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# 2 Let’s have breakfast!

Now have a go at Activity 2, in which you’ll hear people describing what they usually eat for breakfast.

## Activity 2

Listen to three people saying what they usually eat for breakfast. From the list below, select all words you can hear. Some words are mentioned more than once.

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Transcript
Kaffee
Honig
Milch
Müsli
Orangensaft
Ei
Eier
Toast
Tee
Croissant
Brot
Brötchen
Schinken
Wurst
Tomaten
Käse
Oliven
Marmelade
Jogurt

### Answer

The correct answers were: Brot, Toast, Marmelade, Käse, Milch, Müsli, Ei, Schinken Brötchen, Kaffee, Jogurt.

In Activity 2, apart from German words for certain food and drink, you also heard two important verbs: essen (to eat) and trinken (to drink). Trinken is a regular verb. You might already be familiar with the verb forms in the present tense, but in Table 1, there is a quick reminder.

## Table 1 The present tense of the regular verb trinken

trinken |
ich trinke | wir trinken
du trinkst | ihr trinkt
er/sie/es trinkt | Sie/sie trinken

The verb essen, however, is slightly irregular. Like some other irregular verbs – for example sprechen (to speak) or fahren (to travel) – you can see that there is a vowel change in the 2nd and 3rd person singular.

## Table 2 The present tense of the irregular verb essen

essen |
ich esse | wir essen
du isst | ihr esst
er/sie/es isst | Sie/sie essen

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