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The Flatmates episode 26 (including Video/Vocabulary)



Episode 26: Planning a meal
Michal: Alice was only helping me!
Helen: I'm sorry Michal, I didn't mean to fly off the handle. What's wrong?
Michal: I was just telling Alice I wanted to eat better but that I didn't know how to cook any of my favourite dishes.
Helen: Mm, let's think about this. I know! Chinese New Year is coming up soon. Why don't we make a special Chinese-Polish dinner together! We'll both do research, find typical recipes, buy all the ingredients.
Michal: And cook a meal together! You do the main course, and I'll make the pudding!
Helen: Sounds like a perfect second date, don't you think?

 Vocabulary:


 to fly off the handle (verb-phrase) - to be very angry, to lose control of your emotions

 dish (noun) - food that is prepared in a particular way

Chinese New Year (noun) - also called Spring Festival, is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays.The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th.

lunar month (noun) - is one moth of the lunar calendar which is based on cycles of the moon phase also used as traditional Chinese calendar.

research  (noun) - careful study that is done to find and report new knowledge about something

typical (adjective) - normal for a person, thing, or group : average or usual,  happening in the usual way

recipe (noun) - a set of instructions for making food, a way of doing something that will produce a particular result

ingredient  (noun) - one of the things that are used to make a food, product, etc, a quality or characteristic that makes something possible

 meal (noun) - the foods eaten or prepared for eating at one time, a time or occasion when food is eaten, the act or time of eating a meal

course (noun) -  a part of a meal that is served separately from other parts

pudding (noun) -  a thick, sweet, soft, and creamy food that is usually eaten cold at the end of a meal, a sweet, soft food that is made of rice, bread, etc. British - a hot dish like a pie that has a mixture of meat or vegetables inside of it
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