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Hey guys! I’m going to try something new today.

Eating and sharing food - i feel like it makes us more comfortable and more relaxed! So, I’m wondering if you would like to have dinner with me tonight ? If you do , go and grab your dinner , grab a drink, come back and chat with me ! Lucky you’ve got me now actually, because about 10 minutes ago , I was really hangry! hangry , yes hangry! So, the feeling you get when you’re really, really hungry and so it makes you feel irritated or annoyed! Things aren’t happening like you want them too, you need some food to makes you feel better! Shah’s always like “Quick get her some food! Eat something!” ,”She’s going crazy!” about ten minutes ago I was hangry , but my food has just arrived.

That’s right, my food has arrived.

Which means, I’ve got takeaway tonight! Yes! . What have I got for my dinner? here is my dinner. It is my takeaway dinner. I didn’t make it myself. I bought it from a restaurant and someone delivered it to my house. So, someone from the restaurant brought it to my house.

They delivered it to me. I call it ‘takeaway’ but actually Americans, or people who american English call it takeout.

So there’s two different nouns for food that you don’t eat in a restaurant bat you don’t cook at home.

‘Takeaway’ in British English and and ‘takeout’ in American English.

Almost the same, but a little bit different

I’m from Australia, s I cal it ‘takeaway’ food (which is the same as British English). but actually we use words from American English and British English - we’ve pretty easy! This is my favourite takeaway food ever! It is … Let me show you what I have. So in here i have some rice noodles, white rice noodles and some fresh greens and herbs, so some basil (Thai basil), some cucumber , some spring onions and some fresh lettuce.

So that’s all been chopped up in here.

And then, the good bits! Fried tofu, puffed rice - like kind of crunchy rice and here is a mix of crispy fried shallots and chilli’s, so it’s really - and peanuts - so it’s really crunchy! So all I have t do is pour all of these ingredients into my noodles and my fresh greens.

So this sauce has - it’s salty sauce - it’s like like soy sauce garlic and chilli in it

I’m going to add the sauce to my noodles and then I’ll take my chopsticks and mix, mix, mix, mix, mix … yum, yum, yum, yum …

I used to get in trouble all the time from my mum and so did my brothers actually.

We used to so excited about dinner and food that we’d be like, jiggling, dancing around in our chairs.

My brother would even stand up his chair and be like, “Yes! Yes! Yes!” And you know, i still do it! Still get excited about dinner! So the sauce and the chilli is all mixed in and now I’m going to add my good crunchy bits in.

So there’s is all my crunchy bits in there. Yum! Seriously you guys, you have to try this one day - this, look how good that looks! So good! I love this meal because you get so much one little box, or in one little salad! So you get the soft noodles - all like chewy and nice and squishy in your mouth.

Then you get crunchy lettuce and cucumber and nice fresh flavours from the greens, then you get all the crunch from the puffed rice and the fried rice and the fried shallots and the peanuts! And then you get - from the sauce you get the salty, chilli sort of flavours.

And then you get this delicious hot fried tofu on top - so good! So … what are you eating tonight? May be you can tell me - maybe you can write it in the comments.

Mmmm … yum! My dinner has no meat in it tonight. it’s a vegetarian dish.

So, vegetarian food doesn’t have any meet in it, at all.

And vegetarians are people who don’t eat meat.

I’m not a vegetarian, i do eat meat but this dish doesn’t have any meat in it at all

My fiance Shah, who I know you’ve seen him in some of my other videos.

He is a huge meat eater! When he’s not with me for dinner, usually I eat vegetarian food because I’m don’t get a chance to otherwise! Are you laughing at how I use chopsticks? I think I’m ok. I’ve lived in Asia a little bit and I’ve learned a few tricks, but I don’t really have very good skills.

I can eat with peanuts actually - i mean, I can eat peanuts with chopsticks! Which I think, is a very good skill t have! Let’s talk about collocations! Mmmm … collocations are super important. The best tip that I can give you for learning new vocabulary is to learn words in ‘chunks’ or in a groups . So instead of just learning “takeaway” - just the word, on its own - “takeaway” or “takeout”. learn it with other words that it’s commonly used with.

So for example, I got takeaway.

You’ll hear it all the time and it must be so frustrating, but people (English speakers) say “it doesn’t sound right” and sometimes your English teachers will be saying “no, it just doesn’t sound right” It’s like ‘make’ a party . All of y students do this all the time , they say “Teacher, i’m going to make a party this weekend!” Make party?(it) doesn’t sound right! So with the noun party , we always use the verb ‘have’ or ‘throw’.

Throw a party . ‘I’m throwing this weekend. you should come!’

‘My brother’s having a party’.

But, we would never say “I’m making a party this weekend”.

It’s just … just don’t do it! Its just wrong! So its really important to learn words that are collocated together.

I am almost finished and I don’t think I can eat any more, I’m full! I did a pretty good job - there’s not very much left! But I am … I feel quite full! So I might stop there! How was your dinner? Well if you’ve enjoyed yourself as much as I have, make sure you let me know ‘Like’ the video, or leave me a comment to tell me that ‘yes’ you enjoyed it , you think it’s a good idea because if you do, I’ll make some more! maybe we should have dinner once a fortnight, once a month? Alright guys, well this has been really fun! I hope you’ve enjoyed yourselves and I’ll see you very soon , I’m sure! Bye!