10 Questions about Food π² with Martin [985]
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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hello listeners, welcome back to Luke's English Podcast. This episode is a conversation with my friend Martin, all about food. Martin has been on this podcast before, in episode 896, in which we rambled about his experiences of teaching English and living in different countries, and how difficult it is to order ice cream... in the Czech Republic, because the word for ice cream in Czech is like really hard for an English person to pronounce. It's zmrzlina, zmrzlina, which sounds like you're saying an English word backwards. Zmrzlina, right? Sounds like a backwards word. Anyway, we talked about that in episode 896. So Martin is an English teacher like me and an English man like me. So obviously we have everything in common with each other.
So the concept for this episode is this. Martin came up with the idea of this episode. Basically, he prepares 10 questions on a specific topic and then he asks me the questions and I can answer them. And all the Lepsters, that's you, will be happy to listen to me doing some rambling on a certain topic. And this is actually very helpful. Thank you, Martin, for coming up with the idea. Very helpful because I don't really need to do any preparation. And by choosing a specific topic, it's a good way to bring up vocabulary. It can work as a form of vocabulary teaching as various words and phrases on this particular theme will come up naturally during the conversation. So it can work as a bit like a chapter from an English vocabulary book.
You know those English vocab books, like, for example, English Vocabulary in Use, right? What they often have is on one side, there's a text which has loads and loads of words. It's a text on a certain subject. And in that text are presented various vocab items. And then on the other page, you've got exercises to help you practice using the vocab that's presented on the other page. So this episode is a bit like that first page in which we can present you with useful vocabulary on this subject in context.
Who prepares the food in your house?
The theme for this one is food. So watch out for loads of food-related vocabulary and expressions. Now, if you're a premium subscriber, you will see that a few days ago I published a premium episode which will help you with the food vocab in this conversation. So the premium episode is a vocab quiz. focusing on bits of food-related vocabulary, various types of food vocab, the ways that we describe food, ways of cooking food, idioms relating to food and other fixed expressions, a few phrasal verbs and things like that. So in the premium episode, I picked out all of that food-related vocab and created a vocab quiz and recorded that as a way of helping you notice and learn vocab. And I did it with my wife.
So my wife is my special guest in this premium episode. And basically, I tested her with my vocab quiz. And also we discuss some of the things that come up in this conversation, including what she thinks as a French person, what she thinks of English food and what she thinks of my English cooking, the way that I cook food and stuff like that. So there's a vocab quiz and also a discussion. OK, here is in fact, here's a selection of four bits of vocab from the vocab quiz in this premium episode I'm talking about. So let me just test you right now. I'll give you a little sample of what you can expect. So how do we describe, what is the phrase that we use to describe, let's say when you have guests at your house, you're hosting people for a dinner party, what is the recipe that you always choose?
It's just the one that you automatically will choose. This is your mm-mm choice, the one that you just will automatically choose. Well, it's your go-to, your go-to choice.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00β2:55
2
Who prepares the food in your house?
2:55β6:13
3
What food did you really dislike as a child?
6:13β8:47
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Were you a fussy eater as a child?
8:47β10:31
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What British food do you miss while living abroad?
10:31β13:00
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What do you think of the combination of food and learning?
13:00β14:42
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What would be your go-to recipe for impressing guests?
14:42β17:12
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If you could invite anyone to a dinner party, who would it be?
17:12β1:34:09
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