Learn 10 high-frequency expressions, including words for food utensils
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| Hi everybody, my name is Alisha. |
| Welcome to the 2000 Core English Words and Phrases video series. |
| Each lesson will help you learn new words, practice and review what you've learned. |
| Okay, let's get started. |
| First is tuna, tuna, tuna. |
| Tuna. |
| Tuna is a super, super popular fish. |
| Some people eat tuna as sashimi, so as a part of sushi. |
| Some people in some cultures use it in tins,like you can get tins of tuna as well to put on sandwiches and things. |
| So it depends a lot on the country and the culture,but it's a very common fish. |
| Here's an example. |
| Tuna is found in warm ocean waters all around the world. |
| Ladle. |
| A ladle is a kitchen utensil. |
| It's like a really, really deep spoon that has a handle, a long handle on the end, and we can use it to scoop liquid. |
| So it's used a lot with things like soups and stews and other liquids. |
| Here's an example. |
| A ladle is needed to serve fruit punch from the bowl. |
| Toothpick. |
| A toothpick is a small piece of wood about this size. |
| It's very long and thin, and it has a sharp side. |
| One end is very, very sharp. |
| We use it to pick our teeth after a meal. |
| So toothpick is the name of this object, and it's also what we use it to do, to pick at our teeth. |
| Here's an example. |
| You can test to see if a cake is done baking using a toothpick. |
| Dish. |
| A dish is one part of the kinds of things that we use to serve food. |
| So when we say dish, we often mean a plate or perhaps a bowl. |
| But dish can refer to all of these kinds of objects, big dishes and very small dishes like sauce dishes. |
| Here's an example. |
| I put away the dishes. |
| Cup. |
| A cup is one type of dish.A cup is something that we use to drink things. |
| This might have a handle on it. It might not have a handle on it. We use the word cup for both of these. |
| Here's an example. |
| Would you like a cup of tea? |
| Drinking glass. |
| A drinking glass tends to be something that's a bit tall and that's easy to hold with one hand. |
| It's something that we use for drinking water or juice, something that we might want to have a lot of at one time. |
| Here's an example. |
| The drinking glass is full of water. |
| Coffee mug. |
| A coffee mug is like a really thick cup that has a handle on the side. |
| So we can put other things inside a coffee mug like tea or hot chocolate. |
| But a key point is that this is a very thick cup like to protect the hand from the heat inside. |
| It makes it easier to hold with the handle on the side of it. |
| Here's an example. |
| Drinks stay hot longer in a good coffee mug. |
| Tea cup. |
| A tea cup is usually a small kind of thin cup that we use primarily for drinking tea. |
| These usually also have a handle on the side so that it's easier to drink this very hot beverage. |
| But also tea cups often have very intricate detailed kinds of paintings and other decorations on them. |
| Here's an example. |
| Tea cup and saucer. |
| Pitcher. |
| A pitcher is like a really, really large glass that has a handle on it. |
| So when we have a pitcher of something, we have a pitcher this amount of a drink. |
| So we might get a pitcher of water when we go to a restaurant that everyone can share. |
| We might have a pitcher of something like fruit punch at a party or it might be a pitcher of beer if we're at a restaurant where everybody is drinking. |
| We can use pitchers to share our drink. |
| Here's an example. |
| In the summer, a pitcher of iced tea is always on my table. |
| Tea pot. |
| A tea pot can have a couple of different meanings. A tea pot could mean the thing that we use to boil water and that we can then pour the boiling water from into our tea cup. |
| You might also see tea pots that have a filter inside. |
| So you can put tea leaves into it and add the boiling water to the same sort of receptacle and then pour that into your tea cup. |
| So depending on the tea pot that you have, it might have a filter in it for adding leaves and other tea-making ingredients, or it might not. |
| Here's an example. |
| A tea pot is a great place to boil water. |
| Let's review. |
| I'm going to describe a word or phrase in English. See if you can remember it. Then repeat after me, focusing on pronunciation. |
| Ready? |
| Do you remember how to say the very, very popular, very common type of fish that's served in sushi and that's also served in tins, like for sandwiches? |
| Tuna. |
| And how to say the kitchen utensil that's like a really, really deep spoon with a handle on it, |
| used for serving things like soups and stews? |
| Ladle. |
| What about the long, thin piece of wood that's sharp at one end that we use to clean our teeth after a meal? |
| Toothpick. |
| Do you remember how to say the word that means all of the things that we use for serving food? |
| These could be bowls, plates, and other things. |
| Dish. |
| Let's try the word that we use to talk about all things that we hold with our hands and that we put liquids inside for drinking. |
| Cup. |
| What about the expression that we use usually for tall, kind of thin things that we drink from? |
| Drinking glass. |
| Now, let's see if you remember how to say the very thick type of cup with a handle on the side |
| that we use for hot drinks. |
| Coffee mug. |
| Another one. |
| What about the word that we use for a small cup that we use to drink tea? |
| Tea cup. |
| Do you remember how to say the large jug with a handle on the side that we use to put lots and lots of liquid in when we want to share drinks? |
| Pitcher. |
| And finally, do you remember how to say the word for the object that we can use to boil water to make tea? |
| Teapot. |
| Well done! |
| See you next time. |
| Bye! |
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