Hello, and welcome to the English Like a Native podcast. My name is Anna and you're listening to week 27, day 3 of Your English Five a Day, the second season.
By tuning in today, you are keeping up with your habit of having a daily dunk into the English language, which which is fantastic.
So well done. Slowly but surely, over time, if you keep up the habit, you will see an improvement in your English, an expansion of your vocabulary, and you may even start feeling like yourself when you communicate in English.
So keep it up and And let's begin today's episode with a snapshot of what's to come.
The local delicacy was a pungent cheese that filled the room with its sharp smell as soon as it was unwrapped.
Though not everyone could handle the aroma, it was packed with nutrition and had kept villagers from starving during hard winters.
Now, tourists who eat like a horse line up for a taste every weekend.
Number one is a noun – delicacy.
A delicacy. A delicacy is a food that is good to eat, but it's expensive or especially rare.
So, it's not the kind of food that you you chow down on every Friday night.
A delicacy is something that you have very rarely on occasion, for a special occasion perhaps.
When I was travelling the world, I always tried my best to taste the local delicacies.
What would you say is the local delicacy where you come from?
from. Here's an example sentence.
Haggis is a Scottish delicacy that many people turn their nose up at.
Personally, I love it and that was just an example sentence that doesn't have any bearing on how I feel about haggis but that's something for another podcast. Let's move on.
The next word is an adjective and it is pungent.
Repeat it. Pungent.
Pungent. I like this word. It's the kind of word that feels like what it means.
Pungent means a very sharp or strong smell.
Oh, what is that? It's pungent.
So we're talking about a bad smell here.
Someone said that i smelt quite pungent i would be quite upset i would rush to the house or to a bathroom or a toilet and i would clean myself as best i could and grab some deodorant or anything that smells nice and spray myself and try and mask any bad smell so that i didn't smell pungent here's an example sentence there was a pungent odor of rotten chicken in the air no way was i going going to buy from that butcher.
Yuck. Moving away from rotten chicken, let's do our next word. It's a noun and it is nutrition.
Nutrition. Nutrition is basically the substances that we take into our bodies as food that influence our health.
So when we're talking about nutrition, we're talking about how food influences our health.
Here's an example sentence.
Nutrition is something that should be taken more seriously.
Fast food tastes good, but it causes more damage than good in the long run.
Do you take nutrition seriously?
I try to. I'm certainly trying to improve improve, uh, my levels of nutrition.
I'm trying to eat more nutritious meals.
There we go. We've turned it into an adjective.
You prepare a nutritious meal.
Yesterday for my lunch, I had a nice healthy salad with walnuts and lots of extra virgin olive oil and feta cheese.
It was a nutritious salad bowl.
And it's not long off my dinner time.
I'm quite hungry now talking about salad bowls okay let's move on to our next word which is a verb and it is starve starve to starve is to cause yourself or someone to become very weak due to lack of food here's an example sentence with the current cost of living crisis many parents are forced to starve themselves so that that their children can eat.
This has to stop. Interestingly we use the word starve even when we don't mean starve in the level of seriousness that I've just presented it.
You might say oh I'm starving when you mean I'm just hungry.
I haven't eaten for a few hours and now I'm hungry but really hungry.
I'm starving. Can I have some food please?
I'm starving. And number five on on today's list is an idiom, and it is to eat like a horse.
To eat like a horse.
If you eat like a horse, then it means you eat a lot of food.
In fact, I'm not sure that horses actually do eat very much. It's just they're big animals.
Horses just graze, don't they, on a bit of grass and hay?
I've probably seen dogs wolf down more food than I've ever seen a horse eat, but we have this expression to eat like a horse, to eat a lot.
Here's an example. I don't know how Hannah stays so thin when she eats like a horse.
This always makes me think of the restaurant chain that's called Hungry Horse.
The Hungry Horse restaurants basically serve very cheap, probably not very nutritious food, and they do large portions.
I was always a big fan of Hungry Horse restaurants when I was younger.
But these days I don't go to hungry horse restaurants because I like to eat nutritious food.
Okay, so that was our five.
We had delicacy. What's a delicacy?
It's a very rare and often expensive food.
Pungent was the next adjective.
If something smells really bad, it is pungent.
Nutrition was a noun that means the things that go into your body that affect your health.
And then we had the verb starve, starve to make someone extremely hungry through lack of food.
And on the opposite end of that, if you have lots of food, you may eat like a horse, our final idiom for today.
Okay, let's listen to the snapshot once again.
The local delicacy was a pungent cheese that filled the room with its sharp smell as soon as it was unwrapped.
Though not everyone could handle the aroma, it was packed with nutrition and had kept villagers from starving during hard winters.
Now, tourists who eat like a horse line up for a taste every weekend.
end let's bring them all together in a story chef marco is a culinary expert who has just taken on a thrilling new venture opening a vibrant street food stall in the heart of the bustling city with a lifelong passion for cooking chef Chef Marco has created a haven of flavours where the humble street delicacy is transformed into a culinary masterpiece.
The moment you approach his stall, the pungent aromas waft through the air, enticing even the most experienced palates.
Chef Marco's stall is not just about indulgence.
indulgence. You don't need to eat like a horse to feel satisfied.
It's also about providing nutrition to those who would otherwise starve in their hectic urban lives.
His dishes are hearty and fulfilling, leaving his customers feeling nourished and content.
Each dish Chef Marco serves is a unity of flavors, carefully crafted with a fusion of spices, fresh ingredients, and a dash of creativity.
From sizzling kebabs to savoury tacos, his creations transport food enthusiasts to new gastronomic heights.
Every bite offers a tempting journey, bringing your taste buds alive.
Chef Marco's Street Food Stall has quickly become a destination for food experts, curious locals and visitors alike.
With his exceptional talent and dedication to his craft, chef Marco has set a new standard for street food, turning an ordinary meal into an extraordinary experience.
His passion for food combined with his commitment to nourishment and flavour ensures that each customer leaves his stall feeling satisfied and craving more.
more. You might be questioning why I used the word pungent in a positive way there.
You can use pungent in a positive way.
I should have mentioned that when I introduced the word. It's often used in a negative way, but you can use it in a positive way just to mean the strong or the sharp smell.
Okay, so there we go.
That was our five for today.
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Until next time, take care and goodbye.
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