Welcome to English as a Second Language podcast number 1201.
Types of non-alcoholic drinks.
This is English as a Second Language podcast episode 1201.
I'm your host, Dr Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.
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On this episode we're going to have a dialogue between Asa and Elizabeth about drinking things that don't have alcohol in them.
Sounds a little boring, but let's get started anyway.
What can I get you to drink?
I'll have a glass of water, thanks.
No thanks.
I'm trying to cut back on my sugar intake.
In that case, how about an energy drink?
Sports drink or bottled tea?
No, really.
I'm fine with water.
Ah, I bet you'd like some tea or coffee, right?
No, all I want is a glass of water.
Okay, do you want tap water or bottled water, flavored water or carbonated?
Do you mean to tell me you have all of those drinks in your refrigerator?
It pays to own a beverage company.
Asa begins our dialogue by saying to Elizabeth, what can I get you to drink?
Asa is offering to get something for Elizabeth to drink.
Elizabeth says, I'll have a glass of water, thanks.
Asa says, are you sure you don't want something else?
He then lists or gives a list of the other things he can get for Elizabeth.
He says, I have soft drinks, orange juice, lemonade and fruit punch.
A soft S-O-F-T drink is also called a soda.
In some parts of the country, it's called soda pop, P-O-P.
Or if you're from Minnesota, it's called simply pop.
Soft drinks are typically carbonated beverages or things you drink.
Carbonated just means it has little bubbles in it.
Things like Coca-Cola and 7-Up are soft drinks.
Asa says he has soft drinks.
He also has orange juice. which is obviously the liquid made by squeezing an orange.
The word juice, J-U-I-C-E, usually refers to the liquid that you get from a fruit.
Asa also has lemonade, L-E-M-O-N-A-D-E.
Lemonade is made with lemon juice.
But you put a little bit of lemon juice into a lot of water.
Lemon juice itself is a little strong to drink without mixing it in with water, whereas orange juice can be drunk just as it is.
In fact, you don't want to mix orange juice in with water.
It's not strong enough.
Finally, Asa says he has fruit punch, P-U-N-C-H.
Fruit punch is made by mixing in the juices of several different types of fruit, often combined with sugar.
Elizabeth says, no thanks, I'm trying to cut back on my sugar intake.
To cut back on something is to reduce the amount of something, to have less of something.
Someone may say I'm trying to cut back on coffee.
That means he's still drinking coffee but he's trying to drink less coffee than he did before.
Elizabeth is cutting back on her sugar intake, I-N-T-A-K-E.
Intake is the amount of something you eat or drink, usually.
So your sugar intake would be the amount of sugar that you eat or drink.
Asa says, in that case meaning, since you are trying to cut back on your sugar intake, How about an energy drink, sports drink or bottled tea?
Interestingly enough, all three of these things can also have sugar in them.
Let's start with the first one, which is energy, E-N-E-R-G-Y, drink.
An energy drink is a drink that is supposed to well give you more energy so that you can get up and do something.
These are drinks that often contain a lot of caffeine, but they often also contain a lot of sugar.
Sports drinks are drinks designed for people who are exercising or participating in some sort of athletic event.
A sports drink often contains things that will help replace sodium, potassium and other what are called electrolytes that you may lose by sweating.
That is, when water comes out of your skin because you are working so hard at the physical activity.
Bottled tea is, well, just what it sounds like, tea that is put into a bottle and sold.
It's not the kind of tea that you make by boiling hot water and mixing with tea leaves.
Bottled tea is something you can buy in a store and is usually drunk cold.
Again, a lot of bottled tea also has sugar in it.
Elizabeth says, no, really, I'm fine with water.
To say you're fine with something means you're okay with this.
You don't need anything else.
Asa says, ah, I bet you'd like some tea or coffee, right?
I bet means I'm guessing.
I bet you'd like some tea or coffee, Asa says.
Tea, of course, is a hot drink made by placing hot water into a cup with tea leaves in it or another container that has tea leaves in it is a hot drink that was invented by God so that we would be able to function properly in the morning.
We would be able to get up and do our work properly in the morning.
I have coffee every day.
Coffee is made from coffee beans, which are crushed or ground up before hot water is poured through them.
Elizabeth says, no, all I want is a glass of water.
Asa says, okay, do you want tap water or bottled water?
Flavored water or carbonated?
Water that comes from your kitchen sink is called tap, T-A-P water.
In order to get water out of the sink in your kitchen or in your bathroom, you have to turn the tap so that the water can come out of the pipe.
You open the tap and you close the tap.
Tap water then, is water that you just get from whatever water system your house or building is connected to.
In most big cities in the United States, the city government controls the water and there are water pipes that go to every house.
That's tap water.
Now, the water that is provided by the government sometimes isn't very good in terms of the taste.
So some people prefer to get bottled water, water that you buy at a store that has been specially cleaned or filtered.
Flavored water is water that has some sort of added fruit or other vegetable flavor to it.
This has become quite popular in the US in the last few years, especially at certain cafes and restaurants.
They will put fruit into the water like oh, I don't know strawberries, for example, or vegetables such as cucumbers.
They put that into the water and it tastes, well, like strawberries or cucumbers.
I really don't like flavored water myself.
I don't know why they do that.
Perhaps because the tap water tastes so bad, instead of filtering it or getting bottled water, they put some sort of fruit or vegetable into it.
Personally, I think it's disgusting, but some people like it.
Asa's offering Elizabeth some flavored water or carbonated water.
Carbonated water is water with dissolved carbon dioxide in it, which causes it to have little bubbles, just like soda.
Elizabeth says, do you mean to tell me you have all of those drinks in your refrigerator?
The question form do you mean to tell me is used when you don't believe what the other person is saying and you want to make sure that you understand him correctly.
That's why Elizabeth uses it here.
She is surprised that Asa has all of these different kinds of drinks in his refrigerator.
Do you mean to tell me you have all of those drinks in your refrigerator, she asks.
He says, it pays to own a beverage company.
Beverages, B-E-V-E-R-A-G-E-S, are drinks.
Any kind of drink can be called a beverage.
We find out that Asa owns, is the owner of a company that makes these different beverages.
That's why he says it pays, P-A-Y-S, to own a beverage company.
It pays to means it is beneficial to, or there are advantages to doing or having something.
This is actually a quite useful expression.
It pays to study before a test.
That means it will be to your benefit.
It will be advantageous for you to study before you go and take a test.
Or it pays to prepare yourself for an interview.
It will be good for you.
It will benefit you if you do that.
Now let's listen to the dialogue, this time at a normal speed.
What can I get you to drink?
I'll have a glass of water, thanks.
Are you sure you don't want something else?
I have soft drinks, orange juice, lemonade and fruit punch.
No thanks.
I'm trying to cut back on my sugar intake.
In that case, how about an energy drink, sports drink, or bottled tea?
No, really.
I'm fine with water.
Ah, I bet you'd like some tea or coffee, right?
No.
All I want is a glass of water.
Okay.
Do you want tap water or bottled water, flavored water or carbonated?
Do you mean to tell me you have all of those drinks in your refrigerator?
It pays to own a beverage company.
It pays to listen to each and every ESL podcast, especially those that have the wonderful scripts by our wonderful script writer, Dr Lucy Say.
From Los Angeles, California, I'm Jeff McQuillan.
Thanks for listening.
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English as a Second Language Podcast is written and produced by Dr Lucy Say, hosted by Dr Jeff McQuillan.
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