#Ep. 7 Adverbs and Adverbials In Your Daily Routine

Unlock the secrets of using adverbs and adverbials to paint vivid pictures of your daily routines with me, Natalie! Ever wondered how to polish your English skills and communicate your habits with precision and flair? Join this week's episode of "Learn English with Natalie" as we journey through the world of adverbial phrases and adverbs. We'll revisit last week's lesson on making polite suggestions before diving into the core of today's topic: enhancing your routine descriptions with adverbials. Whether you're a new friend or a familiar voice in our growing community, get ready for a lesson filled with practical exercises designed to build your confidence and proficiency in English.

This episode promises to elevate your understanding of everyday expressions by focusing on frequency adverbials and adverbs in the context of daily activities. We’ll start by mastering how to articulate morning routines, with examples like "In the morning, I wake up at 7 am" and "After that, I get dressed." As we explore these language tools, you'll gain the skills needed to enhance your conversational English, making it more descriptive and engaging. Remember, consistency and embracing mistakes are keys to language mastery, so let's tackle this learning adventure together! Don't forget to rate, review, and subscribe to help us connect with more English learners worldwide.

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Speaker 1: 0:00

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Learn English with Natalie. Today, we are going to be learning all about using adverbials to describe our daily routines and our daily habits. If you are a new listener, thank you so much for joining me today, wherever you are around the world, and if you are a returning listener, welcome back and thank you for joining me. Please remember, if you are enjoying the content, to rate, review and subscribe. It really, really helps. More than you know, this is a new podcast. I'm trying to reach as many English language learners as possible, and your help will allow me to do that. So please remember, before we get into the lesson, that the following lesson is going to provide foundations for your English language learning. You may want to come back to this at a later time. Therefore, I recommend you keep notes, either by downloading the pdf activity available in the show notes or keeping a journal of some kind. Learning a new language is very difficult, so please be easy on yourself. So, rule number one consistency is key. And rule number two it is important that you make mistakes. The only way you're going to learn is if you make those mistakes, so go easy on yourself. Before we get into the lesson. We are going to have a recap on last week's lesson. If you haven't listened to that one so far, you might want to check out last week's lesson on making suggestions. So here we go, a quick activity for you how can we politely make suggestions? Now I'm going to read out five phrases and I want you to pick out the ones that sound polite. So we, last week we were focusing on making suggestions in a way that didn't sound rude or bossy. Can you remember those phrases? Here we go. Number one how about we? Number two why don't we? Number three I demand that. Number three I demand that. Number four I suggest that. And number five it is important that we. So I'll read those again. We're picking out the polite suggestions. How about we? Why don't we? I demand that. I suggest that it is important that we have a think for a moment. Can you identify the polite phrases? If you said, how about we? Why don't we? And I suggest that you would be correct, well done. Now the other two phrases that I read out were I demand that, which is making you sound like you're commanding somebody to do something without giving them a choice, and the other one it is important that we. That can be used in a polite way, however, it is a little bit more assertive. So here we go, episode seven, and like I said earlier, we are using adverbials to describe daily routines. By the end of this lesson, you will be able to describe daily routines and you will also be able to confidently use adverbials to describe the frequency, so how often something is done. We're going to go into part one, which is my teaching point. I'm going to teach you now why this is important. So why do you need to know adverbial phrases? And I'm linking it today to daily routines. However, you are going to be able to use these adverbials in different contexts and you are improving your everyday English Part two vocabulary and speaking practice.

Speaker 1: 3:47

So, first of all, we're going to concentrate on morning routines, and an example of a daily routine you might describe is wake up. When do you do that? You do that in the morning. The adverbial phrase here is in the morning. I'm going to read that out in a full sentence In the morning, I wake up at 7am. In the morning, I wake up at 7am. Can you say that sentence? Perfect, well done. So the daily routine wake up, the adverbial in the morning. In the morning. I wake up at 7am. Let's move on to the next routine.

Speaker 1: 4:33

The next routine is get dressed. So you're waking up in the morning and you're getting dressed, you're putting your clothes on. So I'm going to say after that, that's my adverbial phrase after that. So after I have woken up, I get dressed. After that I get dressed. I'm going to say it one more time, and then I want you to repeat after me after that, I get dressed, your, your turn. Wonderful. The next morning routine To have breakfast or eat my breakfast. And the adverbial phrase I'm going to use to describe this is then. Then I have breakfast. So you can either say have my breakfast or eat my breakfast, or you can drop the my and say have breakfast or eat breakfast. It doesn't really matter. That sentence again. Then I have breakfast. I'm going to say it one more time, and then I want you to repeat after me Then I have breakfast. Your turn, wonderful.

Speaker 1: 5:51

The next morning routine commute. And commute means that you are traveling to work. So you would usually say commute to work. Commute is a verb in that sentence. Commute to work, that's c-o-m-m-u-t-e. Commute to work. And you can also use commute as a noun, which I will show you in the following sentence. Now the adverbial phrase I'm using is finally. Finally I begin my commute to work. So I'm using commute as a noun here Finally I begin my commute to work. I'll read it slowly Finally I begin my commute to work. I'll say it one more time, and then I want you to repeat after me Finally I begin my commute to work. Your turn Excellent.

Speaker 1: 6:50

Now let's move on to work routines. So I'm going to start off by using the adverbial first of all. So I'm describing now as soon as I get into work first of all, and my routine is check my emails. First of all, I check my emails. I'm going to say that again First of all, I check my emails. Can you say that Excellent, well done. The next routine for work attend meetings. And I'm going to use the adverbial usually, usually, usually, and this means sometimes. So most of the time, usually, it is usual. Let me read the sentence to you Usually I attend meetings. Usually I attend meetings. Can you say that Perfect, excellent, well done.

Speaker 1: 7:59

The next routine I want to describe is eating lunch, and again you can either say eat lunch or have lunch, or eat my lunch and have my lunch. It doesn't really matter. The adverbial phrase I'm going to use is at 12 pm. Now, this one's very specific. I'm given a very specific time At 12 pm I eat lunch. At 12 pm, I eat lunch. Can you say that? Wonderful, and obviously you would change the adverbial to suit when you're eating your lunch.

Speaker 1: 8:37

The next routine work on projects. Work on projects, and the adverbial I'm going to use is mostly because I do this most of the time. Mostly I work on projects. Mostly I work on projects. I'm going to say it one more time and then I want you to repeat after me Mostly I work on projects. Your turn, excellent. Now let's move on to evening routines. So the routine I'm going to talk about first of all is cook dinner, cook dinner, and my adverbial phrase. So in a sentence I would say you could also put the adverbial phrase at the end I cook dinner when I get home. I'm going to read the sentence again and then I want you to repeat after me when I get home, I cook dinner. Your turn, excellent. You're doing a fantastic job. Let's keep going.

Speaker 1: 9:57

The next routine watch TV. And the adverbial phrase to relax. I'm telling somebody why I'm doing it. So this one isn't talking about frequency. This adverbial phrase is talking about why I'm doing this. To relax, I watch TV. To relax, I watch TV. I'm going to say it one more time and then I want you to repeat after me To relax, I watch TV. Your time Excellent.

Speaker 1: 10:31

Finally, the last one read a book. We often do this before we sleep. A lot of people do this. So before I go to sleep is my adverbial phrase Before I go to sleep, I read a book. Before I go to sleep, I read a book and remember you can also put the adverbial phrase at the end I read a book. Before I go to sleep. I'm going to read the sentence to you again and then I want you to repeat after me Before I go to sleep, I read a book. Your turn fantastic, well done. Now, that's a lot of information to remember, but you can use these adverbials in many different contexts. It doesn't need to be to describe routines. It can be used. They can be used a lot in your everyday English conversations.

Speaker 1: 11:27

Part three listening Listen to my daily routines. Can you identify the routines and the adverbial phrases? So I'm going to start off by reading out my morning routine and I want you to listen for the routine that I discuss and the adverbial phrases that I use. Here we go In the morning, I wake up at 7am, after that I get dressed, then I have my breakfast. Finally, I begin my commute to work. I'll read it again In the morning, I wake up at 7am, after that I get dressed, then I have my breakfast. Finally, I begin my commute to work. Could you hear the adverbial phrases? I use the adverbial phrase in the morning, and at 7am is also an adverbial phrase. After that, then and finally. Next, I'm going to read a paragraph discussing my work routines and I want you to listen out for the routines and the adverbial phrases. Here we go First of all, I check my emails, then usually I attend meetings At 12pm.

Speaker 1: 12:50

I have my lunch. Mostly I work on projects in the afternoon. I'm going to read it one more time. First of all, I check my emails, then usually I have meetings At 12pm. I have my lunch. Mostly I work on projects in the afternoon. Did you hear the adverbial phrases? I'll go through them now. First of all, then usually at 12pm mostly, and in the afternoon is also an adverbial phrase as well. Finally, I'm going to discuss the evening routines.

Speaker 1: 13:36

When I get home. Home, I cook dinner To relax, I watch TV, I go to bed and I read a book. When I get home, I cook dinner To relax, I watch TV. Before I go to bed, I read a book. Now I'm going to read that one more time and I want you to listen out for those adverbial phrases. When I get home, I cook dinner To relax, I watch tv. Before I go to bed, I read a book, and the adverbial phrases I used there were when I get home to relax and before I go to bed. And before I go to bed. Part four independent learning. So for this week's activity, I want you to please use the adverbial phrases from this week to describe your daily routines, so you can write them down or say them out loud. And I want you to use the adverbial phrases in the morning first of all, mostly and usually. Don't forget to tag me on TikTok if you are feeling confident enough to share your work and, of course, you can use as many adverbial phrases as you like.

Speaker 1: 14:44

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