Lots of you have asked me to create a video to help you learn everyday
vocabulary so today we're going to look at fruit and vegetable vocabulary
I'm Deirdre Nicholas from palm tree teaching TV teacher speaker and your
personal English language coach now this lesson is suitable for English learners
of course particularly if you're a beginner but also for English teachers
so hopefully you'll be able to use that in class now a lot of people like to
discuss and talk about and sometimes argue about whether something is a fruit
or a vegetable so just let's look very quickly at that
now of course officially scientifically a fruit comes from the flower of a plant
like an apple whereas a vegetable comes from all the other parts of the plant
such as the leaves like a cabbage or the stem of a plant like rhubarb or the
roots such as carrots or potatoes but you know if we look at how we eat and
cook fruit and vegetables generally we eat sweet tasting things as fruit and
savory tasting things as vegetables for example a tomato is generally eaten with
savory things like salads but it is in fact a fruit so whether we call
something a fruit or a vegetable depends a lot on its use and taste of course the
other thing to think about is how we use the words fruit and vegetables vegetable
is a countable noun so we can say a vegetable in the singular and we can say
vegetables like this now fruit is different fruit is generally an
uncountable noun so we would talk about fruit without an S if we wanted to talk
about more than one piece of fruit we would say there's lots of fruit on this
shelf generally the only time that you can use
an S with fruit is when you're talking about different types of fruit so for
example these fruits come from the Mediterranean limes oranges lemons for
example now there's one exception in the phrase the fruits of one's labors but
that is an exception now before I go on don't forget to hit the subscribe button
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improve your english okay so let's get started straight away with vegetables
tomato the tomato is a vegetable tomatoes grow on a vine sweet pepper
sweet pepper is a vegetable there are many colors of sweet peppers a sweet
pepper grows on a vine aubergine aubergine is a vegetable the aubergine
grows on a shrub ginger ginger is a vegetable it is also a spice here is a
ginger plant potato the potato is a vegetable
here is the potato plant carrot the carrot is a vegetable this is the plant
onion the onion is a vegetable this is the onion plant garlic garlic is a
vegetable here is some garlic growing sweet potato
sweet potato is a vegetable
here are some sweet potato plants
mushrooms mushrooms are vegetables mushrooms grow in the dark leek leeks
are vegetables you can eat the whole plant cabbage cabbage is a vegetable you
buy the whole plant it can be red or green or white beetroot beetroot is a
vegetable this is the plant
spring onion spring onion is a vegetable you can grow spring onions in bottles
salad cress salad cress is a vegetable
this is how it grows on paper now let's continue with fruit
banana banana is a fruit bananas grow on trees pineapple pineapple is a fruit
pineapples grow on small bushes
coconuts coconuts are fruit coconuts grow on trees papaya the papaya is a
fruit papaya grow on trees melons melons are fruit here is the melon plant and
fruit mango the mango is a fruit mangos grow on trees apples
apples are fruit apples grow on trees
rhubarb rhubarb is a fruit you eat the stem but the leaves are poisonous pear
pear is a fruit they grow on trees
grapes grapes are fruit grapes grow on vines oranges oranges are fruit oranges
grow on trees
strawberry strawberries are fruit
strawberries grow on small plants limes limes are fruit they grow on trees
gooseberry the gooseberry is a fruit gooseberries grow on small bushes make
sure you have a look at some of the other videos on my channel as well
because they will really help you with your vocabulary as well I will put some
links below this video so I hope you've enjoyed watching this video
and enjoy learning English and I should see you next time bye
you