# A1 English Listening Practice - Cooking

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[00:00] Hey everybody, welcome to this A1 English listening practice video.
[00:05] You can use this video to train your listening and comprehension as I speak.
[00:10] You ready?
[00:10] So today I'm going to talk about cooking.
[00:13] I do not know how to cook.
[00:17] So I do not know a lot about this topic.
[00:20] However, I like eating so I like talking about food in general.
[00:27] I am lucky because my wife cooks very well.
[00:31] She has a natural talent for cooking.
[00:34] So, she cooks well.
[00:34] That means that I eat well.
[00:37] Let me tell you about some of the things that my wife cooks.
[00:43] Since she is Mexican, she likes cooking Mexican food.
[00:46] Sometimes she makes tacos, which are delicious.
[00:49] There are many types of tacos, so my wife can cook different tacos each time.
[00:55] I also cooked tacos in the past, but I don't cook well, so my
[01:02] Tacos weren't very good.
[01:06] I cooked tacos lenua, tongue tacos, but I didn't cook them very well.
[01:13] My wife cooks much better.
[01:16] The only thing that I cook well is eggs.
[01:20] I love eggs and I eat them almost every morning.
[01:23] I think eggs are the best breakfast food.
[01:27] I usually eat scrambled eggs, but I also eat other types of eggs, too.
[01:34] My favorite type is eggs benedict.
[01:37] This is my favorite breakfast.
[01:37] Have you tried eggs benedict?
[01:41] So, my wife also makes pasta.
[01:45] She makes really good pasta.
[01:49] She doesn't buy the pasta in the box that you buy from the store.
[01:55] She makes the pasta by hand.
[01:58] She makes the noodles and they taste so good.
[02:02] When you make pasta by hand, it tastes better.
[02:02] I love all types of
[02:05] pasta, but my favorite is ravioli.
[02:09] For me, ravioli is the perfect food.
[02:13] Actually, I like all Italian food.
[02:16] When we were in Italy, we ate some amazing food.
[02:20] My wife also cooks a lot of meat.
[02:24] We like eating different cuts of steak every week.
[02:28] We try to buy cheap meat because meat can be expensive.
[02:32] We don't want to spend a lot of money, so we buy cheap meat.
[02:35] My wife cooks the meat in a pan, which is easy.
[02:42] Other people cook their meat on a grill.
[02:45] We don't have a grill, so we use a pan.
[02:48] I think that meat tastes good if it's cooked on a pan or on a grill.
[02:56] Meat is always good.
[03:00] I hope my wife cooks meat tonight.
[03:03] She also cooks really good breakfast.
[03:06] makes really good pancakes.
[03:09] I like to eat pancakes with maple syrup and peanut butter.
[03:12] I know that's a little strange, but it's delicious.
[03:19] I love pancakes and peanut butter.
[03:22] My wife also cooks chilakilles, a common Mexican breakfast.
[03:26] This is my favorite breakfast in the world.
[03:28] I love chilakilles.
[03:32] This dish has tortilla chips, salsa, cheese, and cream.
[03:36] I like it with eggs on top.
[03:40] It's so good.
[03:43] I don't know which is better, breakfast or dinner.
[03:47] In my family, we cook dinner 5 days a week.
[03:51] The other days we go out to eat dinner or we eat dinner with other people.
[03:58] Sometimes we eat dinner with my parents and other times we eat dinner with my sister.
[04:04] Tonight we will eat dinner with
[04:07] my parents and my mother will cook dinner.
[04:10] When I was a kid, my mother cooked dinner every weekday.
[04:13] Every evening, we ate dinner at 6:30 p.m. every day.
[04:20] Do you eat dinner at the same time every day?
[04:23] In the US, it's common for families to eat dinner together.
[04:26] We sit together at the table.
[04:30] We eat and we talk about our day.
[04:34] Dinner time is important in the US.
[04:37] In other countries, people eat dinner late, like at 8:00 p.m. or 900 p.m.
[04:43] But this is too late for me.
[04:47] I don't want to eat dinner late.
[04:51] I like eating dinner at 5, 6, or 700 p.m.
[04:55] This is a good time for dinner.
[04:59] What do you like eating for dinner?
[05:02] I like every type of food from every country.
[05:05] I can eat anything and I love
[05:09] Trying new foods.
[05:13] Like I said, I don't cook well, but I eat well.
[05:16] Maybe I will learn to cook in the future, but I don't know.
[05:19] I don't like cooking and I don't have the natural talent to cook.
[05:26] I prefer eating, not cooking.
[05:30] My wife cooks very well, so I don't need to learn.
[05:33] I'm thankful for that.
[05:36] Okay, we are finished for today.
[05:39] Leave a comment and tell me if you like cooking.
[05:42] I'll see you next video.
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[05:54] [Applause]
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