Today you're going to learn how to talk about your daily routine at a more advanced C1 level.
Talking about your daily routine is something that every language learner does, but most
of the time it's very beginner or boring.
So let's talk about how to make that sound more professional, more fluent, and more advanced.
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Now, let's get started.
Let's talk about Mark's daily routine.
Say hello to Mark.
Mark is a manager, he's married, and he has two young kids.
Let me tell you about Mark's daily routine at an advanced C1 level.
And after, I'll explain all the advanced vocabulary and grammar that you can add to your speech.
The alarm rings at 6:30 AM, signaling the beginning of Mark's day With precision.
He orchestrates the morning routine, ensuring his two energetic children are dressed and
fed as the aroma of coffee fills the air.
Mark reviews his schedule preparing for the day ahead.
Notice how this daily routine started in a very advanced way, almost a poetic way.
The alarm rings at 6:30 AM.
Most students would simply say I wake up at 6:30 AM or in this case Mark wakes up at 6:30
AM.
But this is very beginner and boring.
The alarm rings at 6:30 AM.
That sounds so advanced.
Why don't you try that?
You can say my alarm instead of the alarm.
You can make it possessive.
My alarm rings present simple conjugated with my alarm it my alarm rings at.
Put that in the comments and share what time your alarm rings.
Which is an alternative to saying I wake up at.
My alarm rings at.
As for me, my alarm rings at 5:30 AM signaling the beginning of Mark's day.
Notice here we have signaling in the ING form.
This is a present participle.
It adds description by showing the result of the action with precision.
Precision means that there was a high level of accuracy.
This is an advanced noun.
You can also say with ease.
With ease.
Because you want to talk about your daily routine as being easy.
With ease, he orchestrates the morning routine.
Again, notice the vocabulary is at that more advanced C1 level.
To orchestrate means to organize, arrange, or coordinate and notice those verb conjugations.
Because we're in the present simple and it's being conjugated with the subject he, ** *** is.
You need to add that as with precision he orchestrates the morning routine ensuring
notice here another present participle.
Again it describes the action, ensuring his two energetic children are dressed and fed
as the aroma of coffee fills the air.
Notice here aroma is a more advanced way of saying the smell of coffee, the aroma of coffee.
Mark Review Use his schedule, preparing another present participle preparing for his day ahead.
Let's move on.
At the office, Mark transitions into his managerial role, leading a diverse team.
His day is filled with back-to-back zoom meetings and presentations.
Mark excels in conveying intricate ideas.
During meetings and negotiations at the office, Mark transitions into something his managerial
role.
Maybe You could say after tending to my children, I have to transition into my marketing role
Or whatever your next role is.
At the office, Mark transitions into his managerial role, leading a diverse team again the present
participle.
It describes the action his day is filled with to be filled with something.
This means to contain a lot of now, although contain is a more advanced vocabulary term
than filled with adding phrasal verbs, idioms and expressions is a great way to sound more
advanced to sound more.
See one so to be filled with sounds more advanced than saying contains and back-to-back zoom
meetings and presentations.
This means that as one meeting ends, another one immediately begins.
back-to-back.
Mark excels in explaining intricate ideas.
This is AC1 or C2 sentence.
A more beginner sentence would be saying Mark is very good at communicating complex ideas,
but notice that grammar difference.
To excel in something or doing something or to be good at, so you need a different preposition.
Let's move on.
As the work day concludes, Mark races against the clock to attend his children's extracurricular
activities.
Soccer practice, music lessons and art classes become integral parts of their routine In
the car rides between activities, Mark cherishes the moments of connection with his children.
As the work day concludes.
Concludes is a more advanced way of saying as the work day ends.
As the work day concludes, Mark races against the clock.
This is an expression to race against the clock.
This is when you have to work quickly to complete all your tasks within a limited amount of
time.
To race against the clock.
Soccer practice, music lessons, and art classes become integral parts of their daily routine.
Integral means essential or necessary.
It's a more advanced term.
Let's look at this sentence.
In the car ride between activities, Mark cherishes the moments of connection with his children.
This is a complex sentence.
The first part is a dependent clause, which means it is not a complete sentence.
But if you add it to an independent clause, then it becomes a complex sentence.
Using complex sentences is an integral part of sounding more advanced, fluent, and C1,
let's move on.
Following dinner, the family reunites in collective activities, whether it's a board game, a movie
night, or a stroll in the neighborhood.
Mark, though weary from the demands of the day, revels in the simple pleasures of familial
bonds.
Following dinner.
This is a more way of saying after dinner the family reunites in collective activities.
This is very advanced and again almost poetic.
A more B1 everyday way of saying this would be the family spends quality time together.
One of the activities is a stroll in the neighborhood.
A stroll is a leisurely walk.
So if there is a word stroll that means something else to walk leisurely, it sounds more advanced
to use the one word that communicates that idea.
A stroll, A leisurely walk.
Now grammatically you can use to go for a stroll.
Following dinner, we went for a lovely stroll in the park.
The verb is go, so it's conjugated in the past.
Simple went.
You can also take a stroll following dinner.
We took the past simple of take following dinner.
We took a lovely stroll in the park.
Both are common and equally used.
Let's learn about how Mark ends his daily routine.
As the clock inches towards bedtime, Mark carves out a brief period for personal reflection
by reading, meditating or journaling.
As he slips into his comfortable bed, he savers the tranquility that descends upon his home
as the clock inches towards bedtime.
This is very advanced.
It sounds poetic as bedtime approaches.
Clearly sounds more intermediate, more basic than as the clock inches towards bedtime,
Mark carves out a brief period for personal reflection.
Buy, buy, and then you have your activities by reading, by meditating, or by journaling.
You could say I start my day by and then whatever the activity is, I start my day by working
out for 30 minutes.
I end my day.
I conclude my day to sound more advanced.
I conclude my day by meditating for 15 minutes.
It's an integral part of my daily routine as he slips into his comfortable bed.
To slip into is a more advanced, poetic way of saying to get into.
I get into bed at 10:00.
I slip into my warm and comfortable bed as the clock inches towards 10:00 PM.
That sounds very advanced and poetic.
He savers, he really enjoys.
He savers the tranquility, the peace and quiet.
He savers the tranquility that descends upon his home, descends that enters, that fills
his home AB.
One student might simply say he enjoys the quiet in his home.
Now let's look at this whole sentence together, which is a complex sentence and I want you
to notice the as he and then the other part of the sentence he as he acts he, yx and Y
being the activities.
As I prepare my breakfast, I review my back-to-back meetings.
As I is the dependent clause, which means it's incomplete, you have to connect it to
an independent clause.
I review my back-to-back meetings.
That would be the independent clause O.
This is a complex sentence, a great way to sound more advanced.
So now you have learned so much vocabulary and grammatical structures that you can use
to sound more advanced when you talk about a very simple thing like your daily routine.
Of course you don't need to Add all of these structures or advanced vocabulary, but even
using one or two when you're talking about your daily routine will help you sound more
advanced.
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