DAILY ROUTINE

 My alarm clock goes off at half past six, and with my eyes still closed, I wake up to
greet the new day. I hate getting up in the mornings, but there is nothing I can do about it.
After a short while of stretching in the warm comfort of my bed I just have to get up.
Yawning, I go to the bathroom to wash my face with cold water, or to take a shower. I brush
my teeth and comb my long hair. I spend about 10 minutes in front of the mirror putting on
my make up. I can't spend much time in the bathroom because before I am done my sister is
usually at the door waiting for me to come out.

I get dressed in my room, where I often stand for a while in front of the wardrobe,
wondering what to wear. I like to wear jeans or a skirt along with a jumper. I find these
simple outfits to be the most practical for school.

I open the window to get some fresh air in the room, lastly I make my bed. We all
make our own beds in our family. When I am done with that, my mother and my older sister
usually have breakfast ready and set the table. It is my duty to clean it all afterwards. I eat
breakfast every morning, and my favourite is fresh bread rolls with butter, which I have with
a cup of tea and a glass of milk. My mother always says that a good breakfast is a good start
to the day. We all eat together, as we talk about our plans for the day. While doing this, we
listen to the morning news and the music on the radio.

At half past seven we grab our schoolbags and run to the bus stop. The bus stop is
right in front of our house, which probably is the reason why we always catch it at the last
minute. Sometimes it is full and we have to wait for the next bus.

At 8 a.m., I arrive at the cloakroom, where most of my classmates are already busy
hanging up their coats and jackets and donning their slippers. We are in a hurry to get to the
first class on time.

The classes take place in different classrooms, depending on the subject taught, which
means that we have to change classrooms during every break. This is always a problem for
new students at the beginning of the school year, until they get used to the schedule and the
location of the classrooms.

The first lesson starts at ten past eight. The bell rings and you can see the last few
students running to their classrooms. We usually have between 6-7 classes a day.

After the second lesson, we have our favourite 20-minute break. During that time, we
talk to our friends in the hallways or we go out to get some fresh air. Most of us have a
snack, and prepare for the next lesson.

Lunch is at half past twelve, and everyone hurries to the school canteen. We queue up
in order to get our meal, and when we are done with both the soup and the main course, we
go home. Once a week, we have an afternoon lesson so we stay at school until 3 p.m.
 While walking home, I usually meet some of my classmates and we go together to
buy some sweets and soda, before they walk me to the bus stop. When I get home, my
parents are not back yet, and my sister is at the sports club, where she practices light
athletics. She is a good runner, but that also means that she has to train every day and comes
home very tired. I admire the fact that she works so hard at school and still train so
vigorously.

When I arrive home, I go to my room to sit and listen to music on my headphones, or

I read a book or some magazine.

Every Monday and Thursday I have to do the shopping. I take the shopping bag, and
the shopping list, which my mother has prepared, and I walk to the local supermarket. On
Tuesdays and Wednesdays my sister does the shopping, and on Fridays my father does it on
his way home from work, because on Fridays he gets off early at 1:30 p.m.

I have a private English lesson every Friday afternoon because I want to improve my
English. The rest of the day goes something like this:

At 6:30 we all meet in our living room, where we sit down to have dinner and talk
about what we experienced throughout the day. Everybody helps prepare dinner, which
usually is some kind of cooked meat.

After dinner I prepare for school, I do my homework, watch TV or go for a short

walk. At no later than 10:00 p.m., I go to the bathroom to take a shower and brush my teeth
before going to bed. Before I go to sleep, I either read or review some of the material for
school.

Naturally, the weekends are different. Everyone in my family enjoys the days off,
without any stress and hurry. I get up later and on these two days, I do whatever I want and
whenever I want.

MY FREE TIME

 A lot of my time is spent at the secondary school where I study. As a result I don't
have much time to spare during the week, especially when you consider the time spent on
homework and to prepare for my classes. I can only really enjoy my spare time during the
weekends.

Every day when I come home from school, I relax for a while before doing my
homework and preparing for the following day's classes. Twice a week, I attend a private art
school where I learn to draw and paint, and once a week I take piano and guitar lessons. I
enjoy playing sports, and I usually manage to fit in an afternoon a week (usually on
Wednesdays) of ballgames. I meet my friends at the school's courts and we either play
volleyball or basketball.

On Saturday afternoons I have a private German lesson, as I find that I have to

improve my grades in that language. I have been studying German for five years and I'm still
not very good at it. I don't quite understand this because German is my favourite subject at
school and I am very interested in foreign languages.

I also enjoy reading. Even when I am tired in the evening, I just have to read for a
while before I fall asleep. I find it easy to relax with a book that is good and interesting. My
preferred topics are science fiction, adventure-romance and thrillers. My favourite book is
"Dialogue with death", and my favourite author is Bill Mollison. Sometimes I also read
teenage magazines in foreign languages. I like to practise my language skills that way.

I collect posters of bands, singers and actors and trade (exchange) them with my
friends. In the evening I usually listen to music, presently my favourite bands are Savage
Garden, Aqua, Spice Girls and Erasure. When I want to escape from this world I listen to
classical music. My favourite compositions are by Beethoven, Mozart and Ravel. I have quite
an interesting collection of CDs and LPs of these composers and other musicians.

In our family, we often spend our leisure time together. I have a brother who is very
keen on computers. He is interested in computer programming or playing games on them.
When he was younger he used to play with different types of construction sets: Lego, model
aeroplanes, boats and small cars. My brother and I used to dream about having a pet, and the
dream became reality when my dad bought his first aquarium. Since then we have been
taking care of the fish.

My father is the kind of person who never gets bored. He is always fiddling around
with aquariums, does repair jobs around the house, he spends a lot of time in his workshop,
where he's got a lathe and all his tools. It's never been a problem for him to repair a broken
hairdryer or to make wooden shelves. He also likes a good game of chess.

My mother likes to work in the garden; her flower garden is the most beautiful one in
our street. It always makes her happy to be harvesting the fruit and vegetables, which she
often uses for her second passion: cooking. She likes to try out new recipes, and she enjoys
baking too. During the evenings she knits or does embroidery while she watches TV.

Once a month we go together to the theatre or the cinema. During the summer we go
to the forest where we swim in a lake which has a great cliff for jumping into the water. We
also sunbathe there and go hiking or cycling on the mountain bike trails.

My grandparents live in the countryside, where they have rabbits, geese, chickens,
ducks, a cat and a dog. When I visit them I feed the animals and I go for a walk with the dog
in the nearby forest.

In the wintertime we go to the mountains, where we have fun skiing and

snowboarding. The most popular winter activities for us are probably ice skating on the
frozen pond, or sledding, if there is enough snow.

Source:
“My Daily Routine and Free Time”. 2021. http://tgacv.cz/aj/s_aj/ajhtm/at/at02.htm

My Daily Routine
My name's Julia, and I am 27 years old. I live in London but I’m German. I live with my
boyfriend and we are very happy. I work in a bank and I love my job.

From Monday to Friday, my day starts very early. I always get up at 6:30 and I have a 20-
minute shower. Then, I get dressed and comb my hair. At 07:00 a.m I have breakfast,  I
usually have coffee and cereal. After that, I put on my make up and go to work.

At 10:00 a.m., I sometimes have a snack and at 12:00 I usually have lunch at the office with
my colleagues. They are wonderful people who have a good sense of humor, and they are
good friends too. At 3:30 I have a snack again, I usually have some tea and biscuits. 

On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I go to the gym after work.  When I get home, I have
a shower again, I prepare dinner and I watch TV for a while. I like to go to bed as soon as
possible, around 9:30.

Thursday is different because I don't go to the gym. I go out with my boyfriend every
Thursday. We sometimes go to the cinema or we go out for dinner and to have a drink.

My boyfriend's name is Daniel, he is 31 years old, and he's an architect. He likes cooking
but he doesn't like cleaning the house so we share the housework.

His family is from Spain. He has two brothers and no sisters. We have been a couple for six
years. And we have been living together for two years. 

On Friday night I always go out with my friends, we sometimes go to a bar and sometimes
we meet at a friend’s house but I can't be home late because I have to get up early on
Saturday to clean the house.
 
At the weekend, I always visit my parents and I often visit my grandparents, too.

Source:
“My Daily Routine”. https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=9991