A1 English Listening Practice - Cooking – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.hey everybody welcome to this A1 English listening practice video you can use this video to train your listening and comprehension as I speak you ready so today I'm going to talk about cooking i do not know how to cook so I do not know a lot about this topic however I like eating so I like talking about food in general i am lucky because my wife cooks very well she has a natural talent for cooking so she cooks well that means that I eat well let me tell you about some of the things that my wife cooks since she is Mexican she likes cooking Mexican food sometimes she makes tacos which are delicious there are many types of tacos so my wife can cook different tacos each time i also cooked tacos in the past but I don't cook well so my tacos weren't very good i cooked tacos lenua tongue tacos but I didn't cook them very well my wife cooks much better the only thing that I cook well is eggs i love eggs and I eat them almost every morning i think eggs are the best breakfast food i usually eat scrambled eggs but I also eat other types of eggs too my favorite type is eggs benedict m this is my favorite breakfast have you tried eggs benedict so my wife also makes pasta she makes really good pasta she doesn't buy the pasta in the box that you buy from the store she makes the pasta by hand she makes the noodles and they taste so good when you make pasta by hand it tastes better i love all types of pasta but my favorite is ravioli for me ravioli is the perfect food actually I like all Italian food when we were in Italy we ate some amazing food my wife also cooks a lot of meat we like eating different cuts of steak every week we try to buy cheap meat because meat can be expensive we don't want to spend a lot of money so we buy cheap meat my wife cooks the meat in a pan which is easy other people cook their meat on a grill we don't have a grill so we use a pan i think that meat tastes good if it's cooked on a pan or on a grill meat is always good i hope my wife cooks meat tonight she also cooks really good breakfast she makes really good pancakes i like to eat pancakes with maple syrup and peanut butter i know that's a little strange but it's delicious i love pancakes and peanut butter my wife also cooks chilakilles a common Mexican breakfast this is my favorite breakfast in the world i love chilakilles this dish has tortilla chips salsa cheese and cream i like it with eggs on top it's so good i don't know which is better breakfast or dinner in my family we cook dinner 5 days a week the other days we go out to eat dinner or we eat dinner with other people sometimes we eat dinner with my parents and other times we eat dinner with my sister tonight we will eat dinner with my parents and my mother will cook dinner when I was a kid my mother cooked dinner every weekday every evening we ate dinner at 6:30 p.m every day do you eat dinner at the same time every day in the US it's common for families to eat dinner together we sit together at the table we eat and we talk about our day dinner time is important in the US in other countries people eat dinner late like at 8:00 p.m or 900 p.m but this is too late for me i don't want to eat dinner late i like eating dinner at 5 6 or 700 p.m this is a good time for dinner what do you like eating for dinner i like every type of food from every country i can eat anything and I love trying new foods like I said I don't cook well but I eat well maybe I will learn to cook in the future but I don't know i don't like cooking and I don't have the natural talent to cook i prefer eating not cooking my wife cooks very well so I don't need to learn i'm thankful for that okay we are finished for today leave a comment and tell me if you like cooking i'll see you next video [Music] [Applause] [Music]