Travelling to work and daily routine
I´m lucky because I always go to work by car, and it only takes me about 15 minutes. I work in a hospital outside the city, so I have no problem with rush hour. The journey is short and relaxed.
In my country, the cities are very small, so we hardly ever have problems with commuting. People normally goes to work on foot or by car, although sometimes people take the bus in the cities.
I get up early in the morning, at about 7:00. First I dress and then I have breakfast at home, some coffee with biscuits. After that, I brush my teeth and I take the car to go to work. I start to work at 8:00 and finish at 15:00. When I leave the hospital I have a lot of free time in the afternoon, so I can always do a lot of things, like studying English, doing some exercise and other activities, and spending time with my partner.
I usually go to bed at about 23:00 and I fall asleep at about 00:00
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Great corrections so far, so I won't bother repeating corrections that others have already made.
I will just point out:
"When I leave the hospital I have a lot of free time in the afternoon afternoons, so I can always do a lot of things"
I have thought about this carefully, as I want to be sure that I am giving you the correct information.
I believe that if you say "in the afternoon" it refers to one specific afternoon only, but if you said "in the afternoons" it would refer to all afternoons in general.
You are talking about your daily routine, so it would be more appropriate to say "in the afternoons" (i.e. all afternoons) rather than saying "in the afternoon" (i.e. one specific afternoon only).
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Personally, I would not write the times as you have done. In this context, personally I would write the times in words, rather than digits. You are writing a personal diary entry, not filling in a police report or a timesheet. Context affects how we write things down.
I would say "I usually go to bed at about eleven, and I fall asleep at about midnight" rather than writing the times in digits. "00:00" is called "midnight" in English, and "12:00" is called "noon".
Hope this helps.
(Bonus trivia: you may note that the word "afternoon" literally consists of the words "after" and "noon" combined into one compound word. The word "breakfast" likewise consists of two words combined into one: the verb "to break" and the noun "fast". This is because while you are asleep, your body is fasting, so when you eat something when you wake up, you are "breaking your fast").
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Travelling to work and daily routine
I´m lucky because I always go to work by car, and it only takes me about 15 minutes. I work in a hospital outside the city, so I have no problem with rush hour. The journey is short and relaxed.In my country, the cities are very small, so we hardly ever have problems with commuting. People normally go to work on foot or by car, although sometimes people take the bus in the cities.
I get up early in the morning, at about 7:00. First I dress and then I have breakfast at home, some coffee with biscuits. After that, I brush my teeth and I take the car to go to work. I start (to) work at 8:00 and finish at 3:00. When I leave the hospital I have a lot of free time in the afternoon, so I can always do a lot of things, like studying English, doing some exercise and other activities, and spending time with my partner.
I usually go to bed at about 11:00 and I fall asleep at about 12:00 (midnight)
Hello Xurxo,
Very accurate description of your daily routine. We normally use the 24 hour clock when we are talking about timetables although you may use it in the hospital too. In regular spoken English we normally use the 12 hour clock and context will normally tell us if it is AM or PM, if you do a different shift then you would specify - "I start work at 8.00 in the evening and finish at 3.00 in the morning."
Hope this helps
Bob
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Travelling to work and daily routine
I´m lucky because I always go to work by car, and it only takes me about 15 minutes. I work in a hospital outside the city, so I have no problem with rush hour. The journey is short and relaxed.In my country, the cities are very small, so we hardly ever have problems with commuting. People normally goes to work on foot or by car, although sometimes people take the bus in the cities.
I get up early in the morning, at about 7:00. First I dress and then I have breakfast at home, some coffee with biscuits. After that, I brush my teeth and I take the car to go to work. I start to work at 8:00 and finish at 15:00. When I leave the hospital I have a lot of free time in the afternoon, so I can always do a lot of things, like studying English, doing some exercise and other activities, and spending time with my partner.
I usually go to bed at about 23:00 and I fall asleep at about 00:00
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Travelling to work and daily routine
I´m lucky because I always go to work by car, and it only takes me about 15 minutes. I work in a hospital outside the city, so I have no problem with rush hour. The journey is short and relaxed.In my country, the cities are very small, so we hardly ever have problems with commuting. People normally goes to work on foot or by car, although sometimes people take the bus in the cities.
I get up early in the morning, at about 7:00. First I get dressed and then I have breakfast at home, some coffee with biscuits. After that, I brush my teeth and I get take the car to go to work. I start to work at 8:00 and finish at 15:00. When I leave the hospital I have a lot of free time in the afternoon, so I can always do a lot of things, like studying English, doing some exercise and other activities, and spending time with my partner.
I usually go to bed at about 23:00 and I fall asleep at about 00:00
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