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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: http://www.bbc.co.uk/learninge....nglish/english/featu

๐Œ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐Ÿ” ๐Œ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž ๐„๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก ๐ž๐ฉ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฌ:
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๐•๐จ๐œ๐š๐›๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ซ๐ฒ
๐š ๐œ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ž
a boring, ordinary task you do regularly

๐š๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง
short for 'administration' โ€“ the activities and tasks you have to do to make a business, organisation or just your life, run smoothly

๐š๐ค๐š
also known as

๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐ง๐ฒ
a company that supplies something such as electricity, gas, or water to the public

๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐œ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ž
delay doing things until later, probably because you don't want to do them

๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ-๐๐จ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ
an informal term to describe people who get satisfaction out of doing life admin and do lots of it

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