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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English,

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the podcast where we have real conversations in easy English

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to help you learn.

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I'm Beth.

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And I'm Neil.

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Hi, Neil. How are you?

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I'm hungry.

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Me too. I'm starving.

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Well, that's good, because we're talking about lunch today.

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We're recording this just before lunch, so it's no wonder that

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we're both very hungry.

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You might be able to hear our tummies rumble because we're hungry.

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OK. So, shall we begin?

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Yes. Let's do it.

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What have you got for lunch today?

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Today for my lunch, I have chicken with potatoes and vegetables

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in a harissa paste.

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Oh, that sounds really nice.

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Yeah, it's leftovers actually,

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which I have heated up and brought in, in a little flask.

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What are leftovers?

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Good question. Leftovers.

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That's food from a meal that you've already had that you didn't finish

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and you can heat it up and eat it again.

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Yes. I also have leftovers for my lunch today.

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So, yesterday I made a pasta for lunch with vegetables in it

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and I have that.

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So, Beth, what do you usually have for lunch?

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Is it usually leftovers or something else?

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It's usually leftovers when I come into work because it's easier,

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and then I don't need to buy lunch.

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But if I go out and buy food,

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then I would usually go for something like sushi or ramen.

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What about you? What do you usually have for lunch?

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Yeah. Sometimes I have leftovers that I bring in.

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Sometimes I buy a sandwich, for example.

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What's your favourite kind of sandwich?

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If I have a sandwich...

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if I buy a sandwich for lunch, I like to get things like smoked salmon.

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Nice, with pickles maybe.

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Yeah.

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There's a really good baguette I like actually that has smoked salmon

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and egg mayonnaise in it.

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Oh, it's so nice.

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Stop it.

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Sorry.

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I'm so hungry.

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Me too. Neil, do you ever skip lunch?

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No. No way!

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I would be in a horrible mood if I skipped lunch.

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I don't understand how anyone can skip any meal.

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I need to eat all my meals.

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Yeah. Otherwise, you get hangry.

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Exactly. 'Hangry' is hungry and angry.

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I'm on the... I'm almost getting hangry now.

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What's your favourite meal? Is it lunch?

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Breakfast? Dinner?

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I think the evening meal is probably my favourite because we sit at the table

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and chat and it's the biggest, nicest meal of the day

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and you don't really have to do anything after so you can relax.

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Mmm. Yeah, that's good.

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I really like brunch, which is that sort of in between breakfast

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and lunch – maybe 10:00.

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And I might have eggs and bacon and hash browns and avocado,

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a big meal full of lots of good food. I like a brunch.

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Do you ever have a working lunch?

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I do occasionally if I'm working from home.

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because I can carry on working and eat quickly.

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And then in my actual lunch break, I might have a nice long walk

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or something like that,

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but when I'm in the office, I don't want to eat at my desk.

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No. Me neither.

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I don't really like working lunches.

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I would rather eat my lunch without working.

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Yeah, I'd prefer the same, really.

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Let's recap the language we heard during the conversation.

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We had 'skip', which means not have or do.

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For example, I never skip lunch.

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We heard 'working lunch', which is when you eat your lunch while you're working.

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We also had 'leftovers', which is when you don't finish a meal

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so you have more of it at a different time, like the next day.

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And we talked about which meals and food we 'prefer'.

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If you prefer something, you like it better than something else.

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Yes. And another phrase we can use to say this is 'would rather'.

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For example, I'd rather have sushi than a sandwich for lunch.

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That's it for this episode of Real Easy English.

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Goodbye!