Warm-up
1. What time did you go to bed last night? What time do you
usually go to bed?
Example answer: I went to bed at midnight last night. I usually
go to bed at 10.
2. What time did you wake up today? What time do you usually
wake up?
Example answer: I woke up at 6 today. I usually wake up at this
time.
Eating Routines
1. Do you eat breakfast in the morning? If so, what do you
usually have?
=>(You can use have as a general verb to talk about eating and
drinking in English.)
Example answer: Yes, I always eat breakfast. I usually have a
sandwich and a coffee.
2. How many times do you eat per day, including snacks?
(Snacks are small amounts of food that you eat between meals.
An apple or a candy bar can be a snack.)
Example answer: Including snacks, I think I eat five or six times
per day.
3. What time do you usually have dinner?
Example answer: It depends on traffic, but I usually have dinner
between 5 and 6 p.m.
4. How often do you go out to eat? (You can also ask, "How often
do you eat out?" if you want to ask how often someone eats at
restaurants.)
Hygiene Routines
5. Do you prefer to shower or bathe in the morning or the
evening?
6. When do you brush your teeth? (It's possible to say clean your
teeth, but brush is much more common and accepted.)
Only about 30% (thirty percent) of people floss their teeth every
day.
7. Do you ever floss your teeth? If so, how often do you floss?
(Floss means to use a string to clean the spaces between your
teeth.)
Work and School Routines
8. What time do you usually start [work/school]?
9. How do you get to [work/school]? (This means, "How do you
travel to work?"
10. Do you take the bus?
11. Do you walk?
=> You can say, "I get to work by [bus/car/subway]." If you walk,
you can say, "I get to work on foot" or "I walk to [work/school].")
12. What time do you usually call it a day?
=>(Call it a day means that you decide to stop working at the end
of the day. You can say, "I usually call it a day at 4 o'clock.")
13. What time do you usually get home after [work/school]? (Get
home means arrive at home.)
14. Do ever work on weekends?
Housework Routines
15. Do you make your bed every morning? (Make your bed
means to tidy your bed after you get up.)
16. How often do you clean your room?
17. In your home, who is responsible for doing the dishes, doing
the laundry, and vacuuming?
Evening Routines
18. What do you usually do after dinner on weekdays?
(Weekdays are work and school days. In most places in the world,
the weekdays are Monday to Friday.
19. What do you like to do on Friday night?
20. Do you ever go out on [worknights/school nights]? If so, how
often? What do you do? (These are nights you need to sleep
before going to work or school the next day.)
Tech Routines
21. How much time do you spend on your phone every day?
What do you use it for?
22. How often do you actually call your friends or family
members?
23. How often does your phone battery die? (This means you
allow your phone battery to go to 0%.)
Weekend Routines
24. What time do you wake up and what time do you go to bed
on the weekend?
25. What do you usually do on the weekend?