Shadowing Practice: 24 Hours At Gordon Ramsay's Restaurants - Learn English Speaking with Video

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I just flew all the way to London to eat only Gordon Ramsay's food for 24 hours.

I did let Gordon know I was in town, and here's what he wrote back.

Hey Nick, it's Gordon, your favorite chef.

First of all, sorry I can't be with you across this London tour, but I promise you, you're going to love it.

This visit is going to confirm how good

Great Britain is.

Very best of luck, and I can't wait to see you soon.

And stop selling that salt.

Osmo salt.

It's the saltiest.

Today I'll get a taste of his famous beef wellington and sticky toffee pudding, among many other things, all in his great home country of England.

But there's one strict rule I have to follow.

Nothing can be consumed outside the borders of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants.

Let's go.

It's 8 30 in the morning and we're starting our day at Bread Street Kitchen, which is supposed to be a lively and exciting restaurant.

It lives on the street that used to have the city's bread market, so I'm hoping that we might get some good carbs in this morning.

We're starting off plain and simple with the English breakfast.

Looks like we got some of these scrambled eggs, some grilled tomato, mushrooms, some sort of hash brown,

a big old sausage, some English style bacon, and some baked beans.

My question is how exactly I'm supposed to be eating an English breakfast.

Do I just kind of eat across the whole plate?

Or is there an actual method to eating an English breakfast.

I have no idea.

I'm a huge fan of the classic English breakfast, and I'll tell you why.

You literally just get to eat a little bit of everything.

I'm going to start ordering this more.

Naturally, you had to know that Gordon Ramsay's scrambled eggs are the best in the business.

If you want to be a good boyfriend, run upstairs now and give it to her in bed, the breakfast.

In between this, I'm going to go ahead with my Bloody Mary.

I know Bloody Marys are a real hot topic.

It's either yes or no for most people, but I'm a Bloody Mary person all the way.

Next up, we have these amazing looking ricotta of pancakes on this one

i'm gonna make sure i get a bite of everything that's on the plate some banana some blueberries some of

that butter plenty of maple syrup and of course some actual pancake

oh man that's good honestly i think my favorite thing here is the butter

i'm not really sure what they're putting inside it

but whatever it is it's delicious i'll wash

that all down with a nice mimosa

and then i will bring in my third

and final dish of the day some nice eggs benedict my

favorite obviously the elephant in the room is the yolk gonna pop perfectly let's find out

Oh, that was amazing.

That is the brightest yolk I've ever seen.

Oh, that is just...

That's why they call it yolk.

Adult content.

That's another thing that I love about London is that the egg yolks are always so bright.

I'm pretty sure it means they feed their chickens more peppers, but Brandon, I'm gonna let you fact -check me on that one.

I'm gonna have to say that without a question my favorite here was the English breakfast.

It had a little bit of everything and each individual bite was delicious.

We're gonna be eating but also walking through London a lot today,

So I'm gonna finish it with some cappuccino and we're on to our next spot

It's 10 a .m.

And for brunch we're headed to the Savoy Hotel to get the beef

Wellington Watch out, Eddie.

Sorry.

I actually came here a long time ago during MasterChef when we had the finale here in London Guys, come on!

It's a super fancy hotel and I think the food is gonna be pretty good.

The beef Wellington is good

Probably the best one I've ever had, but we didn't want to eat too much just to save space for the rest of the day

It's 12 30 p .m.

Which means it's lunchtime and we're at Gordon Ramsay Street Pizza.

Before we eat our pizza

Apparently, I'm going inside here.

I just picked up the phone, I think.

See?

Hello?

You donut.

Are you ?

I'm seriously disappointed.

This is a horribly aggressive phone booth.

Hello?

Gordon?

You got anything to say to me?

Say it to my face, not my back. And off.

What a bozo.

The start of the show at this restaurant is supposedly one thing, and that's bottomless pizza slices.

I'm going to prepare with an espresso martini.

It's one of my favorite drinks out there, but ironically, I usually only have them at night.

Again, since we're only eating today, I'm gonna have a few more midday drinks.

This one's the hard lemonade.

Super tasty and not too sweet.

Then there's street margarita.

Then we got the street spritz.

I love the glass this comes in.

I'm gonna be so drunk.

And then one more quick step, because our food's coming out, the Long Island iced tea.

Here you get one slice of pizza at a time, but it's bottomless.

And for 16 pounds to get endless pizza, I think that's a fantastic deal.

But we have one big problem.

Even Gordon himself said pineapple shouldn't be on pizza.

You don't put pineapple on pizza.

Ah, definitely no pineapple on the pizza.

Thank you.

What the are you doing?

This smells amazing, looks amazing.

Let's see how it tastes.

Well, it certainly doesn't change the fact that pineapple should naturally be on pizza.

This is delicious.

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This is a mac and cheese done in a pizza oven.

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And just by looking at it, I can already tell that it's going to be good.

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Woohoo!

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It tastes like there's a tiny hint of mustard in the mac and cheese in the best way possible.

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It's either that or mayonnaise.

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I can't tell.

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Can I just uncover Gordon's secret to good mac and cheese?

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Secret is to get that really nice smooth paste, but whisk in that egg first.

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Slice number two for us, margarita.

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That's really good.

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Slice number three.

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This looks like a spicy pepperoni pizza.

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Definitely my favorite so far.

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In between some bites of pizza, these are called their JFC fries.

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Why is it called JFC?

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For the chicken, the breaded chicken, and the sauce.

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JFC?

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JFC.

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So these fries basically have pieces of chicken

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that are sort of shaped like french fry and also actual french fries

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that are coated with this sort of sauce or cheese

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oh and they're crispy man can i feed you yeah here comes the airplane

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they're like we need to get these kids out of this restaurant

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Oh my gosh.

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And this one is Italian spicy sausage.

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Beautiful.

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I can't handle heat.

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We all know that.

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Woo.

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I can handle this.

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Vegan pizza?

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Yes.

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Okay.

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Eating animals is wrong, Gordon Ramsay.

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And if you call me a donut, it's fine.

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Vegan donut.

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You're vegan from now on.

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Beautiful.

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Listen to this crunch.

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It's just such good crust.

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We have a leaflet with this here.

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Jason ate 37 slices of pizza.

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Nicholas got 35.

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Wasn't me, though.

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Probably the prettiest slice of pizza yet.

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It tastes like you're eating a pizza that came from a fresh garden.

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That's my best way to describe this one.

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Also, can we take a moment to appreciate how aesthetic this slice of pizza is?

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This is the most unique bite of food I've ordered so far today.

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This is actual chocolate sauce on these wings.

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That's really good.

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It almost reminds me essentially of a Mexican mole, which is a sauce that has all sorts of ingredients.

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One of the main prominent ingredients being chocolate.

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Did you say chocolate?

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It's always nice to be able to have a nice bite of salad.

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You can go to bed saying, I ate healthy today.

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Don't look at me like that.

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I'm eating healthy, for real.

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Very quickly, before we head on to get a nice afternoon snack, this is my favorite dessert Gordon makes.

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Sticky toffee pudding.

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This is so good.

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This is the first time I've had a banana split in about 10 years.

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And I like it.

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It is now 3 p .m.

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We are here at Gordon Ramsay's Street Burger for an afternoon snack.

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Just like we couldn't jump from breakfast straight to lunch, we can't jump straight from lunch to dinner.

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We need to have something fun in between.

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Even later in the afternoon, it's popping at this restaurant.

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We're going to order the Hell's Kitchen Burger, which seems to be the star burger on the menu here,

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with a nice side of regular french fries.

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We're taking our street burger for takeout, and I came to visit my favorite bookstore in London to eat it.

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That's why I'm talking so quietly.

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The first time I ever visited London,

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I remember coming to this cookbook section and dreaming that one day I'd write a cookbook of my very own.

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And as you now know, it actually happened.

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Go and pre -order

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Night Drop featuring Gore Ramsay.

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And for pre -orders only, we're donating 10 meals for those in need through the FarmLink project.

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With the goal of donating 1 million meals.

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Despite all the food I've eaten, I'm still hungry, so I'm gonna eat my burger.

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It's 6 .30 now, and we've arrived at Lucky Cat for dinner.

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It's got remarkably good reviews online for its Asian -inspired cuisine.

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The first bite of the night is this scallop crudo.

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I am one of those rare people that like scallops better when they're raw, not cooked.

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That's unbelievable.

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Our next bite is a tuna tartare.

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Oh my god.

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The whole thing was wrapped in a shiso leaf, which if you haven't tried it,

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is this very unique, almost sort of lemony leaf that you often get with Japanese food.

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This right here is squash tempura.

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Just from the crunch alone, you should know this is good.

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And this here is a delicious looking sashimi, just the start of a lot of sashimi we're going to have this evening.

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This is their JFC.

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It's supposedly fried chicken that you can't leave here without trying.

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Of all the food we've had today, this one tasted the most different from what I thought it would taste like by looking at it.

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It has a really unique sauce, But all they give us for the description is hot Korean miso and black sesame.

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Mysterious.

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This is the sashimi selection.

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On here we have salmon, yellowtail, akami, chutoro, and seaboo.

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Chutoro is the wagyu of the sea.

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It doesn't get better than this.

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Literally melts in your mouth.

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That is also a perfect looking piece of tuna.

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And some yellowtail.

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And of course, you can't forget the wasabi.

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Are you crazy?

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Are you out of your mind?

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Next up is the duck leg bao, which they prepare table side and honestly, it makes you drool the whole time you have to wash.

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It even has the restaurant logo on the front.

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This is a much awaited bite.

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Oh my god

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One of the coolest plates I've seen the entire day

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I want to taste this lobster in all seriousness you could eat

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this dish right here without any teeth I've had lobster my whole life

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and this is the most tender lobster I've ever had I've got some really good honey

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and mint jelly lamb lollipops in my new cookbook

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Let's see if Gordon can make lamb lollipops better than I can

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Damn, you might have me beat just like the duck bao buns the egg fried rice was prepped table -sized

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and ready's that yolk pop I knew it was gonna be good.

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What I love about a fried rice like this is

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that they have some really nice perfect crispy bits of rice almost like a Persian tadik.

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Can't leave here without trying these pork dumplings.

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The actual filling in these dumplings has a lot more of a complex flavor than a regular dumpling

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you might have which is delicious but these are just very different.

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I actually can't tell which I prefer better.

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Something plain or something more complex like this.

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By the way, this is the cute little cat that they let you rest your chopsticks on.

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I bet a lot of people steal these.

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Not us though, Gordon.

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Not us.

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It's 8 .30 p .m and we're at Head & Street Kitchen for dessert only.

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Head & Street is described as Gordon Ramsay's sleek European brasserie, featuring an eclectic menu in an airy modern space.

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Sticky toffee pudding time.

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I've been waiting for this since the moment we arrived.

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Oh my god.

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That is heaven.

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It's a hot spongy cake that tastes like brown butter with vanilla ice cream and this toffee butterscotch sauce.

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It's perfect.

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It's 11pm, our final stop of the day,

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Hidden Headin, a little cocktail bar that's hidden down here where we'll have a cocktail to close out the day.

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Hey guys, this is Pink DiGiorno.

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I love him.

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I watch all his videos.

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Can you take a selfie?

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Of course, yeah.

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You're fired, man.

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Oh, oh.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “24 Hours At Gordon Ramsay's Restaurants”. This video has 57 sentences and 2271 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:01. The speaker talks fast, about 227 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 78% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding. 18 of its 57 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
pizza noun	/ˈpi.tsə/	A baked Italian dish of a thinly rolled bread crust typically topped before baking with tomato sauce, cheese, and other ingredients such as meat or vegetables.
bite verb	/baɪt/	To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
slice noun	/slaɪs/	That which is thin and broad.
fry verb	/fɹaɪ/	To cook (something) in hot fat.
delicious adjective	/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/	Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
burger noun	/ˈbɝ.ɡɚ/	A hamburger.
pineapple noun	/ˈpaɪnəpəl/	A tropical plant, Ananas comosus, native to South America, having thirty or more long, spined and pointed leaves surrounding a thick stem.
egg noun	/ɛɡ/	An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, often housing an embryo within a membrane or shell…
butter noun	/ˈbʌtɚ/	A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
beef noun	/bif/	The meat from cattle or other bovines; especially, that from adults.
sticky adjective	/ˈstɪki/	Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
lobster noun	/ˈlɑb.stɚ/	A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a…
pudding noun	/ˈpʊdɪŋ/	Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming or from batter.
meal noun	/ˈmiːl/	Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity.
plain noun	/pleɪn/	An expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
close out verb		To terminate; to call the end of.
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
find out verb		To discover, as by asking or investigating.
go ahead with verb		To resume something previously cancelled or delayed; to continue something despite known concerns.
pick up verb		To lift; to grasp and raise.
start off verb		To begin.
take out verb		To remove.
walk through verb		To explain (something) to (someone), step by step.

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

I'm going to start ordering this more.
You freaking donut, are you freaking stupid?
Manny, can I feed you?
Are you out of your mind?
Can I take a selfie?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	I've ever seen · I've ever had · I've ordered
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	can be consumed · are called · are coated
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	Kitchen, which is · mole, which is · have which is
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	the saltiest · the best · the brightest

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 77 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, we're, can't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: smooth /smuːð/, booth /buθ/, aesthetic /ɛsˈθɛ.tɪk/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: delicious /dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/, dish /dɪʃ/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, chef /ʃɛf/, gosh /ɡɑːʃ/
Long words — get the stress right: supposedly /səˈpoʊ̯.zɪd.li/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, disappointed /ˌdɪsəˈpɔɪnɪd/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like pizza, bite, slice.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?