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B1 Intermediate English 6:44 1,296 words Cooking

Red, White & Blueberry Lemonade | Strawberry Blueberry State Fair Lemonade | Food Wishes

National Geographic · 70,166 views · Added 2 months ago

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In this festive cooking video, Chef John creates a Red, White, and Blueberry Lemonade by infusing his classic state fair lemonade with fresh strawberries and blueberries. Learners will acquire vocabulary related to beverage preparation, fruit, and kitchen techniques like the oleo saccharum method. The chef's warm, humorous narration and step-by-step guidance make this an enjoyable way to practice listening to casual, conversational English in a culinary setting.

Learning Stats

B1

CEFR Level

1,296

Total Words

449

Unique Words

4/10

Difficulty

Vocabulary Diversity 35%

Subtitles (28 segments)

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Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com with red, white, and blueberry lemonade.

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That's right, we're infusing our world famous state fair lemonade recipe with fresh strawberries and blueberries to create an even more beautiful, possibly more delicious drink. And while we're posting this to celebrate the 4th of July, this would be good on other days such as every other one of them.

00:26

So, with that, let's go ahead and get started with our red, white, and blue ingredients, which will include some freshly half strawberries, some blueberries, of course, followed by about half of our white sugar. And once that's in the bowl,

00:40

we'll take a potato masher and we'll give this a brief smashing. And we don't need to mash this into a puree. Right, pretty much as soon as we've broken all the blueberries open, we can stop. And yes, we could do this without adding the sugar first, but the friction from the sugar helps break it down and prevents splashing and there's less chance you're going to have to change your shirt. But anyway, once our mixture is looking like this, we can go ahead and grab our lemons and a nice sharp vegetable peeler.

01:09

And we're going to go ahead and peel off just the zest and add it to the bowl. And I do mean

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Key Vocabulary (9)

you A1 pronoun

Used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing. It is the second-person pronoun used for both singular and plural subjects and objects.

right A1 adjective

This word describes something that is correct, accurate, or based on facts. It is also used to talk about actions that are morally good or socially acceptable.

bowl B2 verb

To move rapidly and smoothly in a specific direction, often in a vehicle. It also refers to the action of throwing a ball toward a target in sports like cricket or ten-pin bowling.

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