{"id":176190,"date":"2023-07-05T19:57:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T23:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/learn\/daily-routine-vocabulary\/"},"modified":"2025-02-04T01:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T06:17:57","slug":"daily-routine-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/english\/daily-routine-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"69 Daily Routine Vocabulary Words and Phrases in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you describe your day?\u00a0There is some essential vocabulary that you can use to talk about your daily routine.\u00a0You may have learned some of these words before, as most of them are very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/english\/english-vocabulary-word-lists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">common words<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article is divided into five parts: Morning, Noon, Afternoon, Evening and Night. Each section includes words and phrases to talk about places, times and actions.<\/p>\n<p>[fluentu-toc]<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>Where and When Does Your Daily Routine Happen?<\/h2>\n<p>Before we go into the main list of phrases, we&#8217;re going to talk about <strong>how to use <em>in, on, at<\/em>\u00a0and other similar words.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a complicated topic, but there are a few things you should remember.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, this video has a great general explanation about when to use these words, which are called <strong>prepositions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><lite-youtube videoid=\"sN5H7YTo_IQ\"><\/lite-youtube><\/p>\n<p>The video talks about using these words with transportation, location and time, but in this article we&#8217;ll focus mostly on location and time.<\/p>\n<p>There are some exceptions, but here&#8217;s how to generally use them.<\/p>\n<h3>Talking About Location<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Use <em>at<\/em>\u00a0with a general location or an idea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most common uses of this are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>at work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>at the office<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>at home<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>at school<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>at the beach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I say &#8220;work,&#8221; for example, I&#8217;m using &#8220;work&#8221; as an idea.\u00a0I can also say &#8220;at the office,&#8221; but\u00a0then I&#8217;m talking about the general area of the office. In other words, I might be in the break room, in the bathroom or even outside of the building, but I&#8217;m probably not inside my private office. If I&#8217;m standing inside my office, I&#8217;ll probably say <em>in<\/em>\u00a0instead of <em>at<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The same is true for<em> home<\/em>, which is an idea, so you say &#8220;I am <strong>at<\/strong> home.&#8221; Meanwhile, <em>house<\/em> is the physical building that you walk in and out of, so you would say &#8220;I am <strong>in<\/strong> my house.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use <em>in<\/em> if you&#8217;re inside or contained\u00a0within something bigger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most common phrases with <em>in<\/em>\u00a0when talking about daily routines are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>in my house<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>in the office<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>in a restaurant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For most of these, the person talking is inside a building.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I can say &#8220;right now I&#8217;m\u00a0in\u00a0my house,&#8221; because my house is a building and I&#8217;m inside of it.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t forget that if I&#8217;m just in the general area, I may say <em>at<\/em>. For example, if I&#8217;m standing outside in my garden and talking on my phone with a friend, I may tell my friend that I&#8217;m &#8220;at&#8221; my house, but not &#8220;in&#8221; my house, since I&#8217;m not actually inside of it.<\/p>\n<p><em>In\u00a0<\/em>can also be used with cities, countries, states and other larger geographic areas. For example, you could say &#8220;I work in Los Angeles, in California.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use <em>on<\/em>\u00a0if you&#8217;re\u00a0touching\u00a0something or on the\u00a0surface<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This one is a bit more difficult to explain. Some examples of phrases with\u00a0<em>on<\/em> are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>on the second floor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>on the beach (walking on the sand, but not in the water)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>on\u00a0the floor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>on the roof<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>on the moon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>on an island (for example, &#8220;I&#8217;m on<em>\u00a0<\/em>Long Island,&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;m on<em>\u00a0<\/em>Hokkaido.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can use <em>on<\/em> anytime a person or object is touching the top or surface of something.<\/p>\n<p>For example, I could say &#8220;My computer is <em>on<\/em> my desk, and there&#8217;s a picture of my family hanging\u00a0<em>on<\/em> the wall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In both cases, the object is touching another one, but not inside it.<\/p>\n<h3>Talking About Time<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Use <em>on<\/em> with specific days<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re giving an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/english\/english-days-of-the-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exact day<\/a>, use\u00a0<em>on.\u00a0<\/em>For example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">We&#8217;ll meet <em>on<\/em> Monday, or maybe <em>on<\/em> July 15th.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Use\u00a0<em>in<\/em> with longer periods of time like months, years, and parts of the day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For example, you can meet\u00a0<em>in<\/em> July,\u00a0<em>in\u00a0<\/em>2023 or <em>in<\/em> the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>For parts of the day, the main phrases you&#8217;ll hear are <em>in the morning, in the afternoon<\/em> and <em>in the evening<\/em>. Note that the word <em>at<\/em> is usually used with <em>night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Use\u00a0<em>at<\/em> for exact times\u00a0and with <em>night<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/english\/blog\/how-to-tell-time-in-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an exact time<\/a>, use\u00a0<em>at<\/em>. For example:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">We&#8217;ll meet <em>at<\/em> 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Let&#8217;s meet <em>at<\/em> noon. (remember that <em>noon<\/em>\u00a0is 12 p.m.).<\/p>\n<p>Use\u00a0<em>at<\/em> with <em>night<\/em>\u00a0in most cases:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">I always work better <em>at<\/em> night than I do in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, so now that we\u00a0understand\u00a0that, let&#8217;s start talking about the different parts of the day!<\/p>\n<h2>In the Morning<\/h2>\n<p>Most people start their days in the morning (unless they work at night or have trouble sleeping), so the morning is often the busiest time of day. That also means that there&#8217;s a lot of vocabulary you should know to talk about the things you do in the morning.<\/p>\n<p><lite-youtube videoid=\"eUXkj6j6Ezw\"><\/lite-youtube><\/p>\n<h3>Morning Time Vocabulary<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Early morning.<\/strong> Some languages have a special name for the period of time between approximately 12 midnight and 6:00 a.m., but English doesn&#8217;t. Instead, just say &#8220;early morning&#8221; or &#8220;<strong>really <\/strong>early morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunrise.<\/strong> This is when the sun appears in the morning, usually between 5 and 7 a.m. in most places. This is when the day starts. The word <em>rise<\/em> means &#8220;go up,&#8221; and we can also use it as a verb and say &#8220;the sun rises.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dawn. <\/strong><em>Dawn<\/em> is another name for the period of time when the sun rises.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mid-morning. <\/b><em>Mid-morning<\/em> isn&#8217;t an official time, but it&#8217;s about halfway between when you wake up and when you eat lunch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Late morning. <\/strong>This refers to any time close to 12:00 (noon) but still before then.<\/p>\n<p><b>From &#8230; to &#8230; . <\/b>You&#8217;ll probably use this phrase to talk about many of your daily activities. If you do something for a period of time, you can use this phrase and mention the start and end time of that activity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Jennifer works\u00a0<em>from <\/em>7:00 a.m.\u00a0<em>to <\/em>11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At + (specific time). <\/strong>Like we saw in the explanation above, use\u00a0<em>at<\/em> if you&#8217;re talking about a specific time (but not a period of time).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Jennifer\u00a0usually gets to work <em>at <\/em>8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On + (date or day of the week). <\/strong>Use <i>on<\/i> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/english\/english-days-of-the-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">specific days<\/a> or dates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">I normally work <em>on <\/em>Tuesdays, but <em>on<\/em> January 1st I won&#8217;t have to work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">Our boss said no one had to work <em>on <\/em>New Year&#8217;s Day because\u00a0it&#8217;s a holiday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In + (month or year). <\/strong>Use <i>in<\/i> for longer periods of time like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/english\/months-in-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">months<\/a>, years and seasons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">We often start work at 8 a.m, but <em>in winter<\/em> the office opens at 9.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">That &#8220;winter time&#8221; schedule starts <em>in November<\/em> this year, but we won&#8217;t do that<em> in 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Morning Place Vocabulary<\/h3>\n<p><strong>In bed. <\/strong>This is the place where most of us start our day. You can also say &#8220;on the bed&#8221; if you&#8217;re sitting, but usually not if you&#8217;re laying down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the bedroom.<\/strong> This one is more logical. If you&#8217;re talking about a specific room in your house, office or any other building, you can say <em>in,<\/em> since you&#8217;re usually inside those rooms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the bathroom. <\/strong>Most people spend time <em>in the bathroom<\/em> as part of their morning routine. In the next section we&#8217;ll look at some of the most common actions people do there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the kitchen. <\/strong>This is another example of using\u00a0<em>in<\/em> with rooms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At work.<\/strong> Many people start working in the morning. When they&#8217;re working, you can say they&#8217;re\u00a0<em>at work<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At school. <\/strong>If you take any\u00a0kind of class, you will probably spend some of your morning time<em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/english\/daily-use-english-sentences-in-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at school<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0In English, you can use the word <em>school<\/em>\u00a0for most educational institutions, including universities. But remember if you say &#8220;at<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>school,&#8221; you&#8217;re probably talking about the general area. You can also mention a specific area in the building, like <em>in the lunchroom, in the gymnasium <\/em>or<em> in the principal&#8217;s office<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Using transportation. <\/strong>Generally, you&#8217;ll use the word<em> in<\/em> or<em> on<\/em> with most vehicles and <em>by\u00a0<\/em>with the type of transportation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>On + larger vehicles or one-person transportation. <\/strong>You can say:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">on the bus<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">on the train<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">on the airplane<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">on the tram \/ on the streetcar<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">on the ferry \/ on the boat<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>Note:<\/strong> You should also say<em> on a bike, on a motorcycle<\/em> or <em>on a horse\u00a0<\/em>because you&#8217;re on top of those things\u2014and if you ride a horse to work, you probably have a more exciting job than I do!<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In + smaller vehicles (or large ones).<\/strong> I&#8217;ll admit this is confusing. For all of the large vehicles\u00a0in the last point, you can also say\u00a0<em>in<\/em> if you want, but it&#8217;s less common. So you can say &#8220;in the bus&#8221; or &#8220;on the bus,&#8221; but <em>on<\/em> is more common.\u00a0<em>In<\/em> is more common with smaller vehicles for only a few people. You can say &#8220;in a car,&#8221; &#8220;in a taxi&#8221; or even something more modern like &#8220;in an Uber.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>By + type of transportation. <\/strong>If someone asks you &#8220;How do you get to work?&#8221; you can respond with <em>by<\/em> and then the type of transportation. If you walk, you can say &#8220;by foot,&#8221; but there are many other options:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">by public transportation<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">by bike<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">by car<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">by bus<\/p>\n<h3>Morning Actions<\/h3>\n<p>Mornings are usually a busy time, so there are a lot of common actions you&#8217;ll want to talk about then. You can also do most of these actions later in the day, so remember them when we&#8217;re talking about other parts of the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wake up.<\/strong> This means to stop sleeping. When you&#8217;re sleeping, you&#8217;re <em>asleep<\/em>, and after you wake up, you&#8217;re <em>awake<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get up.<\/strong> This can be similar to <em>wake up<\/em>, but\u00a0<em>get up<\/em> means that you start to physically move your body. Most people get up when they leave their beds and start their daily routines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get ready. <\/strong>When you <i>get ready<\/i>, you do all of the things that you need to do to start your day. This can include different actions for different people, but now we&#8217;ll show you some common morning actions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Take a shower \/ Take a bath. <\/strong>This means to clean your body. If you take a bath, it&#8217;s in a <em>bathtub<\/em>. Most people these days don&#8217;t <em>take baths<\/em>, but instead <em>take showers<\/em>. It&#8217;s also common to say <em>&#8220;have<\/em> a shower&#8221;<em><\/em>\/<em>&#8220;have<\/em> a bath&#8221;<em>,<\/em><i>\u00a0<\/i>especially in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/english\/blog\/differences-between-american-and-british-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British English<\/a>. The verb for all these actions is\u00a0<em>to <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/bathe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">bathe<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brush your teeth. <\/strong>This is when you clean your teeth with a <em>toothbrush\u00a0<\/em>and <em>toothpaste.\u00a0<\/em>Dentists also recommend that you<em> floss<\/em>\u00a0your teeth with\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/dental-floss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dental floss<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comb your hair \/ Brush your hair. <\/strong>This is what you do with your hair (if you have hair). These words can be verbs or nouns. A comb is usually made of plastic and flat, and a brush is larger and usually circular.<\/p>\n<p><b>Put on makeup. <\/b>Some people put on makeup in the morning. <em>Makeup<\/em>\u00a0is different colored substances that people put on their faces to enhance or cover different parts of the face.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get dressed. <\/strong>After finishing your morning routine, you probably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/english\/english-clothes-vocabulary\/\" rel=\"\"><em>put on clothes<\/em><\/a>. That action is also called <em>getting dressed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Make and eat breakfast. <\/strong>Some people are rushed (they don&#8217;t have time) in the morning, but you should try to eat a healthy breakfast. It&#8217;s the best way to start your day! Some people also <em>take breakfast with them<\/em> or <em>stop by a fast food restaurant<\/em>\u00a0or<em> caf\u00e9<\/em>\u00a0to buy breakfast, and then they eat it on the way to work.<\/p>\n<p><b>Go to work \/ Go to school. <\/b>If you live far away, or have to drive or take public transportation, the process of going is also called <em>commuting<\/em>, and you can say &#8220;I have to <em>commute<\/em> to work.&#8221; Some people work from home, and they&#8217;re often called <em>telecommuters <\/em>or<em> remote workers<\/em>. Some people might also travel while working and are called <em>digital nomads<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the most common English words and phrases you&#8217;ll need to talk about your morning routine. Remember that you can use a lot of the vocabulary from this section at other times of day.<\/p>\n<h2>At Noon<\/h2>\n<p><em>Noon<\/em> is the most common word for 12:00 p.m. You might hear people say <em>midday<\/em>, but that&#8217;s usually a more general time.\u00a0<em>Noon<\/em> is more exact and much more common.<\/p>\n<p>Because\u00a0<em>noon<\/em> is in the middle of work or school days, most people eat lunch around this time.<\/p>\n<h3>Noon Time Vocabulary<\/h3>\n<p><strong>At noon. <\/strong>Because noon is an exact time (12 p.m.), we say <em>at<\/em> <em>noon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lunch break \/ Lunch hour.<\/strong>\u00a0This is a period when people stop working or studying so that they can eat lunch. It&#8217;s usually around noon and about an hour long.<\/p>\n<h3>Noon Place Vocabulary<\/h3>\n<p><strong>In the lunchroom \/ In the cafeteria \/ In the restaurant. <\/strong>These are different places where people often eat lunch. A <em>lunchroom<\/em>\u00a0is usually connected to a school or a company&#8217;s office, and it&#8217;s generally just for people who work or study there.<\/p>\n<p>Another word for a <em>lunchroom<\/em> is a <em>cafeteria<\/em>. Note that a\u00a0<em>cafeteria<\/em> isn&#8217;t a place that serves mainly coffee (that&#8217;s a <em>coffee shop<\/em>) or a small, informal restaurant (that&#8217;s a <em>caf\u00e9<\/em>).<\/p>\n<h3>Noon Actions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Eat lunch \/ Go out to eat.<\/strong> If you <em>go out\u00a0<\/em>or <i>go out to eat<\/i>, then you leave your office or school to eat somewhere else, usually a restaurant. You can also use the phrase <em>eat out.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>In the Afternoon<\/h2>\n<p>The afternoon starts at 12 p.m. (because it&#8217;s\u00a0after noon, 12 p.m.), and it ends around the time\u00a0it gets dark outside.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any additional time vocabulary for the afternoon, so let&#8217;s look at\u00a0place vocabulary.<\/p>\n<h3>Afternoon Place Vocabulary<\/h3>\n<p><b>Happy hour. <\/b>This is a period of time when some bars or restaurants offer special prices on drinks or food, but it\u00a0isn&#8217;t necessarily one hour. Bars and restaurants have<em> happy hours<\/em>\u00a0to attract customers, so <em>happy hours<\/em> are usually after most people stop working, but before they eat dinner.<\/p>\n<h3>Afternoon Actions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Get off work. <\/strong>This is a phrase that means to stop working. You can also say <em>stop working<\/em>, but it&#8217;s more common to hear something like:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">I <em>get off work<\/em> at 5, so would you like to meet me at 5:20 at the bar for happy hour?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leave school. <\/strong>This is when you finish your classes and leave the school or campus.<\/p>\n<p><b>Go out for dinner \/ Go out for drinks. <\/b>This is like eating out for lunch, but usually after people finish working. If you<em> go out for drinks<\/em> or <em>cocktails<\/em>, you probably go to a bar or restaurant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buy a round of drinks. <\/strong>If you go to a bar for happy hour, you may want to be generous and buy a drink for all of your friends. If so, then you&#8217;re going to <em>buy them a round of drinks.\u00a0<\/em>You can say something like <em>&#8220;I&#8217;ll get<\/em> this round&#8221; or &#8220;This round is <em>on me<\/em>\u201d\u00a0if you&#8217;re offering to pay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go home \/ Get home.<\/strong> <em>Going home<\/em>\u00a0(or commuting home) is what most people do after work. When you arrive at your house, you can also say\u00a0<em>get home<\/em>. For ways to talk about the types of transportation, check the Morning section.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Study. <\/strong>If you&#8217;re doing any kind of work for your education, you can say that you&#8217;re <em>studying<\/em>. You may be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/english\/english-essay-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">writing an essay<\/a> (a type of formal report or paper), practicing material you have learned or preparing for an exam. You can say <em>I&#8217;m studying<\/em>\u00a0for all of those things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hang out \/ Relax.<\/strong>\u00a0This is when you spend your free time doing things that interest you or spending time with your friends. It&#8217;s usually an informal time and an informal phrase.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do homework. <\/strong>If you <em>do homework<\/em>, then you work on assignments that you have from a previous class. Note that <em>homework<\/em> isn&#8217;t countable, so if you have a large amount, you can say &#8220;I have a lot of <em>homework<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Work out \/ Exercise. <\/strong>These are two phrases that mean the same thing. They both mean <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/english\/english-sports-vocabulary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">doing physical activity to stay fit<\/a>. You can <em>work out<\/em> at a gym, in your house or outside. You can also <em>do exercise<\/em> or just use <em>exercise<\/em>\u00a0as a verb, like:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u00a0I try to <em>exercise<\/em> every afternoon before dinner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Make dinner. <\/strong>If you like to cook (and have the time), you might <em>make dinner<\/em>. That means to prepare the food for dinner. Some people aren&#8217;t interested in cooking (or they may not have time), so they can also\u00a0<em>eat out<\/em> for dinner, or even <em>order\u00a0food for\u00a0delivery<\/em>, which means that a restaurant brings the food right to their\u00a0house.<\/p>\n<h2>In the Evening<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that not every language has a word like <em>evening.<\/em> In English, <em>evening\u00a0<\/em>is\u00a0generally the period of time after the sun goes down (when it becomes dark), but before you go to bed. The <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/evening\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pronunciation<\/a> is sometimes a bit difficult. Note that it has two syllables, not three.<\/p>\n<h3>Evening Time Vocabulary<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sunset. <\/strong><em>Sunset<\/em> is the time of day when the sun <em>sets<\/em>\u00a0(goes down or disappears). In most places, the <em>sunset<\/em> is between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m., but it can change a lot depending on the location and the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Twilight \/ Dusk. <\/strong>These are two more names for the period of time when the day becomes dark. If you hear someone say the phrase &#8220;from <em>dusk<\/em> till dawn,&#8221; they mean during the night, and &#8220;from dawn till <em>dusk<\/em>\u201d\u00a0means during the day.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any additional evening place vocabulary for you, so let&#8217;s look at some common evening actions.<\/p>\n<h3>Evening Actions<\/h3>\n<p>There&#8217;s not always a clear division between afternoon, evening and night, so many people do these actions at different times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eat dinner. <\/strong><em>Dinner\u00a0<\/em>is the last <em>meal<\/em> (serving of food) of the day. It&#8217;s also called <em>supper<\/em>\u00a0in some places, and\u00a0<em>dinner<\/em> can sometimes refer to a formal meal at different times of the day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch TV \/ Watch a movie. <\/strong>You probably know what this means, but just note that if you go out to<em> watch a movie<\/em>, you can say &#8220;I&#8217;m going <em>to the movies&#8221;<\/em> or &#8220;I&#8217;m going <em>to the movie theater<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/english\/blog\/english-uk-slang\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British English<\/a>, a<em> movie theater<\/em> is often called a <em>cinema,<\/em>\u00a0and a<em> movie<\/em>\u00a0is often called a <em>film.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Go out. <\/strong>This is a general term, but it means to leave your house to do something. You can use it if you&#8217;re <em>going out<\/em> for dinner or for drinks at a bar, or you may use it if you&#8217;re <em>going out on a date<\/em>, which is when you meet with someone who you&#8217;re interested in romantically.<\/p>\n<h2>At Night<\/h2>\n<p>Remember that this is the exception, so you normally say <em>at night<\/em>. You may hear some phrases that use <em>in the night<\/em>, but\u00a0<em>at\u00a0<\/em>is still more common.<\/p>\n<p>Also, note that <em>good night<\/em> isn&#8217;t a <em>greeting\u00a0<\/em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/english\/english-greetings-expressions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a way to say &#8220;hello&#8221;<\/a>). If you say &#8220;good night&#8221; to someone, it&#8217;s like saying &#8220;goodbye&#8221;.\u00a0You can also say it right before you go to sleep.<\/p>\n<h3>Night Time Vocabulary<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Midnight. <\/strong>This is at 12 a.m., in the middle of the night. It&#8217;s the opposite of\u00a0<em>noon.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Night Actions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Get ready for bed. <\/strong>This is the reverse of what you do when you get ready in the morning. You may take off or change your clothes and maybe put on pajamas (or whatever you wear when you sleep). It&#8217;s also common to <em>wash your face<\/em>, <em>brush your teeth<\/em> and maybe <em>take a shower.<\/em> Some people like to <em>read<\/em>\u00a0or do other relaxing activities before bed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get things ready for the next day. <\/strong>If you&#8217;re a <em>night owl<\/em> (a person who&#8217;s more active at night) like I am and not an <em>early bird<\/em>\u00a0(someone who prefers mornings), you may want to do a few things at night to prepare for the next day.<\/p>\n<p>You can <em>set your alarm<\/em> to <em>wake you up\u00a0<\/em>in the morning, <em>set out<\/em> things for breakfast the next morning or maybe <em>lay out\u00a0<\/em>the clothes that you&#8217;ll wear the next day. That way, you won&#8217;t have to make decisions when you&#8217;re tired in the morning!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go to bed \/ Get in bed. <\/strong>This is when you physically move to your bed. It&#8217;s the opposite of\u00a0<em>get up <\/em>in the morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go to sleep. <\/strong>This is when you stop being awake and start sleeping.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sleep tight! <\/strong>This is a common phrase that people say, but it doesn&#8217;t actually\u00a0make much sense. It rhymes with &#8220;good night,&#8221; so you may hear someone say &#8220;good night, sleep tight, don&#8217;t let the bedbugs bite!&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/bedbug\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bedbugs<\/a> are small insects that live in beds and bite people when they sleep.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So how can you learn these words? One of the best ways is by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/blog\/english\/english-flashcards-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">using flashcards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can create these traditionally with the words you often use to describe your daily routine or create them with an app. A program like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FluentU<\/a>, for example, has authentic videos you can use to watch native speakers using these in action, then add them as flashcards to study with personalized quizzes. <p><strong>FluentU<\/strong> takes authentic videos\u2014like music videos, movie trailers, news and inspiring talks\u2014and turns them into personalized language learning lessons.<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p> \r\n<p>You can try FluentU for free for 2 weeks. Check out the website or download <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/fluentu-learn-language-videos\/id917892175\">the iOS app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.fluentflix.fluentu&amp;hl=en&amp;gl=US\">Android app.<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><i><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fluentu.com\/try\/april-sale-3331\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">P.S. Click here to take advantage of our current sale! 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