Maria, are you alright?
You look very tired.
I got up so early today.
I got up at this ungodly hour to get to the studio on time.
Wow, that is early.
Shall we talk about getting up early?
Let's talk about getting up early.
In Speaking Part 1, they can ask you questions about getting up early.
Do you often get up early in the morning?
Yeah, 05.30 is my regular wake-up time during the week, and even on days it's not required.
I still wake up at 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning, just as day breaks.
It means I have enough time to do everything I have planned.
What do you usually do when you get up early?
Well, I think we discussed this before, and not much has changed since then.
It's a pretty fixed routine.
I work out for about 45 minutes at breakfast, which is always tuna and protein shake and syrniki.
And then I'll go for a shower, get dressed, and then head out to get the metro.
And then after that, it's the bus to school.
I think that's good, though.
I get more done that way.
Is breakfast important to you?
It didn't used to be, but it is now.
If I didn't have breakfast, I wouldn't have the fuel I need to get through the day and get everything well done that I wanted to get done.
That's why it's pretty static, though I still enjoy it despite that.
Do you get up early on weekends?
I try to sleep in usually, but sometimes I have to be up at the crack to do things for work.
I don't mind it though, since it's usually pretty easy stuff.
It still needs to be done though.
What kinds of people usually get up early?
Oh, highly industrious people or people with busy schedules and to have to get a lot done by day's end.
Those would be the main groups, but there are shift workers and people who work across multiple time zones who might have to get up to cater to their schedules and the needs of their clients respectively.
Some people do it out of a personal belief.
It's just better for you.
There's this book called The 5am Club that describes this process of early rising and how it benefits well, the benefits thereof, I suppose.
What are the benefits of getting up early?
You get to see the sunrise, and that's always nice.
And there are probably fewer distractions and disruptions because there are fewer people.
Connected to that is the lack of noise.
My street's always pretty peaceful at that time in the morning, for example.
Thank you, Rory.
Do you know what's the best part of getting up early?
No.
Nothing.
I don't...
Oh, he's laughing.
That's good.
I caused the laugh.
Yep.
Oh, I totally, totally hate getting up early.
Just talking about it just, you know, drains me.
Rory, you said that you get up every day 5.30 in the afternoon?
During the week.
In the morning?
5.30 in the morning on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Are you nuts?
No.
Have you been eating nuts so now you're nuts?
I just need that time to get ready for work and the day.
It works well for me.
God, 5.30 in the morning.
Jesus.
I can barely get myself up at, what, ten.
Whoa.
What time do you go to bed, though?
Twelve.
Well, there you go.
I go to bed at, like, half nine.
Half nine?
So you go to bed at 9.30 and get up at 5.30?
Yeah, on a Sunday, Monday and Wednesday.
Other days I can sleep in.
Because I have an amazing job.
Oh my god.
I only work three days a week, plus whatever stuff we have to do for the podcast.
It's great.
So we can say wake up early or get up early.
The difference is that first you wake up and then you get up.
Well, some people get up, but they never wake up.
That's me.
That's me too.
So you can also say to have an early start, to rise early.
To be an early riser.
To be an early riser or to be a morning person.
So I'm not a morning person and Rory is an early bird.
The early bird gets the worm.
Oh, God.
Take all of them.
I'm going to get the pizza.
Well, if Vanya decides to order it at some point.
You can also say, I prefer getting up at the crack of dawn.
Or getting up at the crack.
And the crepe, what does it mean?
Same thing.
It means waking up in the morning when dawn's starting.
Or when dawn is breaking!
Just the other collocation.
Yeah, you guys, it's pretty cool to say, oh, I never get up at the crack or at the crack of dawn.
So pretty much at 6 a.m. in the morning and flipping 5.30 in the morning.
Roy is crazy.
Oh.
It's only three days a week.
We're still crazy.
I hardly, well, when I come March, I will hardly work.
It's going to be amazing.
You can also say like, oh, I never get up at an ungodly hour.
Basically, god, ungodly hour, at a crazy hour.
Meaning like very early.
So just as day breaks, Rory gets up just as day breaks.
Yeah, which is when the sun comes up.
And Rory, when you talked about your breakfast, you said that you have tuna protein shake and syrniki.
Syrniki is like cottage cheese thingies from cottage cheese, which is very Russian.
They're cottage cheese fritters.
I think it's what you would call them.
Although mine are never warm, they're always cold.
But cottage cheese is kind of a type of cheese.
It's kind of a dairy product.
Yeah, but cottage cheese in the UK is very different to what it's like here.
Yeah, but we're talking Russian cottage cheese.
The best kind.
You said that you have tuna and some dairy kind of product together.
Well, not at the same time, obviously.
I'll have the tuna first, then I'll have the syrniki.
God, wow.
It's tuna salad.
It's nice.
There's beans in it.
For breakfast?
Yeah.
Oh, my God.
Good Lord.
Okay.
Dear listener, Rory is very strange.
Everybody knew that.
We've been doing this podcast for over a year.
Yes, and pretty much this is his fuel to get him going, to get him through the day.
So he has his tuna, he has protein and some Russian cottage cheese stuff to get him through the day.
What is static in your morning routine?
Everything.
It never changes.
In the same way the menu for breakfast never changes.
So you'd never have a McDonald's for breakfast?
Oh, no.
I'd be very ill.
Yesterday's pizza?
Okay, one time.
But that was when we ordered three pizzas by accident.
So someone had to eat those things.
So when you say something is static, it never changes.
It's pretty much the same.
So who gets up early?
Rory said highly industrious people get up early.
That's people that are very productive.
Are you highly industrious?
I was and I will be only for this month and then I'm done being industrious.
And what are you going to do with your life?
Have a life.
Yeah, but when you don't have to work, will you get up at a stupid o'clock to do your thing?
I'll still wake up early in the morning because that's the fixed schedule for the school that I work for.
But I'm not doing any extra work, so there's no need for me to get up earlier on other days.
Okay.
I can chill.
I can rest on my laurels, which is a great way of saying just relax and enjoy the moment.
Your what?
Rolls?
Laurels.
Laurels.
Rory's laurels.
What the hell is this?
This is an expression, to rest on your laurels.
It just means to relax on the comfortable space that you've created for yourself.
Oh, wow.
So just to chill.
Yeah, but instead you say rest on your laurels because you're aiming for a band 9 score.
Band 9 score.
Band 9 score.
You also said that some people have a lot to get done by day's end.
Yeah, so day breaks and then day ends.
Day's end.
Same video game, actually, I think.
And this is a nice kind of structure to have a lot of things done or to get things done.
I get up early to get everything done on time.
And shift workers, so people who work shifts, like night shifts, day shifts.
Morning, evening.
Have you ever worked shifts?
That's a good question.
No.
Good for you.
Why is that good for me?
My friend Steve's a nurse.
He works the night shifts.
And then he sleeps during the day like vampires.
He's a goth, so that's okay for him.
You can cater to schedules.
So cater to people's interests or cater to schedules.
Explanation.
Oh, yes.
No.
No.
Well, we've explained this before.
I think if you cater to something, it just means that you help make it happen.
Or you support something.
Thank you, Rory.
It's okay.
Yes.
For example, I cater to the needs of you and Vanya by showing up to work.
Not on time, but I show up to work.
Yes, Dilys, and I just remember that what's the best part of waking up early?
It's nothing.
Unlike our answers, which have everything you need.
For a high score.
So you want to let this be your wake-up call for getting high-level vocabulary.
This is good.
The puns are horrendous.
We are on the ball today because we got up early.
Did we?
We did.
Did we?
Yes, 9am is early.
Okay, I compromised.
I got up at like 8.
Oh, Vanya got up at 7.
I was up at 8.
You were up at 9?
9.
Oh, Vanya's the winner.
Thank you very much for listening.
Hugs and kisses.
Bye.
Bye.
Do you often get up early in the morning?
Yeah, 05.30 is my regular wake-up time during the week, and even on days it's not required.
I still wake up at 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning, just as day breaks.
It means I have enough time to do everything I have planned.
What do you usually do when you get up early?
Well, I think we discussed this before, and not much has changed since then.
It's a pretty fixed routine.
I work out for about 45 minutes at breakfast, which is always tuna and protein shake and syrniki.
And then I'll go for a shower, get dressed, and then head out to get the metro.
And then after that, it's the bus to school.
I think that's good, though.
I get more done that way.
Is breakfast important to you?
It didn't used to be, but it is now.
If I didn't have breakfast, I wouldn't have the fuel I need to get through the day and get everything well done that I wanted to get done.
That's why it's pretty static, though I still enjoy it despite that.
Do you get up early on weekends?
I try to sleep in usually, but sometimes I have to be up at the crack to do things for work.
I don't mind it though, since it's usually pretty easy stuff.
It still needs to be done though.
What kinds of people usually get up early?
Oh, highly industrious people or people with busy schedules and to have to get a lot done by day's end.
Those would be the main groups, but there are shift workers and people who work across multiple time zones who might have to get up to cater to their schedules and the needs of their clients respectively.
Some people do it out of a personal belief.
It's just better for you.
There's this book called The 5am Club that describes this process of early rising and how it benefits well, the benefits thereof, I suppose.
What are the benefits of getting up early?
Well, you get to see the sunrise, and that's always nice.
And there are probably fewer distractions and disruptions because there are fewer people.
Connected to that is the lack of noise.
My street's always pretty peaceful at that time in the morning, for example.
