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Hi Neil. How are you? I'm very well thank you, Georgie. Are you enjoying your coffee? I am, but it's got a bit cool now. I prefer my coffee hot, but... oh well! Are you enjoying yours? I've finished mine. Oh, that's a shame. It's a sad moment when I've finished my second coffee of the day,

because that's it. I don't have more than two. So, we're talking about coffee in this episode, aren't we? We are. But before we start, of course, everyone needs to know that there is a free worksheet on our website. That's at bbclearningenglish.com. Yes, they can also find a free transcript, can't they? They can, yes, at the same address.

So, Georgie, we're talking about coffee. How much coffee, or how many coffees if we're talking about cups of coffee – how many do you have a day? I usually have two, and I know that you do as well, because we drink them both in the office, don't we? We have one cup of coffee in the morning and one usually in the afternoon,

when we need to regain some energy and alertness. Yeah. And so, we all know because we make each other... at BBC Learning English, we make each other coffee, so we know how we take our coffee. Yes. 'How we take our coffee' is how we like it – what we like to put in it.

For example, sugar or milk. I know that you don't like milk in your coffee. You take your coffee black. I do. I like black coffee and you take your coffee white and you used to have sugar, but you don't anymore. That's right. Occasionally when I'm at home I put some honey in my coffee to make it a bit sweeter.

Eurgh! Honey in coffee? Yes. Is that surprising? I've never heard of that. Really? Sugar, but not honey. But why would that be so bad? Well, I don't know. It's just I've never heard of it. It's really good. I would recommend. OK. So, Georgie, what happens if you don't have your coffee? Well, in the morning if I don't have coffee, I feel very grumpy