Hello and welcome to our session today. We're going to explore the language we use to talk about our personal world: our homes, the people in our lives, and the rhythm of our days. It’s all about describing personal information and daily life in natural, fluent British English. https://docs.google.com/document/d/18yCkLHGkiV04iOudifWbx8ZQFwiOdlHchIhqy2JFp7A/edit?usp=sharing Today, we will focus on a selection of useful words and phrases. Let's quickly go over them. We have: residence, as in, my main place of residence; sibling, in the phrase, a close relationship with a sibling; acquaintance, used like, a casual acquaintance; household, for example, a busy household; routine, as in, a daily routine; schedule, in the chunk, a packed schedule; get-together, used as, a casual get-together; priority, for instance, to set a priority; and a new word, downtime, as in, to have some downtime. Then we have some verbs: commute, in the phrase, the daily commute to work; tackle, like, to tackle a task; unwind, as in, to unwind after a long day; cherish, meaning, to cherish the quiet moments; and two new phrases, touch base, for example, to touch base with someone, and to be swamped with, as in, to be swamped with work. And finally, some describing words: punctual, used as, to be very punctual; sociable, as in, a sociable person; hectic, in the chunk, a hectic lifestyle; content, meaning to feel content with life; and the adverb occasionally, for instance, to meet up occasionally.
