What's on your 'to-do' list? 6 Minute English
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Pay bills, clean the house... these are boring tasks we all have to do regularly even if we don't feel like it. They're part of what we call 'life admin'. Neil and Rob discuss what could make life admin tasks more interesting and teach you related English vocabulary.
You'll find the transcript and vocabulary on our website: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/...
𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝟔 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐬:
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𝐕𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲
𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐞
a boring, ordinary task you do regularly
𝐚𝐝𝐦𝐢𝐧
short for 'administration' - the activities and tasks you have to do to make a business, organisation or just your life, run smoothly
𝐚𝐤𝐚
also known as
𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲
a company that supplies something such as electricity, gas, or water to the public
𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞
delay doing things until later, probably because you don't want to do them
𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫-𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐫𝐬
an informal term to describe people who get satisfaction out of doing life admin and do lots of it
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Thanks for BBC learning english. I've been listening BBC learning english every single day
chore: a boring, a ordinary task you do regularly
admin: tasks you have to do to make a business, organisation or just your life, run smoothly
I profoundly thank for BBc learning English and programmer.
Actually, life admin aka a hack tip for you to memorize all things, especially for those who are too busy and have tons of tasks to finish. It can be a chore, event, task,... which can help you keep track of your progress, productivity and time management (try to not procrastinate and cram up all of it later on) so that you can have a work-life balance in some way. Plus, some people find it satisfied to do it everday as a super-doers! How amazing they are!
Thanks a lot for this interested lesson 🥰
Your commend is so amazing which uses all of vocabularies in the lesson . 10 mark to you !
I love all the members of BBC learning english. They all have the sweetest and kindest personality.
But to Neil and Rob, kindly make video lessons more to audio lessons. It is way more fun to learn by listening as well as watching you both together.
Thankyou!
V
Another useful 6 minutes program to improve my vocabulary...
This movie make me improve the ability to speak English and to listen, to write . That is to say ,everything
In our family everybody should carry out their household chores. But my husband always delays his tasks until later. Sometimes we fall out because of it. I agree, that life admin can be repetitive and only super-doer can cope with it)
Hello Neil and Rob
I’d like to tell you and your friends in BBC office.
You can’t imagine how happy I am whilst I’ve been learning English with BBC app.
I really really love business English by Tom, Anna, Paul, Denise, Rachel and the another ones.
I can remember the voice of narrator is NEIL, aren’t you Neil?
Please keep up the greatest work for me and many English learners in the world.
You are too kind. Have a wonderful day. Take care.😊🇬🇧🇹🇭
Hi Rungsak Thongmuk! You must mean our business English series, English at Work! We're glad you like following the stories with Tom, Anna and everyone else. And you know what - you're right! Neil is the narrator! Do you like listening to him helping Anna with her English difficulties!
BBC Learning English
Exactly.
Thank you very much for your kindness.
I have been studying English for many years
English may not a walk in the park but I will not
give up. BBC is the best, I love British accent.
Please tell Dan and Catherine, I love them.
Anyway, what is Feifei’s nationality?
She looks like an asian lady, she speak English so well.
All the best.😊
Hi again, Rungsak Thongmuk! Thank you very much for the kind comments! We'll pass on your best wishes to Dan and Catherine. And you are right about Feifei! She is from China and helps the team here produce a lot of our programmes specially for our Chinese audiences.
Best of luck with your language learning in the future!
Thank you, BBC.
Thanks 🙏🏻
It is said that besides the importance of making a to-do list; writing what you have done or putting a tick by the tasks you have successfully completed is a good step as it makes you happier and much more satisfied.
And we agree with that sentiment, mariam kamal! Good luck with your life admin today!
Review vocabulary:
- chore: a boring task you have to do regularly.
- admin- administration : the activities or tasks that you have to do to make your business, organization or life rub smoothly.
-aka: as known as
-utility company : a company suppies sth such as gas, electricity or water to the public.
- procrastinate : delay, postpone probably because they dont want to do them.
- super- doers: to describe people who get satisfaction out ofdoing life admin and do lots of it.
Great, thanks so much
Thank you bbc
1.chore (n.) 家務
2.admin (abbreviation of administration) (n.) 行政
3.aka →also known as 也視為
4.utility (adj.) 實用的
5.procrastinate (v.) 拖延
Is there a 6 minutes English program every day? :) Or twice a week...?
Once a week only
They’ve been doing this program for years. You may go to the BBC Learning English website to study more.
Sharlene Chen Thank you.
Emily Emily thank you for reviewing your key words !
I love you guys!
Thanks for the video, it's very useful for me!
You're welcome, Alone Wise. We are glad you find our video useful.
I like to do list especially when check what I've done 😍
Did you do it?
@@elagajda2286 yeah
Heyyyyyyyy this is great I feel that I'm learning english a lot ...thanksssssss really ...
Actually our life is full of tasks to do, but we have to do list to make it easier
Amazing and telanted presenters
Thanks for the kind comment, ahamed mohamed! And good luck with your life admin today!
Thanks
Great job! Thank you so much. Interesting way of learning english! 😃
Good job girl
It's very informative for me
Thanks, Harwinder sidhu saab. For more informative videos, guides and quizzes, visit our website: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/
I have already do that :)
Introduction
Pay bills, clean the house... these are boring tasks we all have to do regularly even if we don't feel like it. They're part of what we call 'life admin'. Neil and Rob discuss what could make life admin tasks more interesting and teach you related vocabulary.
This week's question
The website Hotels.com commissioned some research about how much time young adults - that's millennials - spend doing life admin. Do you know what proportion of their free time they spend doing life admin tasks? Is it…
a) a quarter of a day
b) a third of a day
c) half a day?
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Vocabulary
a chore
a boring, ordinary task you do regularly
admin
short for 'administration' - the activities and tasks you have to do to make a business, organisation or just your life, run smoothly
aka
also known as
utility company
a company that supplies something such as electricity, gas, or water to the public
procrastinate
delay doing things until later, probably because you don't want to do them
super-doers
an informal term to describe people who get satisfaction out of doing life admin and do lots of it
Transcript
Note: This is not a word for word transcript
Neil
Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I'm Neil. And joining me it's Rob.
Rob
Hello.
Neil
Now Rob, would you say you're someone who is quite organised?
Rob
I'd like to think so.
Neil
What's the best way to organise everything?
Rob
You need a 'to-do' list - a list of all the jobs you need to do that you can work your way through.
Neil
That's a good idea and something we can include in today's discussion about life admin. Admin is short for administration - that describes the activities and tasks you have to do to make a business or organisation run smoothly - but life admin is administration you have to do to make your day-to-day life run smoothly - like doing housework, or paying a bill. And the first thing on my 'to-do' list is to ask you and the listeners, a question.
Rob
Yes, you wouldn't want to forget that.
Neil
So, the website Hotels.com commissioned some research about how much time young adults - that's millennials - spend doing life admin. Do you know what proportion of their free time they spend doing life admin tasks? Is it…
a) a quarter of a day
b) a third of a day
c) half a day?
Rob
Based on my personal experience, I would say about a quarter of a day.
Neil
Well, we'll see if you're the same as other people at the end of the programme. But as we all know, life admin is necessary but it can be a bit of a chore - a boring, ordinary task you do regularly.
Rob
Experts have studied the subject and looked at how we do it and how we can make it less boring. One of them is Elizabeth Emens, Professor of Law at Columbia University and author of The Art of Life Admin.
Neil
She's been speaking to the BBC Radio 4 programme, Woman's Hour, and described what she thought life admin is…
Elizabeth Emens, Professor of Law at Columbia University
Life admin is the office work of life, it's the invisible layer of work that is the kind of thing that managers and secretaries, aka admins, do for pay in the office but that everyone does in their own lives for free.
Rob
She calls life admin the invisible layer of work - so it's work, tasks or chores we carry out that people don't notice we're doing - or don't realise we have to do them it's extra work in our life.
Neil
And we don't get paid for it - unless we're at work when it is the role of someone to do it - such as secretaries or aka admins - aka is short for 'also known as' - so secretaries might also be known as admins - that is short for people who do administration.
Rob
Right, so we know life admin is boring and we don't get paid for it - and also, trying to renew your house insurance or trying to query a bill with a utility company can be frustrating and feels like a waste of time. A utility company by the way, is one that supplies something such as electricity, gas, or water to the public.
Neil
My problem is I never get round to doing my life admin - there are better things to do - so you could say I procrastinate - I delay doing things until later, probably because I don't want to do them.
Rob
You are what Elizabeth classifies as an 'admin avoider'. So this is where my to-do list comes in handy Neil. You have a written record of tasks that can be quite satisfying to cross off as you do them. But this is something Elizabeth Emens has found to work, at least for some people. Let's hear from her again. What type of people did she find get most satisfaction from completing a to-do list?
Elizabeth Emens, Professor of Law at Columbia University
If you've ever made a list and put things on it you've already done, just to cross them out, then you know the kind of 'done it' pleasure that goes with that. But actually I interviewed people, especially the super-doers that I interviewed, actually can find real pleasure in the actual doing of it - so trying to understand how we can get to that when we have to do it - how we can make it so that there is some meaning in it and some texture and there're ways of doing it that please us.
Neil
So she was describing the super-doers - these are the people who love admin and would spend an evening putting their book collection into alphabetical order!
Rob
Elizabeth mentioned that we should learn from the super-doers and get some 'done it' pleasure in doing our life admin. We need to find a meaning for doing it - in other words, what is represents - so we can see the benefit of completing our to-do list.
Neil
How we find pleasure from doing life admin is different for different people - so personally, I think I'll stick with being an 'admin avoider' - but that might explain why I just got charged extra for not paying my credit card bill on time!
Rob
Well, please don't avoid giving us the answer to the quiz question you asked us earlier.
Neil
Yes. Earlier I asked, researchers, commissioned by Hotels.com, polled 2,000 young professionals about their lives. How much of their free time do they spend doing life admin? Is it…
a) quarter of a day
b) a third of a day
c) half a day?
Rob
And I said a) a quarter of a day.
Neil
Yes, they spend a quarter of their days carrying out tasks like doctor’s appointments, waiting in for packages to be delivered and doing household chores. Boring!
Rob
Unlike this programme Neil, which is not a chore- one of the words we discussed today.
Neil
Yes, our vocabulary today included chore - a boring, ordinary task you do regularly.
Rob
We also mentioned admin, short for administration - the activities and tasks you have to do make a business, organisation or just your life, run smoothly.
Neil
We heard aka - meaning 'also known as' - so for example, Rob aka The master of 6 Minute English!
Rob
Thanks very much Neil. Next we heard utility company. That's a company that supplies something such as electricity, gas, or water to the public. And we also heard how Neil likes to procrastinate - that's delay doing things until later, probably because he doesn't want to do them.
Neil
Finally, we mentioned super-doers - an informal term to describe people who get satisfaction out of doing life admin and do lots of it.
Rob
Like me.
Neil
Well, it's time to go now but there's plenty more to discover on our website at bbclearningenglish.com. Goodbye for now.
Rob
Bye bye.
Another significant point is the to-do list should be just a small step leading to achieving a great motivating goal.
Another example of "aka":
Rob, aka, The Cookie monster.
Thanks for the video !!
Poor Rob! No biscuits have been stolen at all this week here at BBC Learning English!
Glad you liked the video, jota Reyes!
- life admin
- aka = also known as
- invisible
- admin avoider
- please us
- super-doers
- household chores
- utility company
Kindly display the words which help us more to learn
This reminds me of Monica in Friends series
Chore
Admin
Aka
Utility
Procrastinate
Superdoer
As a woman I have a massive life admin tasks in a day. I reckon men are luckier!
I started several times to do list however, something always went wrong and I stoped it
Life admin!
I can learn listening English very well on TH-cam pages, 6 Minute English. Thankful But Can you help me how to improve my speaking skill with BBC learning English?
Alice Evans aka the famous languages expert
Do you have some tests for determining my level of English?
Hi Артём Саетгараев! We don't have any tests to find out your level, but you could try looking at each syllabus for our different course here: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/hygiene/lowerintermediate-syllabus
Check the topics, grammar and vocabulary at different levels and see if you can find something you don't know yet! Hope that helps!
@@bbclearningenglish thanks BBC Learning English ,You are always on my own to_ do list.......Love you so much (^_^)
Doing house chores are not boring..I spent half day completing all the works
I’m too lazy to make my own to-do list . Especially is completing my homework
17/04/2022
Thank you and good bye for now.
What is the solution for people they are procrastinating things they have to do !? Unfortunately I am one of them !!!
If you find the answer, you'll be a millionaire! 🤣
why cant i find transcript ?
You can find the transcript here: www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-190307
@@bbclearningenglish it said i couldnt acess the website....
can't find server's IP
Well, i'm like Neil. I don't like these tasks, they are really boring.especially when there is a queue and you have to wait some time in order to make it done and sometimes wile your are waiting, somebody cuts in and take your position then you will have a pain in the neck.
I don't understand the meaning of the phrase " you can work your way through". Can you guys help me with that?
If you 'work your way through' something (such as a task), you do it bit by bit until it's complete. Hope that helps!
@@bbclearningenglish thank you so much
Ставь лайк, если ты русский)))
И ставьте дизлайки если вы не русский а если ты не русский то ты вообще не поймёшь это!! 😂
You counted all the drawbacks of doing a life admin and killed my interest toward it 🥳😝😝. Just kidding
Sorry 😝
Dood
Introduction
Pay bills, clean the house... these are boring tasks we all have to do regularly even if we don't feel like it. They're part of what we call 'life admin'. Neil and Rob discuss what could make life admin tasks more interesting and teach you related vocabulary.
This week's question
The website Hotels.com commissioned some research about how much time young adults - that's millennials - spend doing life admin. Do you know what proportion of their free time they spend doing life admin tasks? Is it…
a) a quarter of a day
b) a third of a day
c) half a day?
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Vocabulary
a chore
a boring, ordinary task you do regularly
admin
short for 'administration' - the activities and tasks you have to do to make a business, organisation or just your life, run smoothly
aka
also known as
utility company
a company that supplies something such as electricity, gas, or water to the public
procrastinate
delay doing things until later, probably because you don't want to do them
super-doers
an informal term to describe people who get satisfaction out of doing life admin and do lots of it
Transcript
Note: This is not a word for word transcript
Neil
Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English, I'm Neil. And joining me it's Rob.
Rob
Hello.
Neil
Now Rob, would you say you're someone who is quite organised?
Rob
I'd like to think so.
Neil
What's the best way to organise everything?
Rob
You need a 'to-do' list - a list of all the jobs you need to do that you can work your way through.
Neil
That's a good idea and something we can include in today's discussion about life admin. Admin is short for administration - that describes the activities and tasks you have to do to make a business or organisation run smoothly - but life admin is administration you have to do to make your day-to-day life run smoothly - like doing housework, or paying a bill. And the first thing on my 'to-do' list is to ask you and the listeners, a question.
Rob
Yes, you wouldn't want to forget that.
Neil
So, the website Hotels.com commissioned some research about how much time young adults - that's millennials - spend doing life admin. Do you know what proportion of their free time they spend doing life admin tasks? Is it…
a) a quarter of a day
b) a third of a day
c) half a day?
Rob
Based on my personal experience, I would say about a quarter of a day.
Neil
Well, we'll see if you're the same as other people at the end of the programme. But as we all know, life admin is necessary but it can be a bit of a chore - a boring, ordinary task you do regularly.
Rob
Experts have studied the subject and looked at how we do it and how we can make it less boring. One of them is Elizabeth Emens, Professor of Law at Columbia University and author of The Art of Life Admin.
Neil
She's been speaking to the BBC Radio 4 programme, Woman's Hour, and described what she thought life admin is…
Elizabeth Emens, Professor of Law at Columbia University
Life admin is the office work of life, it's the invisible layer of work that is the kind of thing that managers and secretaries, aka admins, do for pay in the office but that everyone does in their own lives for free.
Rob
She calls life admin the invisible layer of work - so it's work, tasks or chores we carry out that people don't notice we're doing - or don't realise we have to do them it's extra work in our life.
Neil
And we don't get paid for it - unless we're at work when it is the role of someone to do it - such as secretaries or aka admins - aka is short for 'also known as' - so secretaries might also be known as admins - that is short for people who do administration.
Rob
Right, so we know life admin is boring and we don't get paid for it - and also, trying to renew your house insurance or trying to query a bill with a utility company can be frustrating and feels like a waste of time. A utility company by the way, is one that supplies something such as electricity, gas, or water to the public.
Neil
My problem is I never get round to doing my life admin - there are better things to do - so you could say I procrastinate - I delay doing things until later, probably because I don't want to do them.
Rob
You are what Elizabeth classifies as an 'admin avoider'. So this is where my to-do list comes in handy Neil. You have a written record of tasks that can be quite satisfying to cross off as you do them. But this is something Elizabeth Emens has found to work, at least for some people. Let's hear from her again. What type of people did she find get most satisfaction from completing a to-do list?
Elizabeth Emens, Professor of Law at Columbia University
If you've ever made a list and put things on it you've already done, just to cross them out, then you know the kind of 'done it' pleasure that goes with that. But actually I interviewed people, especially the super-doers that I interviewed, actually can find real pleasure in the actual doing of it - so trying to understand how we can get to that when we have to do it - how we can make it so that there is some meaning in it and some texture and there're ways of doing it that please us.
Neil
So she was describing the super-doers - these are the people who love admin and would spend an evening putting their book collection into alphabetical order!
Rob
Elizabeth mentioned that we should learn from the super-doers and get some 'done it' pleasure in doing our life admin. We need to find a meaning for doing it - in other words, what is represents - so we can see the benefit of completing our to-do list.
Neil
How we find pleasure from doing life admin is different for different people - so personally, I think I'll stick with being an 'admin avoider' - but that might explain why I just got charged extra for not paying my credit card bill on time!
Rob
Well, please don't avoid giving us the answer to the quiz question you asked us earlier.
Neil
Yes. Earlier I asked, researchers, commissioned by Hotels.com, polled 2,000 young professionals about their lives. How much of their free time do they spend doing life admin? Is it…
a) quarter of a day
b) a third of a day
c) half a day?
Rob
And I said a) a quarter of a day.
Neil
Yes, they spend a quarter of their days carrying out tasks like doctor’s appointments, waiting in for packages to be delivered and doing household chores. Boring!
Rob
Unlike this programme Neil, which is not a chore- one of the words we discussed today.
Neil
Yes, our vocabulary today included chore - a boring, ordinary task you do regularly.
Rob
We also mentioned admin, short for administration - the activities and tasks you have to do make a business, organisation or just your life, run smoothly.
Neil
We heard aka - meaning 'also known as' - so for example, Rob aka The master of 6 Minute English!
Rob
Thanks very much Neil. Next we heard utility company. That's a company that supplies something such as electricity, gas, or water to the public. And we also heard how Neil likes to procrastinate - that's delay doing things until later, probably because he doesn't want to do them.
Neil
Finally, we mentioned super-doers - an informal term to describe people who get satisfaction out of doing life admin and do lots of it.
Rob
Like me.
Neil
Well, it's time to go now but there's plenty more to discover on our website at bbclearningenglish.com. Goodbye for now.
Rob
Bye bye.