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