Comments on: Real English Conversations: Weird food

By: raj

raj — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:30:13 +0000

i do not understand much.its to much fast for me,i was understand 30% only

By: Marina

Marina — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:23:00 +0000

Yeah!
it´s good.
I understand everything and it´s a great theme that makes me enjoy.

By: refilwe

refilwe — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:05:49 +0000

Hi thanks for the interesting conversation i really enjoyed it i’m looking foward to hearing more staff luv you guys,your web rocks.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:41:30 +0000

Thanks for your conversation lesson plan. I made some questions that you might want to add to your listening plan. The stars indicate the correct answers.

• What is sharp Cheddar Cheese?
 Blunt cheese
 Mild cheese
 Dull cheese
 Strong flavored cheese*

• What doesn’t the burger have?
 A bun*
 Bacon
 A beef patty
 Sharp cheddar cheese

• What is the key ingredient?
 A bun
 A KrispyKream donut*
 A piece of toast
 A pickle

• What is the name of sandwiches that Americans like?
 Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches*
 Peanut butter and honey sandwiches
 Peanut butter and jam sandwiches
 Pineapple and salt sandwiches

• Donut hamburgers sound:
 Disgusting but taste good*
 Disgusting and taste disgusting
 Great and taste great
 Great and taste disgusting

• Why does the man cut the podcast short?
 He needs to use the bathroom
 He wants to get a coffee and donut
 He wants to by bacon and hamburger*
 He wants to get a donut hamburger

By: vero

vero — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:26:28 +0000

hi! this is a msg for Franck from France: I love the way you laugh!!

By: Zhiwei You

Zhiwei You — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:54:43 +0000

Wow, what a humburger. I feel sick now; do you know how much calories are you put in your self. I guess you guys like the stuff that is different than me. Hope you are not getting sick from it.

By: Jolanta

Jolanta — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:16:17 +0000

ewww that is nasty! who can eat that??!

By: farzaneh

farzaneh — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:11:35 +0000

hi, well thanks for the conversation but i need some help! im an enlish learner and i need some conversations that u English people have in your society! like a conversation in a post office, in a taxi, for opening a bank account, at the library and….. can u guys help me? please! I would thank you for your helpS

By: Dave Kees

Dave Kees — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:44:09 +0000

This sort of recording is useful for comprehensible input. Krashen has some interesting things to say about it as related to Narrow Listening:

http://www.sdkrashen.com/articles/eta_paper/07.html

By: saleh musaid

saleh musaid — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:05:42 +0000

thank you so much for this web site you don’t how yours episodes of real english coversation benfets me beacuse i have been in Americ and i get alot of proplems and i am sorry for any mistake in the spelling because my english is not well. anyway that is really wierd food have agood time

By: kristof

kristof — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:14:39 +0000

People do peanut-butter and jelly over here too, in the Netherlands – and in Belgium also, although peanut-butter is less of a common good around there. Still, it’s no wonder since a lot of US citizens have Dutch roots.

I also like the salt/sweet combination. Pineapple on my pizza or on my ham/cheese toast, a little sugar in the spaghetti sauce, my especially delicious mustard-and-honey-glazed-pork-chops. As a child, I used to love cheese-and-waffles … Don’t ask.

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:16:26 +0000

Guildenstern, I agree: fried Mars bars sound really weird! But maybe they are one of those foods that sound horrible, but are actually quite tasty!

PacoKiLi, I love Mexican food! I’m from southern California, and grew up eating Mexican food of various sorts. I really miss it here in Sweden.

By: Lori

Lori — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:05:56 +0000

Thanks for your comment Zsolt. There are countless ways teachers can exploit our authentic conversational audio files (and transcripts) during a listening skills lesson in a classroom situation, but we prefer to leave it up to teachers to adapt our material to their own unique needs and contexts. For inexperienced teachers looking for a broad framework for planning a listening skills lesson, this BBC article about how to structure listening skills lessons might be useful. There are also loads of books on the subject. In fact, you’ve given me a great idea: we need a page here that offers teachers some practical suggestions about how they might exploit Better @ English material in their own classroom. Thanks for the idea

By: Zsolt Karpati

Zsolt Karpati — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:36:39 +0000

It is a nice conversation but you can’t practically work with it. How do you teach this conversation in a classroom?

By: Native English School Blog

Native English School Blog — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:53:57 +0000

Keeping your English going through the summer…

Summer is here again – you’ve put your coursebook and materials from this year’s lessons away in a cupboard and you’re ready to forget about English until September while you work on your tan up at Strzeszynek or Mielno (see above). Well, while…

By: PacoKiLi

PacoKiLi — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:10:52 +0000

Mexican food may be a little weird for foreigns

… but it’s delicious for us you better try it!

By: Guildenstern

Guildenstern — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:33:57 +0000

Actually that is not weird food. That sounds good for me

Fried Mars bars are weird!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_mars_bar