Hello and welcome to Real Easy English.
In this podcast, we have a real conversation in easy English to help you learn.
I'm Phil.
And I'm Georgie.
You can watch a video version of this podcast and find a free worksheet to test what you've learnt all on our website, bbclearningenglishcom.
Hi Georgie, how are you?
I'm very well, thank you Phil.
How are you?
How was your lunch?
My lunch, it was great because I had leftovers from yesterday's dinner.
I had potato and leek soup yesterday for dinner.
And that is actually what we're talking about today.
We're talking about the evening meal, which we often call dinner.
But you might hear people in the UK also say tea or supper.
It's all the same thing.
Yeah, exactly.
So, Phil, what are you having for dinner tonight?
OK, well, I think we're having...
Lamb chops and something with kind of egg and cabbage.
Oh, that sounds good.
When you say we, who's that?
That's me and my wife and my kids.
Lovely.
The four of us.
For me, today is not a normal day because I have choir practice.
So normally, or usually, I would have something... like a proper meal.
A proper meal is a big dinner, something that will make you full.
But today I have choir practice and choir practice is at the same time as dinner.
So I'm not sure what I'm going to have for dinner, but I might have Something from the bakery that I can walk and eat with.
Or I could have some snacks at the choir practice.
Sometimes they have some snacks there.
So we'll see.
What time do you usually have dinner?
It depends, but usually around 7 or 8 o'clock.
What about you?
Yeah, probably about the same, probably 6.30, 7, 7.30, depends how long I spend cooking.
It surprises me because you have children and they often want to eat.
Sooner, earlier.
We often give them something like a snack when they come home from school.
And then, yeah, by the time we finish work and we've cooked something, it's late.
And what do you usually have for dinner with your family?
Different things.
We usually cook something, so...
I know it might be pasta, or it might be fish, or it might be something with meat, something with chicken.
Depends, different things.
I have a subscription to a company that do recipes and they deliver the food and the ingredients to your door once a week.
So I eat a variety of things for dinner actually.
I try to choose recipes that are very different from each other.
So Phil, who normally cooks in your house?
To be honest, it's mostly me, but it depends what we're doing.
So maybe when I'm in the office.
So today I'm in the office And also my son is doing something later, so he needs to have dinner fairly early.
So my wife will probably cook today.
But then tomorrow...
My wife's doing something after work and I'm working from home, so I'll cook tomorrow and it just depends.
It depends what we're doing.
It's mostly me, but it depends.
Okay, mostly you.
So that means almost always.
In my house...
I live with housemates and we.
We normally cook for ourselves, but occasionally we will cook something together or I will cook for them.
They will cook for me.
So, yeah, we change it, change it up.
Very occasionally my daughter cooks.
She started cooking.
Sometimes just for herself because she doesn't like what I've cooked.
Okay.
OK, let's recap the language we used during the conversation.
We talked about what we'll have for dinner tonight using may, might and could.
And may, might and could are modal verbs that we use to talk about possibilities.
For example, tonight I might eat something from the bakery.
We also talked about things we normally eat for dinner.
Normally and usually mean the same thing.
And we use them to talk about things that happen most often in our routines.
And we can also use mostly to describe what we eat for dinner or who cooks dinner.
And if we mostly do something, it means we do it most of the time.
We also heard occasionally, which means something similar to sometimes something that doesn't happen very often.
For example, I occasionally cook with my housemates.
That's it for this episode of Real Easy English.
We'll be back next week with another Easy English conversation.
Don't forget to try our worksheet over on our website.
Go to bbclearningenglish.com Goodbye for now.
Bye.
