Placeholder Image

Subtitles section Play video

  • Hello, I'm Georgie from BBC Learning English.

  • And I'm excited because in this video, we're talking about eating and learning some phrasal verbs related to eating.

  • Let's start with snacks.

  • If you snack on something, you eat small amounts of something between meals.

  • You wouldn't usually snack on a burger, but you could snack on some biscuits or some fruit.

  • They're snacking on some crisps on the plane.

  • Munching on something is similar to snacking on something.

  • It's eating snacks in a casual way, but it has an added element of being noisy, maybe because you're eating something crunchy, like an apple or some crisps.

  • She is munching on an apple.

  • Dig in and tuck in are similar and can be used interchangeably.

  • They mean to start eating excitedly or enthusiastically.

  • They're often used to give people permission to start eating.

  • Everyone's got their plates?

  • Okay, dig in.

  • The food smelled delicious, they couldn't wait to tuck in.

  • The boy is already tucking in.

  • Eat up or eat something up is a phrasal verb that's mostly used as an imperative to tell someone what to do.

  • It means to finish everything on your plate.

  • Eat up, you've got a big day tomorrow, you'll need the energy.

  • You'd better eat up all your vegetables before you leave the table.

  • Now, pig out might be obvious if you think about it, we think about pigs eating a lot of food.

  • And that's exactly what it means, it suggests you're eating more than you need, but that's kind of the point.

  • After the long hike, she pigged out on sugary doughnuts.

  • Finally, eat out means eat out.

  • You eat outside of your home, like in a restaurant or a cafe.

  • They had no food in the fridge, so they decided to eat out.

  • Yeah, I'm starving, I really fancy pigging out on some chucky.

  • Remember, don't freak out, just come back to BBC Learning English and we'll work on more phrasal verbs and how to use them.

  • See you next time.

Hello, I'm Georgie from BBC Learning English.

Subtitles and vocabulary

Click the word to look it up Click the word to find further inforamtion about it