How to talk about habits and routines.
How to talk about habits and routines.
Habit:
A habit is something that a person often does on a regular and repeated frequency. It is a type of conduct that tends to occur unintentionally. To talk about habits in English we must use the simple present tense, we refer to habits when we want to talk about the things we habitually do every day.
Examples:
- I eat lunch at 12 every day
- I go to sleep late every night.
- I take the bus every morning to go to college.
✓One way to talk about habits that we don't do anymore, that is past actions, is to use the used to.
Subject + used to + verb
Examples:
- I used to work on weekends, but now I only work Monday to Friday.
- She used to run every morning but has stopped.
✓When talking about habits, it is normal to hear adverbs of frequency such as: usually, sometimes, always.
Examples:
- We usually have a late dinner every Sunday.
- My mom always reads a book before bedtime.
Routine:
Routine is a regular way of doing things in a particular order or a sequence of actions regularly followed. A routine is made up of different habits. It can be described as the steps or habitual actions that you follow to get a work done. to talk about our routine it is recommended to take into account some points like:
- the day
- the pronoun
- the verb
- a complement
- the time
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