Today, you're going to learn how to talk
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about your daily routine and your habits.
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This video is part of my 3000 most common
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English words series designed to help you
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understand up to 95% of spoken English.
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Start the word count and let's go.
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So how do you talk about
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your daily routine and habits?
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Right now, we're at
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the Petronas Twin Towers.
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If you guys know what city this is in,
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let me know in the comments.
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This city, let me know in the comments.
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And if you're from this
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country, let me know as well.
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But anyways, morning routine.
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We will talk about that.
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But first, let's find
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a better place to go
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talk about that using
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comprehensible input.
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So right now I'm going to
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walk down these stairs here.
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This is a bright yellow
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line so you don't trip.
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But only the first step has that. these
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two other steps do not.
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But I guess you only need one bright
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yellow line to notice it.
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Do you think it's safer to have all of them
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with a bright yellow
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line or just the top step?
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I think it's safer to have them all.
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But I think this is
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just for blind people.
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I don't think a blind
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person could see that.
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Now, usually there is
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some sort of bumpy stuff.
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So when they feel it
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with their walking stick.
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But this just looks painted on.
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So right now we are heading to a very
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beautiful area that a lot of people go
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to start their morning routine.
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So that is where we will
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also start our morning routine.
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But right now you can see we are just
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outside of these towers.
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There is a nice row of trees here and
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there are also benches you can sit on.
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This is a nice area to come and relax.
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But right now we're going to head into
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this building and walk through it.
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OK, guys, we're in a mall right now.
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And usually going to a mall isn't really
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part of my morning routine.
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I almost never come to a mall.
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But today it is part
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of my morning routine.
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So we're going to the mall to check out a
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store called Decathalon where you can
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buy things. But usually it's
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not part of my morning routine.
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almost never do this thing.
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I almost never go to
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the mall in the morning.
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If I do go to the mall,
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it's usually in the afternoon.
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What about you? Going to
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the malls in the morning?
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Yeah, is it part of your morning routine?
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You don't have a habit of doing that.
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No, unless I stay really close to one,
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then I usually don't.
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OK, what do you guys
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think of this hat for me?
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What do you think, Leon?
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The back looks a little funny because
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your hair. You just have so much hair.
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Yeah, I think I just prefer a normal hat
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because this makes me look like really
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dumb, like a mushroom.
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I think you have too much hair for that.
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Then again, most girls wear this.
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I don't know how they wear
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it and make this look good.
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Like shout out to the women, bro.
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Shout out every woman ever for
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for being a woman, I guess.
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Let's try out this hat.
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Honestly, I feel like I would wear this.
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You don' t want to see
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the side point of view.
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This looks so funny.
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Yeah, I can't wear those
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because my face is too round.
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This makes me look like a...
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No, like, you know,
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like literally a Teletubby.
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No, but you know, like the train, like
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Thomas the Tank Engine.
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Like just like round face.
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And also like a Teletubby.
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Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.
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Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
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Leon's face in a Teletubby.
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OK, guys, so now we are at KLCC Park.
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We're going to start talking about our
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daily routine and habits.
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So you can divide that
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into three categories.
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Your morning routine, your afternoon
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routine and your evening routine.
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So those are the three parts of the day
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and you could divide
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them all into separate
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routines when you talk about
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your daily routine and habits.
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OK, so here are four useful words you can
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about your daily routine.
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I always, I usually, I
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sometimes and I never.
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I always means; every day.
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I usually means; most days.
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I sometimes means; not every day.
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And I never means; zero days.
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So you never do it.
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So out of all the days of the week, you
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never do this activity.
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Those are four important words you can
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use when talking about your daily
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routine and habits. Now let's make a
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couple of sentences
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using those four words.
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I always have a shower in the morning.
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I usually eat lunch in the
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afternoon, but not always.
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And in the evening, I sometimes go out to
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a restaurant to eat.
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And something I never
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do at all throughout
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the whole day is I never eat breakfast.
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I never eat breakfast ever.
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Now it's your turn.
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using each of those words.
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I always, I usually,
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I sometimes, I never.
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Make a sentence now.
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And if you want to practice even more,
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take a video of yourself
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saying these sentences out loud.
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You can also write your
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answers in the comments.
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And I will tell you if your sentence is
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right or if it needs improvement.
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Okay. This park is pretty nice.
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What do you think of it so far?
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So far, this park looks
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really well maintained.
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I don't see any garbage or
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anything that shouldn't be there.
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It does seem fairly popular.
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It is the middle of the day and there are
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quite a few people out.
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Yeah. One thing I would add to that is
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that it seems kind of small or does it go
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like a lot further that way?
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From what I'm seeing,
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it's like it's kind of small.
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Yeah. In my opinion, it's not super huge.
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We are in the center
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of the city right now.
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Yeah. But it does go that way.
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And then over there is a
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aquarium over there. To That...
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Yeah. To that side.
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There's a large aquarium.
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Like Central Park is probably and
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arguably the most famous
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park out of all the parks.
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When you think of a park inside a city,
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usually you think of Central Park, right?
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Yeah, that's I think I'd argue it's the
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most famous park in the world.
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Yeah. Like usually when I think of a park
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in a city, I think of
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Central Park and that park is huge.
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And there are so many
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movies that feature Central Park.
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Like one off the top of my head is Elf.
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popular Christmas movie.
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And it features a lot of scenes in
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Central Park during the winter.
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But yeah, this park is quite nice.
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See on the ground here,
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are those ants or what?
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Like what are these?
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Yeah, they look like really small ants.
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I'm not sure if you could see it on
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camera, but they're so small.
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They kind of look like fruit flies to me,
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but I'm pretty sure they're ants.
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guys describe these ants?
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To me, these ants are very tiny, almost
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microscopic, you could say.
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And that's obviously an exaggeration, but
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that just shows you how small they are.
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They're extremely small.
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They don't even look like ants, they look like
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tiny fruit flies to me.
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That's how small they are.
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And they're also quite fast.
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What other words would you use to
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describe those ants?
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I'd say their movements are erratic.
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They're not moving in a
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straight line or following a path.
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They're kind of jerking around.
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Yeah, they're all over the place.
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I'm sure they have orders from the queen,
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from the queen ant.
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But I don't know what those orders are,
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but they're just like all over the place.
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Do you guys see this right here?
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Come a little closer to show them.
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Do you know what this is?
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What is this called?
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That looks like a light to me.
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Yeah. So this is an LED
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light by the looks of it.
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It looks like an LED light.
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And this just turns on at
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night to light up these trees.
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So I'm sure this park at
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night is very beautiful.
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And also right across this park is the
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Petronas Twin Towers, which are beautiful
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at night. The tower lights up at night
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different colors such as
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red, purple, green, blue, black, white.
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And we can see it from
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our apartment, right?
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Yeah, we can see this
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tower from our apartment.
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That's how big it is.
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Tell me, guys, what
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is your favorite color?
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So some linking words you can use to
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sound more fluent when
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talking about your daily
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routine are then after
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that, later and finally.
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So if I had to talk about my daily
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routine, this is what I
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usually do every morning.
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I always have a shower in the morning.
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After that, I brush my teeth.
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Then I get dressed.
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Later, I go to work.
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And finally, at the end of the day, I
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just kick back, relax
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and watch some TV or just
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scroll through my phone.
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So that's usually what I do in my day.
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In the morning, I just
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get up. In the afternoon
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I work. And in the evening, I relax,
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maybe do a little bit more work.
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And then I go to bed and I
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have the same schedule every day.
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Every morning I wake up at 8 a.m. and
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every night I go to bed at midnight at 12
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a.m. This way I sleep for eight hours and
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then my body wakes up naturally without
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needing an alarm. Now it's your turn.
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What do you usually do in the morning?
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In the morning, I do
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the same thing as you.
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drink coffee in the mornings.
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Why not every morning?
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I only drink it when I feel tired or if I
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energy throughout the day.
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Yeah, I honestly never drink coffee
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because I don't need it.
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And I hate the taste of coffee.
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What do you do in the afternoon?
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In the afternoon, I always eat lunch.
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I usually never skip lunch
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or I'll have a later lunch.
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If anything, I'll skip breakfast and
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maybe dinner, depending
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on how late I eat lunch.
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Are there some situations where you can't
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avoid it and you end up skipping lunch?
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There have been a few situations.
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I'm very busy or I'm
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traveling or even I'm flying.
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anything during lunch time.
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Then I would skip it.
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But usually I have a
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meal a day, at least one.
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I mean, I think you need to
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have at least one meal a day.
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Yeah, I would say me and
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Leo have a similar routine.
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We both almost never eat breakfast.
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I never eat breakfast.
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And we always have lunch.
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Usually a late lunch like around 2 p.m.
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dinner around 6 to 8 p.m.
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dinner isn't too far apart.
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And that way we don't eat as much, which
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is good because we're
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trying to lose weight.
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And finally, what do
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you do in the evening?
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In the evening, I always take a little
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bit of time to relax,
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especially if I had a
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busy day. I always brush my teeth before
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I go to bed or just after my last meal.
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Do you ever call your
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mom in the evening? or?
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Yes, that's the best time to call my
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family because of the time change.
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So in the evenings I sometimes call my
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family, my mom, my dad
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at least once a week.
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OK, so yeah, you sometimes do. me too
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I sometimes do now you guys answer what
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do you do in the morning?
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in the afternoon? and in
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the evening? OK, you guys.
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Now we're walking kind
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of off the beaten path.
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So the trail or the path is over there.
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And you can see the path is very nice.
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But we are on top of
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this small little hill.
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And there are a lot
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of roots sticking out.
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these and sprain your ankle.
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There are a lot of roots, but it's not
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really a big deal since I have the Burks.
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And these things are four by four,
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waterproof, trail proof, rain proof,
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proof. Are they step proof?
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OK, so on the right hand side of this
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path, there is a grate, a grate.
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And this is just for water.
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This is actually very deep.
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I did not think it was that deep.
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So you do not want to fall in there.
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But yeah, this grate is just to keep you
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from falling in here.
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And it's on the right
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hand side of this path.
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But if I'm walking that
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way, it's on my left hand side.
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Both ways you can say right
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hand side, left hand side.
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And we just say left hand side and right
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hand side just to be more exact
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when we're saying what side it's on.
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Because right has more
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than one meaning in English.
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Right can be like, yes, you're right.
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But it could also be your
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right side or your right hand.
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Or it could be like writing on a paper.
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Or it could be writing,
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write, write on your paper.
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So it is spelled differently, but it's
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pronounced the same.
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Right. Now I'm going to
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ask you guys three questions.
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And I want you to answer and then check
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the comments for the correct answer.
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Which one of these means
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zero percent of the time?
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Answer and then check the
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comments for the correct answer.
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Choose the best sentence
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out of all these sentences.
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Has your daily routine changed at all
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since you've started traveling?
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I wake up earlier while I'm traveling,
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which is surprising, I guess.
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What time do you wake up?
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Really around 5 a.m. I'm up.
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Around five. Who are you lying to?
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No, it's usually 7.30 to 8.
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I wake up. And then we started going to
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the gym now at around eight o'clock.
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So definitely going to the gym more often
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because it's so close compared to back
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home in Canada, we had to drive to it.
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It's in our building so we can just
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literally go up the
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elevator and then we're
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at the gym, whereas in Canada we have to
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drive 20 minutes to get to the town where
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the gym is. So it is
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really nice and really
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convenient to be able to just walk to the
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gym or just take the elevator.
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It's honestly so convenient.
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I'll definitely miss that convenience.
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It's worth it, in my opinion.
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Anything else that's changed in your
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daily routine or your daily habits?
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Now you don't really
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cook as much, do you?
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No, cooking is not really a thing anymore
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because while we still can,
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there's the option to cook.
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But eating out is a lot more affordable
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than it is in Canada.
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So it's easier for us to just order some
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lunch in and order some dinner in.
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Yeah. And usually we're out
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and about filming something.
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So we always grab a bite to eat while
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we're filming and then
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usually film the food
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to show you guys and also eat.
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So it just makes more sense to go out and
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buy food than to cook.
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But if we did want to cook, we could.
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But then it's like we need to buy
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all the ingredients that we might not use
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after that, like oil. You buy oil, salt,
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pepper, all your spices.
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It's like once you think of it, like you
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need to buy a whole
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bunch of stuff and then
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you're only going to stay
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there for like a month max.
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And some of the places we've
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stayed don't even have kitchens.
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So can't really cook there.
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Oh, exactly. So it's not really worth it
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at the end of the day to
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buy all that extra stuff.
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Yeah. Although like small things like
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pre-made meals or something.
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They're also not cooking, though.
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Yeah. But they're also pretty affordable
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Yeah. So cooking is
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basically not a thing we do anymore.
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Although in Canada we did still cook.
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We did cook almost every day.
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We didn't eat out that much.
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So I guess it balances out now.
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Well, I guess you cooked. Yeah.
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Yeah. Well, when I say
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me, I mean like my family.
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Shout out to my mom.
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She's the best cook I
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know and cooks every meal.
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Yeah. Except for breakfast.
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We don't really eat breakfast, but lunch
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One thing that has changed in my daily
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routine is seeing my dogs.
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Usually I always saw my dogs
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But now obviously I don't see them
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because they're in Canada and I'm not.
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So I don't see my dogs at all anymore.
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But besides that, my
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routine is pretty similar.
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I usually get up in the morning at 8
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a.m., go to the gym and
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then I work for the whole day.
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And then in the evening I
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relax and then I do it again.
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And yeah, usually working includes like
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either editing videos,
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coming up with new video ideas or
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filming videos, which probably takes the
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most time, honestly,
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filming the videos,
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but also editing. Yeah.
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Now we have a good editor so...
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Shout out Frean for real.
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Now we got a good editor.
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So that's definitely a huge
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workload off my shoulders.
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So it gives me more time to film more
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videos and work on other things.
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I'm not sure if you guys can hear that,
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but I believe it is prayer time.
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Yeah. And I think that's
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the mosque right there.
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That dome. So it is
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pretty close, right? Yeah.
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This is a nice park. It's not too big.
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Honestly, it's pretty small.
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It's nice. There are a lot
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of apartments around the park.
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And it's well maintained.
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But there are like a lot of green spaces
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in this city because just over there,
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there's another park with a tower and
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then where we're staying in front of us,
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there's a huge park as well. Yeah.
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Like it's where the Royal Palace is and
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also like the really rich neighborhood
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with like compared to like
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Beverly Hills or something.
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Where all the mansions are in
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that park right in front of us.
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If we do the double decker bus tour,
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you'll see we go through there.
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It basically looks like we're leaving the
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city because it's all open area.
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But yeah, all the big houses in there and
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there's the butterfly sanctuaries,
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animal sanctuaries and
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stuff all over there.
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So a lot of green space over there.
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I did not know that.
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That's actually kind of cool.
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Yeah, it's really I think it's the
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richest neighborhood in Kuala Lumpur.
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But I can't remember the
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name of the neighborhood.
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Make sure you guys practice what you
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learned today, record yourself talking
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and leave your answers in the comments.
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And I'll answer every comment. Bye, guys.
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about your daily routine and habits.
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And if you're from this
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country, let me know as well.
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But anyways, this is a bright
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yellow line so you don't trip.
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But I think this is
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just for blind people.
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You think so? To start
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their morning routine.
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So that is where we will also you can
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say, I almost never do this thing.
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Here are four useful words you can use.
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using each of those words.
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So far, this park looks
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really well maintained.
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I don't see any garbage.
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Are those ants or what?
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Like, what are these?
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I go to bed at midnight at 12
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a.m. and we always have lunch.
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Usually there is a grate, a grate.
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And this is just for water.
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More affordable than it is in Canada.
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And also like the really rich
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neighborhood with like compared to like
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you will become fluent in English.
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