Shadowing Practice: Talk About Your Day in English - Learn Simple Present Tense with Daily Routine | English Podcast - Learn English Speaking with Video

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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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Hello, Emily.
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Hello everyone.
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It's great to be here with you all.
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How are you today, Emily?
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I'm great, Paul.
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Very happy for another episode. are you?
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I'm fantastic.
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I feel good today.
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I'm ready for a fun conversation.
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Me too.
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And before we start our topic, we want to say thank you for listening.
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Yes, thank you.
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So Paul, what is our topic today?
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Today, we talk about our day, our daily routine, what we do every day.
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Ah, that's a great topic.
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We use a lot of simple, important English for that.
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We use the simple present.
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Yes, the simple present is for routines, habits, things we do every day.
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Or sometimes, or never.
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It sounds easy and useful.
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So to start, Paul, are you a morning person?
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A morning person?
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Hmm.
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No, Emily, I am not a morning person.
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I like my bed.
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Oh, I see.
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So you wake up late.
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Yes, I do.
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On weekends, I wake up very late.
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On weekdays, for work, I wake up at 8 o'clock.
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8 o'clock is not so late.
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I am a morning person.
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I love the morning.
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Wow, really?
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So you wake up early?
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I do.
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I wake up at 6 o'clock every day.
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Yes, even on weekends.
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6 o'clock.
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Wow, Emily.
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What do you do so early?
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Well, first I open the window.
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I love the morning air.
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Then I drink a big glass of water.
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Water.
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That is very healthy.
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I need my coffee.
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The first thing I do is make coffee.
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Ah, a coffee person.
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I like coffee too, but in the morning I prefer tea.
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Tea is good.
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It's calm.
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I need energy. So I drink coffee.
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I always have a big cup.
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I understand.
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After my water, I do some exercise.
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Just a little.
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Exercise in the morning?
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You have so much energy.
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It helps me wake up.
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After that, I take a shower, and then I have breakfast.
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Okay, breakfast.
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My favorite part of the morning.
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What do you eat for breakfast, Emily?
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I usually eat yogurt and fruit.
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Sometimes I have toast with jam.
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What about you, Paul?
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I love a big breakfast.
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I usually have eggs and toast.
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And my coffee, of course.
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Eggs and toast?
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Yummy.
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That's a classic breakfast.
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Yes, it is.
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I feel ready for the day after my eggs and coffee.
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So, what happens next in your day?
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You go to work?
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Yes.
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I work from Monday to Friday.
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I work at a small library.
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I love books.
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A library.
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That sounds so nice and quiet.
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I work in an office.
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It is not quiet.
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I can imagine.
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I like the library because I see many people and many, many books.
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I start work at 9 o'clock.
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I also start at 9.
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I drive my car to work.
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The traffic is sometimes bad.
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Oh, I don't like traffic.
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I walk to the library.
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It is very close to my house.
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You walk?
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That is wonderful.
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A nice morning walk.
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Yes, it's only 10 minutes.
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I listen to music or a podcast.
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Sometimes I listen to Mr. English Channel.
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Good choice.
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So we both work.
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We start at nine.
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What about lunch?
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I get hungry around one o'clock.
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Me too.
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I usually bring my lunch from home.
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I eat a salad or a sandwich.
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That's smart.
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I sometimes go to a small cafe near my office.
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They have good sandwiches.
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It's nice to go out sometimes.
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Do you eat with people from your work?
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Yes, I do.
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I usually eat with my friend David.
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We talk about sports and movies.
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That's nice.
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A good break from work.
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I eat in a little park near the library when the weather is nice.
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A park?
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How lovely!
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With the sun and the trees.
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Exactly!
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It's very relaxing.
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So, we work, we have lunch, then what?
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The afternoon.
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The afternoon.
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For me, the afternoon at work is busy.
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Many emails, many phone calls.
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For me, too.
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Many people come to the library in the afternoon.
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Families with children.
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Oh, that sounds fun.
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Do you read stories to them?
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Sometimes, yes.
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I love reading stories to the kids.
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They have big, happy eyes.
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That is so sweet.
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My afternoon is just more coffee.
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More coffee for Paul.
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And when do you finish work?
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I finish work at 5 o'clock. And you?
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I also finish at 5 o'clock.
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The library closes and I go home.
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So, when you get home, what is the first thing you do?
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Hmm.
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Good question.
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I have a dog.
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His name is Max.
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So the first thing I do is say hello to Max.
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He is always so happy to see me.
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Aw, Max.
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That's a great way to come home.
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I don't have a pet.
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You should get a cat.
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You are not a morning person, and cats sleep a lot.
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A perfect match.
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A cat.
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Hmm, maybe.
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My friend has a cat.
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His name is Leo.
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Leo is very lazy.
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He sleeps all day.
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See?
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He wakes up.
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He eats.
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He sleeps.
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He eats again.
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He sleeps again.
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A simple life.
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That is a very simple life.
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Leo is lucky.
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So, after you say hello to Max, what do you do?
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I take Max for a walk in the park, the same park where I have lunch.
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He loves it.
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He runs and plays.
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That's nice.
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Fresh air after a day of work.
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After I get home, I usually listen to music.
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Oh, what kind of music do you listen to?
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I like rock music and jazz.
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It helps me relax.
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Sometimes I play my guitar.
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You play the guitar?
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Wow, Paul, that's so cool.
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I try.
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I'm not a rock star, but I enjoy it.
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I play for about an hour.
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That's a fantastic hobby.
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My hobby is reading.
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I have many books at home. Of course.
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You work in a library.
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It makes sense.
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Yes, I love to read a good book in the evening.
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It's quiet and I can travel to other worlds.
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I understand that.
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For me, music is like that.
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So, what about dinner?
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When do you have dinner?
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I usually cook dinner around 7 o'clock.
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I like to cook.
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It's creative.
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I am not a good cook, Emily.
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I cook simple things.
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Pasta is my specialty.
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Pasta is great.
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You can put anything with pasta.
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That is true.
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I often make pasta with tomato sauce.
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Very simple, very good.
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It sounds delicious.
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I like to cook vegetables and chicken or sometimes fish.
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And Max eats his dinner too, of course. Of course!
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Max needs his dinner.
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So, after dinner, what do you do in the evening?
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I watch a movie sometimes, or a show on TV, or I read my book.
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I like quiet evenings.
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Me too.
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I watch TV or a movie, or I call my family or my friends.
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Oh, that's very nice.
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You talk to your family every day?
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Not every day.
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I usually call my parents on Wednesday and Sunday.
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I talk to my sister a few times a week.
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It's important to talk to family.
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I usually call my parents on the weekend.
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Yes, it is.
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So, after all that, it's time for bed.
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Yes, the end of the day.
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Because I wake up early, I go to bed early.
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That makes sense.
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What time do you go to bed?
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I usually go to bed around 10 o'clock.
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I read in bed for a few minutes and then sleep.
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10 o'clock?
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That is early for me.
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I usually go to bed around 11.30 or midnight.
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See?
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I am a morning person and you are a night person.
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A night owl.
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Yes, that's me.
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I like the quiet of the night.
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So, this is our day.
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It's interesting how we use the simple present for everything.
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I wake up.
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You play the guitar.
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He sleeps all day.
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Yes, the verb is simple.
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For I, you, we, they, the verb is the same.
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I walk, you walk, we walk, they walk.
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But for he, she, and it, we add an S.
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My dog Max plays with his ball.
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Your friend's cat Leo eats his food.
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He eats.
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She reads.
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It sleeps.
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Yes, that little s is very important.
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It is.
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And for questions, we use do or does.
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Like I asked you, do you like coffee?
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Yes, and you answered, yes, I do.
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Or you can say, no, I don't.
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And if I ask about your friend Leo, I say, does he sleep a lot?
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And the answer is, yes, he does.
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He definitely does.
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It's not so difficult when you see it in a real conversation.
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It's all about routine and habits.
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Exactly.
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And everyone has a routine.
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Our listeners have routines.
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I wonder what they do every day.
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Oh, that's a great question.
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Do they wake up early, like me?
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Or do they wake up late, like me?
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Do they drink tea or coffee?
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Do they walk to work or drive a car?
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What do they do in the evening?
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Do they read or play the guitar? So many interesting routines.
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I think our days are very different, but also a little similar.
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We work, we eat, we relax.
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That's true.
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The small things are different and that makes life interesting.
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Your guitar, my dog Max.
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The library, my busy office.
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It's all part of our daily story.
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I like that.
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Our daily story.
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And the simple present helps us tell that story.
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It does.
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It's a key to speaking English.
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A very important first step.
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Well, Paul, I think we had a great chat about our day.
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It was fun to learn about your routine.
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It was fun to learn about yours too, Emily.
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Now I know why you are always so happy in the morning.
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It's the six o'clock air.
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And the tea.
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And the exercise.
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I will stick to my coffee, thank you very much.
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Okay, okay.
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Well, I think that's all the time we have for today.
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Yes, it is.
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This was a lot of fun.
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We hope you all had fun, too.
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We hope you learned a little more about the simple present and how to talk about your day.
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And now we want to hear from you.
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Yes.
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Please leave a comment below this video.
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Tell us something about your day.
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You can tell us one thing.
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For example, I wake up at seven o'clock.
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Or I drink tea in the morning.
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Or tell us, are you a morning person or a night owl?
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Yes, let us know.
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We love reading your comments.
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It's our favourite part of the week.
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It really is.
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Thank you all so much for listening.
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We will see you in the next episode.
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Bye for now.
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Stay happy and keep learning.
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Bye everyone.
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