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Hello, Sunshine.
I'm Maria.
And my name is Rory, and we are the hosts of the IELTS Speaking for Success podcast, the podcast aimed to help you improve your speaking skills, as well as your listening skills along the way.
We've started this podcast to give you gorgeous grammar and super-duper vocabulary for your high score.
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Maria, you're looking very well.
Yep, I've been going to bed earlier as part of my new daily routine.
I see.
Let's talk about daily routines.
So daily routine is a fresh IELTS speaking part one topic.
Have we not talked about something remarkably similar before?
Yeah, yeah, we did.
Yeah, but it's again, it's this fresh IELTS speaking part one topic.
Because IELTS people, they recycle topics.
Daily routine used to be, I think, about a year ago, and it's a comeback, right?
So now they can ask you questions about routine, daily routine, and also the questions are quite similar.
So, yeah, here we go again.
Let's talk about daily routine.
What's your daily routine like?
Probably more regular in some ways and less so in others, I would say.
I always get up and go to bed roughly the same times.
And I always do some exercise and make breakfast in similar ways.
That being said, I do different things for work each day.
Sometimes I write or teach classes and other days I'll create things for social media.
Have you ever changed your routine?
Absolutely.
When I changed my jobs, I started going to bed earlier and getting up earlier.
And I added in visits to the gym in the last few years.
The regularity gives some meaning and reliability to life, which is well.
It's usually at least a little bit chaotic.
So the regularity is helpful.
What's your favorite time of the day?
The mornings.
I always get so much done.
I answer messages, work out, work on various projects.
By the afternoon, I'm relatively spent, though I still get things done.
I'm definitely a morning person in this respect.
And what do you usually do at this time of day in the morning?
In the mornings?
Well, like I said, all the big things for the day, whether it's preparing materials or organizing things with students and colleagues, I always feel more of a sense of accomplishment at this time of day compared to the others.
How do you organize your study time?
Ah, okay.
That's less regular and done on a more ad hoc basis.
I wish I could do it more regularly, but I just do what I can when I can in that respect.
It seems to work out well, or it seems to have worked out well so far.
Do you like to plan what you'll do every day?
I like planning it, though whether it turns out that way is another matter entirely.
There is a sense of control and purpose when you put tasks in order and you feel more prepared for what's to come.
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Thank you, Rory, for your well-structured, routine-like answers.
So there's nothing new.
There's nothing special.
It's kind of, you know, we are following the same routine.
So, yeah, listener, how are you?
Are you bored to death already by our routine?
Oh, yeah, true.
Like we do have our podcast routine, don't we?
Yes.
We set up the times.
Vanya is 30 minutes late.
And then we arrange another time.
Just kidding.
Yeah, well, hopefully our routine, well, is okay with you, dear listener.
Especially our jokes.
Yeah, so we are kind of adding hilarious jokes, unique jokes, which we never repeat.
Anyway, routine.
Are you a regular kind of guy?
I don't know.
Probably not.
I would strongly suggest that there's nothing regular about my life.
Really?
I thought kind of you follow your routine, especially like your daily routine kind of.
I try to follow my routine, but like life happens.
What is it?
Is it John Lennon that said life is what happens when you're making other plans?
Right.
True.
That's a deep one.
I love it.
So life is what happens when you're making other plans or plans for the future.
I think so.
When you're thinking about the future, something like this.
Oh, it's amazing.
You might have your plan, but that might not work.
Hmm.
Okay.
Right.
So you kind of enjoy the routine, but then life happens.
Okay.
So we follow our daily routine.
What are the collocations we have with routine?
Well, you could talk about routine regularity, daily habits, daily chores, something that happens on a daily basis.
Yes, on a daily basis.
Also, you can change your routine.
Routine or routines?
Well, both.
I would talk about my daily routine, but there's nothing to stop you talking about daily routines, because you don't just have Well, you might just have one fixed thing, but it's unusual.
You might do different things on different days.
And your routine could be regular or could be not so regular.
It could be ad hoc.
Yes.
What does it mean?
To be honest, I'm cheating a little bit.
It's a Latin expression, but it just means you put something together as you go.
It's not something that's planned.
So if I say it's done on... an ad hoc hoc basis.
It's like, it's spontaneous.
It's kind of like No ad hoc is something that happens in reaction to something spontaneous, perhaps.
So, for example, when I have...
And the question was like, how do you organize your study time?
That is less regular and done on a more ad hoc basis.
Yeah.
Okay.
Could you give us another example with this ad hoc in a sentence?
No.
Right.
Thank you very, very much.
That's okay.
No, hold on.
Like, I don't know.
You have discussions with people about something on an ad hoc basis.
Ah, yes.
Yeah, there we go.
I discuss things with my tutorial group on an ad hoc basis.
So we have our group.
We talk about things sometimes, but we only talk when it's necessary, because we're usually busy with our own things.
Cool.
And also when you talk about your routine, you can say some things are a bit chaotic, so it gets a bit chaotic.
I have my routine, but it could be a bit chaotic.
And then you just talk about like these things, you know, like when you get up you do exercise, you make breakfast.
Oh, Rory, do you still have tuna for breakfast?
Yes tuna, really.
Ah, so you haven't changed this one.
Huh well, i know, but i'm a bit annoyed actually, because i can't find the same tuna salad that i used to get in russia probably rightly so.
Um, i was just like okay, so i'm gonna have to change the diet a little bit, but it's not such a disaster Oh, okay.
And then you go like, I'm definitely a morning person.
So what's your favorite time of day?
Morning.
I'm a morning person.
Can you say I'm a what?
I did wonder about that, because you could say I'm a night owl, but then there's not really a bird for the morning, is there?
No, no, no, you can say I'm a... Wait, what do you call this bird?
Not a lark, but... Well, you could say I'm not a night owl.
That would probably cover it.
Yeah, but in English, I usually say like I'm a morning person.
All right, cool, cool.
And then I always get so much done.
So I get a lot of things done in the morning.
So get things done.
Yeah.
And then in the afternoon you feel a bit like you get things done in the morning and then you kind of like in the afternoon.
So what happens to you?
I just lose energy.
So you're super productive in the morning and then like well yeah, but like.
I think you'll find that most teachers are probably like that.
No like, so I'm spent, I think, is what you mean to say.
So actually, it's funny because you could use this to describe a lot of things.
If someone is spent, it just means that they have used their energy.
So you could have a person who gets spent or you could have.
If you have a gun and you fire it, then the bullet casings are called spent casings because they've used the bullets inside it.
You often hear about people talking about a spent force, which means the force has been used and now it can be used again, or it can be used again soon.
So this idea of being spent is a good idea.
It's not just for money.
It's for anything that's been used.
So I can say okay, I'm a night owl, or I'm not a morning person and I'm quite productive at night, but then I'm just spent in the morning.
So spent is like you spend money.
Spent.
Yeah, spent.
I'm spent.
So I'm spent in the morning, yeah?
So I'm just like useless in the morning.
I'm like... Like this.
And when do you get up now?
When you are in Scotland?
Yeah.
But then in the week, I wake up at half past five in the morning.
Half past five.
It's still half past five.
It is still half past five.
Why should it change?
I'm working.
I don't know, because it's crazy.
It's half past five.
It's 5.30 in the morning.
It's not even six.
It's 5.30. but really the most productive people wake up at 5 o'clock in the morning so this is my compromise Right, it's horrid o'clock time, 5.30.
It's still dark.
Wow.
Yes.
Right, okay.
Okay, whatever.
Well, no, it was.
I mean, in Scotland it's getting lighter now.
Spring is coming.
How good for Scotland.
Yeah, things are brightening up in Scotland.
Hey, hey, Scotland.
And then Rory feels a sense of achievement, a sense of accomplishment.
Surely, when he's all productive in the morning, he gets things done.
He eats his tuna salad in the morning.
Tuna in the morning.
Fish in the morning.
Well, today it was scrambled eggs, but you get the idea.
Wait, what happened to tuna?
Well, it's the weekend.
Everything is a bit more chilled out at the weekend.
Am I not allowed to enjoy my weekend?
No, no, it's fine, it's fine.
Oh, what about the pizza?
Do you still have this huge pizza?
No, because pizza in Scotland isn't very nice.
Really?
Aww.
Come back to Russia.
I know.
I'm coming back.
I'm coming back in June.
There's still flights.
It's fine.
It's a comeback.
It's a comeback.
When Rory left Russia, we had maybe like 15 or 20 goodbye parties.
And then he was supposed to be gone, but then he didn't fly to Scotland for some reason.
What do you mean for some reason?
It's because Russia has crazy visa regulations.
Ha ha.
Yeah, he was supposed to leave, but he was still in Russia.
It was crazy and you stayed like for a week.
Yeah, I did yeah.
It was great.
Can you imagine when Rory comes back, how many welcome hello Rory parties are we going to have?
Maybe 55.
Well, that's why I needed to come back for a month.
So two weeks for welcome back parties and then two weeks for goodbye parties.
Yes, that's going to be a month.
All right.
So you can also use this construction.
I wish I could do it more regularly.
If you can pronounce this word like regular, regularly.
It's regularly.
Regularly.
If you can't pronounce it, then you can say I wish I could do it on a more regular basis.
Yeah, which also be fine.
But this nice phrase, I wish I could do it.
Rory, is it the first conditional?
Is it the third, the second?
Or is it a conditional at all?
It's a great question.
And only you know the answer to that.
Because I don't know anything about conditionals.
So it's kind of like I wish I could do something, but now I don't have it.
So which is a nice structure.
Let's call it a structure to use.
So I wish I could get up early.
Or I wish I could get more done in the morning.
Or I wish I could enjoy my daily routine.
And then about planning, you can say like, it turns out that, which is a phrasal verb.
And if you like phrasal verbs, you are going to love our phrasal verbs course, which you can check out at successwithieltscom forward slash podcourses.
Yeah, phrasal verbs are cool.
They're idiomatic and it's nice to squeeze in one or two phrasal verbs or actually one or three phrasal verbs into your speaking.
They're informal, fun, they're natural.
So yeah, off you pop to our phrasal verb talk course.
Yeah, and when you plan things, there is a sense of control.
So when you do things, there's a sense of accomplishment.
When you plan things, there's a sense of control and purpose.
Yeah, when you put tasks in order, so you put them in order.
That means you just organize them in some way.
When do you usually organize things for next week?
On Friday or Sunday?
On Friday?
Yeah.
And how do you do this?
Do you use your phone or do you still have this?
Uh, whatchamacallit this um holy notebook of yours where you can see it.
It's my new one.
I'm showing it to you on the camera.
I have a new one, Oh cute.
It's black.
Yeah, Rory has a special notebook.
It's not, it's dark blue.
It just looks black because the camera's not very great.
Oh, okay, cool.
Yeah, Rory has his special notebook of life.
I do.
It helps me organize everything.
And I'm going to talk about it in one of the premium episodes.
Cool.
Thank you very much for listening.
We are sending you lots of love. warm hugs and kisses check out our premium check out our phrasal verb verbs verbs course one episode you can just listen to it so do check it out the links are in the description Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Scotland.
Freedom.
Let's talk about daily routine.
What's your daily routine like?
Probably more regular in some ways and less so in others, I would say.
I always get up and go to bed roughly the same times.
And I always do some exercise and make breakfast in similar ways.
That being said, I do different things for work each day.
Sometimes I write or teach classes and other days I'll create things for social media.
Have you ever changed your routine?
Absolutely.
When I changed my jobs, I started going to bed earlier and getting up earlier.
And I added in visits to the gym in the last few years.
The regularity gives some meaning and reliability to life, which is well.
It's usually at least a little bit chaotic.
So the regularity is helpful.
What's your favorite time of the day?
The mornings.
I always get so much done.
I answer messages, work out, work on various projects.
By the afternoon, I'm relatively spent, though I still get things done.
I'm definitely a morning person in this respect.
And what do you usually do at this time of day in the morning?
In the mornings?
Well, like I said, all the big things for the day, whether it's preparing materials or organizing things with students and colleagues, I always feel more of a sense of accomplishment at this time of day compared to the others.
How do you organize your study time?
Ah, okay.
That's less regular and done on a more ad hoc basis.
I wish I could do it more regularly, but I just do what I can when I can in that respect.
It seems to work out well, or it seems to have worked out well so far.
Do you like to plan what you'll do every day?
I like planning it, though whether it turns out that way is another matter entirely.
There is a sense of control and purpose when you put tasks in order and you feel more prepared for what's to come.
