A1 English Listening Practice - Cooking — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey everybody, welcome to this A1
2. 0:02English listening practice video. You
3. 0:05can use this video to train your
4. 0:07listening and comprehension as I speak.
5. 0:10You ready? So today I'm going to talk
6. 0:13about cooking. I do not know how to
7. 0:17cook. So I do not know a lot about this
8. 0:20topic. However, I like eating so I like
9. 0:24talking about food in general. I am
10. 0:27lucky because my wife cooks very well.
11. 0:31She has a natural talent for cooking.
12. 0:34So, she cooks well. That means that I
13. 0:37eat well. Let me tell you about some of
14. 0:40the things that my wife cooks. Since she
15. 0:43is Mexican, she likes cooking Mexican
16. 0:46food. Sometimes she makes tacos, which
17. 0:49are delicious. There are many types of
18. 0:52tacos, so my wife can cook different
19. 0:55tacos each time. I also cooked tacos in
20. 0:59the past, but I don't cook well, so my
21. 1:02tacos weren't very good. I cooked tacos
22. 1:06lenua, tongue tacos, but I didn't cook
23. 1:09them very well. My wife cooks much
24. 1:12better. The only thing that I cook well
25. 1:16is eggs. I love eggs and I eat them
26. 1:20almost every morning. I think eggs are
27. 1:23the best breakfast food. I usually eat
28. 1:27scrambled eggs, but I also eat other
29. 1:30types of eggs, too. My favorite type is
30. 1:34eggs benedict. M. This is my favorite
31. 1:37breakfast. Have you tried eggs benedict?
32. 1:41So, my wife also makes pasta. She makes
33. 1:45really good pasta. She doesn't buy the
34. 1:48pasta in the box that you buy from the
35. 1:51store. She makes the pasta by hand. She
36. 1:55makes the noodles and they taste so
37. 1:58good. When you make pasta by hand, it
38. 2:02tastes better. I love all types of
39. 2:05pasta, but my favorite is ravioli. For
40. 2:09me, ravioli is the perfect food.
41. 2:13Actually, I like all Italian food. When
42. 2:16we were in Italy, we ate some amazing
43. 2:20food. My wife also cooks a lot of meat.
44. 2:24We like eating different cuts of steak
45. 2:28every week. We try to buy cheap meat
46. 2:32because meat can be expensive. We don't
47. 2:35want to spend a lot of money, so we buy
48. 2:38cheap meat. My wife cooks the meat in a
49. 2:42pan, which is easy. Other people cook
50. 2:45their meat on a grill. We don't have a
51. 2:48grill, so we use a pan. I think that
52. 2:52meat tastes good if it's cooked on a pan
53. 2:56or on a grill. Meat is always good. I
54. 3:00hope my wife cooks meat tonight. She
55. 3:02also cooks really good breakfast. She
56. 3:06makes really good pancakes. I like to
57. 3:09eat pancakes with maple syrup and peanut
58. 3:12butter. I know that's a little strange,
59. 3:15but it's delicious. I love pancakes and
60. 3:19peanut butter. My wife also cooks
61. 3:22chilakilles, a common Mexican breakfast.
62. 3:26This is my favorite breakfast in the
63. 3:28world. I love chilakilles.
64. 3:32This dish has tortilla chips, salsa,
65. 3:36cheese, and cream. I like it with eggs
66. 3:40on top. It's so good. I don't know which
67. 3:43is better, breakfast or dinner. In my
68. 3:47family, we cook dinner 5 days a week.
69. 3:51The other days we go out to eat dinner
70. 3:54or we eat dinner with other people.
71. 3:58Sometimes we eat dinner with my parents
72. 4:01and other times we eat dinner with my
73. 4:04sister. Tonight we will eat dinner with
74. 4:07my parents and my mother will cook
75. 4:10dinner. When I was a kid, my mother
76. 4:13cooked dinner every weekday. Every
77. 4:16evening, we ate dinner at 6:30 p.m.
78. 4:20every day. Do you eat dinner at the same
79. 4:23time every day? In the US, it's common
80. 4:26for families to eat dinner together. We
81. 4:30sit together at the table. We eat and we
82. 4:34talk about our day. Dinner time is
83. 4:37important in the US. In other countries,
84. 4:41people eat dinner late, like at 8:00
85. 4:43p.m. or 900 p.m. But this is too late
86. 4:47for me. I don't want to eat dinner late.
87. 4:51I like eating dinner at 5, 6, or 700
88. 4:55p.m. This is a good time for dinner.
89. 4:59What do you like eating for dinner? I
90. 5:02like every type of food from every
91. 5:05country. I can eat anything and I love
92. 5:09trying new foods. Like I said, I don't
93. 5:12cook well, but I eat well. Maybe I will
94. 5:16learn to cook in the future, but I don't
95. 5:19know. I don't like cooking and I don't
96. 5:22have the natural talent to cook. I
97. 5:26prefer eating, not cooking. My wife
98. 5:30cooks very well, so I don't need to
99. 5:33learn. I'm thankful for that. Okay, we
100. 5:36are finished for today. Leave a comment
101. 5:39and tell me if you like cooking. I'll
102. 5:42see you next video.
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