IELTS Speaking Lesson about Habits Flashcards
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Watch and read this full lesson on HABITS here
https://keithspeakingacademy.com/ielts-speaking-habits-lessonvocabulary-topic
Podcasts for all levels - Culips
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Habits by James Clear
https://jamesclear.com/habits
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IELTS Speaking Vocabulary: Habits
‘We are the sum of our habits!’
Here is some useful vocabulary for this topic.
I tend to ____
I tend to get up early in the morning
I like to _____
I l_ike to_ make my bed as soon as I have got up
Out of habit
I get up early everyday out of habit (از روی عادت ، طبق عادت)
By force of habit = do something because you have always done it, rather than choosing to do it
I drink coffee everyday by force of habit
I’m in the habit of _____
It has become a habit
If you have a bad habit, you can use the following,
I have a habit of _____
I have fallen into the habit of _____
I have a habit of …
…biting my nails
…reading in the dark
…not listening carefully to my wife
If you want to stop a habit, you can say,
I am trying to break / kick / give up this habit
I’m trying to get out of the habit
Adjectives to describe habits
Annoying, bad, nasty
good, endearing (makes people like you)
smoking, drinking (drugs)
I need to kick my smoking habit
Phrasal Verb
Getting up early
put you in a good mood
Getting up early can help you feel you are ahead of everyone else and so put you in a good mood.
stay in shape
Jogging is a great way to stay in shape and is also good for your mental health.
Making your bed
Making your bed is a quick and simple habit and can have a knock-on effect, meaning it leads you to take other beneficial actions or habits.
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give you a sugar-rush
Drinking orange is good and bad. If bought in a supermarket, it will be full of sugar and not good for you.
Fresh juice is better, but still contains sugars the can give you a sugar-rush. Eating an orange would be the best option.
allow you to relax and bond with others
Playing games can be a great habit for children and adults, it can allow you to relax and bond with others. However, if we are taking about video games, we should play them in moderation.
How to change a habit
‘If you have a bad habit, don’t try to kick it, just
replace it with a better habit’
If you want to change a habit
If you want to change a habit, you need to know the three stages of
every habit. The cue, the routine and the reward. First, you need to
identify the [1] cue.
For example, imagine you have [2] fallen into the habit of drinking a
couple of beers every evening when you get home from work. You are
getting fatter and want to [3] kick the habit.
The cue might be a time, [4] a place, something you see, or maybe
something someone says.
For example, you get home and think - it’s 6pm, time for a beer.
Or your wife, with all good intentions, says, “you’re home, fancy a
beer?”
Perhaps, you open the [5] fridge and see the nice, cold beers waiting
for you, that’s the cue to take one and have a refreshing drink.
The routine is having the drink, and the reward is the satisfaction that
drink [6] gives you.
There are different things you can do to change this habit.
Two of the most common ones are
1) remove the cue
2) change the routine with something that gives the same reward
The first step could be to remove the cues. Hide the beers - out of
sight, out of [7] mind.
Another step could be change the routine with something that gives the same reward, but to do that you must know what the reward really is.
If having a drink breaks the boredom, you could replace it with
watching a film on TV, or taking your dog for a walk.
If the reward is [8] quenching your thirst, you could replace the drink
with a different cold and refreshing drink.
What bad habit do you want to change, and how will you do it?
Idioms to talk about habits
I am a creature of habit
I am a creature of habit = I like routines
I am a stickler for =
I insist on certain things
I am a stickler for getting up early
I am a stickler for doing exercise everyday
Old habits die hard =
it’s difficult to change a habit
Why break the habit of a lifetime?
It’s not necessary to change that habit
