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Family and Friends, Multi-ROM 1 Unit 12 Dinner Time Listening 120
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Listen and point Rice Meat Carrots Yoghurt
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Fish Bread fish rice yogurt bread
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meat carrots Listen and repeat.
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rice meat carrots yogurt Fish
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Bread Listening 121.
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Listen and chant.
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Rice, rice, rice Meat, meat,
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meat Carrots, carrots, carrots Yoghurt,
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yogurt, yogurt Fish, fish, fish
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Bread, bread, bread
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Listening 122.
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Listen and read.
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Rice, meat and carrots for Billy.
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Do you like carrots, Billy?
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No, I don't.
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No carrots for me.
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What do you like, Billy?
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Do you like yoghurt?
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Yes, I do.
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OK.
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First your carrots and then a yoghurt.
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Finished.
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Good boy.
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Here's your yoghurt.
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Mmm.
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I like yoghurt.
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Oh no!
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Listening 123.
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Listen and point.
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Milk.
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Juice.
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Water.
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Hot chocolate.
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tea, water, tea, juice, milk, hot chocolate.
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Listen and repeat.
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Milk Juice Water Hot chocolate Tea
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Listening 124 Listen and sing, Drink Your Milk.
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Eat your figs and drink your milk, drink your milk, drink your milk.
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Eat your figs and drink your milk, don't be late for school.
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Eat your bread and drink your juice, drink your juice, drink your juice.
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Eat your bread and drink your juice Don't be late for school Here's your water,
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here's your bag Here's your bag, here's your bag Here's your water, here's your bag.
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Don't be late for school.
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Listening 125.
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Listen and point.
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B-E-D.
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Bed.
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P-E-N.
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Pen.
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R, E, D.
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Red.
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Listen and repeat.
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B, E, D.
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Bed.
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P, E, N.
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Pen.
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R-E-D Red Listening 126 Listen and chant
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Ken's got a pen Pen, pen, pen Ken's pen is red Red,
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red, red Where's Ken's pen?
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Pen, pen, pen It's on Ken's bed Bed,
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bed, bed Listening 127 Listen and read
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I'm hungry Let's look at the menu.
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I like meat and rice.
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I like carrots too.
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I don't like fish or eggs.
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I like ice cream.
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I like apple juice, but I don't like milk.
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What do you like, Emma?
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I like ice cream too.
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And I like fish and eggs.
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I like rice, but I don't like carrots I like bananas,
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but I don't like grapes I like milk, but I don't like apple juice.
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Listening 128.
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Listen and draw.
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Are you hungry, Jessie?
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Yes, I am.
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Well, let's look at the menu.
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What do you want?
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Well, I like yoghurt, but I don't like ice cream.
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I like bread because I like sandwiches.
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So, you can have a sandwich.
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Which sandwiches do you like?
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Hmm.
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I don't like meat.
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Um, I want an egg sandwich. And an apple, please.
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I like apples.
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Fluency Time 4.
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Listening 129.
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Listen, read and say.
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1. Would you like salad?
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Yes, please.
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Mmm, this is delicious.
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I'm happy you like it.
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Two. Would you like fries?
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No, thanks.
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I'm full.
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Thank you for dinner.
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Listening 130.
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Listen and number.
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1. Would you like carrots, Kate?
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Yes, please.
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Carrots are delicious.
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2. Would you like bread?
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Yes, please, Dad.
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I like bread. Would you like yoghurt?
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I like yoghurt, but no thanks.
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I'm full.
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Thank you for dinner, Dad.
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You're welcome, Kate.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This video has 110 sentences and 502 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:05. 73% 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:

WordPronunciationMeaning
carrot noun/ˈkæɹət/A vegetable with a nutritious, juicy, sweet root that is often orange in colour, Daucus carota, family Apiaceae, especially the subspecies sativus.
yogurt noun/ˈjɒɡ.ət/A milk-based product stiffened by a bacterium-aided curdling process, and sometimes mixed with fruit or other flavoring.
juice noun/d͡ʒuːs/A liquid made from plant, especially fruit.
sandwich noun/ˈsæn(d).wɪd͡ʒ/A dish or foodstuff where at least one piece, but typically two or more pieces, of bread serves as the wrapper or container of some other food.
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…
hungry adjective/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
delicious adjective/dɪˈlɪ.ʃəs/Pleasing to the sense of taste; tasty.
menu noun/ˈmɛn.juː/The details of the food to be served at a banquet; a bill of fare.
fig noun/fɪɡ/The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds.
chant verb/t͡ʃænt/To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music.
salad noun/ˈsæl.əd/A food consisting principally of raw vegetables (especially greens, e.g. lettuce), other savoury ingredients (typically cooked), fruit, or confectionary; often…
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.
fry verb/fɹaɪ/To cook (something) in hot fat.
grape noun/ɡɹeɪp/A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the…
fluency noun/ˈfluːənsi/The quality of smoothness of flow.

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 16 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

How to practise with this video

  1. Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
  2. Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
  3. Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like carrot, yogurt, juice.

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