Is it correct to say: I take my coffee? Find out in this video!
Good morning, good afternoon and good evening! Welcome to Smashing English! Before we start this
video, be sure to subscribe because we make new videos all the time and I don't want you to miss
any! So with that said, let's get on with the video! Mornings, my least favorite time of day.
Whether you love them or hate them most people have a morning routine, things that they do every
morning to start their day. So this morning as soon as I woke up I asked my partner Bez to film
me to show you my real morning routine and along the way I will be telling you exactly how native
speakers talk about their morning routines, so let's go! Okay the first thing that happens in
my morning is my alarm goes off, yes when your alarm makes that big 'ring ring ring' noise, it's
going off, there it is my alarm's going off. So I turn it off... in a minute I'm going to press off,
I turned it off, then I check my phone I see if anyone has text me or tried to call me, then this
is my favorite thing to do; give my eyes a good rub, stretch, try to wake myself up a little bit
then normally I scroll on my phone for far too long, I scroll through Tik Tok,
I scroll through Instagram, I scroll through social media, it's a very bad habit but
I'm a millennial, it's just what we do. Then I get out of bed, now depending on how tired you are you
can get out of bed in different ways so sometimes I drag myself out of bed, dragging yourself out of
bed means you're tired, it's hard, it's difficult, it's slow or sometimes I just jump out of bed,
then I make my bed, now everything you're seeing here it is all making the bed, whether
I'm doing this with the duvet or I'm putting the pillows there or I'm putting this little giraffe,
everything is making the bed. Then it's time to open the blinds or draw the blinds and I
notice that the windows are very wet because of condensation so I have to dry them, it's not a
fun job. But it's got to be done. Then I put on something very comfortable, lovely, and then I do
my meditation, you know, I take some time to just sit, meditate... I'm joking, I never do this, of
course I don't do this. Okay pause for a second, notice how I am talking in the present simple
tense a lot, now why am I doing this? The clue is in the name; morning routine, this is not
just one thing I did one morning and I've never done it again, this is something I do routinely,
regularly, commonly, it is something that happens more than once throughout my life, so we use the
present simple, I wake up, I brush my teeth, I eat breakfast, present simple. Let's carry on! Then I
go downstairs or head downstairs if you want to be a native, I then draw the curtains and open
the blind,m let some light in, you know, then I go to the kitchen and I realize that there's a little
bit of mess, but don't look at that and it's time to put the kettle on, yes we put the kettle on and
we also say that the kettle boils, we don't say that the water boils we say the kettle is boiling
which is quite interesting, so I put the kettle on and I wait for the kettle to boil. While I'm
waiting for the kettle to boil I prepare my breakfast, now with breakfast and coffee or
tea or juice, don't use the verb 'to take', so don't say, I take my breakfast, I take my coffee,
I know this is really common in a lot of languages but we don't use it in English, we say have or eat
for breakfast, so we can say I eat my breakfast or I have my coffee. So here I am pouring the milk
into my coffee because I want to have my coffee, I'm actually making two, one for my partner
because I'm so nice, pouring the milk so that I can have my breakfast. So I sit down on the sofa,
I have my breakfast, I have my coffee, I watch some TV because I have a dining table but I like
to pretend it doesn't exist because the sofa is so much comfier. Then it's time to brush my teeth so
I'm using an electric toothbrush not electrical electric toothbrush. Now it's time for exercise,
now watch out for this mistake, I am not doing sport, I am doing exercise or working out, sport
is something that you do against other people, you compete like football or soccer or running,
this is exercise because it's purely for me. Now obviously you just saw me doing yoga but there
are lots of other types of exercise we can do as part of our morning routine so let's talk about
how to say some of them so you can go for a run or go for a jog. What's the difference between a
jog and a run? A run is a bit more aggressive, a jog is a bit more casual. yYu can also say I
go for a swim. Going for a run and going for a jog going for a swim just sounds a lot more
native than saying going running, going swimming, going jogging. Some people might go to the gym,
you might also hear Americans say hit the gym but it's not so common in the UK. Let's continue!
After my workout, it's time to head upstairs and have a shower, you can say have a shower
or take a shower, it's completely up to you. Now don't you come in here, excuse me!
After my shower, I go to get ready, so I start off with my makeup and I have a whole video about how
to talk about makeup which I will link down below and I tell you everything, everything you need
to know about how to talk about putting on your makeup. Some British people say putting your face
on, so right now I'm putting my face on, looks great. Now I have a bit of a weird morning routine
because I don't leave my house in the morning, most people leave to go to work but my work is in
my house, so let's talk about how to describe your morning routine if you are leaving. So let's say
you have a work bag, you might say I pack my work bag or I organize my work bag or I pack my things,
you might put together a packed lunch, a packed lunch is literally a lunch that you pack and take
with you, so you might put together a packed lunch, throw together a packed lunch, if you
throw something together you do it with a lot less organization, you just 'oh, sandwich, crisps, go.'
And the journey that you take from home to work is called a commute, you are commuting, so you
could say I commute to work Monday to Friday or I commute by car or my commute is around 30 minutes
or I hate commuting. This is a really useful word but make sure you only use it for work,
it's not the same for going to the park, you don't say 'oh I commuted to the park' it's only about
that journey from home to work and back again. Now a phrasal verb that you might hear a lot where
native speakers talk about their morning routine is 'set off', especially in the UK, we use set off
all the time, it means to start your journey, to leave your house, so normally on a weekday
I set off at half past seven, I set off, I leave the house, I start my journey, set off. After my
makeup I do my hair, now when we say do your hair, that can be everything, brushing it, straightening
it, curling it, cutting it, anything, we can say do your hair to mean all of those things.
Now I need to choose what to wear because if I don't choose what to wear I can't get dressed,
so I'm choosing some jeans and I will put them on.
And I'm ready, that was easy! And there you have it, that was my morning routine,
I hope you've learned a few things there and I hope it was useful. If you enjoyed this video
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thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time, tata!