Daily Routine In English


What is Daily Routine in English? 

Daily routine means the actions, activities or works that you perform on a daily basis. 

For instance, rising from bed in the morning, going to office, having breakfast, lunch and dinner, playing sports, studying and sleeping are the types of activities that you do everyday. 

In simple terms, daily routine is a fixed way of doing things daily.


Why Learn to Speak about Daily Routine in English? 

Daily routine, as the name suggests, is all the works that are carried out on a daily basis. 

When it comes to describing our daily routine in our own tongues, we are able to speak about it effectively and efficiently, but as to expressing these ideas or activities in English, we are not capable of doing so. 

Therefore, while learning English, speaking about our daily routine should be the first topic for practicing speaking. 

On doing so only, we become able to speak in English. Think of speaking in English over a particular topic. You can simply learn all the necessary words used in that topic and speak on that topic. 

But still you will be unable to speak about your daily routine in English if you don't practice speaking about it. 

So learning to speak about your daily routine in English helps you build the ability to express daily performed activities in English. Consequently, you start speaking in English. 

In other words, the benefit of learning to speak about your daily routine is that you become capable of speaking in English.


Do's and Don'ts in Daily Routine in English

Now that you know that the daily routine in English is the first step that you should take for the purpose of starting speaking in English in the initial days.

And that you are ready to learn the daily routine in English, it is necessary for you to know what you should do and what you shouldn't in daily routine in English. 


Look at the Do's and Don'ts 

Do's

1. Use present simple tense in your daily routine. It is because what you perform everyday is a habitual action, and habitual action is expressed using present simple in English. 

So remember to use present simple while speaking about your daily routine in English. 

2. Use Adverbs such as usually, never, seldom, sometimes, daily, etc., while speaking about your daily routine in English. 

It's because using these types of adverbs (Know more about adverbs ) in your daily routine in English helps you beautify your conversation in English. 

So it becomes necessary for you to use adverbs in your daily routine.

3. Use connectors such as and, or, but, so, etc. Use time expressions such as after that, after breakfast, lunch or dinner, in the morning, afternoon or evening, etc., while talking about your daily routine in English. 

It is because these connectors and time expressions will help you maintain coherence and connection among the sentences (Know more about sentences ) that you use in the daily routine.


Don'ts 

1. Don't use past tense while talking about your daily routine in English. It is because past tense is not used for expressing daily routine in English. The use of past tense is for the actions that took place in past. 

2. Don't use expressions like yesterday, last night, last week, etc., because you're talking about your daily routine that is present, and not past.

Now we present a sample of daily routine in English to you so that you can see the above-mentioned facts in it and know how to describe it in English exactly. 

It is a general daily routine in English that can be used by anyone to learn the ways and methods of describing daily routine in English. 

Sample on Daily Routine in English

I usually wake up at 7 o'clock in the morning. Then, I finish my morning activities like making my bed, brushing my teeth, taking a shower, doing my hair and preparing my breakfast. 

And then, I get dressed, have my breakfast and set off for school, college or university. 

After getting to school, I first perform school prayer. Then, I arrive at the classroom before the teachers come in. 

And then, I continuously attend different lectures on different subjects given by different teachers till 2 o'clock. 

After that, I come back home, put away my school bag, change out of school uniform, freshen up, have lunch and take a nap for a while. 

After 4 o'clock, I go to the playground near my house and play cricket with my friends till the evening. 

After returning from the playground and refreshing myself, I move to my reading-room where I spend 2 hours reading books and doing my homework till I have dinner. Finally, I go to bed at 9 o'clock.


Difficult Words Used in the Daily Routine

1. To wake up→ To rise from sleep in the morning 

2. To make bed→ To arrange bed 

3. To do hair→ To arrange hair 

4. To set off for→ To start a journey 

5. To put away bag→ To return bag to its correct or proper place 

6. To change out of school uniform→ To remove school uniform 

7. To freshen up→ To refresh or wash hands and mouth 

8. To go to bed→ To go to sleep at night