hello everyone and welcome back to English pod my name is Marco my name is Katherine and today we have an elementary level lesson about food one of my favorite things to talk about that's right we are going to talk about food but specifically we're going to talk about a family Barbecue okay what is a family Barbecue well I'll just say a few words first a barbecue is usually something that we do outside we bring food we play games maybe have some drinks and a lot of the food is grilled so that's what we're talking about
today we're going to hear this dialogue first and then we'll come back to talk about [Music] it is everything ready for the big family Barbecue tomorrow yep the steaks and chicken are marinated and I also bought hamburger buns we should also cook a couple dozen hot dogs and kebabs yeah good idea we could put some lawn furniture outside next to the grill I also set up the tent outside so we can hide from the Sun if it gets too hot great I asked Grace to bring cups and serviettes as she is also bringing two big
coolers for the beers this is going to be a great barbecue oh no it's [Music] raining all right we're back so probably a couple of words you didn't really understand so let's take a look at those now in language takeaway language takeaway lots of food words Marco the first one is barbecue we were talking about that a minute ago a barbecue is something we do usually for something a special occasion or for dinner it's a summertime thing you know you go outside when it's warm and the entire family comes and we have food sometimes people
even bring food right and actually as you mentioned it's something that you do a barbecue you have a family barbecue but it's also a verb two barbecue something so to cook meat on a barbecue so that's cooking meat not in a stove not with gas usually it's under a fire or very warm intense heat coming from coals exactly and so uh before we cook food usually before we cook meat on the grill before we barbecue it we have to marinate it okay so in this situation the steaks and the chicken are already marinated okay so
to marinate something or which is so to marinate something which is a verb or the steaks and chickens are marinated which is an adjective so basically means that you have added spices and maybe some lemon juice different herbs or salts to the meats in order to give it flavor before you cook them exactly sometimes in Indian cooking for example uh you marinate with a yogurt sauce and you leave the meat in the refrigerator for a whole night exactly so marinating or to marinate is a process to give flavor to food very good all right so
we've marinated our food our our chicken our our steaks but also we have hamburgers so we need hamburger buns what are buns okay buns are pieces of bread that are for special kinds of food so you have a hamburger bun it's a round piece of bread and the hamburger goes on one piece and under another piece a hot dog bun is different it's like a piece of bread that's folded and the hot dog goes in the middle so bun is a special kind of bread um for these kinds of foods all right so remember if
you want to have a hot dog you need to buy hot dog buns so people know already that you're talking about bread and if you want to buy a hamburger bread you say a hamburger bun that's right so hamburger buns and hot dog buns but after we talk about having the hamburger buns we discuss how many hot dogs are going to cook so the person says we should cook a couple dozen hot dogs all right so a dozen is 12 units of something right so eggs are sold in dozens we buy a dozen eggs we
buy 12 eggs okay or you can say half a dozen that means six half of 12 and a couple dozen is usually around 24 25 okay very good so a dozen hot dogs and they are also getting kebabs what are kebabs m one of my favorite foods kebab are sticks or skewers of meat so you have a very thin stick and you put the meat on it and you put that on the grill and you cook the meat on the grill mhm so yeah those are very common for example in the Middle East right you
have kebabs sticks of meat and also maybe some vegetables uh put on it and you grill them exactly very flavorful very tasty meat all right so why don't we listen to our dialogue again and we'll come back shortly to look at some more words is everything ready for the big family Barbecue tomorrow yep the steaks and chicken are marinated and I also bought hamburger buns we should also cook a couple dozen hot dogs and kebabs yeah good idea we could put some lawn furniture outside next to the grill I also set up the tent outside
so we can hide from the Sun if it gets too hot great I asked Grace to bring cups and serviettes as she is also bringing two big coolers for the beers this is going to be a great barbecue all right we're back so now why don't we go to a second part of language takeaway and take a look at five more words language takeaway all right the first word that we're going to look at is lawn furniture so we're going to have lawn furniture outside okay so before we even start thinking about food we have
to decide where people will sit at this barbecue and so we have to find find out how much lawn furniture we have furniture can be a sofa a table a chair we have furniture in the house but lawn furniture is furniture for the outside a lawn is the green grass outside your house so it's usually not going to be made out of wood for example because if it rains it might get ruined right so usually it's either plastic or maybe even rock or stone or metal or metal so that's what lawn furniture is furniture that
is made to be outside in your backyard for example or that sits on your lawn exactly and so we're going to be on the lawn furniture we have the special thing for cooking meat outside the grill okay so we mentioned that you grill chicken or you grill steaks but it's also a noun a grill so a grill what is that a grill is like a stove for the outside but instead of having electricity to make the fire we have gas or propane and uh this is something that we light on fire we and we use
coals to keep the inside it's very warm and so this is just a way to cook meats or even vegetables outside okay perfect so that is a grill and if you're going to cook uh Foods or vegetables in this way so you're going to grill them all right and uh well just in case it gets hot and you want to hide from the sun we are going to set up a tent okay a tent you can sleep in a tent but in this case a tent is just a covering outside so maybe some cloth or
some fabric that will stand stand over us when we sit down or want to be outside it's also a way to protect us from the rain right so as you mentioned a tent is something that you set up temporarily made out of cloth or plastic to protect you from the Sun or rain or if you're going camping you sleep in one all right and now that they have all the food they need cups and then they mentioned this strange word it kind of sounds French cetes cetes so I do think it comes from the French
word um this is a British way of saying napkins it's like paper for cleaning your hands and cleaning your mouth that you throw away okay so you can say napkins or if you want to sound a little bit more fancier you can say cetes and speaking of fancy let's talk about beer where do we where do we keep beer it has to stay cold right right so usually you would place it in a refrigerator but if you're outside or you're going camping you want to keep them cold or you want to keep something hot you
place it in a cooler okay so a cooler is a plastic bin or a plastic box that we put all of the ice in and the drinks so it's not just for beer it's also for Coke and and Sprite and all these different drinks right so it's usually made to keep something cool but as I said if you want to keep something warm you can also keep it in the cooler it keeps the temperature of the foods and the nice thing is that it's not electric so you can use it anywhere right all right so
that's all the words for today why don't we listen to our dialog for the last [Music] time is everything ready for the big family Barbecue tomorrow yep the steaks and chicken are marinated and I also bought hamburger buns we should also cook a couple dozen hot dogs and kebabs yeah good idea we could put some lawn furniture outside next to the grill I also set up the tent outside so we can hide from the Sun if it gets too hot great I asked Grace to ring cups and serviettes as she is also bringing two big
coolers for the beers this is going to be a great barbecue oh no it's [Music] raining all right we're back so family barbecues and doing these things did you do these when you were young at home do you still like to do it all the time I love barbecues that's one of my favorite ways to eat food uh the nice thing about a barbecue is you get to sit outside and relax and uh there's nothing better than nice fresh grilled meat right and well you have all your friends over so you're having a couple of
beers and you're having some meat and it's actually a really nice way of just having something at home with good friends and family right exactly and some of the most important barbecues we have are in the summer near July 4th and so people like to have July 4th barbecues where you celebrate Independence Day and sit outside and drink and have hot dogs and hamburgers and macaroni and cheese actually well I was in Chile I noticed that as well near their uh their festivities for their independence which is September 18th a lot of people get together
and have barbecues and it's so so popular that pretty much every house in the neighborhood you can smell somebody barbecuing on the weekend you're making me so hungry all right guys so if you have any questions any doubts or if it's common for you guys to barbecue back home then why don't you send us a couple of comments at englishpod do.com and we'll see everyone there bye bye [Music] the English pod audio review listen to the meaning then say the vocabulary word a meal cooked Out of Doors over an open fire barbecue be soaked in
marinade marinate a group of 12 dozen pieces of roasted meat fish and vegetables on a skewer kebab utensil with a metal grate parallel metal bars for cooking over a fire [Music] grill portable shelter of canvas held up by poles rope and pegs tent a small square of cloth or paper seret a container vessel or apparatus for cooling cooler Furniture intended for use outside in the yard lawn furniture a round bun shaped to hold a hamburger patty hamburger bun let's try that faster a round bun shaped to hold a hamburger patty hamburger bun a meal cooked
Out of Doors over an open fire barbecue a container vessel or apparatus for cooling cooler be soaked in marinade marinate utensil with a metal grate parallel metal bars for cooking over a fire [Music] grill portable shelter of canvas held up by poles rope and pegs tent pieces of roasted meat fish and vegetables on a skewer Kebab Furniture intended for use outside in the yard lawn furniture a group of 12 dozen a small square of cloth or paper seret now say the word and hear it in a sentence barbecue how about we have a barbecue tomorrow
night barbecue in the summertime at dinner there is always the smell of someone in our neighborhood having a barbecue barbecue can you smell the barbecue my mouth is watering marinate marinated steak steaks are much more tasty and juicier than regular steaks marinate the only thing I know about my friend's secret recipe is that she marinates the chicken breasts overnight marinate marinating meat makes the meat more tender lawn furniture we have a whole bunch of lawn furniture and a swimming pool in our backyard lawn furniture the home store down the road is having a sale on
lawn furniture lawn furniture the party ended abruptly when people started throwing the lawn furniture into the pool [Music] Grill my favorite food is steak done on the grill grill after you finish cutting up the vegetables wrap them in some aluminum foil and place it on top of the grill [Music] grill you should always clean the grill after you use it cooler we brought a cooler with us to the beach so that we could keep the drinks and the sandwich meat cold cooler he filled up a cooler with ice and then placed the medical specimen carefully
inside cooler when we go camping we always have a cooler or two to keep food cold [Music]
