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6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.
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I'm Neil.
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And I'm Bekah.
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In this episode we're discussing a food seasoning that's
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so popular we eat around three quarters of a million tonnes of it a year.
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We're talking about pepper.
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Do you add pepper to your food, Bekah?
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I do, Neil.
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Yes, I think it's an easy way way to add some spice.
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Yeah, I love a bit of pepper.
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I grind pepper onto everything.
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Well, not everything.
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But I do like it.
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Given its popularity, it's surprising that most people know very little about pepper.
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Did you know, for example,
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that peppers are the fruit of vines,
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often growing over 10 metres high?
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Our ancestors would be surprised how little we know.
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From ancient Greece onwards, pepper was prized as the black gold of ingredients,
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and explorers crossed oceans in search of it,
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discovering new continents along the way.
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In this episode, we'll get reacquainted with pepper and learn some useful new words and phrases too.
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And remember, you'll find a transcript for you to read along with us as you listen on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
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OK, first I have a question for you, of course, Becca.
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Although it's black pepper you're most likely to see in shops and restaurants in the UK,
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there are hundreds of different varieties worldwide.
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But what is unusual about Phu Quoc,
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a white pepper from Vietnam?
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Does it a make people cry,
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b taste like Parmesan cheese,
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or c cost more than gold?
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Hmm, well I don't think it would be as expensive as gold
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and I kind of want it to taste like Parmesan cheese.
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OK, well we'll find out later in the programme.
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Mathilde Rolinger is the daughter of Olivier Rolinger,
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an award-winning French chef famous for his use of spices.
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While other little girls of her age were sprinkling sugar on their breakfast yoghurt,
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Mathilde was the only girl in Paris sprinkling pepper.
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Today, Mathilde runs the Epis Rollinger spice shop in the Opera area of the city.
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Here, customers can find a huge range of peppers,
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from fruity red Cambodian Kampot pepper to Borneo's Sarawak black pepper with its woody aroma.
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These peppers have strong distinctive tastes.
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But curiously, they enhance rather than overpower the flavor of the food you're eating,
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as Mathilde explained to BBC World Service programme, The Food Chain.
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It will give a kick and transform it,
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but you will still have the savor of the different ingredients.
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It will not disguise the other ingredients,
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but it will push them.
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It's a flavor catalyst.
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We can say in punctuation, like it's an exclamation.
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It's like an exclamation mark.
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Exactly.
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Mathilde says pepper gives food a kick.
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To give something a kick means to provide it with extra stimulation or excitement.
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Pepper also makes flavours more intense.
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Mathilde calls it a catalyst – something that causes another action to start or makes it happen more quickly.
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In fact, she says pepper is like an exclamation mark.
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Saying something is like an exclamation mark means it shows strong emotion
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or excitement – the same thing an exclamation mark does in written punctuation.
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Mathilde's spice shop holds pepper tasting sessions,
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where she explains to customers the origin of her peppers and how they grow,
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changing colour as they harden in the sun.
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Reporter John Lawrenson attended one of these tasting sessions for BBC World Service programme The Food Chain.
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The different colours of pepper,
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though, as Mathilde started to say,
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do not correspond to the different varieties,
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but to the maturity of the peppercorns and what people do to them.
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They're green when they're young,
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black when they're mature and dried,
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red when they're very mature.
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Grey pepper is an industrial creation, not a botanical one.
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Ground to a fine powder,
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it is, says Mathilde, grey dust.
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She's not very keen on that one.
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The colour of pepper is not determined by the variety,
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but by its maturity.
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A food's maturity describes the stage when a food is fully grown and ready to harvest.
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For peppers, this is when they wrinkle and go black.
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Often, a pepper mill is used to grind pepper,
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to crush it into powder by pressing it between two hard surfaces.
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This happens with grey pepper,
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an artificially produced pepper mix which Mathilde is not keen on,
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meaning she doesn't like it.
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We've learned so much about pepper,
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I'll look at it differently the next time I sprinkle some of my food.
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OK Neil, I think it's time to reveal the answer to your question.
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Yes, I asked you what's unusual about Phu Quoc,
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a white pepper from Vietnam.
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I answered B, because I want it to taste like Parmesan cheese.
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Well, you're lucky because it is in fact B.
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It tastes like parmesan cheese.
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Well done.
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OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned,
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starting with the phrase give something a kick,
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meaning to add extra thrill or excitement.
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A catalyst causes something to start or speeds it up.
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If you say something is like an exclamation mark,
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you mean it signifies strong emotion,
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surprise or excitement, just like an exclamation mark does in writing.
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A food's maturity refers to the stage when it's fully grown and ready for harvest.
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To grind food means to crush it into powder by being pressed between two hard surfaces.
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And finally, if you're keen on something,
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you like it and enjoy doing it.
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Once again, our six minutes are up.
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But remember, you can find worksheets,
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quizzes and loads more resources to improve your English on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
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you there soon.
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But for now it's goodbye.
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Goodbye.

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In questa lezione, ci concentreremo sull'uso del pepe come condimento e sul suo impatto culinario. Imparando dal video, esploreremo non solo la storia e la varietà del pepe, ma anche alcune frasi e vocaboli utili che ti aiuteranno a migliorare la tua comprensione della lingua e la tua capacità di conversazione in inglese. Questo esercizio si presta perfettamente alla tecnica del shadowing, che può essere un metodo efficace per migliorare la pronuncia inglese e la fluidità nel parlare. Preparati a scoprire nuovi vocaboli mentre pratichi il tuo inglese!

Vocabolario & Frasi Chiave

  • pepper - pepe
  • seasoning - condimento
  • varieties - varietà
  • flavor catalyst - catalizzatore di sapore
  • distinctive tastes - gusti distintivi
  • enhance - migliorare
  • overpower - sopraffare
  • sprinkle - cospargere

Consigli per la Pratica

Per trarre il massimo beneficio dalla lezione e dalla pratica del tuo shadow speak, ti consigliamo di seguire questi passaggi:

  • Ascolta il video più volte e prova a ripetere le frasi subito dopo l'oratore. Questo è un ottimo modo per lavorare sulla tua pronuncia inglese e sulla tua intonazione.
  • Focalizzati sulle parole chiave. Ripetere parole come "pepper", "seasoning" e "varieties" ti aiuterà a familiarizzare con il lessico culinario e a integrarlo nel tuo vocabolario.
  • Utilizza il shadowing site per praticare con trascrizioni scritte, così potrai seguire il testo mentre ascolti, rafforzando la tua apprendimento.
  • Presta attenzione al tono e al ritmo dell'oratore nel video. Cerca di imitare il loro modo di parlare per rendere il tuo shadow speech più naturale.
  • Registra te stesso mentre pratichi. Ascoltare le tue registrazioni ti aiuterà a identificare aree di miglioramento nella tua pronuncia e nel tuo modo di esprimerti in inglese.

Incorporando questi suggerimenti nella tua pratica quotidiana, scoprirai che la tua capacità di conversare in inglese migliorerà notevolmente, rendendo le tue interazioni più vivaci e interessanti!

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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