UNIT 1 RECORDING 6

1 I spend way too much time travelling. 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.

2 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 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.

3 I spend, er, 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, er, 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.

4 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.

5 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.