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Podcast: Food & Cooking
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📝 Podcast Transcript
Hi, Lena! Welcome back to Word Kitchen!
Hi, Maya! I am so hungry today. Are we cooking?
Yes! Today we talk about food and cooking. It will be delicious.
I hope so. I love food that is delicious.
Me too. Let us start in the kitchen. My kitchen is small, but I love my kitchen.
My kitchen is small too. What is our first word today?
Our first word is sweet. Sweet! I love sweet food.
I love sweet food too. Chocolate cake is sweet. And this tea? Is it sweet?
No, this tea is not sweet. It is a little sour. Do you want something sweet?
Yes! Maybe a sweet apple? Apples can be sweet.
Good idea. Here is a sweet red apple. Now, our next word is snack. A snack is a small food between meals.
Oh, I eat a snack every afternoon. My favorite snack is fruit.
Fruit is a good snack. Yesterday I had a snack at four o'clock in the afternoon: a small piece of cheese.
A snack is perfect when you are hungry but dinner is far away. So, what do we cook now?
We make soup! Soup is easy and warm. The word soup is perfect for today.
I love soup. My mom makes delicious soup. Her soup is always delicious.
My soup is delicious too! At least I think so. A delicious soup needs good vegetables.
And what makes it delicious? Good salt, and cooking it slowly.
Yes. A delicious meal is simple. Delicious food does not need to be expensive.
True. Simple food can be delicious. Now tell me, do you like spicy food?
Oh, the word spicy! I like spicy food very much. A little spicy soup is wonderful.
I cannot eat very spicy food. Spicy food makes my mouth burn!
Really? I love spicy curry. Spicy noodles are my favorite. But not too spicy, okay?
Okay, we will make the soup a little spicy, not very spicy. Deal.
Deal. Now, the next word is fresh. We need fresh vegetables for our soup.
Fresh vegetables are important. Old vegetables are not good. Fresh food tastes better.
Yes, I buy fresh bread every morning, and fresh fruit every week. Fresh is always better.
Let us cut the vegetables. Where is the knife? In the kitchen, right?
In my kitchen, everything is close. My kitchen has a big table and a small oven.
Oh, the oven! The word oven. Do we need the oven for soup?
Not for soup, but I want to make bread in the oven. The oven is hot now.
Be careful with the oven. The oven is very hot. Put the bread in the oven and wait.
The bread is in the oven now. In twenty minutes it will be ready. The oven smells wonderful.
While we wait, tell me about the word grill. Do you grill food?
Yes! In summer I grill fish and vegetables. Food from the grill is delicious.
I grill chicken sometimes. To grill is to cook over fire. Grill is a fun word.
My father loves to grill. He says food from the grill tastes special. Do you want to grill tomorrow?
Maybe. Today the soup is enough. Now, what about dessert? The word dessert!
Dessert! I love dessert. After a meal, I always want a small dessert.
What is your favorite dessert? My favorite dessert is ice cream.
My favorite dessert is chocolate cake. A sweet dessert makes me happy.
Today our dessert is simple: fresh fruit. A fresh dessert is healthy.
Healthy and sweet! Fruit is a sweet dessert. Perfect.
Let us look at the soup. Is it ready? It smells delicious!
Yes! The soup is ready. Let us eat. This soup is delicious.
It is delicious! A little spicy, very warm, and delicious. You are a great cook!
Thank you! And the bread from the oven is ready too. Fresh bread from the oven!
This is a perfect meal. A delicious soup, fresh bread, and a sweet dessert.
Let us remember our ten words. Say them with me: delicious, spicy, oven, snack, sweet, kitchen, dessert, fresh, grill, soup.
delicious, spicy, oven, snack, sweet, kitchen, dessert, fresh, grill, soup. I know them all now!
Great! Practice these words when you cook in your kitchen. See you next time on Word Kitchen!
Bye, everyone! Happy cooking!
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📝Grammar: Past tenses - simple, continuous, perfect
**Past simple** is for finished actions in the past. *I cooked a delicious soup yesterday.* The action finished yesterday. **Past continuous** is for an action in progress at a past time. *I was cooking soup at seven o'clock.* At that time, the action was still happening. We often use them together. *I was cooking soup when my friend called.* The long action **was cooking** was interrupted by the short action **called**. **Past perfect** (**had** + past participle) is for the earlier of two past actions. *When I arrived, they had eaten the sweet dessert.* They ate it before I arrived.
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