Name: Talking about food 🍔🥒🍫 Real Easy English
Uploaded: 2026-03-14T10:54:13.000Z
Duration: 5 min 44 s
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Welcome to real easy english from BBC learning english.

In this podcast, we have a real conversation in easy english.

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Well, today we are talking about food in particular.

We'll talk about our favourite foods and how often we eat them.

What do we mean by how often we eat something?

How often means how many times we eat our favourite food.

So we might eat them every week, Every day.

Or if we really like a food, we might eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Well, that's a really difficult question, but I really like fish.

actually I really love seafood, so I think I'd say any kind of dish with seafood in it I absolutely love.

I have it when I go on holiday and I have it in restaurants sometimes, but

But yeah, I never have seafood at home, actually.

The smell of them even makes me feel a bit sick.

So we've talked about the foods that we really like and the foods that we don't like, but

in a general week, what do you normally cook?

also Italian pasta dishes or Spanish dishes and then sometimes more traditional British roast dinner kind of thing.

Yeah, I think generally we have the same at home.

Like, we eat a lot of food from different countries, but

I have to say I usually cook quite a lot of pasta and quite a lot of rice at home in general, just because they cook really quickly.

So, Beth, you generally eat rice and pasta dishes.

Well, we use generally and usually and normally for habits or things that we do a lot.

So, for example, if I generally cook pasta or rice, that means maybe five times out of the seven in a week, I would say.

If we use sometimes, we mean that we do it less than generally.

Yeah, Sometimes might be two or three times a week.

I guess it depends on what you're talking about.

But for example, with me, I sometimes cook fish.

Like I said, I have it maybe twice a week, so I would say that sometimes.

Beth, you said that you hate baked beans.

I can't stand them, so I never ever have baked beans.

Well, never is something that we don't do.

I can't believe you don't like baked beans.

Let's quickly recap the vocabulary we learnt during the conversation.

We learnt often, which means we do something a lot, and

we learnt how often, which we use to ask someone how many times they do something, usually normally and generally, which are all ways to talk about things we do a lot sometimes, which we can use to talk about things we do, but

not always or often and never to talk about things we don't do.

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