breakfast

Everyday

1. Breakfast is the first meal of the day, eaten in the morning. tree →
2. To breakfast (old or formal) means to eat breakfast. tree →

In the lessons

In health lessons breakfast gives your body and brain energy after the night, helping you concentrate at school; a healthy breakfast may have cereal, fruit, toast, eggs or yoghurt. Breakfasts differ around the world: a full English breakfast, pancakes in the USA, porridge, Vegemite on toast in Australia. Some schools run breakfast clubs. Phrases: have breakfast, eat breakfast, for breakfast, breakfast club, bed and breakfast.

Examples

• What did you have for breakfast? tree →
• I eat cereal and a banana for breakfast. tree →
• Breakfast is the first meal of the day. tree →
• Don't skip breakfast; you'll be hungry at school. tree →
• On Sundays we have pancakes for breakfast. tree →
• The breakfast club opens at eight o'clock. tree →
• Grandpa made us breakfast in bed for Mum's birthday. tree →
• We stayed at a bed and breakfast by the sea. tree →
• ‘To fetch bread for my breakfast.’ tree →

Note

Usually no «a»: «have breakfast», «at breakfast», «for breakfast»; but «a big breakfast» with an adjective. It comes from «break» + «fast» (you stop not eating after the night), so it is said «BREK-fust». Meals of the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner or tea or supper.