Introduction
Hi English learners! Lori here, your teacher from Betteratenglish.com. In this episode of Real English Conversations, you&#39;ll hear part 5 of my conversation with Kyla. This is the final part of our conversation about the book Daily Rituals by Mason Currey. In the previous episode we talked about dealing with distractions and interruptions when you&#39;re trying to work. This time we talk about one of the biggest interrupters of all: email. We also talk about ways to structure your day to make it easier to do important things.

If you want to read along as you listen, you can download the full transcript, including a bonus vocabulary lesson at betteratenglish.com/transcripts.

After the conversation I&#39;ll be back with three questions you can use for speaking practice. Oh, and one final note: I&#39;ve marked this episode as explicit because near the end of the conversation I say a couple of mildly vulgar words. They&#39;re very common slang words that you hear all the time on TV, but I&#39;m playing it safe and warning you anyway. You never know what someone might find offensive!

OK, let&#39;s get on with the conversation!
Real English Conversation Transcript
Kyla: I was going to say, I guess, one drawback about the book actually is that so much of it is, there&#39;s not— there&#39;s not very many current contemporary people in it to ask about their rituals. It&#39;s, yeah, an awful lot of people from the last century before, before internet and so it would be— it would be nice to find, you know, the daily rituals of more people living now with the different forms of communication that we have now.

Lori: Right.

Kyla: Because of course there were several people that would have, you know, they&#39;d have their hour in which they would make their phone calls to their agents or their phone calls to newspapers or, you know, when it was still there. Because you still had the communication that was required with the— the rest of the world. But I think it was probably much easier to schedule, &quot;Okay, this is the time that I&#39;m going to be on the telephone because this is when I have access to a telephone or...&quot;

Lori: Right.

Kyla: You know, &quot;This is the time of day when I sit and write my letters and read my letters,&quot; which there&#39;s no reason why we can&#39;t do that now but I think it&#39;s easier when you have a physical letter that you can put in a pile on the— on the bedside table or the coffee table and...

Lori: Right. And it&#39;s— it&#39;s also...there&#39;s a limit there, you know. It&#39;s self-limiting. You see, &quot;Okay, I have five letters I have to answer...&quot;

Kyla: That&#39;s right.

Overwhelmed by the endless stream of emailLori: ...and you know that it&#39;s not like today with email where at any second, you can get more added to that pile and you never know when you&#39;re going to get one.

Kyla: That&#39;s— that&#39;s right. You&#39;re sitting there answering, it&#39;s l

040 – Daily Rituals part 5 of 5 – Real English Conversations

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