Daily Routine 是 Part 1 最容易淪為流水帳的題：I get up at 7. I eat breakfast. I go to work. I come home. I sleep at 11. 這種答案 Band 5 等級。要到 Band 7，你要把 routine 拆成三維：節奏（pace）、固定習慣（anchors）、變化（variation）——而不是時間軸清單。
台灣考生常見誤區
- 純時間軸：7 點起床、8 點吃早餐、9 點上班——零細節零情感。
- 沒有區分平日 vs 週末——同一套答案考官秒看穿。
- 假裝自己作息超級規律——I get up at 6 every day——講不下去就崩潰。
5 個代表題 + Band 7+ 範答
Q1. What does your typical day look like?
It varies depending on whether I'm working from home or going into the office, but the general shape is fairly consistent — alarm around 7:30, slow start with coffee and the news, then the working part of the day from about 9 to 6. Evenings are flexible: gym one day, cooking the next, sometimes meeting a friend. I try to be in bed by 11, although that's a goal more than a reality.
Q2. Do you follow the same routine every day?
Roughly, yeah — the structure is similar Monday to Friday, but I deliberately keep weekends loose to avoid feeling like life has become entirely routine. The non-negotiable bits are coffee in the morning and a wind-down hour before bed; everything else flexes around those two anchors.
Q3. Is your routine different from when you were a student?
Massively. As a student my whole day was dictated by class timetables, which weirdly made it easier — I just showed up where the schedule said. Now I have to design my own day, which sounds liberating but actually requires more discipline. I also sleep more now, ironically; the all-nighters of university are a bit of a horror story.
Q4. Do you think it's important to have a routine?
Genuinely yes, although I'd add a caveat — too rigid a routine can become a cage. The version I value is "loose structure": same wake time, same wind-down hour, same weekly anchors like exercise. Inside that, I want flexibility. Without any routine I drift; with too much, I get bored. The balance is the actual skill.
Q5. What part of your daily routine do you enjoy most?
The first hour, hands down — I'm not someone who jumps out of bed, but the slow stretch with a coffee, before any meeting or message demands my attention, is the part of the day that feels genuinely mine. The rest of the day belongs to work; that one hour belongs to me.
日常作息主題詞庫（13 個）
| 中文 | 英文 | Example chunk | |------|------|---------------| | 一天 | a typical day | My typical day starts at 7:30. | | 起床 | get up / wake up | I'm up by 7:30 most days. | | 上班 | head into the office | I head in three days a week. | | 居家辦公 | work from home (WFH) | Two WFH days, three office. | | 平日 / 上班日 | a workday | Workdays are fairly structured. | | 早晨儀式 | a morning ritual | Coffee is my morning ritual. | | 固定的事 | a routine anchor | Coffee and wind-down are my anchors. | | 放空時段 | a wind-down hour | I have a wind-down hour before bed. | | 上床睡覺 | turn in / get to bed | I try to turn in by 11. | | 不準時 | hit and miss | Bedtime is hit and miss. | | 規律 / 不規律 | regular / erratic | My schedule is fairly regular. | | 自律 | discipline | Designing your own day requires discipline. | | 變化 | variation | I try to build in some variation. |
Band 6 vs Band 7+ 對照
題目：Do you follow the same routine every day?
Band 6: Yes, I follow the same routine every day. I wake up at 7. I go to work at 9. I come home at 6. I sleep at 11.
Band 7+: Roughly, yeah — the structure is similar Monday to Friday, but I deliberately keep weekends loose to avoid feeling like life has become entirely routine. The non-negotiable bits are coffee in the morning and a wind-down hour before bed; everything else flexes around those two anchors.
差別：Band 6 純時間清單；Band 7+ 用抽象詞（structure / anchors / non-negotiable / flexes around）+ 平日 vs 週末對比 + 態度（deliberately keep weekends loose）。從清單變成框架描述，這就是流水帳題的提分公式。
什麼要避免
- 時間清單：7 wake up, 8 eat, 9 work, 11 sleep——這是 Band 5。換成 the general shape is... 或 the non-negotiable bits are... 立刻提分。
- 平日週末同一套：考官會問 Is it the same at weekends? 這時你要有對比答案準備好，不能愣住。
- 假裝完美：I always get up at 6 and exercise for one hour.——不可信。Band 7 看的是真實，不是完美。承認 bed by 11 is a goal more than a reality 反而加分。