در این پست یاد می‌گیریم راجع‌به daily routine و اینکه چطور وقتمون رو می‌گذرونیم حرف بزنیم.

بخش اول این پست که شامل یک پرسشنامه سبک زندگیه و برای زبان‌آموزای سطح متوسط خیلی کاربردیه.

بخش دوم هم یک آدیو هست از جوابای چند نفریه که این زمینه‌یابی یا survey رو انجام دادن.

این بخش از درس کمکتون می‌کنه استایل محاوره‌ای‌تری رو در اسپیکینگ آیلتس داشته باشید.

در آخر هم عبارات پرکاربرد این درس رو با هم مرور می‌کنیم.

برای اینکه بیشترین یادگیری رو داشته باشید نیازه که:

۱. پست چاخانای سبک زندگی یا Lifestyle Myths رو خونده باشید.

۲. دوره ویدیویی گرامر حال ساده یا Present Simple رو گذرونده باشید.

 

?Are You Happy with the Way You Spend Your Time

Adapted from Cutting Edge, Third Edition, Intermediate Level

Research shows that people today have more free time than ever. But do we spend our time on the things that really matter, or are we wasting time and feeling frustrated?

▪️Lifestyle Survey

?Which statements are true for you

  1. I spend too much time sleeping.
  2. I don’t get enough sleep.
  3. I work/study for too many hours.
  4. I don’t work/study enough.
  5. I spend a lot of time looking after children / other relatives.
  6. I spend a lot of time socializing and going out.
  7. I spend too much of my time on boring activities and tasks.
  8. I never really stop – I’m busy all day.
  9. I find time for my interests.
  10. I’d like to have more time for my interests.
  11. I sometimes feel bored because I can’t think of anything to do.
  12. I don’t have enough time for certain important things in my life.
  13. I often put off tasks that I need to do.
  14. I feel stressed because I don’t have enough time to do everything.
  15. I waste a lot of time on things that aren’t very useful.

▪️Responses

Now listen to five respondents talking about their daily routine.

ONE

I spend way too much time traveling. My regular daily commute begins at about seven in the morning. Um, I leave my house, then walk to the tube station. From there I take the tube for six stops, then I hop on the train, er, for about ten minutes, then I take another tube for one stop, and then finally I take another train for about 20 minutes, and then it’s a two-minute walk to work. The whole journey takes about an hour and a half, I would say, and that’s on a good day; on a bad day, it could take up to three hours, and it’s really, really boring.

TWO

I’m one of those people who just don’t think there are enough hours in the day. I’m on the go the whole day, all day long, from the moment I get up in the morning, um, to when I roll into bed at night. I have a really busy job where I’m on my feet all day. I usually end up working through my lunch break because there’s so much to, to go on, um, and I would finish up work at about 5, 6 o’clock in the evening. Er, I normally would then, er, meet up with friends in the evening, um, have them over for dinner, um, and I spend a lot of time talking with my family over skype or some friends on the phone, um, though I’d probably like to spend more of my time doing that. Um, as I said before, there just isn’t enough time.

THREE

I spend quite a lot of time looking after my daughter. Um, obviously when my wife’s there we share looking after her and playing with her and things. But, um, my wife goes out to work, three or four nights a week, so when I get in from work, er, she goes out to work, and I finish off the dinner, look after my daughter, play with her, have dinner with her, give her a bath, brush her teeth, er, read her a couple of stories, put her to bed, sing some songs. I really enjoy it. Um, it’s a great opportunity to kind of have one-to-one time with my daughter.

FOUR

Oh, I can be so unproductive when I’m supposed to be writing an essay or, um, doing work of some kind. Um, I’ll go on, on the internet to, um, to do some research for whatever topic I need to write about, um, but then I get, start looking at other things that I’m more interested in. Um, I dunno, maybe news about celebrities, or I might be downloading music. Um, and after several hours, I still haven’t started researching my essay.

FIVE

I’d like to have more time to walk my dog. Um, at the weekends I have lots of time and I take her for a lovely long walk. Um, in the week, it’s always a bit of a rush and I never get a chance to really enjoy it properly, so I wish I had more time for that.

Useful language for IELTS

>> Useful Language to describe your daily routine

a. Describing how you spend your time

▪️ I spend quite a lot of time (looking after my daughter).

▪️ I (work) for about (ten hours) a day/week.

▪️ I spend (way) too much time (traveling).

▪️ I’d like to spend more time studying (English).

▪️ The whole journey takes about (an hour and a half).

▪️ I waste a lot of time on (social networking apps).

▪️ I’m on the go the whole day (long).

▪️ There just isn’t enough time!

b. Asking for more information     

▪️ How much time do you spend (sleeping)?

▪️ What exactly is your job / are your interests?

▪️ So how old are your children?

▪️ Can you give me some examples?

▪️ Why’s that?

     c. Reporting back

▪️ He’s got three children so (he’s very busy).

▪️ He’d like to spend more time (at the gym).

▪️ He spends (far) too much time (doing paperwork).

_______________ Your Turn _______________

Write about your daily routine and explain how you spend your time in the comments down below.