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hey lady is an online community where

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practice that you need to speak english

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confidently and fluently hey lady is a

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safe and supportive space for women with

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an intermediate to advanced level of

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english come and visit us at heylady.io

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and discover the english-speaking

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version of you today

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well hey there i'm emma from

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english and it's time to practice

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speaking with me we're gonna practice

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talking about daily routines using my

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daily routine as an example so we'll get

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to talk about my morning routine what i

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do before i go to work

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my work day routine what i do at work

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during the day

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and my evening routine so maybe

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you like to watch netflix or read a book

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or clean the house or go out for dinner

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i'm going to talk about my evening

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routine as an example i'll give you lots

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of chances to speak out loud and to

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practice with me and the cool thing is

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we're also going to brush up on a little

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bit of grammar that you might need to

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use to talk about

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how regularly you do things in your

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daily routine

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when talking about our daily routines we

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use the present simple tense i eat

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breakfast at 7am

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but adverbs of frequency can add more

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detail they work perfectly to this and i

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can choose any of these ones to talk

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about how often i do something and

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that's why they're called adverbs of

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frequency they show how often something

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happens or how often you do something

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now for me i would say

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no i never eat breakfast at 7am that's a

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little too early for me

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you try it

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i always have my coffee before breakfast

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so if you use always it means that

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you're doing that activity a hundred

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percent of the time every time

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but as that frequency gets less and less

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your adverb can change to usually

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sometimes

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rarely hardly ever

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until you get to never which is

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zero percent of the time

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can you think of something you always do

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in the morning what about something that

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you hardly ever do i want to hear about

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it down in the comments now it's time

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for the fun part

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here is a list of activities that you

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might do in the morning i've marked the

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ones that i do and you can do the same

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or you can note down a few different

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ideas if you like

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now some of these activities are really

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common most of us do them every morning

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like

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wake up

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brush our teeth

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get dressed go to work these are all

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things that happen pretty consistently

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so we'll practice using some adverbs

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that help to explain that i usually wake

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up at 6 30 am

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try it

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you can also say

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6 30

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or half past six there are lots of

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different ways to express time in

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english aren't there

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but pay attention to the way that i said

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usually with that

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uh sound

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and the sh

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usually

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try it

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i always brush my teeth as soon as i

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wake up

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i sit down at my desk and start working

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by 8 am

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ah i'm often a little late

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notice that i didn't pronounce the t in

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often

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often it's silent

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though not for every native english

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speaker but i don't pronounce it often

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sometimes i go for a swim before work

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but usually only when it's warm

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i hardly ever check my emails first

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thing in the morning

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now to show the order of your routine

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you can use sequences

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like before

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after

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then

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next all of these words are useful to

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help you organize your thoughts in order

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i usually walk my dog before i go for a

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swim

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after i get home i make my coffee

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then i start work for the day

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so even though i'm not giving you exact

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times

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you still have an idea about the order

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of these events which one happened first

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as soon as i woke up and what was i

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doing just before i started work

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our work routine is probably quite

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different

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maybe your day at work is really dynamic

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and it's always changing

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or perhaps it's pretty consistent and

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you do the same thing every day so

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you'll have to adapt this section to

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make it suit your work day we're going

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to use mine as an example to practice

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with

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i always have a meeting first thing in

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the morning when i start work

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i usually work best in the morning

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that's when i'm most productive

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sometimes if i'm really focused on my

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work i won't even stop to eat lunch

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well until around 3 p.m when i get

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really hungry

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you try it

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i often take a break around 4 30 p.m and

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go to the gym

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i hardly ever go for a walk outside but

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when i do it boosts my energy levels

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i rarely finish my work day by 5 pm

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the evenings are probably my favorite

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time of day i try to use that time to

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wind down and to relax as long as i'm

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not working late

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what types of things do you do in the

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evenings

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i usually take my dog frankie for a walk

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often we go to the park but sometimes we

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go to the beach

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i hardly ever cook

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shah usually does the cooking in our

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house but sometimes we go out for dinner

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after dinner sometimes we watch netflix

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but often we'll go back to work for an

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hour or two

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i never go to bed before 10 pm

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but i always try to wind down by reading

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a book and drinking herbal tea

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so now that we've been through my daily

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routine i want you to share yours

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i want you to write a few sentences down

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maybe in the comments below using the

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adverbs that we've been practicing with

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but don't forget to practice saying

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these things out loud too okay practice

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each morning this week the repetition is

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going to help you to remember the

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different ideas but also get comfortable

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saying these things and talking about

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them with ease this is speaking practice

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after all i hope you enjoyed today's

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speaking practice i'm looking forward to

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hearing about your daily routines i'm

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wondering if it's similar to mine or

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maybe quite different now if you're

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looking for some more speaking practice

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with me then check out this lesson right

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here it's all about telling great

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stories in english

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so check it out and i'll see you next

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week with another video