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Day in the Life of Jeff
Episode 4 – Getting Dressed & Ready for Work

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You're listening to [bad word] s “Day in the Life of Jeff,” part four. I'm your
host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, from the Center for Educational Development.
Part four of our course is called “Getting Dressed and Ready for Work.” Let's
start.
[Start of story]
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!
[End of story]
Part four is called “Getting Dressed and Ready for Work.” We began by me
going into the bedroom and opening up my closet door. To open up means here
to open the door. 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.” dress shirt is a nice
shirt; something that usually has a collar on it. 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. 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.
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.
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