Daily routine

Examples:

Daily Activities at Home

What are some of the daily activities that you do at home?
I wake up at 7am every morning, I press the snooze button five times every morning
before I turn off the alarm and get up.
I have a cup of coffee and make breakfast. I usually read the newspaper while
I have breakfast. My children like to have a shower after they have breakfast but I like
to have a shower before I get dressed.
My wife brushes her long hair, and I have short hair so I comb my hair. How do
you do your hair in the morning?
It is important to brush your teeth, and some women like to put make-up on. 
After I have finished work, I go home to cook dinner. In my house I usually make
dinner. The family eat dinner together at 7:30pm.
After dinner I make sure that my children do their homework, and then I chill out on
the sofa and watch television. 
On television I usually watch the News. My wife usually comes to tell me to take the
rubbish out, or wash the dishes. 
Our children feed the dog and the cat before they go to bed and I tell them to go to
the bathroom too. 
If I am sick I have to take my medication, but then I get into my pyjamas and set
the alarm so I wake up in the morning. 
The last things I do is lock the door, turn off the lights, and go to bed.
It doesn't take me long to fall asleep.

Daily Activities at Work

What are some daily activities that you do at work?
I go to work at 8 am every morning.
I usually drive to work.
I always check my emails when I get to work, but I don't always reply to them
immediately.
I take a taxi or a train if I have a lunch meeting. I never take the bus because it is too
slow. 
When I am at my desk I usually work on the computer, even during morning tea.
At 1pm most days I have lunch.
At 3pm we have afternoon tea, and that is when we usually talk and eat cake. 
When you are in the office you probably have a lot of papers. It is important for you to file
your papers, and so that you can find them again you need to organise your files. 
When I work I have to make telephone calls. If an important issue happens I ask my
secretary to organise a meeting.
Once a month I report to my boss, but maybe you have to report to your boss more
often. I usually write a document that my boss can read.
My daily routine
(Sent by Angela Enrich, a student from Chillán, Chile)

It System Technician

I usually get up at around 6:30am, so I have enough time to relax, have some coffee
and get myself ready for work. As an IT Technician at SE Recycling, I am busy
from the second I clock in, to the moment that I leave for the day, and I love it
(although my dream job would be to be a footballer but never mind!). My day starts
at 8:30am, I come in and switch the power on in the warehouse and turn the
computer on to check our eBay sales. We sell all sorts of different computers on
eBay, from basic desktop PC’s to gaming systems, and I have to allocate a number
of PC’s for myself and my team of technicians to build throughout the day. I also
have to catch up on any messages that have come through overnight from our
customers, I get a lot of calls from people who aren’t very ‘tech-savvy’ asking for
my help, this is one of my favourite parts of the job as I get to help people.
After I have checked my messages and got back to customers, I then get to work
with building the PC’s that are going to be sold. This is the part that I enjoy the
most, as I have always been interested in IT, and this job gives me the opportunity to
build different systems and learn as I’m going along.

The first part of this process is to get the number of machines that I have allocated
myself over to my station, and then beginning to open them up to check the parts. As
much as we strive to reuse as many parts as we possibly can (ideally everything!),
there are some occasions where some of the parts in the system are just completely
unusable and unsafe. In this case, we send them to the team next door to be
scrapped. I then begin to allocate what parts are needed to build it. Some systems
only need something very simple, and some need to be completely stripped and built
from scratch. Once the systems are built, they then need to be tested and cleaned
before we send them out for delivery. I then check for any orders from different
businesses/trades, sometimes a company might need 100 monitors, or a school
might need 200 mouse’s, so we have to ensure these items are also tested and
cleaned before they are sent out. As well as this, I am constantly liaising with
customers on a day to day basis to help them with orders and repairs. The job that
we do means that we are preventing a lot of e-waste going into landfill, which makes
me very happy to know me and my teams work is worthwhile and making a
difference, especially as IT has been a passion of mine for a very long time.

Most days at SE Recycling are mega busy, especially Mondays, but on the odd
occasion that we’re having a bit of a quiet day, I’ll spend the day cleaning the IT
equipment, and prepping the warehouse for the next working day, as well as helping
the office staff with any technical issues they may be having. This is the least
favourite part of my job, I enjoy it much more when we are constantly busy building
different systems for our customers. Most days we are non-stop, but with a team like
the team we have here at SER, the tasks are always finished efficiently and to a good
standard.

Activity #2

Write your daily routine in third person, taking into account the grammar structures.

Jader gets up at 7.30am most days. Then he cleans himself and goes to breakfast,
when he has classes he attends and then when he finishes he goes to lunch. Then his
mother sends him to do the house cleaning and he does it, then depending on the
things he has to do, he goes out or he stays at home. When he stays at home, he does
homework he tries new things and sleeps, at night he already dines and goes to
sleep.
Activity # 3

Write the daily routine of a person who works as system technician, using third
person, taking into account the grammar structures.

The engineer is called Carlos.

Carlos gets up at 5am to get ready to go to work. He enters work at 7 and there he
fulfills his working hours, he leaves at 12pm to have lunch and returns at 2. At 5 he
already finishes his working hours and then returns home to rest.