This week examines several common Part 1 topics, including your workplace and your routine. The discussion evolves to also include the topic of ‘dreams’.
Step 1: Listen to this week’s lesson.
| Part 1 Questions Do you work or study? How would you describe the layout of your workplace? What do you do every day after you get up? Do you normally go to bed early? Is your daily routine going to change in the future? Do you usually remember your dreams after you get up? |
| 🧑‍🎓Target language: double (verb) Something that is used in or play another thing. “The CEO works alone from the room that doubles as our company’s main meeting room.” |
Step 2: Listen to the sample a few times to get more familiar with the language.
Step 3: Engage this week’s full speech shadowing lesson.
Step 4: Below is Monday’s speech exercise. Post yourself saying this excerpt to your Whatsapp group. Exercises for Tuesday to Friday will be posted in the group by your instructor.
| Post yourself saying this into your Whatsapp group!🗣️📲 “My workplace is made up of several large office rooms with three or four workers in each room. Everyone has a desk and each office usually has a small table with an electric kettle for coffee and tea.” |
Step 5: It’s very important that you note any new language items or pronunciation points from this week’s lesson in your journal to help you chronicle your improvement.đź“ť
Transcript
Do you work or study?
I work in software development at a large organisation in this city.
How would you describe the layout of your workplace?
My workplace is made up of several large office rooms with three or four workers in each room. Everyone has a desk and each office usually has a small table with an electric kettle for coffee and tea. We’re a small organisation, so the CEO works alone from the room that doubles as our company’s main meeting room. It has a large table and a whiteboard.
What do you do every day after you get up?
The first thing I do is make a thermos of coffee while checking news headlines on my phone. Then I shower and get ready for work. I don’t usually eat breakfast at home because there is a small and inexpensive cafe next to our building.
Do you normally go to bed early?
Yes, I’m almost always in bed by shortly after 9. I have a bad habit of watching media on my phone before bed, which I’ve read can disturb sleep patterns, but I’m nevertheless completely dead to the world by about 10 o’clock.
Is your daily routine going to change in the future?
No, barring some unforeseen change to my employment, I don’t think it will.
Do you usually remember your dreams after you get up?
No I don’t, and I don’t particularly want to remember them. I find switching from one reality to another disorienting. In fact, I can’t remember the last time I had a dream I could recall!