How Native English Speakers Talk About Their Morning Routines!

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any! So with that said, let's get on with the video! Mornings, my least favorite time of day.

Whether you love them or hate them most people have a morning routine, things that they do every

morning to start their day. So this morning as soon as I woke up I asked my partner Bez to film

me to show you my real morning routine and along the way I will be telling you exactly how native

speakers talk about their morning routines, so let's go! Okay the first thing that happens in

my morning is my alarm goes off, yes when your alarm makes that big 'ring ring ring' noise, it's

going off, there it is my alarm's going off. So I turn it off... in a minute I'm going to press off,

I turned it off, then I check my phone I see if anyone has text me or tried to call me, then this

is my favorite thing to do; give my eyes a good rub, stretch, try to wake myself up a little bit

then normally I scroll on my phone for far too long, I scroll through Tik Tok,

I scroll through Instagram, I scroll through social media, it's a very bad habit but

I'm a millennial, it's just what we do. Then I get out of bed, now depending on how tired you are you

can get out of bed in different ways so sometimes I drag myself out of bed, dragging yourself out of

bed means you're tired, it's hard, it's difficult, it's slow or sometimes I just jump out of bed,

then I make my bed, now everything you're seeing here it is all making the bed, whether

I'm doing this with the duvet or I'm putting the pillows there or I'm putting this little giraffe,

everything is making the bed. Then it's time to open the blinds or draw the blinds and I

notice that the windows are very wet because of condensation so I have to dry them, it's not a

fun job. But it's got to be done. Then I put on something very comfortable, lovely, and then I do

my meditation, you know, I take some time to just sit, meditate... I'm joking, I never do this, of

course I don't do this. Okay pause for a second, notice how I am talking in the present simple

tense a lot, now why am I doing this? The clue is in the name; morning routine, this is not

just one thing I did one morning and I've never done it again, this is something I do routinely,

regularly, commonly, it is something that happens more than once throughout my life, so we use the

present simple, I wake up, I brush my teeth, I eat breakfast, present simple. Let's carry on! Then I

go downstairs or head downstairs if you want to be a native, I then draw the curtains and open

the blind,m let some light in, you know, then I go to the kitchen and I realize that there's a little

bit of mess, but don't look at that and it's time to put the kettle on, yes we put the kettle on and

we also say that the kettle boils, we don't say that the water boils we say the kettle is boiling

which is quite interesting, so I put the kettle on and I wait for the kettle to boil. While I'm

waiting for the kettle to boil I prepare my breakfast, now with breakfast and coffee or

tea or juice, don't use the verb 'to take', so don't say, I take my breakfast, I take my coffee,

I know this is really common in a lot of languages but we don't use it in English, we say have or eat

for breakfast, so we can say I eat my breakfast or I have my coffee. So here I am pouring the milk

into my coffee because I want to have my coffee, I'm actually making two, one for my partner

because I'm so nice, pouring the milk so that I can have my breakfast. So I sit down on the sofa,

I have my breakfast, I have my coffee, I watch some TV because I have a dining table but I like