EnglishPod - Where should we eat?
M: Hello everyone! Welcome back to another great lesson with us here at EnglishPod! My name is Marco.
M: And today we're going out to eat.
E: Yes! Good thing to, because I'm hungry.
M: I know it's almost lunchtime.
E: Yeah.
M: So, today we're gonna be talking about eating at a restaurant and giving some great recommendations and suggestions.
E: Yes! We have language for describing food, for describing restaurants, and for making suggestions.
M: Great! So, let's start with our “vocabulary preview” for this lesson.
E: We have two words today from our dialogue which you'll need to know to understand the dialogue.
M: Great! The first one that we have today is food poisoning.
E: It is when you eat some bad food and that food makes you sick.
M: Yeah.
E: So, you get food poisoning.
M: Okay, so, food poisoning, yeah, not a god thing.
M: Allergic.
E: Allergic.
M: Allergic.
E: Allergic.
M: So, when you're allergic to something…
E: Um, it makes you sick… that one thing makes you sick.
M: Right.
E: For example, I'm allergic to seafood.
M: Right.
E: If I eat seafood, I cannot breath.
M: Oh, okay, so, you definitely wanna stay away from fish.
M: Some people are allergic to nuts like peanuts or…
M: Milk.
E: Yeah.
M: Cool.
E: So, when one type of food makes you sick, you are allergic to that food.
M: Okay, great, so, with this in mind, now we can listen to our dialogue for the first time at its normal speed, but don't worry if you don't get everything now, because…
E: We'll come back and teach you the important language.
E: Well, I'm getting hungry just thinking about all of those great restaurants.
M: Yeah, some really good recommendations…
E: Aha.
M: Except for food poisoning, right?
M: Let's start with our “language takeaway” for this lesson.
M: Our first word on language takeaway is check out.
E: Check out.
M: Check out.
E: Check out.
M: So, we have some great examples on how we can use check out in different situations and then you can understand the meaning.
A: Have you been to the new café next door?
B: Yeah, I checked it out yesterday. The food was great!
D: I'm going to check out the new shopping mall this weekend.
E: So, I can understand that it just means “look at”.
M: Yeah, “look at” or yeah… or “go see” as well… Let's go check out that new bar in town.
M: Okay.
M: Bistro.
E: Bistro.
M: Bistro.
M: It's kind of complicated, but it's like a small restaurant that's not really cheap though.
E: Not so cheap and not so expensive.
M: Aha. And, um, it's usually French.
E: Yes.
E: Yeah, small informal restaurant.
E: Uhu.
M: Okay, so, our third phrase for today is not all that crazy about.
M: I'm not all that crazy about.
E: Okay, again, kind of a funny phrase, but we've got some examples that will help you understand the meaning.
A: Do you want to go shopping with me tomorrow?
B: I'm not all that crazy about shopping. I don't like spending money.
C: I'm not crazy about jazz music. Can I change the song?
M: So, this is just a really polite way of saying you don't like something.
E: Exactly.
M: But now the opposite of this would be tasty.
E: Tasty.
M: That's our forth word – tasty.
E: Tasty.
M: So, when something is tasty…
M: Delicious.
E: Yeah, you know what, in English we almost never say “the food is delicious”, but we always say…
E: Yes.
M: Tasty. And our last phrase for language takeaway – in the mood for.
E: Let's listen to some examples of this phrase and we'll understand the meaning a little bit better.
A: We always eat hamburgers for dinner. I'm in the mood for something different.
B: Let's watch movie. How about Texas Chainsaw Massacre?
C: I am not in the mood for a horror movie.
M: So, if I'm in the mood for something, I feel like doing or eating or…
M: Watching.
E: Yeah, it means you wanna do that now.
M: Uhu.
E: Yeah.
E: Okay, some great language we just looked at and I think it's time for us to listen to the dialogue a second time.
M: Okay, some really great and useful phrases there and I know you wanna talk about specifically some of these phrases.
E: Yes! Today's lesson is all about making recommendations, right?
M: Right.
E: So, let's look at some useful phrases in “fluency builder”.
M: So, in the dialogue we heard a great way of asking for a suggestion.
E: That's right.
Phrase 1: Do you have any suggestions? Do you have any suggestions?
M: So, that's how you would ask for a suggestion or you can say something else like “do you have any ideas?”
E: Yeah, or you might say “do you have any thoughts?”
E: Yep.
M: In response to this you can say something like this.
Phrase 2: I'd recommend giving it a try. I'd recommend giving it a try.
E: We also heard another phrase that we use for giving suggestions.
Phrase 3: You gotta give them a try. You've got to give them a try.
M: So, these two phrases are great - I'd recommend or you gotta give them a try.
E: Yeah.
M: Great ways of suggesting.
E: Yes.
M: Now, what's really important here is the pronunciation of these words, right?
E: Yeah, you'll notice that we don't say I would recommend.
M: Right, we use the contraction - I'd.
E: I'd.
M: I'd.
E: Similarly, in the phrase you have got to we shorten that…
M: Yeah.
E: To say…
M: Uhu.
E: You know what, guys? If you can shorten your phrases like this, if you can push the sounds together, you'll sound a lot more natural, hey?
M: And also you'll be able to understand, because in movies or in shows they will never say “you have got to give them a try”.
M: So, if you know how to use this form, you'll understand what they mean.
E: Exactly.
E: Well, why don't we listen to the dialogue a third time? And you'll hear some of these contractions in the dialogue.
M: Okay, great dialogue and Erica, I know that you have some food poisoning stories for us.
E: I don't know about stories, but I've definitely had food poisoning before, um…
M: Yeah.
E: One of the worst times that I ever had food poisoning was, uh, when I was traveling in Morocco.
M: Okay.
E: I had some really amazing orange juice, really fresh, squeezed that day in the morning. Um, and then I got on a bus.
M: Okay.
E: I think you can see where this is going, hey?
M: Hehe.
E: Yeah, so I was on the bus and then I started to feel really sick, um, and I was just hoping and hoping and hoping that the bus ride would be over soon.
M: Yeah.
E: But unfortunately it wasn't.
E: All I can say is that… I was sick and it wa… All I can say is that I was pretty sick and really, really unhappy.
M: Yeah, I bet. Well, that's very strange that you got sick form, uh, orange juice, ha?
E: Well, yeah, ma… maybe it was with some dirty water or something like that…
M: Yeah.
E: I don't know. It was just… It was a terrible situation.
M: Yeah, it's always complicated when you're travelling to other countries, it could be the water, it could be the… the way they prepare things, so…
E: Guys, I hope that you don't get food poisoning.
M: Hehe. And if you have any food poisoning stories, that would be great for you to share them.
E: Yes, at our website englishpod.com.
M: And we'll see you there to answer all your questions and comments, but now we have to go.
E: Okay, guys, thanks for listening.
E: Bye-bye!
M: Bye!