UNIT 2 Daily Life

Talking about Habit & Routine

Class: General Conversation Class
Level: Beginner
Time: 90 minutes

A. Introduction
In this chapter you will:
 Discuss about habit and routines
 Learn about used to do
 Learn pronunciation consonant /p/ and /b/

B. Warming-up
In this session, student will do warming-up before starting the lesson.

Look at the picture!

Choose which activity that you like to do every day?

Spending Smoking Make up bed Reading

money

C. Daily Life
What is your morning & night routine?

Wake up Bed time

Habits are a type of routine, but not all routines become habits.

Talking about Habit & Routine

Habit is something that you do often and
regularly, sometimes without knowing that you
are doing it. It is a learned behaviour that
becomes reflexive over time, for example you
may automatically drink a glass of water after
waking up as part of your morning routine.

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 Meanwhile, routine require deliberate practice. Making your bed in the morning,
going to the gym, going for a hike every Sunday, meditating are all routines that require
to keep on consciously practicing them or they eventually die out.
Both habits and routines are regular and repeated actions, but habits happen with
little or no conscious thought, whereas routines require a higher degree of
intention and effort.
So, tell the class, what is your habit and routine?

D. Used to
Be used to something / Get used to something/
Used to Do
Be used to doing something Get used to doing
To talk about something we To talk about something something becomes normal
did regularly in the past, but which is normal for us not for us.
do not do it now strange or new

I used to live in a large city,
but now I live by the seaside.
I didn't use to go swimming
everyday
I am used to getting up early.
Anu wasn't used to the hot
weather in Greece. She is
from Finland.
John is from England. He is
used to driving on the left.
After living in Greece for a
year, Anu got used to the
hot weather.
Sandra's new boss was very
demanding at first, but she
got used to him.

E. Movie review
Let’s watch the movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EnvxbCkiNI

I Tried Rich People's Habits, See How My Life Changed

F. The Pronunciation of consonant /b/ & /p/

Tip: To produce this sound, first you need to close your lips, then open them to release air.
This sound is produced without a puff of air, and it is produced with a voice from the throat.

Now let’s practise it with these vocabularies!

/b/ /p/
big Pig
by/buy/bye pie
bet pet
bill pill
bin pin
cub cup

G. Exercise
A. Complete the sentences below with be used to or get used to in a suitable tense.
1. My mother _________ us any chores at home.
2. He at 5.00 am because he does it every day.
3. Hailey find it hard to to the cold of winter season.

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 4. I need to adapt to the new house.
5. Taylor in a loud voice.
6. Before I move to another country, I need to ride a bus.
7. Rasya a dance competition before he got into an accident.
8. I’ll never to the jet lag after flying.
9. I work from home so I people around me all day.
10. We have a cook, but we cook by ourself now.

Let’s speak up!

Write down your new habits choice and how will you practice them, write in note taking or
no more than 100 words and share it with your class!

H. References
1. New habit https://jamesclear.com/three-steps-habit-change
2. Grammar https://www.linguahouse.com/esl-lesson-plans/general-english/used-to-do-vs-
be-get-used-to-doing
3. Pronunciation https://engoo.id/app/lessons/consonants-p-b/u9J9jis4EeeznM9rOjqWjg
4. Movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXXWUMTtGsY
5. https://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/minimal-pairs-b-p.htm

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