0:00 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
0:46 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
1:34 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
2:20 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
3:06 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
3:54 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,
4:41 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
5:26 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]
