hi i'm vanessa from
speakenglishwithvanessa.com
good morning
let's talk about it
we all get up in the morning right even
if you are working from home or watching
your kids from home or not leaving the
house much in general you still have a
morning routine a great way to remember
new english phrases is to use them in
your daily life so today i'd like to
invite you to join me on my morning
routine as i talk about phrasal verbs
that you can use in the morning during
your routine as you get ready for the
day are you ready to join me
let's go
every morning
i wake up to my alarm clock
or i wake up to my baby
i try not
to doze off again and push snooze
but sometimes i do
finally i turn off my alarm clock
and roll out of bed
notice the pronunciation of this phrasal
verb to roll out of bed i didn't say i
roll out of bed i said i roll out a bed
the t here is going to change to a d
sound and this means that you are not so
enthusiastic
about waking up you just roll out of bed
you could also say i get out of bed
that's a more neutral phrasal verb but
if you want to let people know
you were really tired when you woke up
this morning you might say ah when my
alarm clock went off i just
rolled out of bed
walked to the car and went to work
you were kind of like a zombie this
morning you just rolled out a bed next i
go into the bathroom
and
wash off my face
wash off does not mean that i am
completely erasing my face you can just
say wash my face but we can also use
this phrasal verb wash off my face if
you feel like you have some kind of dirt
or grime that's kind of thick on your
face maybe after you're sleeping there's
some we call this sleep that kind of
crusty stuff in your eyes you might want
to wash the sleep out of your eyes so we
are washing it out wash the sleep out of
my eyes or wash off my face next i will
put on some makeup usually i just put on
some makeup under my eyes to
mask how tired i really am and i will
put that away sometimes i put on my
glasses
for the day and sometimes i choose to
put in my contacts now we're saying put
on my glasses because they're going on
my face but i'm putting in my contacts
because they're going
effectively in my eyeball
they're going in my eyes so i put in my
contacts and i put on my glasses
after i've washed off my face put on
some makeup put in my contacts or put on
my glasses it's time to
brush out my hair we could say simply
brush out my hair and that means you're
getting the knots out of your hair or it
could mean that you are taking your hair
out of some kind of
thing for me this is a braid so i'm
taking my hair out of the braid and i'm
brushing out my hair it's kind of like
erasing the knots from my hair i'm
brushing out the knots from my hair and
now it is wavy usually i do this on days
that i record videos on other days my
hair is just a wild mess
but because i'm recording a video today
you get to see behind the scenes taking
my hair out of braids it is a simple and
easy way to have
uh wavy hair and i think it's a lot of
fun you get to have braids you get to
have wavy hair
and it's uh
as you can see
takes 10 seconds amazing that's what i
like the most
i don't know about you but i hardly ever
have my hair down this is what it's
called when your hair is not
tied back this is a hair tie there are a
lot of regional words for what to call
this thing i call it a hair tie
but because i'm a mother i have two
young children i'm always looking down
or helping or playing and working in the
garden i'm always doing a lot of things
i can't have my hair in my face so that
means that i need to use a hair tie and
i need to tie back
my hair we can use two different phrasal
verbs for this we can say tie back
or
tie up and you can kind of get the the
image here i'm tying it back or i'm
tying it up and it means the same thing
i'm making this do you know what this is
called
it's a little bit strange
it's called a ponytail
a pony is a small horse
but you can get the image of a tail of a
horse kind of looks like this right
swish swish swish
so i'm making a ponytail
uh in the back of my hair what if i had
two what if i had two of these and i
wanted to tie
up my hair like this
do you know what these are called when
you have two hair ties
well
it is not a ponytail because
ponies don't have two tails
instead these are called
pigtails
[Laughter]
pigs don't have two tails
but i guess this is just referring to
how a tail of a pig is kind of curly
maybe originally
pigtails were kind of curly i'm not
exactly sure
but these are pigtails sometimes i wear
pigtails sometimes i don't but they kind
of get in the way when i'm trying to do
things so usually i use that first
expression i tie back my hair
or
i use a clip and we could say i
pull back my hair so here you can see
i'm pulling back my hair
and putting it up in this clip so here
we used similar ideas but with two
different verbs to tie up to tie back to
pull up and to pull back it just depends
on what kind of
device you're using a clip or a hair tie
they're kind of interchangeable too you
can pull back your hair
with a hair tie
no one's going to
figuratively split hairs over this
this means get upset about small little
differences nobody's going to get upset
about these small differences so you can
use them interchangeably next very
important i've got my toothbrush and i
need to
put on the toothpaste
and simply brush my teeth
i need to spit out the toothpaste after
spitting out the toothpaste i need to
put back my toothbrush into the little
toothbrush cup
now that i'm ready from the shoulders up
i need to get dressed specifically i
need to pick out my clothes i think i'm
going to wear this dress today it's a
lovely summer day so i picked this out i
do have a closet where
i could put clothes but for some reason
i'll just like to have this little bar
here
to put my most used clothes on i find
myself more likely to hang them up and
to take care of them if it's really
close to my bed where i get changed i
change my clothes before i go to bed
it's easy for me to remember this i also
have some
drawers some dresser drawers with some
clothes in them
like socks or pants things like this but
it is summer time so i'm going to only
wear this sundress that i picked out
usually by then my baby is awake and
it's time for me to pick him up good
morning baby
is that how you feel about the morning
you want to tell us what it's like to be
a
baby what's it like to be a baby
does that really what it's like
oh wow
yeah
i never drink coffee but most mornings i
make some tea to make tea i need to heat
up some water in a kettle we can call
this a tea kettle a hot water kettle or
just a kettle
and after the water has heated up i need
to pour out the water into my teapot
after the tea has steeped for three or
four minutes i need to pour out the tea
into
my mug
or we could say simply i need to pour
the tea
or we could say pour out the tea that's
fine or we could say i'm going to fill
up my mug with some delicious tea
this is some green tea that i added some
dried lavender to i have a lavender bush
in my yard and i put some dried lavender
in here and added it to the green tea
it smells amazing
i forgot to show you but i also whip up
some breakfast to whip up means that
you're making something really quickly
usually it's not very thoughtful it's
pretty simple and for me this morning i
just whipped up a piece of toast
typically this means that you're making
something instead of just
cutting something so for example part of
my breakfast is this cantaloupe that
came from our garden a cantaloupe is a
melon i don't know if they have it in
your country but it's pretty typical
here we actually grew this in our garden
when i cut this cantaloupe
i wouldn't say that i whipped up the
cantaloupe because i didn't make it i
didn't create this even though yes it
did come from our garden but instead
because the toast i put some butter on
it i put some jam on it i actually made
it in a way we could say i whipped up
some breakfast but if you're just
opening a granola bar and eating a
granola bar or if you're just cutting a
piece of fruit and eating it you're not
really whipping up breakfast you have to
have some kind of making or creating
that happens so for me i whipped up
breakfast i made a piece of toast and
then i cut up this cantaloupe finally
it's time for me to go over my plans for
the day go over is simply another way to
say review
usually i try to be pretty organized
because there's so much going on in my
life i have a toddler a newborn a
husband so i need to keep up my
relationship i'm also an individual so i
need to
do things for myself as well and i am
your english teacher and i run my own
english teaching business so there's a
lot of different hats that i have to
wear for me the key to my sanity
is to keep organized so i usually have a
list of the things that i want to
accomplish that day or maybe that week
and in the morning i go over my plans
for the day because i work here from
home i don't need to go anywhere to work
but if you are going to the office at
the end of your morning routine when you
open the door of your house and leave
your house you can say i'm heading out
the door
this isn't just your head going out the
door it just means that you're leaving
your house i'm heading out the door or
i'm heading to work we use that
expression head to talk about the
movement here i'm heading out the door
i'm heading to work where are you going
i'm heading
to work great we can use this phrasal
verb i hope that you enjoyed following
me on my morning routine now i have a
question for you can you use three of
these phrasal verbs to describe your
morning routine it's time to take action
and use what you've learned please write
a comment below using three of these
phrasal verbs to tell us what you do in
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