Текст песни Center for Educational Development — A Day in the Life of Jeff

A Day in the Life of Jeff

I go back into my bedroom and open up my closet door. I have about 30 dress
shirts, 10 pairs of pants, a half-dozen ties, and some sweaters, suit jackets, and
t-shirts. I pull out a clean pair of socks and underwear, and then decide which
shirt I’m going to wear today. I’m terrible at color coordinating, so I usually bring
my wife in at this point to help match my shirt and pants. I put on my belt with the
silver buckle and polish my shoes. I put my cell phone and car keys in my front
pocket, and my wallet in the back one.
I put on my glasses and check myself in the mirror to make sure I look okay, and
then go into the home office to get my bag. I used to carry a more traditional
briefcase, but now I just use my computer bag to hold my laptop and my papers.
Now it’s back into the kitchen to grab my Thermos on the way out the door. I
lock the door and then hurry to my car in the garage. I’m usually running late and
today is no exception!
to open the door. A closet, “closet,” is a place, usually in your bedroom, where
you put clothes—you store your clothing. You can also have a closet in other
parts of your house, and it's usually a place where you keep things—you store
things.
Well, I “open up my closet door” and I look at my dress shirts. My dress, “dress”
shirts (two words) are the nice shirts, the shirts that I can wear to work. The
opposite of a dress shirt would be a casual shirt, “casual.” A dress shirt is a nice
shirt; something that usually has a collar on it. A collar, “collar,” is the top of the
shirt, what goes around the neck.
Well, I look at my dress shirts and I look, also, at my pants, “pants.” Pants are
what you put on your legs. You can have different kinds of pants. Jeans is a
type of pants. We might say dress pants for nice pants that you would wear to
work. I also have ties. A tie, “tie,” is a long, thin thing that goes around your
neck that men usually wear—often wear to work, and it comes in different colors,
and that's your tie.
A sweater, “sweater,” is something that keeps you warm. It's like a shirt that's
very thick. You usually put a sweater over your shirt so that you can be warm.
Suit jackets, “suit jackets,” (two words) are jackets that you wear that are for a
formal occasion. So, if you are going to work, especially if you were going to an
interview, you would wear a suit jacket. The word suit, “suit,” refers to a formal
set of clothing for, in this case, a man. For a man it would be pants and a,
probably, white shirt and a suit jacket that goes over your shirt. Usually, you
would also have a tie that you wear. That's a suit. Well, a suit jacket is part of a
suit.
A t-shirt, spelled “t-shirt,” is a plain shirt that you usually wear underneath a dress
shirt. So first, you put on a t-shirt—a white t-shirt—then you would put on your
shirt, and then you would put on you jacket. T-shirts can also be used by
themselves as your main shirt. It is usually an informal occasion that you would
just wear a t-shirt. You probably wouldn't wear a t-shirt to your office, for
example, though some people do. And, many people have t-shirts that have
things on them—that say things on them. T-shirts usually do not have a collar
like a dress shirt does.
“I pull out a pair of socks and underwear.” Socks, “socks” are the things you put
on y