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Egg Recipes: A Listening Exercise

About This Lesson

In this listening exercise, you'll learn about different egg recipes from people around the world. You'll practice vocabulary related to cooking and food preparation.

Learning Objectives:

  • Learn cooking vocabulary in English
  • Practice listening for specific information about recipes
  • Learn how to describe simple recipes
  • Expand your food-related vocabulary

Pre-Listening Task

Match the cooking words with their definitions:
Recipe
Whip
Add
Frying pan
Hard-Boiled
Parsley
Mushroom

Listening Task

A. Fill in the gaps with the words you hear (use CAPITAL LETTERS):

A = Agata B = Bruce C = Catherine K = Kate Ka = Karen M = Matt N = Noelle P = Paula R = Russell

What is your favourite recipe with eggs?

A: My favourite recipe with an egg is a . The ingredients are: an egg.

N: My favourite recipe for eggs is , which is eggs and .

P: My favourite recipe with eggs would be just with a little bit of , in a .

M: My favourite recipe with eggs is . In an omelette you have , and .

K: My favourite recipe with eggs is , and the ingredients I like to use are: eggs, and lots of .

Ka: My favourite recipe with eggs is , and the ingredients are: eggs and .

C: My favourite recipe with eggs is a called menemen. It's absolutely delicious and it's made with eggs, onions, , , , I think, and sometimes .

B: Eggs, I'm not a great cook, but if you them just right, add a little , get some really good and make yourself a nice omelette.

R: I like . It's got eggs in it, but it's got lots of , and lots of lemon.

B. Who says what? Write the correct letter (A, B, C, K, Ka, M, N, P, R):
Statement Who?
Likes hard-boiled eggs (only egg needed)
Makes mushroom omelette
Makes omelette with eggs, cheese and ham
Likes Spanish tortilla with onions, potatoes and olive oil
Says to whip eggs and add milk and cheese
Bakes lemon drizzle cake with sugar

Post-Listening Task

Answer the questions about the recipes:
What two ingredients does Karen add to her scrambled eggs?
What three ingredients does Matt use in his omelette?
What special ingredient does Catherine sometimes add to her Turkish dish?
What does Bruce say you should do to eggs before making an omelette?

Grammar Focus: Talking About Recipes

Notice how the speakers describe their recipes:

Useful structures:

  • "My favourite recipe is..."
  • "The ingredients are..."
  • "It's made with..."
  • "I like to use..."

Cooking verbs:

  • whip eggs
  • add milk
  • cook in a frying pan
  • bake a cake
  • boil eggs

Remember: Use "a" or "an" with singular countable nouns: an egg, a frying pan, a recipe.

Try It Yourself

Write about your favourite recipe (it can be with eggs or any other food):

Example: My favourite recipe is scrambled eggs. The ingredients are eggs, milk, and butter. I cook it in a frying pan for 5 minutes.

Translation

Translate into English: