Talking about food 🍔🥒🍫 Real Easy English — Transcript

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1. 0:00Welcome to Real Easy English from  BBC Learning English. I'm Beth.
2. 0:05And I'm Neil. In this podcast, we have  a real conversation in easy English.
3. 0:12If you want to read along, you can visit  our website. BBC Learning English dot com.
4. 0:23— Hi, Neil. — Hi, Beth. How are you?
5. 0:26I'm very good, thank you. How are you?
6. 0:28— I'm pretty good, yes. — Good, good.
7. 0:30What are we talking about today?
8. 0:31Well, today we are talking about food.
9. 0:35In particular, we'll talk about our favourite foods
10. 0:38and how often we eat them.
11. 0:40What an amazing topic. I have so much to say about food.
12. 0:45But you said how often.
13. 0:47What do we mean by how often we eat something?
14. 0:50Mm, good question!
15. 0:52'How often' means 'how many times' we eat our favourite food.
16. 0:57So we might eat them every week, every day, or if we really like a food,
17. 1:04we might eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner — every meal!
18. 1:09So, Neil, what is your favourite food?
19. 1:13Well, that's a really difficult question,
20. 1:17but I really like fish.
21. 1:20Ah, me too!
22. 1:22I was gonna say that, but actually, I really love seafood.
23. 1:28So, I think I’d say any kind of dish with seafood in it,
24. 1:33I absolutely love.
25. 1:34So, how often do you eat seafood, Beth?
26. 1:37Well, not very often, actually.
27. 1:39I have it when I go on holiday and I have it in restaurants sometimes,
28. 1:43but I don't really cook seafood at home.
29. 1:46What about you? How often do you have fish?
30. 1:49Oh, probably a few times a week.
31. 1:53— Really? — Maybe, yeah.
32. 1:55Yeah. We eat a lot of fish.
33. 1:57We sometimes have fish at home. I normally have it once or twice a week.
34. 2:01Right.
35. 2:02But I never have seafood at home, actually.
36. 2:05Yeah, OK. So what is your least favourite food?
37. 2:09Ooh, I absolutely hate baked beans!
38. 2:14You hate baked beans!?
39. 2:15I think they're disgusting!
40. 2:16I can't even...
41. 2:18The smell of them even makes me feel a bit sick.
42. 2:22Oh, OK.
43. 2:24So we've talked about the foods that we really like
44. 2:27and the foods that we don't like.
45. 2:29But in a general week, what do you normally cook?
46. 2:34Often, we'll eat Indian curries,
47. 2:38but also Italian pasta dishes or Spanish dishes
48. 2:43and then sometimes more traditional British roast dinner kind of thing.
49. 2:49Yeah.
50. 2:50I think, generally, we have the same at home.
51. 2:53Like, we eat a lot of food from different countries.
52. 2:56But I have to say I usually cook quite a lot of pasta
53. 3:01and quite a lot of rice at home in general,
54. 3:04just because they cook really quickly!
55. 3:07So, Beth. You generally eat rice and pasta dishes.
56. 3:12What does that mean, 'generally'?
57. 3:14Well, we use 'generally' and 'usually' and 'normally'
58. 3:18for habits or things that we do a lot.
59. 3:22So, for example, if I generally cook pasta or rice,
60. 3:27that means maybe five times out of the seven in a week, I would say.
61. 3:32OK, so that’s most of the time.
62. 3:35If we use 'sometimes' we mean that we'd do it less than 'generally'.
63. 3:42Yeah, sometimes might be two or three times a week.
64. 3:46I guess it depends on what you're talking about.
65. 3:48But for example, with me, I sometimes cook fish.
66. 3:52Like I said I have it maybe twice a week.
67. 3:55So I would say that’s sometimes.
68. 3:57Beth, you said that you hate baked beans.
69. 4:02So do you ever eat baked beans?
70. 4:05Never. No, I can't stand them.
71. 4:08So I never, ever have baked beans.
72. 4:11Well, 'never' is something that we don't do.
73. 4:15We just don't ever do it.
74. 4:22I can’t believe you don't like baked beans.
75. 4:25Beans on toast is a classic!
76. 4:27It is. But, no. Not for me.
77. 4:30Let's quickly recap the vocabulary we learnt during the conversation.
78. 4:35We learnt 'often' which means 'we do something a lot'.
79. 4:39And we learnt 'how often',
80. 4:41which we use to ask someone 'how many times they do something'.
81. 4:45'Usually', 'normally', and 'generally',
82. 4:49which are all ways to talk about 'things we do a lot'.
83. 4:53'Sometimes', which we can use
84. 4:55to talk about 'things we do, but not always or often'.
85. 5:00And 'never' to talk about 'things we don't do', like eat beans, Beth.
86. 5:05Yes, just like I never eat baked beans. Urgh, horrible!
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89. 5:24Next week, we'll talk about our friends.
90. 5:27See you then. Goodbye!
91. 5:28Bye!