
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I'm only slightly exaggerating.
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Repeat after me.
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Grab a coffee.
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I grab a coffee every morning.
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I grabbed a coffee on the way to work.
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Excellent!
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Phrase number three, head to work.
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Head to work.
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Head to means to go somewhere.
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It's a casual, natural way to say go to.
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You can also say, "I'm heading out." That means I'm leaving now.
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Every morning I head to work at 8 :15.
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I try to leave by 8, but it never happens.
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Never?
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Never.
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There's always one more thing I forgot to do.
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Repeat after me.
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Head to work.
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I head to work at 8.
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She heads to work by bus.
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Perfect.
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Phrase number four.
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Get stuck in traffic.
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Oh, this one.
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I know this one too well.
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Get stuck in traffic means your car cannot move because there are too many other cars on the road.
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In big American cities like Los Angeles or New York, traffic is very, very bad.
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People can sit in traffic for one hour, sometimes two hours, just to get to work.
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That sounds so exhausting.
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It is.
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I got stuck in traffic for 90 minutes minutes once and I just sat there listening to the same song on repeat. Which song?
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I'm not telling you.
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It was embarrassing.
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Repeat after me.
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Get stuck in traffic.
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I got stuck in traffic this morning.
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She gets stuck in traffic every day.
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Well done.
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Phrase number five: Take a lunch break.
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Take a lunch break.
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A break is a short time when you stop working.
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So a lunch break is when you stop working to eat lunch.
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And this is where my story happens.
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Yes, Tom, tell us.
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Okay, so, one day I decided to take a lunch break at this nice restaurant near my office.
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I ordered a big bowl of soup.
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And then I was very carefully walking back to my table, and I...
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I tripped.
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And the soup went everywhere.
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On my shirt, on my pants, on the floor.
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Tom!
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And the worst part, the absolute worst part, I had a very important meeting at 1 p .m with my boss and his boss.
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No!
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What did you do?
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I went to the clothes store next door and bought the only shirt they had in my size.
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It had a picture of a large, smiling frog on the front.
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You wore a frog shirt to a meeting with your boss's boss.
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I did.
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And you know what?
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Nobody said anything.
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I think they were too confused.
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That is the best story!
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Repeat after me.
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Take a lunch break.
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I take a lunch break at noon.
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He took a lunch break and spilled his soup.
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And maybe don't order soup.
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Phrase number six: get off work.
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Oh, my favorite phrase: get off work.
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This means to finish your workday.
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I get off work at 5.
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That means my workday ends at 5 :00 p .m.
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That feeling when you get off work on a Friday, there's nothing better.
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Absolute freedom.
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Ha ha ha.
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Repeat after me.
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Get off work.
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I get off work at 5.
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What time do you get off work?
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Amazing.
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Phrase number seven, hang out.
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Hang out.
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This means to spend time with people in a relaxed, casual way, not formal, just fun time together.
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You hang out with friends.
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You hang out at home.
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You hang out at a coffee shop.
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After work, a lot of Americans hang out with friends for a little while before going home.
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Maybe they grab a drink or go for a walk or just sit and talk.
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Americans work hard, but they also really value their social time.
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Hanging out with people is really important.
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Repeat after me.
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Hang out.
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I hang out with my friends after work.
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Do you want to hang out this weekend?
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Great.
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And our last phrase, phrase number eight: "Call it a night." Oh, I love this one: "Call it a night." This means to decide to stop doing something
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and go home or go to sleep.
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You might say, "I'm exhausted.
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Let's call it a night." It's like saying, "Okay, we are done for today.
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Let's go to bed." After a long American day of waking up early, grabbing coffee, heading to work,
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maybe getting break, hopefully without the soup disaster, getting off work and hanging out with friends.
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You call it a night.
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Sounds exhausting when you list it all like that.
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It does, but it's also a full, good life.
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Repeat after me.
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Call it a night.
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It's late, let's call it a night.
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I called it a night at 10 p .m.
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Well done.
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Okay, let's do a quick review of everything we learned today.
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Today's topic, A Day in an American Life, and here are the eight phrases we practiced.
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Number one, wake up to stop sleeping.
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Number two, grab a coffee to quickly get a coffee.
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Number three, head to work, to go to work.
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Number four, get stuck in traffic, when your car can't move because of too many cars.
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Number five, take a lunch break to stop working to eat lunch.
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Number 6: Get off work to finish your workday.
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Number seven, hang out, to spend relaxed, fun time with people.
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And number eight, call it a night, to stop and go to sleep.
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These are eight phrases that real Americans use every single day.
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Now you can use them too.
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And now, one more time, let's say all eight phrases together fast.
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Wake up, grab a coffee, head to work, get stuck in traffic.
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Take a lunch break carefully.
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Get off work.
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Hang out.
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Call it a night.
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You just described a full American day in eight phrases.
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How amazing is that?
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You are learning so fast.
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Seriously, we are so proud of you.
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Every phrase you learn brings you one step closer to speaking English naturally.
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Keep going!
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Okay, now here is your comment challenge for today.
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Describe your typical day using at least three of these phrases.
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Write it in the comments below.
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We read every single one.
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For example, you could write, "I wake up at 7, I grab a coffee, and I head to school." Or maybe,
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"I get off work at 6, and then I hang out with my family." Use your own day.
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Use your own words.
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There is no wrong answer.
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And if you want to say, "Yes, I will do the challenge," just comment,
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"Yes, I will." every single time.
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Seriously, every comment means so much to us.
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Thank you for being part of this community.
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And if today's lesson helped you, please share it with one friend who is also learning English.
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One share can change someone's learning journey.
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You are not learning alone.
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We are here with you every single day.
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Okay, before we go, remember our question from the beginning?
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Oh yes, the soup.
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the answer.
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Tom spilled an entire bowl of soup on himself right before an important meeting, and showed up wearing a crab shirt.
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A smiling crab.
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Very professional.
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If you guessed he spilled something, you were absolutely right.
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And if you guessed crab shirt, I don't know how you knew that, but respect.
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Respect!
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And if you are watching this for the subscribe button and turn on notifications so you never miss one.
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Every day is a new word, a new phrase, a new step forward.
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That's what daily English talk is all about.
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We believe in you, every single one of you watching right now.
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You are doing something amazing by choosing to learn every day.
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Seriously, not everyone tries, but you are here and that makes all the difference.
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So keep We will see you tomorrow for another brand new lesson.
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Same time, same place, right here on Daily English Talk.
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Until then, take care of yourselves.
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Bye for now.
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See you tomorrow.

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