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Hello and welcome to the English we speak. I'm Faye

And I'm Neil. Wow, that food smells amazing. What is it?

It's part of my new diet. I've decided to start eating much more healthily as my New Year's resolution.

You're making me hungry. I'm really impressed with your new healthy lifestyle.

Congratulations. Yes, it's a change for the better. What? A change for the butter?

You've started eating only butter? else that doesn't sound like a

balanced diet no I said a change for the better we use the expression a change for the

better to talk about an improvement in the state or

condition of something. For example, my new diet is an improvement in the way I eat.

Ah, that makes sense and now I can see what you're eating. So many vegetables. Compared

with the takeaway food you used to eat, it really is a change for the better. Maybe you can

give me some advice about what to eat.

We can talk more about that after these examples.

The new manager brought in some new plants

plants and repainted the office.

The new look really was a change for the better.

Many people feel that four-day working weeks

would be a change for the better.

The decision to change the focus of the project was a change for the better. This is the English we speak from BBC Learning English.

We're learning about the expression, a change for the better.

We use this to say there's been an improvement in the condition or quality of something.

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