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A Day in the Life of Jeff

Episode 1 – Getting Up

GLOSSARY

to get up – to get out of bed; to leave one’s bed

* This morning I got up very quickly because the baby was crying.

to wake up – to awaken; to stop sleeping

* She always leaves her curtains open so that she can wake up with the sunlight.

to handle – to manage; to deal with; to control

* Are you sure that you can handle taking six classes this semester?

covers – the layers of fabric that cover a bed; the cloth material that covers a

bed and that keep one warm

* When my husband sleeps, he always steals the covers and then I get so cold at

night!

comforter – the top-most, thickest cover for a bed, usually made of feathers or

other warm material

* In the winter, they sleep under a very thick comforter, but in the summer they

don’t use it.

light blanket – a thin cover for a bed, made of wool, cotton, or other material

* When Marcos saw Maria sleeping on the sofa, he covered her with a light

blanket so she wouldn’t be too cold.

pillow – a soft cushion for one’s head in bed, usually filled with feathers, cotton,

or other material

* Why do people decorate their beds with so many pillows? I only need one to

sleep on.

pillowcase – the fabric covering a pillow; the material that covers a pillow to

keep it clean

* They bought new pillowcases to match the color of their bedroom walls.

sheets – two pieces of large, thin fabric placed on a bed – one to lie on and one

to lie under

* How often do you change the sheets on your bed?

to match – to have the same color or colors that look good together; to make a

good combination; to look good together

* Do you think that this sweater matches these pants?

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to go off – to make a loud noise very suddenly

* When my alarm went off at 6:00 a.m., I was in the middle of a very good dream.

jarring – irritating, unpleasant, or annoying to one’s ears

* The children were fighting during the car trip and their arguments became very

jarring to their parents.

buzzer – an electronic device that makes a long, continuous buzzing sound,

similar to that of a flying insect like a fly

* Many TV game shows use a buzzer when participants answer a question

incorrectly.

to drive (someone) nuts – to make someone angry, irritated, or crazy

* Please stop singing that song over and over again. You’re driving me nuts!

wake-up call – a hotel service that calls guests at a time the guest wants to

wake them up in the morning

* He missed his flight because the hotel forgot to give him a wake-up call.

early riser – a person who enjoys waking up early in the morning

* Because Samuel is an early riser, he usually makes breakfast for his wife so

that she can sleep a little later.

to oversleep – to sleep too late; to sleep past the time that one is supposed to

* Sasha overslept and missed her biology exam. Do you think her professor will

let her take it another day?

to sleep in – to sleep later than usual

* Teenagers love to sleep in on weekends. Sometimes they don’t wake up until

noon!

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COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT

ESLPod.com presents "A Day in the Life of Jeff," a special 10-episode course to

teach you everyday vocabulary in English.

This is Dr. Jeff McQuillan, from the Center for Educational Development in

beautiful Los Angeles, California, and I'll be the host for this series. In this

course, you'll learn the vocabulary for everyday actions, from getting up in the

morning to going to bed at night and everything in between.

Each lesson has three parts: first, a story read slowly; second, an explanation of

the story and the vocabulary we use; and third, the story read at a normal speed.

Are you ready? Let's begin with lesson one: “Getting Up.”

[Start of story]

The worst part of the day for me is definitely when I have to get up. Waking up,

that I can handle. But getting up? That, I hate. The covers I have on my bed

are heavy, mostly because I have a comforter as well as a light blanket. I sleep

with two pillows, which for some reason have different color pillowcases. Well, at

least the sheets match.

I sometimes wake up before the alarm goes off. I like to keep the alarm at a low

volume, with some classical music, nothing too jarring. My old roommate used to

like the terrible buzzer that you find on most alarm clocks nowadays, which

always used to drive me nuts. As I was saying, I sometimes wake up before the

alarm, usually because of some noise outside the house—a car door slamming,

an alarm going off, gunfire—well, okay, not gunfire, but man, is my neighborhood

noisy! Of course, when I’m staying in a hotel, it’s usually easier to just get a

wake up call from the hotel than set the alarm.

I’m not really an early riser, so I don’t jump out of bed ready to take on the world.

I get up very slowly, usually one foot on the floor at a time. Every once in awhile

I’ll oversleep, but not too often. I really love the weekends, when I can sleep in.

[End of story]

Our story begins by me describing how much I do not like getting up. To get up

means to get out of your bed, to stand up after you have been lying down on a

bed. I say that, “The worst part of my day is when I have to get up. Waking up,

that I can handle.” To wake up, “wake up,” (two words) means that you are

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sleeping and you stop sleeping and now you are awake. The verb is to wake up.

So, you can wake up while you are in bed, and then, you get up—you stand up

after lying down.

I said that “waking up” is something “that I can handle.” To handle, “handle,”

here means to be able to control—something that I can manage—something that

I can accept; it's not a problem. Another expression would be something I can

deal with. To deal, “deal,” with something is the same, in this case, as to be able

to handle something.

I say that “getting up” is something that “I hate. The covers I have on my bed are

heavy.” The covers, “covers,” are the things that you put over you to keep you

warm. Usually, the covers include a blanket, sometimes a comforter and usually,

what we would call the top sheet or flat sheet. A comforter, “comforter,” is a very

thick blanket—a very heavy blanket. A blanket, “blanket,” is something that you

put over you when you are sleeping to keep you warm.

Blanket is a general term; a comforter is a kind of blanket—a heavy blanket. The

opposite of a comforter would be a light blanket. A light, “light,” blanket would be

the opposite, and that is a blanket that will keep you warm, but if it gets very cold,

it might not keep you warm—it might not be sufficient.

So, we have a comforter and we have a light blanket. Usually, there is a top

sheet, “sheet,” that you put over you in between your body and the blankets, and

this top sheet is sometimes called a flat sheet. The sheet that goes on the bed

itself—that goes onto the corners of the bed—that's called a fitted sheet, a fitted,

“fitted,” sheet. So, we have a fitted sheet on the bed that you sleep on top of,

then we have a top sheet and then a blanket, sometimes, if it's very cold, a

comforter as well.

I say in the story that “I sleep with two pillows.” A pillow, “pillow,” is what you put

your head on when you sleep. Now, “for some reason,” I say I “have different

colored pillowcases.” This is true, actually; I have a black pillowcase and a blue

pillowcase for my two pillows. I think the reason is I am too lazy to go and buy a

new pillowcase.

Well, the pillowcase, “pillowcase,” (one word) is the thing that you put over the

pillow so the pillow doesn't get dirty; we call that the pillowcase. I say, “Well, at

least the sheets match.” We already know what a sheet is. When we say the

sheets match, “match,” we mean that they are the same color or two colors that

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look good together. We use that verb, to match, when we are talking about

clothing as well, or anything where you have two colors.

“I sometimes wake up before the alarm goes off.” When we say the alarm goes

off, we mean that the alarm starts to make a sound. Your alarm, “alarm,” is a

machine that makes noise at a certain time; usually it has a clock. Well, “I

sometimes wake up before my alarm” makes noise—my alarm goes off. “I like to

keep the alarm at a low volume,” meaning not very loud, “at a low volume, with

some classical music, nothing too jarring.” When we say a sound is jarring,

“jarring,” we mean that it is loud and it causes you to jump or to be surprised. It's

something that is not very nice—not very pleasant. A jarring noise would be one

that bothers you, perhaps because it is very loud or it is not a very nice sound.

So, I don't want my alarm to have a jarring noise, instead I play classical music.

Now, “My old roommate”—the person I used to share an apartment with—”used

to like the terrible buzzer you find on most alarm clocks.” This, again, is true. I

had a roommate that had a very loud and bad sounding buzzer; it was a terrible

buzzer. The buzzer, “buzzer,” is when the alarm clock doesn't play music, but it

just plays a sound. Sometimes it is like a bell ringing; that's the buzzer. Well,

this buzzer “always used to drive me nuts.” To drive someone nuts, “nuts,”

means to drive them crazy—to make them crazy—to make them go crazy.

I continue the story by saying, “As I was saying.” We use that expression, as I

was saying, when we are talking about one thing then we start talking about a

second thing, and now we want to go back and talk about the first thing again.

So, when you interrupt yourself when you are talking, and then you change the

topic—change what you are talking about—and then want to go back to your

original topic, you say, “As I was saying.”

“As I was saying, I sometimes wake up before the alarm, usually because of

some noise outside the house.” When we say there is some noise—some

sound—outside the house or outside of the house—you can say either one—we

mean that someone is making a noise that is very loud. Some of those noises

are “a car door slamming.” The verb, to slam, “slam,” means that you close the

door usually very quickly and you make a loud noise. Someone closes their car

door very fast, it will make a noise; we call that “slamming the door.”

My mother always used to tell me when I was young, “Don't slam the doors,”

meaning when I come in and close the door, I should close it slowly and quietly.

Of course, I was not a good boy so I would sometimes slam the door.

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