Holiday habits

假日习俗

Learning English Grammar

2025-12-16

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Are you the kind of person who plans a trip last minute? Or do you prefer to build a spreadsheet months in advance? Pippa and Phil talk about what they tend to do when they're planning a trip, and our grammar guru Georgie explains how to use the phrase 'tend to' and modal verbs 'will' and 'might' to talk about usual behaviour. TRANSCRIPT AND WORKSHEET: Find a full transcript for this episode and a worksheet ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/learning-english-grammar/251216 THE READING ROOM: ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/features/the_reading_room FIND BBC LEARNING ENGLISH HERE: Visit our website ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish Follow us ✔️ https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/followus LIKE PODCASTS? Try some of our other popular podcasts including: ✔️ 6 Minute English ✔️ 6 Minute Vocabulary ✔️ The English We Speak They're all available by searching in your podcast app.
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  • I tend to do things last minute so I'm the type of person to pack the night before and I'll usually book the flights maybe a couple of days before the holiday as well.

  • Generally I really like kind of active adventurous holidays so I have to make sure there are lots of things to do.

  • I don't like sitting on the beach and I don't tend to kind of have lazy days.

  • Hello and welcome to Learning English Grammar.

  • I'm Pippa.

  • And I'm Phil.

  • We just heard George and Sean talking about the kinds of people they are when they plan holidays.

  • Today we're going to learn language to talk about tendencies.

  • So that's our typical behaviour.

  • We'll learn how to use the phrase tend to and the modal verbs will and might to talk about general behaviour.

  • OK, so we probably know how to use will to talk about the future.

  • but you may not have heard it used like this.