Daily routines are all of the things that most people do every day on a regular basis.

They're the things you do from the moment you wake up in the morning until you fall asleep at night.

And we'll talk about those two things as well as we go through this lesson.

It's interesting that as you go through your week and as you go through each day, there are things that you just do repeatedly, regularly, things that you do all the time.

Notice I used a number of different ways to describe actions that we just do over and over again as human beings.

So daily routines are all of the things that you do on a regular basis pretty much every day of your life.

The very first thing you do in the morning is you wake up.

When you are asleep and when you go from the process of sleeping to being awake, that is what I call waking up.

What time did you wake up this morning?

I woke up at 6.30 this morning.

So you're sleeping and then when you go from the state of sleep to being in a state of wakefulness, those are big words, we say that you wake up.

I usually wake up around 6.30.

On the weekends, I wake up around 7 o'clock.

That's what time I usually wake up in the morning.

But this is a little bit different.

For me, there's a difference between to get up and to get out of bed and to wake up.

So I wake up, but I don't always get up right away.

Sometimes I wake up and I'll just kind of lay there for a little bit and I'll think about all of the things I need to do that day.

Sometimes I'll wake up and I'll look at the clock and I'll think to myself, ah, I'll get up in five minutes.

I'll just lay here and think for a little bit first.

So to get up or to get out of bed, that's the time where you go from being in bed to actually standing up, at least in my opinion.

Now English speakers sometimes use these in a more general way.

But for me, I usually say, oh, I woke up at 6.30, I got out of bed at 6.45.

That does happen sometimes.

And then usually it's a good idea to make the bed.

To make the bed, this means you put all of the blankets back nice and smooth.

Maybe you fluff up the pillows a little bit.

But when you get out of bed, usually the first thing you do is you make the bed.

So instead of leaving all the blankets all crumpled up or in a pile, you kind of nicely pull them tight and you make the bed so that it looks and is ready for you to sleep in it later that day.

One of the first things many people do in the morning is they use the bathroom or they go to the bathroom.

So in the morning when I get up, after I get out of bed and after I make my bed, I usually use the bathroom.

Now this does mean that I'm using the bathroom.

I'm not going into any detail about what I'm doing in there.

But it does mean that I'm using the toilet, okay?

So I would say, I'm going to go to the bathroom and then I'm going to go downstairs.

Or I'm going to go use the bathroom, I'm going to use the bathroom and then I'm going to go downstairs.

So yes, in the morning, a lot of people usually use the bathroom, not always right away, but at some point in the morning, you probably have to use the bathroom, especially if you had a lot to drink the night before.

When you get up in the morning, you might have to go to the bathroom or use the bathroom right away.

And then if you're really good, and you follow a good routine, you might be able to exercise or to work out.

So exercise is a general term.

So that could involve lifting weights or running or doing anything that's good for your body.

But you might say, after I get up in the morning, I like to work out, I like to go for a run,

I like to go for a walk.

So I like to go for a walk.

Interestingly, in English, if I say I'm going to go walk, or if I say I'm going to go for a walk, when you say go for a walk, it sounds more like exercise, okay?

I'm going to run to the store.

That sounds like you're just going to run to the store because you want to get there fast.

But if you say I'm going to go for a run, it usually means exercise.

So sometimes you can see this, I'm trying to kind of go in order, your daily routine might be in a slightly different order.

And it might not include this one.

But usually in the morning after I get up and after I use the washroom or use the bathroom,

I like to exercise, I like to go for a walk.

Some people like to work out, they like to lift weights.

Some people like to go for a run.

Even if you have a dog, if you have pets, there's a few things you might do.

You might take the dog for a walk.

Sometimes it's good to take the dog for a walk in the morning, or to walk the dog.

There's a couple ways of saying it in the morning.

So I get up early because I need to take the dog for a walk, or I need to take my dog for a walk.

Or I get up early because I need to walk my dog, or I need to walk the dog in the morning.

So dogs need exercise too.

This is how dogs get exercise.

Their owners take the dog for a walk, or they walk the dog.

And if you have a cat, it's a little simpler.

You might just let the cat out.

You could say, oh, I'm going to go downstairs and have a cup of coffee, and I'm going to let the cat out.

So you might have a cat.

The cat might sleep in the house at night, and in the morning you make a point of opening the little cat door or opening the normal door to let the cat out.

Maybe the cat needs to explore the neighborhood a little bit.

So in the morning, another thing you might do is you might let the cat out.

And then you might feed your pet.

So you might take your dog for a walk, and then you might feed your dog, or you might let your cat out.

And when your cat scratches on the door because they want to come back in, you might then feed your cat.

You might feed your fish.

You might feed a bird.

Maybe you have a pet bird, but sometimes one of the things people do as their daily routine is they feed their cat or they feed their dog.

And then if you have kids or other people in the house, sometimes you will wake up the kids.

So I'm a parent.

I have children.

Sometimes my children get up on their own, but sometimes I need to wake up the kids.

I need to knock on the doors of their bedrooms and say, hey, time to get up.

So it depends on how old they are.

My kids are old enough now that they set their own alarms.

They set an alarm clock, and so they usually get up themselves.

But if one or two of them isn't up, I sometimes need to wake up the kids.

I need to go and make sure that they're awake so that they don't miss the bus and so that they can go to school.

Maybe you have a roommate that you need to wake up sometimes if you don't have kids.

That can happen too.

And then you make breakfast.

So there's the difference between making breakfast and eating breakfast.

In the morning after I have done some other things, I go to the kitchen to make breakfast.

I like to make breakfast usually fairly early in the morning.

If I go for a walk, I go for a walk without having eaten breakfast.

There's a complex sentence for you.

But when I get back, I like to make breakfast.

I usually fry some eggs.

I might have some toast.

I might have some oatmeal.

But it's nice to make breakfast.

You could say cook breakfast.

I like to cook breakfast.

But in English, we use the word make a lot when we're talking about the kitchen.

We'll say things like, oh, I'm going to make some toast.

I'm going to make some eggs.

I'm going to make breakfast.

I'm going to make waffles.

And then, of course, what do you do after you make breakfast?

You eat breakfast.

I like to eat breakfast right away after I make it.

I like my eggs hot.

If I have toast, I like my toast hot as well.

And you can also use the verb to have.

You can say, oh, I'm going to have breakfast in a few minutes.

Do you want me to make you an egg?

I might say that to Jen or Jen, when are you going to have breakfast?

Or when are you going to eat breakfast?

The sentences are completely interchangeable.

But it simply means to sit down and to eat the food that you made.

And then after that, I like to have a shower.

I like to take a shower.

There's two ways to say it.

You can even say, I'm going to grab a shower.

So we use the English verb to grab for a lot of weird things.

You could even say, oh, I'm going to grab some breakfast, then I'm going to grab a shower.

It's very informal though.

Normally, I would say, I'm going to have breakfast at 7.

I'm going to take a shower at 7.30.

Or I'm going to have a shower at 7.30.

And of course, the shower is water and you use soap to clean yourself so that when you go to work that day, you smell fresh and clean.

Now, if you like to have a bath or take a bath, it's the same verb.

If you like to sit in the bath, you could say, oh, I'm going to eat breakfast and then

I'm going to have a bath or I'm going to take a bath.

And then there's a whole bunch of other things you do, depending on who you are.

You might put on makeup.

You might brush your teeth.

You might shave.

You might comb your hair.

You might brush your hair.

By the way, this is a comb and this is a brush.

So there are a lot of things you do, usually right before you go to work or go to school if you leave the house.

You might comb your hair, brush your teeth.

You might cut your fingernails.

You might put on makeup, etc., etc.

That's why I put etc. up here because there are many things that you do at that time of the day.

And then you get dressed.

So in the morning after I've had a shower, I like to get dressed.

So this morning as well, I got dressed about half an hour ago.

I put on this white shirt.

I put on my watch.

I put on my wedding ring.

So notice to get dressed is the general term.

You get dressed in the morning.

But when you talk about individual items, you use the verb to put on.

So I put on my shirt.

I put on my pants.

I put on my socks.

I put on my underwear first.

I put on my watch.

I put on my ring.

And so now I am dressed.

So that is definitely one of the things that you do when you talk about your daily routine.

You get dressed.

You put on your clothes.

After you get dressed, you will most likely make a lunch.

I like to make a lunch every day.

I like to pack a lunch every day.

These mean the same thing.

So if I say after I have a shower, I go to the kitchen and I make a lunch or I go to the kitchen to pack a lunch, it means I'm going to make a sandwich.

I might get a banana.

I might get some fruit or vegetables and put them in a lunch bag and I will take them to work because I don't like to buy lunch.

I like to make a lunch.

I like to pack a lunch.

Interesting thing with English, if it's lunchtime, you would say I'm going to make lunch.

But when you get a lunch ready in the morning to take to work or to take to school, you say you make a lunch or you pack a lunch.

And then you need to grab your things.

This is a general term and I do use it every morning.

Like I grab my phone.

I grab my keys.

I grab my wallet.

I make sure that I put on my wedding ring and put on my watch.

But I grab my laptop.

I grab my lunch because I made my lunch earlier or I packed it.

So I grab all of my things and then I get in my vehicle.

And that's exactly how you would say it.

I'm leaving in five minutes.

I'm just going to grab my things and then I'm going out to the van.

You'll hear me say that to my children.

And then I head to work or I go to work.

You could use either of these.

Both mean that you are basically going from your house or home to your place of work.

It might be school as well.

You might say I'm going to head to work.

Jen might say to me what time are you going to head to work today?