Learn useful everyday English expressions for eating at home and going out to restaurants. You will learn how to use expressions like dine in, dine out, eat in, eat out, takeout, takeaway, stay in, go out, night in, and night out. Through simple explanations, you’ll improve your speaking and listening skills and sound more natural in real conversations. Perfect for English learners who want to feel more confident ordering food and talking about their daily plans! Take the quiz on this lesson at https://www.engvid.com/easy-everyday-english-stay-in-go-out/

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In this lesson:
0:00 Introduction
0:27 Go out
2:00 Stay in
3:27 Eat out
4:24 Eat in
5:13 Night out
6:26 Night in
7:12 Dine out/dine in
9:18 Take out, take away

Transcript:
So, lets improve your vocabulary and conversation skills today by learning just a couple of key verbs and expressions. So today, were going to talk about some words we use to talk about going out or outside, for example, to a restaurant, and some words we use to talk about being inside at home and doing activities at home.

So let me look at the first one. Go out and stay in. So youll notice "go out" is in this column that says "outside", and theres a picture of a restaurant. When we go out, that means that we leave our home, usually to do something fun. There are some other meanings of "go out", but today were just going to focus on this idea or this meaning, to leave the home for fun.

So lets look at some examples. I can say, "I want to go out tonight." Lets go out. This means I do not want to be at home; I want to be outside of the home. Maybe at a bar or a restaurant. The past tense of "go out" is "went out". "Last night, I went out." So you might hear this in a conversation. Someone might say, "What did you do last night?" "Oh, last night? I went out. I went out to a restaurant. I went out with my friends." So "go out" and "went out" means to leave the house to do something fun.

So whats the opposite of this? Well, we can use the word "stay in". "Stay in" means that you stay at home. So heres a picture of a house. If I say "stay in", its a phrasal verb, and it means to stay at my house. So I love staying in. This means I love being at my house. I love to stay at home. So lets look at some examples. I can say, "I want to stay in tonight." This means I want to stay at home. "What did you do yesterday?" "Oh, yesterday, I stayed in. I stayed in last night." So this is the past tense, and it just means you stayed at home.

So, do you prefer to go out or stay in? You can write in the comments below what you prefer to do. Go out on a Friday night or stay in on a Friday night. Whats better in your opinion?

Well, lets look at some more examples of different words that have to do with the same idea. We also can talk about restaurants. I have here the verb "eat", "eat out", and the verb here, "eat in". So whats the difference between "eat out" and "eat in"? Well, when we eat out - theres a picture of the restaurant - we eat at a restaurant. So for example, "I dont want to cook. I dont want to cook tonight. Lets eat out." This means lets eat at a restaurant. Do you like to eat out? This means do you like to eat at a restaurant? So if you have the word "out" here, "eat out", were talking about going to a restaurant. This is opposite to "eat in".

So we have "eat in". When we say "eat in", we mean eat at home. Some people think its cheaper to eat in. Some friends of mine will say, "I dont want to go to a restaurant. I want to eat in. Its cheap. I like to cook." So "eat in" means to eat at a house, to eat at your home. So, what do you prefer? Do you prefer to eat out or eat in? I like eating out. Im a terrible cook, so I like to eat out. I like to eat at restaurants.

Alright, so weve looked at different words, and you might have already noticed the pattern. We often use "out" with a word to mean go to a restaurant or go outside somewhere. We often use "in" with certain words to mean stay home. So lets look at some more of these. We can talk about "a night out" or "a night in". "A night out" means to go outside of your home to do something for entertainment. It might be to go to a restaurant, a movie, the theatre, a bar. If you have a night out, it means youre going outside of your home to do something fun. So I can say, "Lets have a night out." Friday, on Friday, lets have a night out. Lets do something outside. Or I might ask somebody, you know, "How was your night out?" And this means, "How was your night going outside of your home to do something fun?" […]