Listening exercises

You are going to listen to 3 recordings. One is about making a pie, one about ordering meals at a restaurant and the last one about deciding what to have for breakfast. Enjoy!

Listening 1 Making a pie

I. Fill in the gaps and answer the questions.

1. The first thing to do is to .................. onion and .......................
2. How should it be chopped? ..........................................................
3. Put the onion and the garlic into .................................................
4. What should be added to it?
5. What kind of meat do we need?
6. What should we do with it while cooking?
7. How much water should we add?
8. What should we do with it for 15-20 minute?
9. 20 minute should be enough for the meat to be nice and soft and ...............................
10. What should we do with potato?
11. We should ....................... the potato with a ..................... of milk


II. Match pictures with expressions

mashed       chop      minced meat          tablespoon      stir        simmer        frying pan       

drop of sth    garlic

III. Match expressions with their Polish equivalents.

chopped green pepper                                                             smażyć

fry                                                                                            dodawać

small pieces                                                                             pokrywać

add                                                                                           małe kawałki

until it turns brown                                                                  aż stanie się brązowe

cover                                                                                        pokrojona zielona papryka

Listening 2  Eating out at the restaurant

I. Note down the expressions that mean the following:

1. Poproszę stolik dla dwóch osób -
2. Czy jest Pan / Pani gotowy/a by zamówić? -
3. Co chcieliby Państwo jako przystawkę?
4. zupa cebulowa -
5. sałatka z pomidorów
6. A na danie główne?  -
7. Nie wiem czy wziąć .............. -
8. Co chcieliby Państwo do picia ?
9. Ja wezmę sok ze swieżych pomarańczy -

II. Prepare with your partner a dialogue between a waiter and a guest at the restaurant. Order something as a starter, main course and something to drink.

Listening 3 Breakfast conversation

I. Fill in the gaps and answer the questions.

1. Where is the banana? -
2. What's wrong with the banana? -
3. It looks like a cat .........a ............ of ......
4. What did dad offer instead of the banana ? -
5. What did dad offer to make? -
6. How did the girl descibe the previous ones? - ........... as ............
7. What did they agree to have for breakfast?
8. What does the girl not want  in the breakfast? -

II. Work in pairs. Pick one answer from the ex. 1 and describe it in your words to your partner so that he or she could guess it. Just like in the taboo game.

Here are some additional exercises to the last recording in case you need those - additional exercises