Are you a morning person? If so, this episode is for you! Join Andrew and Maura for a conversation about what they do each and every morning. You’ll learn more about them than you ever thought you would!

Expressions from this episode included in the Learning Materials:

* To get used to something

* A morning person

* The sweet spot

* To bond over something

* A camp

* To carpool / a carpool

* A cuppa joe

* To get something going

Sample transcript

Maura:

I don’t enjoy getting up very early, but I also don’t like to sleep very late because then I waste a lot of the day. So I like to get up between eight and nine o’clock in the morning, when I have a choice. When I have to go to work every day, I don’t get to decide.

Andrew:

You have to find that sweet spot right between waking up too early and too

late.

Maura:

Yeah, that’s right. So, for me, the first thing that I do when I get up is have something to eat. I like to have a little breakfast and I usually drink tea.

Andrew:

Tea? Right on. You’re just like Harp.

Maura:

Sometimes I have a coffee, but most of the time, I drink tea. And, yeah, I know that Harp loves tea too; we’ve bonded over it.

Andrew:

So you have some breakfast and you have a cup of tea, and then what? Are you right out the door to go to work, or do you do anything else?

Maura:

Well, at this point, Andrew, I’m still in my pyjamas, so I go to the bathroom and I wash my face and I wet my hair because it’s true that many people in Canada shower in the morning, but I prefer to shower at night. So in the morning, I just wash my face and fix my hair because after I sleep on it, it can look a little bit crazy.

Andrew:

I was going to mention that there are two different types of people: people who shower at night and people who shower in the morning. And so you have your showers at night and I’m in the other camp; I’m a person who takes a shower in the morning, because if I don’t, I feel very sleepy. It wakes me up.

Maura:

It’s funny because I used to take showers in the morning, but ever since I started taking showers at night, it makes me feel sleepy, so when I take a shower, it relaxes me and now it makes me feel like I want to go to sleep.

Andrew:

So we’re totally opposites. The shower helps you go to sleep and the shower helps me wake up.

Maura:

Yeah. So, after I get ready in the bathroom, I get dressed, and then I make sure that I have everything I need, like my keys, my sunglasses, my cell phone, and my wallet. And then I’m out the door.

Andrew:

And now, when you go to work, are you driving to work? Are you taking the metro? Do you carpool? How do you commute?

Maura:

I drive to work in my car. I could take the metro, but it’s much longer in my case, so I prefer to drive. So, Andrew, you’ve only told us that you take a shower in the morning. You have to tell us the rest of the details in your morning routine.

Andrew:

Well, as I mentioned a few episodes ago, I’m a big coffee drinker, so I definitely have to make sure I have my cuppa joe in the morning to help wake me up.

Audio/Learning Materials: Culips English Learning Podcast