Breakfast

Verb + breakfast

• have breakfast

• make breakfast

• skip breakfast

Adjective + breakfast

• an enormous breakfast

• a light breakfast

• a cooked breakfast

• a continental breakfast

Common expressions

• have (cereal) for breakfast

• discuss (work) over breakfast

• go without breakfast

• (swim) before breakfast

Exercise

1. Verb and adjective collocations

1. It's not a good idea to skip breakfast. It's the most important meal of the day.

2. I like to have breakfast in bed on Sundays.

3. I don't know how he managed lunch after the enormous breakfast he had this morning!

4. I always have a fairly light breakfast - just a continental breakfast of coffee and a croissant. I can't eat a cooked breakfast of bacon and eggs!

5. Could you get the kids dressed while I make breakfast?

2. Common expressions

1. I went for a swim in the hotel pool before breakfast. - d

2. We chatted about business over a working breakfast. - a

3. I had cereal and toast for breakfast. - b

4. I often go to without breakfast. - c

Note

Note these expressions:

• Bed and breakfast is 23 Euros.

• Could you wash up the breakfast things? (plates, cups etc)