Unit 5: Christmas every day
'Have to' and 'must'
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Session 4
Food, food and more food. This time we meet Jagtar and learn about his interesting diet. Plus we look back at the language we've learned so far.
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Activity 5
News Report - Christmas dinner
Do you put on weight during the holidays? Is there an easy way to get rid of those extra kilos?
Listen to this week's News Report to find out, and to hear examples of must and have to in action. If you need extra help, there's a transcript to read while you listen - or if you're feeling brave, listen without the transcript.
After you've listened, why not try being a newsreader yourself? Read the transcript out loud, record yourself and play it back. Try to copy the pronunciation of the newsreader - especially when she says phrases with must and have to.
Listen to the audio
Christmas is a time for feasting, but how much is too much?
You're not alone if you worry about gaining weight over the festive season.
And overeating at Christmas has a long history in Britain. In the 13th century, people celebrated the festival for 12 days, with huge and varied meals every day.
Now, the average person consumes 6,000 calories on Christmas Day.
This is the same as eating 4.8 kg of egg-fried rice, or 42 bananas, or 23 hamburgers. Or you could think of it as eating six 300-g chicken curries, three Indian naan breads and 24 onion bhajis.
Of course, some people have to consume this much in a day. For example, Tour de France cyclists and Arctic explorers must eat a lot because they use so much energy.
But, for the rest of us, Christmas Day is usually a time for staying indoors and relaxing, so we probably won’t burn off those 6,000 calories when we’re watching TV.
In fact, an average man has to run for ten hours, and an average woman has to swim for eight hours to do this.
So, do we have to go running the next day?
Sian Porter from the British Dietetic Association says you don’t have to diet for a long time: ‘You can be bad and then be good over the other days – it's over in a short space of time, and you can rebalance those extra calories by cutting back elsewhere.’
Christmas dinner, it seems, is here to stay.
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Vocabulary
feasting
eating special large meals with lots of people
the festive season
the period of time that includes Christmas and New Year
overeating
eating too much
consume
(here) eat or drink
calories
units of energy
curries
hot, spicy dishes from India (and other Southeast Asian countries) with meat or vegetables
explorers
people who travel to new places that nobody has been to before
burn off
use fat or energy by doing exercise
average
usual, normal
a short space of time
a short period of time
rebalance
make a situation better by changing the amount of something
cutting back
using less
elsewhere
in another place
Related story
This story is based on an original BBC News story.
End of Session 4
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Learn more about Christmas
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Well done. We hope you enjoyed meeting Mr Christmas, Aunt Jude and Jagtar. In the next session, it's drama and quiz time.
Session Vocabulary
feasting
eating special large meals with lots of peoplethe festive season
the period of time that includes Christmas and New Yearovereating
eating too muchconsume
(here) eat or drinkcalories
units of energycurries
hot, spicy dishes from India (and other Southeast Asian countries) with meat or vegetablesexplorers
people who travel to new places that nobody has been to beforeburn off
use fat or energy by doing exerciseaverage
usual, normala short space of time
a short period of timerebalance
make a situation better by changing the amount of somethingcutting back
using lesselsewhere
in another place