Real Easy English: Talking about fruit
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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English, where we have easy conversations to help you with your listening skills and learn new vocabulary. I'm Becca.
And I'm Neil. If you'd like to see a video version of this podcast, you can find it on our website at bbclearningenglish.com. The video has subtitles which can help you learn.
Hi Neil, how are you doing today?
I'm good, thank you. I feel great because I just ate a banana.
Yum, yeah. I saw you started off your day quite healthily this morning. I also had a banana.
Yes, I saw you eating your banana and I thought, I'm going to eat a banana.
Ah, really? Yes, bananas are delicious. And today we are actually talking about fruit.
We are, yes. And I love eating fruit.
Me too.
What kind of fruit do you like?
Besides bananas, I really love berries and I like green apples and red grapes. I like lots of fruit. How about you?
Yeah, I really like fruit. I try to eat fruit every day. And like you, I like apples, but not just green ones. The red ones, I like those too. And oranges. And I like frozen berries with my breakfast.
So you mentioned oranges. Oranges can be a little sweet, but they're actually more sour, aren't they? Yeah.
Yeah, sour or sharp.
Sharp, yeah.
That's the taste that you get from fruit like oranges and more so with lemons or limes. These are called citrus fruit.
Yeah, citrus fruit. They have more of a sour taste.
Yeah, if you bite into a lemon, that's sour.
Yeah, the face that you make when you bite into something citrus, yeah. Do you prefer sweet fruit or sour fruit?
Yeah, I like sweet fruit and probably I like fruit when it's ripe.
Okay. What does that mean, ripe?
It means that it's ready to eat. It's at its sweetest, usually, probably quite juicy. If fruit is juicy, it means juice comes from it and juice is liquid, watery. And it's If it's ripe, it's just before it goes bad or goes off.
Right. I see. So if we're thinking about bananas, for example, a green coloured banana perhaps isn't ready to eat. It's not ripe like a yellow banana.
Yeah. But a yellow one with sort of brown bits on it, that's a ripe banana.
Yeah. They're a bit too sweet for me. I kind of like that middle. Yeah. I like yellow bananas.
Yeah. How about dried fruit? Do you like dried fruit?
Oh, I'm glad you asked. Yes, I really like dried fruit. So I will often have raisins. So raisins are dried grapes. And dried means that it doesn't have any of that juice or liquid.
So Becca, here is a really important and interesting question. If you could only eat one fruit for the rest of your life, which would you choose?
Oh, that is a very difficult question. We've talked a lot about the fruit that we love, but probably bananas because I do eat them every day. It feels... quite strange to not eat a banana every day for me um and also I really enjoy banana bread and dried bananas I completely forgot about those they're really tasty so yeah there's lots of things you can do with bananas probably those how about you what fruit would you choose
I think maybe it sounds boring, but the apple is the perfect snack. You always feel good after an apple. And it makes a fantastic noise when you bite into an apple. That noise is called a crunch. And it's a very nice sound.
It is a nice sound. And so we can describe apples as being crunchy. That's the adjective.
OK, it's time to recap the vocabulary that we've learnt and we'll start with sour. And that is the taste, for example, in lemon or in vinegar. It's not very sweet. Citrus fruits, for example, like grapefruit, oranges, limes, they are very sour.
We use the word ripe. Ripe describes fruit which is ready to eat.
We also had juicy and that's an adjective to describe something that has juice or liquid. So, for example, a juicy fruit like a strawberry, when you bite into it, juice will come out of it.
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