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A Day in the Life of Jeff
Episode 1 – Getting Up

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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
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,” she