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Cooking

What you will learn:

Vocabulary about Cooking

Idioms
Listening Dictation
IELTS Speaking Part 1, 2 and 3 Questions
Model Answers

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Warm up: Cooking Gear
1. Do you know the names of the following cooking gear (clothes and
equipment)?

2. Watch this short video. Each clip shows ONE word related to cooking

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Can you identify any of the words?

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 IELTS Speaking Vocabulary: Cooking
A recipe (n.) /ˈres ɪ pi/
A set of instructions to prepare and cook food

To follow a ________

When cooking, I tend to follow a recipe

A dish (n.)
1) A container
2) Food prepared in a certain way

An oven-proof dish (it can be used in the oven)

Spaghetti bolognese is my favourite dish

To wash the dishes (wash all the cutlery, plates, pans)

It’s your turn to wash the dishes

Ingredient (s) (n.) /ɪnˈɡriː di ənt/

Food or components needed to make a dish

Fresh ________, locally sourced ____

I buy most ingredients at the local market

Meals (n.)

A _______ meal

light
heavy
lling (it lls you up)
nourishing (full of good healthy stu / nutrition)
nutritional
well balanced

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Nutrition (n.) /njuːˈtrɪʃən/
= process of eating food for growth and health. Nourishment.

Nutritious (adj.) /njuːˈtrɪʃəs/

= contains items needed for growth and health

Nutrients (n.)
= essential components of food (e.g. carbs, protein, minerals, vitamins)

A healthy choice
A healthy option

The nitty gritty of cooking

The nitty gritty = the small details

To chop (onions, vegetables)

To slice (bread, apples, carrots)
To whisk (eggs, bater)

To fry
To sauté = to fry with little oil
To boil = to cook in water at 100 degrees
To simmer = to lower the ame after boiling, so a few bubbles remain
To steam
To roast = to cook in the oven

To season = to add pepper, salt, spices or herbs

To garnish = to decorate a dish (usually with a herb)

CHATGPT Prompt:

Give me 5 useful words at [B1] level to talk about [cooking]. Give

me the form of the word, de nition, collocations and 2 examples
of each one

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Idiomatic Expressions

Can you guess these 4 idioms?

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Listening Bingo

Listening Tip:

When you listen to anything in English, listen for the pauses and
phrasing. This can help you control the ow of the speech and help
process the meaning.

Listen to the start of this talk.

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1) How many pauses / phrases are there?

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Now listen to the whole talk about the bene ts of learning to cook.

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2) What does the speaker say is a good way to learn to cook

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Listen again

3) Mark the boxes that contain the exact words you hear. When you
have a line of 3, type BINGO (and the words) in the chat.

healthy food socialising skill from scratch

microwave ovens heart illnesses pretty pricey
widen your range spoilt food Follow a recipe

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Full Script
I think it’s a fantastic idea to learn to cook whatever our age because it
will enable us to lead a healthier lifestyle by eating healthier, home-
made food. It can also be a great social skill in that you can cook for
friends and family. Having friends round and whipping up a meal from
scratch (=from the very beginning) adds a nice personal touch, right?

Unfortunately, there is a trend nowadays for people to eat pre-

packaged meals and processed food. These microwave dinners are
high in salt, fats, sugar and additives that are bad for our health and can
lead to myriad of illnesses, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity
and the like (=and so on, etc…)

So, learning to cook is a great way to avoid that. I’d say, basically it’s an
essential life skill for young people, not to mention you can save a fair
bit of money, as eating out all the time is pretty pricey.

A great way to learn to cook could be through TV shows or YouTube

videos because these can be engaging and motivating. They can o er a
wide choice of recipes from around the world, so you can widen your
repertoire of dishes (=a list of recipes/dishes you have) . In fact, these
kind of videos are all the rage nowadays, I think we are spoilt for
choice (=to have too much choice).

On top of that, by watching a video, you can actually see how to do it,
not just follow a recipe from a book, this way, you are more likely to
get a good result which is not always the case when you follow a recipe
in a cook book.

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Dad Joke 😂
Why did my wife throw out my favourite herb?

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IELTS Speaking Questions

Part 1

• Do you like cooking?

• How often do you cook?
• Did you learn to cook as a child?
• How good are you at cooking?

Part 2

Describe a special meal someone made for you

Part 3

Should students learn to cook at school? Why?

Do you think people’s eating habits change as they get older?
Do people in your country like to learn to cook from TV programs?
What kind of fast foods are popular in your country?
Why do some people choose never to eat meat?

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IELTS Speaking Model Answer
Part 3 Tips

Do people in your country like to learn to cook from TV programs?

This is a common type of question in Part 3, and a di cult one to

answer, as you probably don’t know the real answer. So, you often have
to make something up. Here are some things you can say,

By and large, yes

By and large, no
To some extent, yes

To be honest, I am not sure

To be honest, I’ve got no idea
Frankly speaking, I don’t know
Between you and me, I am not sure

As far as I know, …
I’d hazard a guess that they do.

It depends on the people, if we are talking about [young, old, working]

people…

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Watch and listen to this model answer from Keith for the question:

Do people in your country like to learn to cook from TV programs?

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1. Before you watch, do you think the answer will be yes or no?

2. Watch the answer and note any useful collocations

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 Full Script

Learn to cook from tv programmes? To be honest, I've got no idea. I

enjoy cooking, but, you know, I don't think the British are well known
for their cuisine and cooking skills.

But that said, it depends on each individual person. What's for sure,
is that there is a huge number of cooking programmes on British TV.

Take for example, Gordon Ramsey's Hell's Kitchen, where you've got
two teams pitting against (=compete against - negative)
each other. And you have.... people are eliminated and the winner will
become the sous chef in one of his restaurants.

Now, I think these shows, people don't watch them to learn how to
cook. It's pure entertainment. In fact, I think they deliberately create
con ict and confusion, to make it more interesting.

I mean, maybe you can pick up (=learn informally) some tips on how to
roast a chicken or sauté some vegetables, but I don't think that's the
point.

I think people watch it to be entertained, not to learn to cook. Anyway,

that's my personal opinion.

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 ANSWERS

Warm up: Cooking Gear

1. Do you know the names of the following cooking gear (clothes and
equipment)?

1. Spatula ( at)
2. Apron
3. Hob / stove / burner
4. Sieve (for our) / Strainer (bigger and for water)
5. Pots and pans

2. Watch this short video. Each clip shows ONE word related to cooking
Can you identify any of the words?

1. Recipe
2. Ingredients
3. Chop
4. Slice
5. Fry
6. Whisk / beat / mix
7. Season
8. Garnish (=add a herb to the dish)

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Other useful words:

A chopping board
A frying pan

As well as ‘garnish’ we can also say,

To touch up
To add the nishing touches

It is mouth-watering = it looks delicious

Idiomatic Expressions
Can you guess these 4 idioms?

1. To wing it
=To do something without planning or preparing. To improvise.

I didn't have a recipe, so I just winged it and made a stir-fry with

vegetables I had in the fridge.

2. To whip up a meal
= To quickly prepare a meal.

She whipped up a delicious dinner for us in under 30 minutes.

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 3. To know your way around something
=To be familiar with a place and be able to act e ectively there

He really knows his way around the kitchen; his meals are always
fantastic.

4. To hold your own

= to perform well or well enough in a situation.

He's new to baking, but he held his own in the kitchen during the bake-
o (baking competition).

I hope I will hold my own when I take the IELTS test.

Listening Bingo
Listen to the start of this talk.

1) How many pauses / phrases are there?

6
I think it’s a fantastic idea
to learn to cook
whatever our age
because it will enable us
to lead a healthier lifestyle
by eating healthier, home-made food

Now listen to the whole talk about the bene ts of learning to cook.
2) What does the speaker say is a good way to learn to cook

TV shows and Youtube Videos

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Listen again

3) Mark the boxes that contain the exact words you hear. When you
have a line of 3, type BINGO (and the words) in the chat.

healthy food socialising skill from scratch

microwave ovens heart illnesses pretty pricey
widen your range spoilt food Follow a recipe

Dad Jokes 😂
Why did my wife throw out my favourite herb?

She said it was a waste of thyme

Thyme = a herb (homophone of ‘time’)

OR
Because your thyme is cumin

Thyme a herb (homophone of ‘time’)

Cumin = a spice (homophone of ‘coming’)

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