Hello, and today I'm going to talk to you about kitchen language.
I'm going to introduce you to my kitchen. So, here we are. At the moment I'm standing at the part of the kitchen, one end of the kitchen, where you have the hob, the hob, now the hob is where we cook our food. You take a saucepan and, or a frying pan... A frying pan is for frying eggs, for example, or for making a Spanish omelette. A saucepan is for making or for boiling soup or for heating liquids - or all sorts of things. And all of this is on our hob, and above that there is an extractor hood, which takes away the smoke and the smells from the cooking food. It's got a light on it and also the fan of course which comes on when I push the button. Here we go. It's coming on now and that is an extractor fan.
Right, so if I move along the kitchen, so we have this work surface here, the worktop, which is made of a lovely hard silicon stone. And I have some cutting boards here on the surface or chopping boards for cutting onions, or chopping onions, vegetables of all different types or even cutting meat perhaps.
There's a bowl of fruit here. We always have this bowl of fruit, at this time of year, which is sort of winter or spring, we've got some tangerines, oranges and bananas in there. Then there's a kitchen roll. it's a paper roll. And it's very useful for emergencies, or if you drop things and you want to wipe them up. You want to clean them up.
And of course you've got all these drawers in the kitchen. And in the drawers... we have in this one here, for example, knives and forks and spoons, and smaller spoons for coffee or tea, coffee, tea spoons, and also cutting knives of various different types. And all this together. All these knives and forks together we call cutlery.
That compares to the drawer below where we've got plates and bowls. And well plates of different sizes, for dinner plates and also for putting a salad on for example, salad dish, things like that, and that we call crockery. That's all the things which are made of a sort of ceramic, we call a crockery. Then below that... oh, I've got another drawer here of glasses of different sorts - of tumblers. We also call them "tumbler", and some coffee mugs, which are like big cups for drinking tea or coffee. And there's a teapot in there as well. A teapot for making tea. You put the tea in it and you brew the tea in the teapot.
Actually just below the cooking hob there are a couple of drawers as well with saucepans and frying pans and things like sieves or colanders which are for draining vegetables or things that you have cooked or boiled, for example, in the saucepan and then you drain them in the colander.
Okay, so moving along, we come to the sink, the kitchen sink - in the bathroom is called a basin but in the kitchen is called a sink. We've got here something that's not been washed up here! Right. We've got the tap here - with a hot and cold water tap and there's a draining board next to it. The draining board is the part next to the sink where you put plates and dishes and glasses and mugs and things after they've been washed in the sink. And they drain off that means the water runs off into the sink so they sort of dry there by themselves. But we do have a dishwasher as well. We have a dishwasher which we usually use as well. So sometimes we wash things up in the sink or we use the the dishwasher.
And then moving along we have the toaster. The toaster for what we put [toast into] a pop up toaster. You put the toast in and it pops up like that, when it's done. It is wonderful. And also an electric kettle which is for heating the water for making a cup of tea or some instant soup or something like that. That's an electric kettle.
And then moving along to the other end of the kitchen, we have here the fridge of course or the refrigerator, where you keep your milk and yogurts, cheese and butter, mayonnaise and eggs and all those wonderful things. And then below the fridge you have the freezer - and the freezer is where you keep all those things that you need to keep at a very low temperature so they are frozen foods, and then coming right to the end of the kitchen, here, we have a microwave, which is useful for all sorts of things for heating up a cup of tea or whatever or even for making or heating up a pizza. And below that the oven. You can bake things you can bake cakes or bread, or you can roast meats, for example, in the oven.
And that's about it. That's my kitchen. Oh, we've got a television here as well. Isn't that terrible?!
Right, so it's test time! I'm going to give you seven words or expressions from the kitchen. And I want you to tell me from these definitions, what they are.
Okay, so the first one then is a machine which is above the hob and what it does is that it takes away the smells and the smoke from the cooking. What is it?
A. extractor hood.
Number two. This is a piece of wood, which you put on the surface on the preparation surface or the work surface. And it's used for cutting up onions, vegetables or meat. What is it?
A. It's a chopping board or cutting board.
Number three. This is some paper which you use when you spill something - some liquid and you want to clean it up or wipe it up. What is it?
A. kitchen roll.
Number four. This is like a basin but "basin" is for the bathroom. So this is where the water goes from the tap. What is it?
It's the sink. The kitchen sink.
Number five. This is all the knives and forks and spoons together. The collective word that we use - what is it?
cutlery.
Number six. This is another collective word for all the plates and bowls and things made from ceramic material. What is it?
It's crockery.
Number seven. These are like, large cups that you drink out of - tea or coffee or anything in fact, but they're much larger than cups. What are they?
Mugs.
Okay, thank you very much. That's all for now. See you again soon. Bye.
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