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Food, grocery shopping & eating out

Hello, welcome to Elephant English podcast. Today we're going to be talking about food, grocery shopping and eating out.

Level: A2 · 49 sentences

Transcript

  1. Hello, welcome to Elephant English podcast.
  2. Today we're going to be talking about food, grocery shopping and eating out.
  3. Question number one.
  4. What is your favourite food?
  5. My favourite food is pasta because you can eat it with cheese or tuna or vegetables and you can eat it hot or cold.
  6. Question number two.
  7. Which foods...
  8. don't you like?
  9. I don't like broccoli.
  10. It's green and it tastes disgusting.
  11. But I do like other green vegetables.
  12. Peas and beans and cabbage, for example.
  13. Question number three.
  14. Do you prefer eating healthy or unhealthy food?
  15. I prefer eating healthy food But sometimes I like to eat unhealthy food.
  16. I go to McDonald's and I will eat a hamburger and chips or nuggets.
  17. Question number four.
  18. What type of food do you normally cook at home?
  19. I normally cook pasta or spaghetti with meat or tuna and salad.
  20. Question number five.
  21. Do you like trying new foods?
  22. No, I don't like trying new foods.
  23. I like to always eat the same foods because I know that I enjoy them.
  24. Question number six.
  25. What foods have you tried recently?
  26. Recently, I bought some hot tomato sauce, which I put on my salad and it was very hot and spicy.
  27. Normally I wouldn't eat spicy food, but I wanted to try this sauce and I enjoyed it.
  28. Question number seven.
  29. Do you like going grocery shopping?
  30. Yes, I do.
  31. I enjoy looking at all the fruits and vegetables that are available and looking for the best prices on that day.
  32. Question number eight.
  33. How much do you normally spend when you go shopping?
  34. I normally spend about £20 each time I go shopping because I like to go shopping two or three times a week.
  35. There are a lot of different supermarkets in England.
  36. So in one supermarket I would buy my fruit and vegetables but I prefer the bread and cakes in a different supermarket.
  37. So I will go there a different day.
  38. How often do you eat out?
  39. I very rarely eat out because I like to cook at home and eating out can be very expensive.
  40. When I do go out, I prefer to have fish and chips or sometimes we order in a Chinese takeaway.
  41. And the final question...
  42. What are some typical British foods that you have often?
  43. Well, we often have potatoes, peas, cabbage, carrots, a lot of vegetables.
  44. And we also like to eat pies occasionally.
  45. For example, a chicken pie or a cheese and onion pie.
  46. Like I said before, when we go out we also enjoy eating fish and chips.
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  48. I have made a worksheet with activities based on the vocabulary that we have used in this video and you can find that along with the transcript in the description box.
  49. Thank you very much and I'll see you in the next video.