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Hello English learners! Welcome to EnglishPod! My name is Marco.

And I’m Erica.

And today we’re back bringing you another great lesson, ah, an intermediate lesson.

That’s right, about one of my favorite subjects.

We’re talking about food.

Exactly.

Hehe. So, on this occasion we’re gonna be talking about food, so, let’s preview some words on “vocabulary preview”.

Vocabulary preview.

Alright, we have three words for you today. Um, and the first word is head chef.

Head chef.

Head chef.

So, what is a head chef?

Well, in a professional kitchen, um, this is the boss of the kitchen or the leader of the kitchen.

Okay, so, the head chief is the… the main cook…

Yes, but he doesn’t cook

He… but he doesn’t cook.

Okay.

Alright, so if he doesn’t cook, who’s the one that… does the cooking?

Um, that brings us to our second word, sous chef.

Sous chef.

Sous chef.

Sous chef.

S-O-U-S.

So, the S is silent.

Because it’s like a French word.

Yeah, something like that.

Okay. So, the sous chef is the second in line to the head chef.

Yea, he’s the number two.

Number two.

So, he’s basically the one that’s doing some of the work.

Yeah.

In the kitchen.

Now, let’s take a look at our last word, cuisine.

Cuisine.

Cuisine.

Cuisine.

So, this is an interesting word. What exactly does it mean?

Well, it basically means, um, cooking, right?

Okay.

Like the art of cooking.

So, for example, I can say French food.

Yeah, or French cuisine.

French cuisine, which includes all the food.

And this also the major that people study in college…

To become a chief.

They study cuisine.

And cuisine is a noun, right?

It’s a noun. Okay, so I think we’re ready to dive into our dialogue. What exactly is going on?

Well, um, we’re in a restaurant, um, and it’s a really busy night and so, we’re going to listen to what is happening in the kitchen.

…Right away sir, your order will be ready shortly.

Jean Pierre, we have another special for table seven!

I’m working as fast as I can! We’re really in the weeds! Where is my sous chef? Luc! I need you to peel more potatoes. Marie, chop some onions and carrots for the stew.

Jean Pierre another special! We’re really packed tonight! We’re running low on wine. Is there any left in the cellar?

Sorry I’m late, everyone. Wow, we are doing really well tonight!

Harry, stop talking and get over here I need this sauce stirred and the fish needs to be butchered and buttered.

Ok, I’m on it!

Jean Pierre, table seven has requested to see the chef! I think they are food critics from Cuisine Magazine!

You’ll ruin our meal!

Okay, so, a busy night here at this restaurant.

I know, it sounds like, ah, there’s a lot of pressure on this chief, Jean Pierre.

Yeah. Hehe. Yeah, you can… you can tell in his voice that he’s really stressed out.

Yeah.

Okay, let’s take a look at some of this kitchen vocabulary that we found, ah, in “language takeaway”.

Language takeaway.

Alright, well, we’ve got five words for you today, ah, and the first one is peel.

Peel.

Peel.

Peel.

P-E-E-L.

So, this is a verb.

Uhu.

And it means to…

Remove the outside skin.

Okay, so, for example, when you’re gonna eat a banana.

You must peel it first.

You must peel it.

Yep.

You gotta take away the yellow skin.

Uhu.

What else do you peel? Oranges, potatoes.

Potatoes, like in the dialogue. Ah, what else can you peel? I don’t know, carrots.

Carrots.

Yeah.

Some people peel their tomatoes I don’t know why.

Yeah, it is kind of weird.

Alright, now let’s take a look at our next word, chop.

Chop.

Chop.

Chop.

So, again another verb and it means to…

It means to cut food in to pieces.

Oh… so if you’re gonna eat carrots, first you gotta chop them.

Exactly.

Right, you can’t put a whole carrot in…

In you soup.

In your soup…

No

Or in your rice.

Yep.

Okay, chop.

M…

Okay our next word, stirred.

Yeah, this is the past participle of the word stir.

Okay, so the verb stir.

Stir.

So, when you stir something…

Imagine you have a big pot.

Uhu.

Um, and you’ve got a long spoon, you move the spoon around in circles.

Okay.

So, you’re stirring the pot.

You’re mixing.

Uhu.

To stir is very similar to mix.

Yes.

Okay.

So you just move the food around.

Move the food around.

Yep.

Okay, our next word, butchered.

Again the past participle of the word butcher.

Okay, butcher.

Butcher.

Now, this is a verb to butcher something.

Uhu.

It’s when you remove all the bones and all the organs from the meat.

Exactly, so you cut up the meat.

And this is interesting because that’s also a noun.

Right, a butcher is the person who cuts up meat.

Okay, so… so it’s really easy, a butcher butchers meat.

Yes.

Hehe. Alright, our last word, buttered.

Buttered.

Buttered.

Buttered.

Okay, so buttered, this is weird.

I know, um, normally we all know the… the noun, butter.

Uhu.

But here it’s acting as a verb.

Okay.

So, when you butter something, you spread or put butter on it.

Okay.

Simple.

So, to put butter on something.

Yep.

So you can butter a piece of bread.

Exactly.

Or in this case the fish is being buttered.

Uhu.

Sounds delicious.

Yes.

Okay, now we’re ready to listen to our dialogue for the second time, we’re gonna slow it down a little bit so it’s easier to understand.

Right away sir, your order will be ready shortly.

Jean Pierre, we have another special for table seven!

I’m working as fast as I can! We’re really in the weeds! Where is my sous chef? Luc! I need you to peel more potatoes. Marie, chop some onions and carrots for the stew.

Jean Pierre another special! We’re really packed tonight! We’re running low on wine. Is there any left in the cellar?

Sorry I’m late, everyone. Wow, we are doing really well tonight!

Harry, stop talking and get over here I need this sauce stirred and the fish needs to be butchered and buttered.

Ok, I’m on it!

Jean Pierre, table seven has requested to see the chef! I think they are food critics from Cuisine Magazine

Okay, so that seems to be a little bit better.

Uhu. And, hey, I noticed that there’s a lot of really great kitchen words in here like words that you commonly hear in a professional kitchen.

Okay. So let’s take a look at these kitchen words in “fluency builder”.

Fluency builder.

Alright, we’ve got three phrases, ah, and the first one is in the weeds.

In the weeds.

In the weeds.

In the weeds.

So, when you in the weeds, you’re so so busy and you can’t do all the work you need to do on time.

Okay, so, in the weeds, it means that you’re really busy.

Yes.

And…

You can’t finish everything.

And you can’t… you have too much to do.

Yep.

Okay, in the weeds.

Uhu.

Okay, our next word, running low on.

Running low on.

Running low on.

Running low on.

Okay, so before we get into explaining what running lo on means, let’s listen to some examples.

Example one.

You’d better look for a gas station, we’re running low on fuel.

Example two.

We’re running low on beers. Can you go out and get some?

Example three.

My flashlight is running low on battery, hurry up before gets dark.

So basically running low means…

Um, you don’t have much of this left.

You don’t have much of something left.

Yep, so here they’re running low on wine, so basically…

There’s no much wine left.

Right.

So as we’ve heard in the examples you could also be running low on fuel, for example.

Uhu.

On your car…

Yep.

Etcetera. Running low on. Alright and now let’s take a look at our last word. Doing really well.

Doing really well.

We are doing really well.

Doing really well. So, that seems to be like a pretty simple structure, I mean we know all this words, right?

Uhu.

So, why is it special?

Well, basically, if you say I’m doing really well, maybe it sounds a little bit difficult to understand, what are you doing really well?

Uh.

So, this is a great way of answering a question when somebody says “how are you?” or “how are you doing?” you can say “oh, I’m doing really well”.

So…

Or “I’m doing well”.

In your life everything is good.

In your life thing are good and you’re happy basically.

Yeah, but in this situation, in the dialogue, what’s doing really well?

Well, the restaurant is doing really well, the business is doing really well.

So when he says we’re doing really well, um, business is…

Good.

Good, they’re making lots of money.

Exactly.

Uhu.

So you can use it with people, you can use it with businesses, you can say “oh, I’m doing really well in my new job”.

Yep.

Or “my son is doing really well in school”.

Yep.

Okay, so, you can use in… in those different ways.

Alright, well, let’s listen to the dialogue, ah, one last time and we’ll be able to hear all of these great words and phrases we’ve just talked about it.

Right away sir, your order will be ready shortly.

Jean Pierre, we have another special for table seven!

I’m working as fast as I can! We’re really in the weeds! Where is my sous chef? Luc! I need you to peel more potatoes. Marie, chop some onions and carrots for the stew.

Jean Pierre another special! We’re really packed tonight! We’re running low on wine. Is there any left in the cellar?

Sorry I’m late, everyone. Wow, we are doing really well tonight!

Harry, stop talking and get over here I need this sauce stirred and the fish needs to be butchered and buttered.

Ok, I’m on it!

Jean Pierre, table seven has requested to see the chef! I think they are food critics from Cuisine MagazineUE, THIRD TIME

So, Marco, do you think this chief had a rat under his hat?

Hehe. That was a really good movie.

Yeah.

Ratatouille.

Yeah.

Disney-Pixar.

Uh.

Where the rat is a cook.

Yes.

It’s interesting I love to cook but I’m not very good at cooking.

Really?

But it’s good because for me… it helps me relieve stress.

Me too, actually, you know, if I’m in a bad mood I go home and cook something to eat and… the world seems a happier place.

Hehe. And people don’t understand because they think cooking is work.

Yep.

But, you know, for some people it’s fun.

Yeah.

So what about you guys? What did you like to cook? Do you have any particular dish that you prepare very well?

And if you do, please send us the recipes.

Hehe. Exactly, because we know that we have listeners from all over the world and, of course, we want to know what type of food you prefer.

Uhu.

So come to englishpod. com and post your questions, your comments and your recipes.

Yes.

In our community section and Erica and I will always be there.

Yes, um, to test all your recipes as well as answer the questions.

Hehe. For sure if, ah, good recipe comes along we’ll prepare it and, ah, we’ll let you know how it turned out.

Yep.

Alright guys, we’re out of time but we’ll see you next time.

Until then… good bye!

Bye!