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British food and drink expressions

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Lesson 1

Ordering a takeaway

hello hi everybody it's me elliot from etj english welcome to another british english british pronunciation lesson where today we are talking about food probably one of the bigg...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 2

Takeaway, takeout, and eating out

even say takeaway when talking about delivery you know from companies like deliveroo or ubereats that we could still call a takeaway remember that americans tend to say take out...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 3

Restaurant chains and meals at home

expensive or we could go to a chain for example a company which has multiple restaurants all over the world or all over the city now as well as having a takeaway at home we don'...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 4

Hosting drinks and nibbles

of our family together and let's say i am hosting this meal so it's my house and my family have come round the first thing i'd want to do while i'm cooking and getting things re...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 5

How to say “tuck in”

host might want to say something to encourage everybody to start eating the most common thing to say is probably tuck in tuck in tuck in notice my connected speech i'm not sayin...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 6

Scoffing and inhaling food

so to scoff your food means to eat it really fast there's a slang word people use which would be to inhale your food maybe your friend ate that dinner really really fast you cou...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 7

Dessert or pudding

it's that schwa sound at the end and i got this question the other day on instagram somebody said to me elliot do british people say dessert or do they say pudding to be honest...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 8

Finishing the meal and clearing the table

and this makes it sounds like we're asking everybody or the person next to us have you finished eating we've laid the table and now we need to clear the table clear this word is...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 9

One for the road

they're function words so we say them quickly for the for the for the road one for the road to have one for the road means to have one more drink before we go home before we fin...

Language: enDuration: 2 min

Lesson 10

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Full video: Eating and Drinking: British Expressions, Vocab and Pronunciation

Language: en

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