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Hello everyone and welcome to English Pod. My name is Marco. My name is Katherine. And today we've got an elementary level lesson for you all about getting up in the morning. That's right. Today we're making breakfast. And, uh, well, of course, many people have different things when they're making breakfast. Some of them are very big, others are small. So, but this is what we're going to talk about today. So, why don't we listen to the dialogue and see what they're having for breakfast today.

Dialogue

Smells good. What's for breakfast?Well, since we're getting up so late, I decided to make a big breakfast.Nice brunch.Kind of. So, I made scrambled and softboiled eggs, some French toast, and buttermilk pancakes.Wow, you really went all out. Did you make any coffee?Yeah, just the way you like it. I also put out some cereal and muesli if you feel like having something more light.Looks good. I'll squeeze us some fresh orange juice. Get the jam and butter while you are in there. Oh, and don't forget the syrup.

Okay, we're back. So, a lot of interesting things. A huge breakfast. Way too big for me. I don't like to eat a big breakfast because I feel like it makes me tired and then I don't have any energy. Especially if you just get up, right? Exactly. You need to shower and maybe have some fruit and then go to work. But we can talk about it at the end. There were a lot of interesting words and phrases that we heard that we would benefit from taking a closer look at.

Language Takeaway

Alright. So, on language takeaway today, we're going to take a look at our first word. And it's an interesting word. It's kind of a mix of two things. Brunch. That's right. So, this word comes from two different words. Breakfast. Br... breakfast and lunch. That's right. So, brunch. So, if you have brunch, what is exactly uh brunch? Well, there's two ways to look at brunch. One is the time element. Usually, brunch is later than breakfast, but maybe a little earlier than lunch. So, 11:00 or maybe even noon. Um, but the other thing is size. Because you're putting two meals together, usually brunch is very big. You eat a lot of food. Okay? So, it's a perfect combination of breakfast and lunch. I'm the type of person that likes having scrambled eggs at noon. So, uh this is a perfect solution. Brunch. Right. You don't have to only eat eggs at breakfast. You can eat them at lunch as well. Exactly. This is actually something we do a lot in America for Mother's Day. So, mom wakes up late. We take her to brunch. It's a very big special meal. Very good.

And talking about eggs and um and the types of eggs that we can have, I mentioned scrambled eggs and in the dialogue we also heard softboiled eggs. Okay, these are two very important kinds of eggs. Usually if you're in a restaurant, they will ask you how do you want your eggs cooked or done. And uh my answer is always scrambled. Scrambled. This means someone mixes the eggs before they are cooked. And then when they cook, they are hard. They're yellow. Okay, there's no white. It's just yellow and it's it's a little hard mixture. Um, but softboiled eggs are very very different. That's right. Soft boiled eggs, you actually don't break the egg or open the egg to cook it like in scrambled eggs. You actually put the entire egg in boiling water. Uh, I think it's for 2 minutes and then you take it out and then you open the shell. And the eggs are kind of cooked. It's kind of hard in some parts, but it's also kind of uh liquidy in other parts. That's right. So the outside, the white part is hard, but the yellow part, the yolk, is is liquid. It's not hard. That's right. And actually, if you want the whole egg to be hard, you can ask for hardboiled eggs. That's right. Those are cooked for much longer. That's right. Okay. So, we have scrambled eggs, softboiled eggs.