0:08 Ooh, daily routines. Vocabulary.
0:13 So, we've actually looked at some vocabulary,
0:16 but I'm just going to go through
0:18 the very, very common stuff that we need
0:22 and give you some flexibility.
0:23 This is very straightforward, right? Great.
0:29 Thank you for the comment.
0:30 That's a lovely comment.
0:31 Thank you very much.
0:35 So, ways of expressing
0:37 habits and If we're talking about always, right?
0:42 You always do something,
0:44 then you just say, for example, get up early, right?
0:48 I get up early every day. That's the basic.
0:52 You can all you also use will, right?
0:54 As a present habit.
0:55 I will get up early every day. Right?
0:59 It's It's not the future.
1:00 It's just a present habit.
1:02 I will get up early.
1:03 I will have toast for breakfast.
1:06 I will have a coffee in the morning,
1:10 So, the use of will is really nice to get that habit
1:13 in the present again and again and again.
1:16 Or, you can just say always.
1:18 I always get up early.
1:20 I always have a coffee.
1:23 Always is like every day, right?
1:26 But, if we go down
1:28 a bit and we get usually,
1:31 not always, but usually, right?
1:34 We can say I tend to.
1:36 Do you remember at the beginning of the lesson? I tend to. I tend to.
1:42 Often in English we the two becomes to
1:45 because we stress tend
1:47 and we stress the next verb.
1:50 I tend to get up early. I tend to.
1:54 I tend to get up early.
1:56 Or, I typically get up early.
2:00 Or, more often than not,
2:03 I get up early.
2:05 More often than not.
2:07 So, more often than not doing it, I get up early, right?
2:13 More often than not, I get up early.
2:17 So, these are different ways
2:18 of of expressing this idea of usually, okay?
2:22 There are lots of different different
2:25 Just a quick tip.
2:26 If the adverb of
2:29 so, adverb of frequency,
2:31 all of these are adverbs,
2:32 typically, more often than
2:35 always, these are adverbs of frequency.
2:40 let me just put
2:41 let me make it clearer.
2:42 Always, typically, more often than not.
2:47 Those three are what we call adverbs of frequency.
2:52 If the adverb of frequency
2:54 is more than one word,
2:56 it usually goes at the beginning
2:59 or the end of a phrase,
3:01 not in the middle.
3:04 For example, I get up
3:09 Uh I get up at 7:00 a.m.
3:11 on a regular It's a very
3:15 common adverb of frequency.
3:18 From time to time,
3:20 from time to time,
3:22 I get up at 9:00 a.m. Right? Sometimes.
3:26 So, this is always, this is sometimes.
3:30 I go to work every Monday without fail. That's always.
3:34 But, notice, adverbs of frequency
3:36 with more than one word,
3:40 they go either at the end
3:42 or at the It It It can be flexible.
3:47 You can say, I get up at 9:00 a.m.
3:49 from time to time.
3:51 Or, without fail, I go to work every
3:55 You can also say
3:57 regular basis usually goes at the end.
4:04 Um what does it mean more often than not?
4:06 Yeah, more often than not.
4:08 So, I get up early
4:16 More often is it's more
4:19 often more regular than not getting up early.
4:24 So, I get up early
4:26 more days than don't get up early.
4:32 So, I get up early
4:35 often Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
4:39 Then not I the not I don't get up early is Saturday, Sunday.
4:45 So, that means usually
4:48 more often than 5 days a week
4:51 I get up early
4:53 more often than not doing it.
5:02 most of these are informal.
5:05 Most of this is about speaking,
5:06 so it most of it is informal. Yes.
5:15 Uh more frequent than not.
5:16 No, we wouldn't say more frequent than not. No.
5:19 So, this is a fixed expression.
5:21 More often than not is a fixed expression.
5:23 Don't change the words.
5:25 It's just that Uh used to get up early. No. No, no, no.
5:31 I You can say I usually get up early.
5:35 Sorry, that's the other one.
5:40 I usually get up early.
5:43 Yeah, and usually is your adverb of frequency.
5:49 Used to not used to, no. No.
5:57 Uh day in, day out is good.
6:00 Is there any difference between get up and wake up? Yes.
6:03 So, wake up, just to be clear,
6:08 Wake up is opening your eyes,
6:13 but you're still sitting
6:16 or lying in bed.
6:18 Get up is when you stand
6:20 up and get out of bed.
6:23 So, first you wake up, open your eyes.
6:27 Second, you get up
6:29 is you stand up,
6:32 get out of bed.
6:36 Hardly ever is just rarely.
6:39 I rarely do something.
6:42 But yeah, for a daily routine,
6:44 you probably don't talk about rarely, but you're correct.
6:48 Can we use often at the end of a not really.
6:54 It goes in the middle.
6:56 It goes So, most adverbs of frequency,
6:58 if it's one word,
6:59 it goes after the subject
7:02 but before the verb.
7:03 I usually go get up early.
7:08 Um I often get up early.
7:13 I get up early often, no.
7:15 I often get up early.
7:17 Um so, that would go
7:19 not at the end.
7:20 So, mostly one words,
7:21 usually one word will in the middle.
7:31 And I'm going to just make this super clear
7:34 cuz that actually reminds me.
7:35 If the adverb of frequency is one word,
7:38 it's the da da da da
7:40 it usually goes the subject
7:48 like I and the verb.
7:57 I often get up late.
8:06 So, there that's the rule basically, right?
8:08 If it's one word, it goes between the subject and the verb.
8:11 I often get up late.
8:13 If it's more than one word, it usually goes at the beginning or the end.
8:19 Usually, there are one or two exceptions,
8:21 but there you go.
8:24 Nicholas, good good example. Yes.
8:32 Um my student more often than not
8:36 my example was about weekdays and and weekend.
8:40 But, you can use it for anything, right?
8:42 It can be much wider
8:44 use, not only that use.
8:47 Seldom kind of means rarely.
8:50 It's one of those words that in Britain, we don't use very much.
8:53 It's quite You see that kind of in in literature,
8:57 in books, but we don't say seldom very I'd say rarely. I rarely go.
9:06 I often get up early around 7-ish. Lovely. Very nice. Very nice example. Great.
9:15 So, we've got there always,
9:18 tend to typically more often than not.
9:19 I usually get up early.
9:20 Let me give you a table,
9:22 which will kind of summarize
9:24 um other adverbs of frequency.
9:26 Remember, this PDF this PDF, you can get later
9:30 from the website to review this.
9:33 But, if you want to say always
9:35 you can say invariably,
9:38 without fail, without exception,
9:42 day in, day out.
9:44 There are more, but these are some common ones.
9:48 Usually, typically, generally, regularly,
9:52 mostly you can use. or often.
10:00 Some people pronounce the T, some people don't. Often or often.
10:06 On a regular basis,
10:13 time and again, from time to time.
10:19 From time to time. I love that.
10:21 From time to time.
10:24 Now and again, I also love.
10:27 The pronunciation is not now and
10:29 again, it's now and now and again.
10:33 Now and Now and again.
10:39 once in a while.
10:42 I haven't put rarely
10:44 cuz it doesn't fit on the page,
10:46 but also daily routines.
10:48 Yes, you could use rarely.
10:49 Maybe I should add rarely.
10:53 Let me add it up here.
10:56 Let me do a quick rarely. I rarely. I hardly ever.
11:10 That was a nice one.
11:11 Thank you very much for that.
11:12 I hardly ever get up early.
11:14 I rarely get up
11:19 Any others for rarely?
11:21 I rarely get up.
11:22 I rarely I hardly ever.
11:23 I Oh, once in a blue moon I get up early.
11:28 Once in a blue moon.
11:30 Once in a while.
11:30 Once in a blue moon.
11:32 Auto-correct is I get up early once in a blue moon.
11:38 Let's put that here
11:41 so you can see which are the adverbs of frequency.
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12:03 More often than not I go to bed late.
12:06 I think everybody's guilty of that.
12:12 Every now and again is is sometimes.
12:15 So, that's more your sometimes.
12:20 I wouldn't use that speaking.
12:22 I think possibly written.
12:24 Infrequently, but it's it sounds very strange,
12:27 especially uh especially spoken.
12:32 Seldom Yes, but again, I
12:35 because I'm focusing here on speaking,
12:37 I wouldn't write I wouldn't speak
12:39 I wouldn't say seldom.
12:41 I think you see that in books,
12:42 but not really spoken so much.
12:47 So, we've got all of them here.
12:50 And we've got the list here.
12:51 So, what I want you now to do is
12:55 can you tell me
12:56 about a habit you have
12:59 and how often you do it.
13:01 For example, I go to the gym now and again.
13:06 Or I go to the gym every day without
13:12 So, I'll give you a moment.
13:13 In the chat, just write down
13:15 a habit that you have and how often you do it.
13:22 I think it's time
13:23 for Our some idioms. Some idioms.
13:29 And I want them now.
13:33 I want some idioms.
13:36 How to learn them?
13:38 It goes on and on this song.
13:40 Great song, what we're going to do
13:44 is I'm going to
13:45 show you some pictures
13:47 and I want you to guess the idiom from the picture. Guess the idiom.
13:51 You can write in the chat
13:53 what you think the idiom is, okay?
13:57 Let's begin with the first one. Here we go. Guess the idiom.
14:01 What is Some good ideas. Oh, that's lovely.
14:24 I love your thinking process.
14:28 Oh, hit the gym. Good idea.
14:32 You're on the right track, Mario. Well said, fun.
14:38 That It's not a frog. Good thinking, Dazzle. That was it. Well done.
14:49 To be a creature of habit.
14:53 A creature, a monster,
14:55 a person, basically, or an animal.
14:58 To be a creature of habit means
15:00 someone who likes to have the same routine.
15:05 Um for example, I hate
15:07 to miss my early morning walk.
15:09 I am a creature of habit. That's true, actually.
15:14 I hate to miss my early morning walk.
15:17 I like walking in the morning.
15:19 I am a a bit of a creature of habit. Okay, excellent.
15:24 Some of your ideas were really, really good.
15:26 The gym rat, clockwork,
15:30 as regular as a Yeah.
15:32 Turn up on time.
15:33 Some good ideas, but this was the one.
15:35 Let's move on to number two.
15:39 Can you guess this idiom? Awesome.
16:11 I'm going to stop you there.
16:13 We've got get stuck in a rut.
16:17 It looks like mud, you're right, but it's a rut.
16:19 It's a path, it's a track.
16:21 It's stuck in a rut.
16:23 You can say to be
16:25 stuck in a rut or to get
16:28 stuck in a rut. Both are okay.
16:31 Meaning, doing the same boring routine and not changing.
16:36 So, it's a negative thing, right?
16:41 It's a negative thing.
16:43 Creature of habit is a positive thing. Right?
16:48 Different attitudes to different attitudes to to habit.
16:54 A a creature of habit.
16:56 There's no a here, right?
16:58 It's just of habit.
17:00 To be stuck in a rut.
17:01 There is a a.
17:02 So, it's doing the same boring routine,
17:04 not changing, so you're not happy about it.
17:07 It's a negative idea.
17:09 For example, I feel stuck in a rut with my daily Right?
17:15 Or I am stuck in a rut at work.
17:18 You could also say
17:21 or let's use got.
17:22 I have got stuck
17:26 in a rut at work.
17:34 I think I need a new job.
17:39 That's not true, but there you go.
17:46 Stuck in a rut.
17:51 So, a rut later, a rut is
17:54 um it's like a track
17:56 or a hole in the
17:59 made by like the wheel of a car
18:01 in the So, if you look at the the picture
18:05 that kind of this kind of track in the ground is the rut.
18:12 We don't use it very often.
18:13 It's not a very common word, but it's very common in this expression,
18:17 stuck in a rut. Yep, good.
18:22 Frederick, I feel stuck in a rut in my daily routine. Yes.
18:26 A bit like stuck on the treadmill, a little bit. Yes. You're ready.
18:33 Elif Karen, ready for a new job. Excellent. Good. Here we go.
18:38 Let's switch now to
18:40 the next one, number three.
18:42 Can you guess this Phrases here.
19:07 Round the clock, 24/7.
19:31 >> You're all very, very close,
19:33 and there are some similar expressions.
19:36 And I'm going to stop on this one.
19:38 Uh Daniela says as regular as clockwork.
19:41 On the left, you've got the regular
19:44 and then you clock,
19:45 and then the clockwork,
19:46 the cogs inside the clockwork, right?
19:49 Um So, this one is as regular as clockwork.
19:55 Basically, it's an adjective
19:57 phrase meaning very regularly.
20:00 No, it's not adjective.
20:01 It's an adverbial phrase.
20:03 Excuse me, an adverbial phrase.
20:05 To do something as regular as clockwork.
20:07 Meaning very regularly and predictably.
20:12 For example, I brush my teeth every morning
20:14 as regular as clockwork.
20:17 That adverb of frequency
20:19 as regular as clockwork,
20:22 very regularly, always, all the time, right?
20:27 there's an an other idioms.
20:29 Let's call it related idioms.
20:34 Uh to run like
20:37 clockwork is is similar
20:41 meaning uh to go smoothly
20:49 uh and all the time.
20:58 So, that's kind of a related idiom.
21:00 So, some of you said run like clockwork.
21:03 Um you know, you could say
21:07 you could say my class
21:09 doesn't run like It doesn't always go smoothly,
21:14 right, all the time.
21:16 Sometimes it runs like clockwork, but not always.
21:21 Um you hope if if you're working in business,
21:24 you hope that your meetings
21:26 will run like clockwork.
21:29 Go smoothly, efficiently all the time.
21:32 But in reality, nothing runs like clockwork. Right?
21:37 But it's the the related idea of clockwork.
21:40 This is to go smoothly and efficiently.
21:42 And up here, it just means very regularly and predictably.
21:48 So this is an as an adverbial phrase, let's say. Great.
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22:13 Um I've got one more for you.
22:15 Number four, the last one.
22:17 Let's take this off.
22:18 Let's take Daniel Daniela off.
22:21 Um number four, can you guess the final idiom? What is this? Start thinking creatively.
22:33 Think out of the box.
22:45 These are so good. Well done. Nicholas, not yet.
22:57 You've all got the idea of the thing.
23:07 >> Right, we Oh, okay.
23:13 Things are going north.
23:20 Okay, I'm going to stop.
23:21 This is a really difficult one.
23:23 Um some of you are close.
23:25 So, the idea of things
23:27 and here we the direction
23:30 up and here the person is shaking things.
23:34 The expression is to shake things up.
23:39 To shake things up is literally
23:41 to move them, but
23:44 it means change your routine
23:46 to make life more exciting.
23:49 Let's shake things up.
23:52 Um For example, I travel at weekends
23:55 to shake things up.
23:56 Just change your routine.
23:59 Once in a while,
24:00 I work in a coffee shop
24:02 to shake things up.
24:04 I work from home,
24:06 but once in a while,
24:07 I work in a coffee shop
24:09 to shake things up.
24:10 Just to change the routine, right?
24:14 I love some of your ideas, right?
24:15 Some really good ones.
24:17 Um These are expressions, right?
24:20 Go with the flow is an expression.
24:22 Things are looking up.
24:24 Things are improving is good, yeah?
24:27 Things get out of hand,
24:30 meaning they're out of control, also.
24:33 Um wrap things up is to finish something.
24:36 They're all good idioms,
24:38 but not the one that I was thinking. Okay. Excellent. That was it.
24:43 There are the idioms that we've been looking at.