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I'm better than my mom at cooking, I think.

Hey!

Hey guys!

One of our resolutions this year was to get the kids cooking more for themselves.

We've been having a lot of fun practicing, and today Brooks is going to show your kids how to make three easy breakfast recipes.

Alright, you ready to cook?

Yeah.

Alright, so I'm going to leave and Brooks is going to show you his three recipes.

Tell us what you're making today.

Scrambled eggs.

Yes.

Banana pancakes.

Yep and these really yummy sticky buns.

All right, good luck.

I'm gonna be right over there.

All right, so first we're gonna make our scrambled eggs.

I'm really hungry, so I'm gonna do three.

So now I'm gonna go ahead and wash my hands.

You wanna wash your hands because the eggs have lots of germs in them.

Okay, so now we're gonna pour some milk in.

This kind of makes it a little, like, the eggs a little fluffier.

So now we can start whisking this.

You need to be extra careful if you're using a small bowl, because it's really easy when you're whisking for it to get out of the bowl.

I need the camera to follow me, because I'm going to bring it to the sink.

Don't put this on.

I'm going to bring the bowl and the whisk over so I can wash the whisk.

So now we're ready to put the eggs on the stove and get cooking.

We are going to turn the stove on, bring it to light.

I'd say that's about good.

We're gonna go ahead and pour the eggs in.

And now we're gonna wait a little bit.

This is my least favorite part, waiting for the eggs to be ready.

Takes a little time, but once you see it's kind of coming up on the sides, looks a lot like eggs.

Now I think it's time for us to flip it.

I'm going to get all the way under to the other side, and you're going to flip it.

So I can turn this off.

Mom, I turned the stove off.

Here's the best part.

Now we get to put them on the plate.

Oops. And voila, scrambled eggs.

Avery, come have some scrambled eggs with me.

OK.

Mmm.

This is the best part, definitely.

Now we're making the two ingredient banana pancakes.

So now we're gonna open this banana.

Oddly satisfied.

So now we're gonna put it in the bowl and smush it.

We have to smush this really, really well.

These are when muscles come in handy.

I'm good at this.

I'm better than my mom at cooking, I think.

Okay, so now the same thing as the scrambled eggs.

Crack this egg.

Now the next egg.

So now we're going to whisk.

And you can also go around and if you see anything that you didn't smush, you can go and smush it again.

So now we're going to cook the vanilla pancakes.

So I have a couple tips for you that my mom and me discovered that they really help.

The first one is just a safety tip.

This should never be facing you.

And also, you want the pan to be really warm.

And next you need really small scoops so

that it will be easier to flip and a really thin spatula so it will be easier to flip.

So let's pour this baby in.

We're going to do it right in the middle.

So now we're waiting for like the edges to get cooked.

This is something me and my mom had to practice a bit.

We learned you can't flip too early.

Ooh, that looks pretty good.

Now you need to really get completely under it.

I think I did a really good job on that one.

And that's a wrap on the banana pancakes.

Mmm.

They could use a little maple syrup, but they're good playing because they have lots of flavor in them.

So now for our last kid recipe, we're making semi-homemade, super yummy, sticky buns.

So the first step is cutting the butter, but you need to cut the butter really big.

And I'm using my kid knife.

We're going to fill it up, so we're going to put one in.

I like this part because you get to get your hands all messy and I like getting messy.

We're gonna put some brown sugar in.

I put lots of brown sugar in because I like mine to be really sweet.

So we're gonna go ahead and put brown sugar in all of the pecans.

So now we can put some pecans in some of them.

I'm gonna make two for my mom.

So now for the tricky part, I might need my mom for this, but we're gonna try to open these biscuits.

A little help here, mom?

Ready?

Here, help me.

Don't push my hand.

Ooh, these are hard.

Oh my gosh.

Oh wait, here.

We're supposed to...

Oh, and then you can open it.

See if you can do it.

Voila.

Now I get to put them in.

I like to push my biscuits down so that the toppings stay on better.

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That's a key tip.

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So now we're going to put them in a 350 degree oven.

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I get to put them in for about eight minutes.

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If you have any extra sloths, make sure to fill them up with a little bit of water so that they don't burn.

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This is so good.

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Thanks.

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You're welcome.

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Avery, you've never met a sweet that you didn't like.

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Alright guys, I'm pretty impressed with everything Brooks was able to make today.

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So next time you're tired of cereal, I hope you give these a try.

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Because it's easier to make breakfast than you think.

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We'll see you next time.

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Bye guys.

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Bye guys.

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Where are you looking, Brooks?

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Are you looking into the camera?

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Into the camera.

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Yeah, with that kind of smell.

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So now we're ready to put the stoves on the... To...

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The milk makes it kind of puffier, right?

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Because I just want to make sure I'm right.

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What if I'm wrong?

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

The speaker keeps coming back to these words: egg, mom, scrambled, flip, smush. This video has 121 sentences and 1036 words to shadow. The speech runs for 6:36. The speaker talks at a natural 157 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

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

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
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…
flip verb	/flɪp/	To throw so as to turn over.
banana noun	/bəˈnænə/	An elongated curved tropical fruit of a banana plant, which grows in bunches and has a creamy flesh and a smooth skin.
stove noun	/stoʊv/	A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.
recipe noun	/ˈɹɛs.ɪ.pi/	Any set of instructions for preparing a mixture of ingredients.
pour verb	/poɹ/	To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it.
butter noun	/ˈbʌtɚ/	A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
messy adjective	/ˈmɛsi/	In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
sticky adjective	/ˈstɪki/	Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
bun noun	/bʌn/	A small bread roll that is sweetened or spiced.
yummy adjective	/ˈjʌm.i/	Delicious.
thin adjective	/ˈθɪn/	Having little thickness or extent from one surface to its opposite.
hungry adjective	/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/	Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
muscle noun	/ˈmʌs.əl/	A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement.
crack noun	/kɹæk/	A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
go ahead verb	/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/	To proceed with; to begin.
get out of verb		To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
go around verb		To move or spread from person to person.

Sentences worth repeating

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

I'm better than my mom at cooking, I think.
Alright, you ready to cook?
Tell us what you're making today.
Are you looking into the camera?
What if I'm wrong?

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group	my least favorite · the best
Comparatives -er than / more … than — comparing two things	better than
Future with “going to” be going to + verb — a plan or something you can see coming	is going to show · I'm going to leave · gonna be
Present continuous am/is/are + -ing — something happening right now or around now	you're making · you're using · we're making

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 68 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, I'm, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “th” sounds: thin /ˈθɪn/, sloth /slɔθ/
The “sh” and “zh” sounds: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, smush /smʌʃ/

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 egg, flip, banana.

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