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Welcome to Real Easy English, the podcast where we have real conversations in easy English to help you learn.
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I'm Beth.
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And I'm Neil.
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If you want to read along with this podcast, you can find a full transcript on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
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How are you today, Neil?
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I'm very well, thank you, Beth.
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How about you?
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I'm very good.
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So, what topic are we talking about in this episode?
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OK, well, today's episode is all about habits and routines.
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Now, we talked about our favourite foods a few weeks ago, but today we'll talk about our meal times and routines for eating.
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Sounds good.
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What do we mean by a routine, Beth?
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Is it different to a habit?
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Well, they are similar but a habit is something we do regularly.
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So, for example, I eat an apple and a banana most days.
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Oh, very healthy.
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Yeah.
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A routine, though, is slightly different.
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It's usually more about the time that we do something and the way we do something.
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So, I have my breakfast at 6am every day.
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OK.
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You said you have your breakfast at 6am every day.
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What do you usually have to eat?
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Well, usually I have something simple – a bowl of cereal, some toast with marmalade.
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How about you, Beth?
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I usually have porridge.
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And what about lunch?
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What time do you have lunch usually?
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I normally have lunch at about one o'clock.
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What about you?
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Yeah, the same.
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I don't like it at twelve, that's too early.
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But by two I'm getting a little bit hungry and angry at the same time.
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There's a word for that, Neil.
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So if you're hungry and angry we can combine them and say hangry.
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Yeah, so it's important to have regular mealtimes so you don't get hangry.
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That's true.
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Now, you've just reminded me of another word which is brunch.
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Now that's a combination of the words breakfast and lunch.
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Do you ever have brunch, Neil?
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I love brunch, especially at weekends.
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Yeah.
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When I was at university I used to have brunch pretty much every day.
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So I would meet up with my friends and we would go to a cafe and we would have brunch.
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Beth, you said that you used to have brunch at university.
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Used to.
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What's that mean?
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Well, used to is used to talk about a habit in the past.
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So, something you did regularly in the past and don't do now.
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Now, another way of talking about past habits is to use would.
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So, if you remember, I said I would message my friends and we would have brunch.
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So used to and would are both used to talk about past habits.
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Do you ever miss a meal?
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No.
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I think when I was at school many years ago, I used to miss breakfast because I wanted to stay in bed.
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What about you?
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I don't like to miss meals because, like I said, I get hangry.
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But I guess I also used to miss breakfast when I was a teenager and I needed to sleep for a huge amount of time every night and get up really late.
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Yeah, I think it's quite normal and quite interesting how your habits change as you get older.
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For example, missing meals and that sort of thing.
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Right, let's recap the vocabulary we learned during the conversation.
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We learnt routine – the time and way we usually do something.
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We heard used to, which we use to talk about a habit in the past, and would, which we can also use to talk about past habits.
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And my favourite, brunch, which is eating breakfast and lunch at the same time.
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We also heard a really new word in English, which is a combination of two words, hungry and angry.
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It's hangry.
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Thanks for joining us on Real Easy English.
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Visit our website for more activities and courses to help you with your English.
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In the next episode, we'll be talking more about our hobbies.
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See you then!
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Bye!
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Thank you.

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Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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