Hello and welcome to another episode of Real Easy English, the podcast where we have conversations about everyday topics in Easy English.
I'm Beth.
And I'm Phil.
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Good morning, Phil.
How are you today?
I'm good.
How are you, Beth?
I am very good, thank you.
Have you had your breakfast?
Yes, I have.
Yeah, I have to have breakfast before I come to work.
Okay, well, today we are talking about breakfast.
We'll Do you always have breakfast?
Yes.
If I don't have breakfast, I am a monster.
I need to eat.
I need to feel full and then I can get on with my day.
And also I just really like food and breakfast.
So Why would you want to skip breakfast?
I don't understand that.
No, I think I'm the same.
I have to have breakfast before I leave for work.
And if I don't have breakfast before I leave for work, I end up having breakfast when I'm at work.
And that's not good.
Do you ever have breakfast on the go?
So that means...
Have it while travelling, say you're going from home to work, have it on the move or on the go?
I used to.
I used to.
When I was coming to work, I'd love to stop and get a takeaway coffee and a pastry.
This is after having breakfast.
This is a second breakfast.
But then I realised it was quite expensive, so I stopped.
Yeah, I sometimes get a takeaway coffee, but I don't really have breakfast on the go.
I usually have it at home.
What kind of thing do you eat for breakfast?
For breakfast, usually if I'm coming to work.
I don't like to think too much early in the morning.
So I almost always have the same thing.
I usually have porridge with apple and cinnamon.
It's quite easy to make and it fills me up.
Yeah, I really like porridge.
But to me, it's something that I eat. enjoy more in the winter because it's warm.
So if it's the summer, then I'm more likely to have cereal, maybe with yogurt and fruit, or just cereal with milk and fruit.
Oh, that sounds so nice.
What about the weekend?
Do you have different breakfast at the weekend?
Yes, usually.
So Obviously English people are famous for the full English breakfast with eggs and bacon and sausages and hash browns.
And sometimes I have a breakfast like that at the weekend.
So usually with eggs, maybe some spinach, maybe some hash browns.
I love hash browns.
Yeah, no, I like hash.
I like weekend breakfast because you've got time and you can do different things.
So you can cook a nice cooked English breakfast.
What do you think about sweet breakfast?
So we've talked about savoury breakfasts.
So they're things that are more salty, like eggs and hash browns and toast, that sort of thing.
But what about sweet breakfasts?
Okay, i really like sweet breakfasts, i love pastries and croissants and all of those things, but they don't fill me up, okay.
I find if i have a sweet breakfast, i need to have another breakfast later on.
I guess i'm just thinking I like cereal with fruit.
I guess that is a sweet breakfast.
And I find that fills me up.
But sometimes at the weekend, we have pancakes.
And I would always have sweet pancakes.
So I might put some lemon juice, maybe some fruit, some sugar.
And it's quite filling.
Oh, yeah.
No, no.
Pancakes do fill me up.
And yeah, yeah, I like them with maple syrup.
Yeah, that's good.
That's good.
OK, let's recap the language that we used in the conversation.
We had eat on the go, which means eat while you're travelling.
We can also say eat on the move.
So, for example, Phil said that he used to eat breakfast on the go on his way to work.
We also had takeaway, and that's where you buy food or drink somewhere and you take it somewhere else to eat it or drink it.
So I used to buy a takeaway coffee on my way to work.
If a meal like breakfast fills you up, it means that you've eaten enough and you're not hungry anymore.
And we can eat savoury or sweet breakfasts.
So sweet breakfasts like cereal or fruit taste like sugar.
And savoury breakfasts like bacon or egg taste the opposite of sweet.
And one example of a savoury breakfast is a full English breakfast with fried bacon sausages, egg and things like that.
That's it for this episode of Real Easy English.
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