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Hello and welcome to the English We Speak. With me, Faye Faye. And hello, it's me, Rob.

Have you had a busy day today? Oh, I sure have. And there's plenty more to do before

home time. Well, after this programme, I think I'll

call it a day. I've got my yoga class to go to. Call it a day? You've only been here seven

hours and there are 24 hours in a day. I know that, Rob. But I've finished my work so that's

my day finished. When we call it a day, we just mean we have

decided to stop what we're doing for the rest of the day. It could be because we have just

finished a task, done enough, or just bored of doing it. So Rob, I've done my work so I really

must call it today. I don't want to miss my yoga class.

Haven't you got time for some examples?

Of course.

We've been working on this presentation for hours now. Let's call us a day and carry on tomorrow.

Can we call it a day?

We've been training since this morning. I'm exhausted.

It's almost 6 o'clock, so let's call it a day and carry on with the building work tomorrow.

This is the English we speak from BBC Learning English.

We're looking at the phrase to call it a day,

which we can say to express that we're going to stop what we're doing for the rest of the day.

Now, Rob, if you think you've done enough, why don't you just call it a day?

I couldn't possibly finish work now. I'm going to be working into the night. So, Rob, what are you doing that's making you work so late?

Well, I volunteered to write some extra the English We Speak scripts.

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