Neil Hello, welcome to Real Easy English. In this podcast, we have real conversations in easy English to help you learn. I’m Neil.
Georgie And I’m Georgie. Visit our website to find all the vocabulary from this episode and a free transcript.
Neil Hi, Georgie. How are you doing this week? Are you feeling healthy?
Georgie Today I’m feeling healthy. I had a healthy lunch. But this weekend I ate a lot of chocolate. And this week we’re talking about our healthy or not so healthy habits.
Neil OK. Well, let’s get started.
Georgie Neil, what do you do to stay healthy?
Neil Well, I try to eat well so that means not eating too much, and not eating too much fat or salt or sugar. But that’s what I try to do, not always what I do.
Georgie It’s really difficult, for me especially, it’s difficult not to eat too much sugar. I love a sweet treat.
Neil Have you got a sweet tooth?
Georgie I do have a sweet tooth. So maybe we should explain ‘a sweet treat’, which is anything that is sugary like a pastry or a doughnut or something chocolate. And a sweet tooth, Neil. What’s a sweet tooth?
Neil Well, if someone has a sweet tooth it means they like sweet things, like you.
Georgie Yes, I have a sweet tooth, definitely.
Neil So, Georgie, you like sweet things. But what do you do to be healthy?
Georgie OK, yes, I do eat a lot of sweet treats, but to stay healthy I am very good at walking to places. So instead of taking public transport or driving, I like walking and that’s… I think that’s good for you, isn’t it?
Neil Yeah, walking’s good, or riding a bike.
Georgie I’m not very good at riding a bike. It’s too scary in London, it feels too dangerous.
Neil What do you think you could be better at when it comes to your health?
Georgie Yes, well as we know, I eat a lot of chocolate. So I could be better having a healthy diet, eating less chocolate and eating more vegetables. What about you, Neil, what could you be better at?
Neil I think I could probably get more sleep, actually. Sleep is very important for your health, and I never seem to sleep enough.
Georgie No, you’re always tired. You’re always complaining about not sleeping enough.
Neil So, Georgie, are you going to change your health habits soon?
Georgie OK, yes, I will. I’ll change my habits soon. Let’s start next week.
Neil Next week? Why not tomorrow?
Georgie Because I don’t want to! Give me a bit more time.
Neil OK.
Georgie When are you going to change your habits? Soon?
Neil Well, I would like to sleep for many months. But it’s not going to happen. I will still be waking up too early, I’m sure. But maybe I should drink less coffee, go to bed earlier and spend less time on a screen.
Georgie Yep, that sounds like a good plan.
Neil So, Georgie. We know all the advice for staying healthy. Do you find it hard, though, to stay healthy?
Georgie Yes, I do find it difficult because we know the advice, we shouldn’t eat too much sugar, but I still want my sweet treat at the end of the day. It makes me happy!
Neil Well, if it makes you happy, it’s probably healthy.
Georgie Yeah!
OK, let’s look again at some of the language we heard during the conversation.
We had healthy diet, food that is good for you.
Neil** Advice**, opinions about what you should do. For example, to stay healthy, you should ride a bike to work.
Georgie We heard soon, used to describe something that will happen in a short amount of time. For example, I’m going on holiday soon. Next week.
Neil And still, used to describe something that is continuing. For example, you still like chocolate, even though it’s unhealthy.
Georgie We learned sweet treat, something sugary that you enjoy.
Neil And we heard sweet tooth. If you have a sweet tooth, you like sweet food.
Georgie That’s it for this episode of Real Easy English. Visit our website for more programmes to help with your English: bbclearningenglish.com
Neil And next time we’ll talk about our plans for the future.
Georgie See you, then. Bye.
Neil Goodbye.