Shadowing Practice: Food and Cooking Vocabulary - Learn English Speaking with Video
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in this video we're going to talk about cooking
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and food first we're going to talk about the ways of
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cooking food depending on the food we cook them one way
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or another for example
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if you're going to put some chicken in the oven you roast it you can have roast chicken roast potatoes
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or or roast beef for example.
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If you put food in hot water in a saucepan, you boil it.
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You boil pasta or rice, and you can also boil vegetables.
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If you put food in a frying pan with a bit of oil, you fry food.
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You can fry vegetables, you can fry sausages or you can fry bacon for example.
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The full English breakfast includes a lot of fried food like fried bread,
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fried tomatoes, mushrooms, sausages, bacon and fried egg.
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If you put a cake in the oven, you bake it.
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You don't roast a cake.
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Baking is usually used for foods like bread,
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cakes and pastries, but not for foods like chicken.
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If you have a barbecue and you put meat on the barbecue, you barbecue it.
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Barbecue is also a verb.
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And lastly, if you put food on a grill, like meat, you grill it.
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But before you cook your food, you need to prepare it.
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You have to remove the skin of some foods, like potatoes so you peel the potatoes
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if you want to cut some food up you can chop it into small pieces
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or chunks or you can slice it into thin slices for For example,
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if we're going to have a sandwich, we would slice the cheese into slices,
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but if we are going to make a cheese board with different types of cheese and bread and grapes,
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we would chop it up into chunks.
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If we are having a pizza, we would grate the cheese so that it is in small thin strips.
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If you want to add a bit of flavour, you can add salt and pepper and other spices.
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And that's called seasoning, so people like to season their food before they cook it.
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If you want to add any extra ingredients, you can add it to recipe and...
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If you need to move it around in a bowl then you stir it.
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Now let's talk about flavours.
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Some people don't like Indian or Mexican food because they say it's too spicy.
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That means that it's got a strong hot flavour.
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I like spicy food because if it doesn't have a lot of flavour, it's too bland for me.
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Bland means that it doesn't have any flavour.
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For example, rice is bland if you don't season it.
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Lemons are sour.
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So some people don't like lemonade because they say it is too sour.
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The opposite of sour is sweet.
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Strawberries and bananas are sweet foods.
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But then there's another word that some people don't understand, which is bitter.
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Bitter isn't the same as sour.
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Bitter means that it has a sharp, unpleasant taste.
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For example, dark chocolate, coffee and mustard are bitter.
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Beer, grapefruit and tonic water are also bitter.
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So it's different to sour.
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Citrus fruits are sour like lemons,
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limes, oranges, grapefruits and we also have pineapples, green apples and vinegar.
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So it's a different flavour.
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if you have added too much salt to the recipe it will be salty salty means
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that it has a lot of salt for example a lot
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of crisps are salty salty doesn't mean the same as savory people always ask what do you prefer sweet or savory food
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we don't say do you prefer sweet
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or salty food we say savory savory basically means
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that it it has a lot of flavor
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but not in a sweet way and it doesn't have to be salty for example For example,
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vegetables are savoury because it's the opposite of sweet.
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But it doesn't mean that vegetables are salty.
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Vegetables would be salty if you add salt to them.
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So be careful with the words savoury and bitter because they are words that people don't usually understand.
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if you want to say that something isn't spicy you can say it is mild
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so if you go to an Indian restaurant
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and you ask for some food you would ask is it spicy
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or is it mild then we have some words to talk about texture food can be crunchy like crisps
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or biscuits or chewy like meat.
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Chewy means that you have to chew it a lot.
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It can also be smooth and creamy like a nice cup of coffee and juicy.
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So if you have a hamburger and you say
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that the meat is juicy it means that it's not dry
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when we're talking about temperature of food we can say
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that it's hot cold warm which is between hot and cold frozen
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or chilled chilled means that it has been cooled in a refrigerator
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so if a shop is advertising chilled drinks it means
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that they have been in the fridge so they're going to be colder.
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If we're talking about a food's consistency we can say that it's thick or thin they're opposites and runny.
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If you make a sauce and it is runny it means
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that it's very liquidy the opposite is firm
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and then two other words that we have are mushy
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and sticky mushy means soft so if you're making a recipe and the vegetables or the peas need to be mushy,
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you would take a fork and squash them down to make them mushy.
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And lastly, sticky means that it sticks to your fingers while you're making it.
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So sometimes when I make bread,
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the dough is too sticky and it sticks to my hands so I have to add more flour.
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Thank you and I'll see you in another video.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “Food and Cooking Vocabulary”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: example, salty, flavour, sour, vegetables. This video has 86 sentences and 988 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:00. The speaker talks slowly, about 99 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 77% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| salty adjective | /ˈsɔlti/ | Tasting of salt. |
| savory adjective | /ˈseɪ.və.ɹi/ | Tasty, attractive to the palate. |
| flavour noun | British standard spelling of flavor. | |
| sour adjective | /ˈsaʊ.ə/ | Tasting of acidity. |
| vegetable noun | /ˈvɛd͡ʒ.tə.bəl/ | A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, herb, or spice… |
| bitter adjective | /ˈbɪ.tɚ/ | Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance). |
| roast verb | /ɹoʊst/ | To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance. |
| fry verb | /fɹaɪ/ | To cook (something) in hot fat. |
| mushy adjective | /ˈmʌ.ʃi/ | Resembling or having the consistency of mush; semiliquid, pasty, or granular. |
| spicy adjective | /ˈspaɪsi/ | Of, pertaining to, or containing spice. |
| slice noun | /slaɪs/ | That which is thin and broad. |
| bland adjective | /blænd/ | Having a soothing effect; not irritating or stimulating. |
| sticky adjective | /ˈstɪki/ | Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance. |
| boil verb | /bɔɪ(ə)l/ | To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas. |
| potato noun | /pəˈteɪ.təʊ/ | The edible starchy tuber of the plant species Solanum tuberosum. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
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| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have added · has been cooled · have been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | is usually used · has been cooled |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | understand, which is · warm which is |
| Obligation: must / have to / need to saying that something is necessary | need to prepare · have to remove · need to move |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 25 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, doesn't, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: mushy /ˈmʌ.ʃi/, squash /skwɔʃ/, mushroom /ˈmʌʃˌɹuːm/
- Long words — get the stress right: refrigerator /ɹɪˈfɹɪd͡ʒ.əˌɹeɪ.tɚ/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, consistency /kənˈsɪs.tən.si/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like salty, savory, flavour.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.