Talking about routines: 🍽️🛌🚶 Real Easy English — Transcript

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1. 0:00Welcome to Real Easy English, the podcast where
2. 0:04we have real conversations in easy  English to help you learn. I'm Beth.
3. 0:10And I'm Neil. If you want to  read along with this podcast,
4. 0:14you can find a full transcript on our  website – BBC Learning English dot com.
5. 0:26How are you today, Neil?
6. 0:27I'm very well, thank you, Beth. How about you?
7. 0:30I'm very good.
8. 0:31So what topic are we talking about in this episode?
9. 0:36OK, well, today's episode is all about habits and routines.
10. 0:42Now we talked about our favourite foods a few weeks ago.
11. 0:47But today we'll talk about our meal times and routines for eating.
12. 0:52Mm, sounds good!
13. 0:54What do we mean by a routine, Beth? Is it different to a habit?
14. 0:59Well, they are similar, but a habit is something we do regularly.
15. 1:05So, for example, I eat an apple and a banana most days.
16. 1:11— Ooh, very healthy. — Yeah.
17. 1:13A routine, though, is slightly different.
18. 1:16It's usually more about the time that we do something and the way we do something.
19. 1:22So, I have my breakfast at 6am every day.
20. 1:27OK.
21. 1:29You said you have your breakfast at 6am every day.
22. 1:33What do you usually have to eat?
23. 1:36Well, usually I have something simple.
24. 1:41A bowl of cereal, some toast with marmalade.
25. 1:45How about you, Beth?
26. 1:47I usually have porridge.
27. 1:50And what about lunch? What time do you have lunch, usually?
28. 1:55Mm, I normally have lunch at about one o'clock. What about you?
29. 2:01Yeah, the same. I don't like it at 12. That's too early.
30. 2:05But by two, I'm getting a little bit hungry and angry at the same time!
31. 2:11There's a word for that, Neil.
32. 2:13So if you're hungry and angry, we can combine them and say 'hangry'.
33. 2:18Yeah. So it's important to have regular meal times, so you don't get hangry.
34. 2:23That's true. Now you've just reminded me of another word which is 'brunch'.
35. 2:29Now, that's a combination of the words 'breakfast' and 'lunch'.
36. 2:34Do you ever have brunch, Neil?
37. 2:36I love brunch, especially at weekends.
38. 2:40Yeah. When I was at university, I used to have brunch pretty much every day.
39. 2:48So I would meet up with my friends
40. 2:52and we would go to a café and we would have brunch.
41. 2:57Beth, you said that you used to have brunch at university.
42. 3:03Used to — what's that mean?
43. 3:05Well, 'used to' is used to talk about a habit in the past,
44. 3:11so something you did regularly in the past and don't do now.
45. 3:16Now, another way of talking about past habits is to use would.
46. 3:22So if you remember, I said I would message my friends and we would have brunch.
47. 3:29So 'used to' and 'would' are both used to talk about past habits.
48. 3:35Do you ever miss a meal?
49. 3:38No. I think when I was at school, many years ago,
50. 3:42I used to miss breakfast, because I wanted to stay in bed.
51. 3:48What about you?
52. 3:50I don't like to miss meals, because, like I said, I get hangry.
53. 3:56But I guess I also used to miss breakfast when I was a teenager
54. 4:04and I needed to sleep for a huge amount of time every night and get up really late.
55. 4:11Yeah, I think it's quite normal and quite interesting
56. 4:14how your habits change as you get older.
57. 4:19For example, missing meals and that sort of thing.
58. 4:25Mm.
59. 4:29Right, let's recap the vocabulary we learned during the conversation.
60. 4:34We learnt 'routine', 'the time and way we usually do something'.
61. 4:40We heard 'used to' which we use to talk about 'a habit in the past'
62. 4:45and 'would', which we can also use to talk about past habits.
63. 4:51And my favourite 'brunch',
64. 4:53which is 'eating breakfast and lunch' at the same time'.
65. 4:57We also heard a really new word in English,
66. 5:01which is a combination of two words, 'hungry' and 'angry'.
67. 5:07It's 'hangry'.
68. 5:12Thanks for joining us on Real  Easy English. Visit our website
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70. 5:23In the next episode we'll be  talking more about our hobbies.
71. 5:28See you then! Bye.
72. 5:29Goodbye!