Hi and welcome to this my latest video about the IELTS examination and indeed
about advanced English in general today we're going to look at the food topic
from the IELTS exam things like restaurants which comes up quite a bit
we're going to look at two part two questions and the second of those
questions is according to students a very recent examine so it's a question
that you may get in your actual exam if you do it in the next few weeks or
months so look out for that if you find this video useful please subscribe to
the video so our first part two question talk about a restaurant that you like
you should say what it's called where it is how long you've been going there and
why you like it so much what we're going to do we're going to look at idioms
phrasal verbs collocations and less common words related to this topic we're
going to go through both answers and then I'm going to explain the words news
so I love going to a restaurant in London called ceviche
it's the Peruvian place and Peruvian is all the rage in London at the moment to
be honest it's really easy to see why as Peru's food is a perfect combination of
zesty citrus flavors and piquant Chili's in fact ceviche is both the name of this
eatery and the name of Peru's signature dish the dish involves cooking fresh
fish but without applying any heat the fish is placed in citrus juices mixed
with spices and herbs and it's the acid that cooks the fish to be honest I'm
almost drooling even thinking about this dish as I stand here talking to you I've
been going to this awesome place for the past few years it's not just the calibre
of the food that I love but also the ambience of the place there's a real
hubbub about the place you can just sense and hear how much all of the
clientele enjoy the place I think this was the first Peruvian
restaurant to hit London and it spawned a number of others since as the
popularity of Peruvian cuisine really takes off but I'd really maintain that
this is the best one of all okay so that's our first answer lots of less
common words there and one or two phrasal verbs and idioms that we'll look
at later now let's look at our second question talk about a street market that
you like to visit you should say where it is
who you usually go there with what you normally buy there and why you like it
so much well I'm a real foodie and recently I discovered a real godsend of
a market in East London usually I get disappointed when I go to a street
market looking for food more often than not I come up empty-handed
as it seems that there are often only slim pickings on offer in terms of
anything new or interesting you know how it is you see the same things everywhere
falafel wraps various burgers maybe some Chinese noodles but I'm an adventurous
eater and I'm always hunting for new things to try
I usually go for my brother who if anything is even more of a foodie
than I am at this market we discovered a great new dish it was a Spanish cold
soup called an Ajo Blanco which is made from old bread and with garlic almonds
and olive oil and topped with grapes the soup itself was a real eye-opener it was
incredibly refreshing but this place that actually made a kind of fusion dish
combining the Spanish soup with Japanese cuisine so this dish consisted of this
soup the isle Blanco with a kind of medium rare tuna some wild Japanese
mushrooms and wasabi which is a type of Japanese horseradish this was a
mind-blowing dish absolutely sumptuous the soup was velvety smooth the fish
meaty and delicious and the mushrooms I did a rich earthiness to the dish
and the crowning glory was the heat of the wasabi incidentally I noticed that
I've made a little mistake I should have highlighted the expression crowning
glory in light blue the kraut crowning glory is a collocation which means the
final thing which makes something really work or really succeed so on with the
explanations of the other terms sorry a couple more sentences first my brother
and I hung out for most of the afternoon at this market stuffing ourselves silly
before we finally had to shoot off home so now we're look at the extra
vocabulary so a couple of idioms all the rage if something is all the rage then
it is very popular to come up empty-handed if you've come up
empty-handed you don't get what you want you don't succeed in something so for
example they a football team entered the competition expecting to win but they
came up empty-handed some collocations a perfect combination two things that go
perfectly together a signature dish this is a dish that a restaurant or a chef is
most famous for making slim pickings this is when there isn't much of
something available velvety smooth velvet is a material that you make clubs
from and it's a very smooth material so velvety smooth just means very very
smooth some phrasal verbs a couple of them to hang out which means to spend
time with somebody or at a place and to shoot off which means to leave so you
would say a native English speaker might say to somebody I've got to shoot off
now it means I've got to go okay now les Cohen words we have lots of these zesty
it means it has lots of flavor and zest is actually the white stuff in citrus
fruits so we often use this word about dishes that are made with citrus fruits
lemons oranges limes blood oranges etc piquant if something is piquant then it
has a sharp or spicy flavour by sharp flavor we mean things like summer
berries like raspberries or black currants an eatery an eatery is simply a
less common word for a place where you can go to eat such as a restaurant
drooling when saliva comes out of your mouth which is what happens if you're
very hungry then you drool Kalibak Kalibak is another word for the
quality or something ambience it means atmosphere the feeling that you
get from being in a place hubbub a hubbub is a loud noise of excited
conversation Cleon tell it's just another word for
customers but a less common word so it's a word that if you were to use it in
your exam it would help impress the examiner to hit London in the context of
this answer if something hits London then it has arrived in London spawned
this means to give birth to something to lead to the creation of something we
often say that something has spawned lots of copycats so something that has
worked for example a business idea or a new cafe or restaurant if it works the
first one maybe lots of other people try to copy it because they also want to
make money to maintain that something is true this means to insist
that something is true a foodie a foodie is somebody who loves food
simple as that a godsend a godsend is a very pleasant surprise an eye-opener is
something that is a revelation something you that really surprises you fusion
fusion is a combination between two things in this case between two
different types of cooking mind-blowing something that makes you feel as though
your mind will explode because it's so good
and finally sumptuous means or amazing quality and earthiness means tasting a
bit like you imagine the earth itself would taste for example a mushroom
tastes like this now I apologize I also missed off one phrasal verb which was to
take off if something takes off then it becomes very popular and very successful
so if a new restaurant has really taken off then the restaurant is doing very
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will be lots more videos about the IELTS exam coming up in future weeks and
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