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Conversation Lesson 20

Lesson 20 - Recipes

Dialogs for everyday use. Short situational dialogs for students of English as a Foreign (EFL) or Second (ESL) Language.

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Recipes

Shirley: Would you like some cookies? I just made them.

Louise: Thank you. Yes, I would.

Shirley: These are chocolate, and those are almondflavored.

Louise: I guess I’ll try a chocolate one first. Mmmm…this is delicious. Are they hard to make?

Shirley: No, they’re really quite easy. Wait a minute, I’ve got the recipe right here. See…these are the ingredients, and then you just follow the directions.

Louise: That does look easy. I think I’ll make some tonight.

Conversation Notes

Would you like some cookies
This is equivalent to Would you like to have some (of these) cookies? It is a more courteous form than Do you want some cookies?
just
Meaning is very recently.
a chocolate one
Notice that the stress falls on chocolate, since one, when used as a pronoun, is normally unstressed.
Mmmm
A sound denoting gustatory enjoyment.
Are they hard to make
A useful pattern. Some additional examples: Is that hard to do? Are these books difficult to read? Is that paper hard to write on? My new car is easy to drive. These shirts are easy to wash and iron.
I’ve got the recipe
Alternative form: I have the recipe…
just
Meaning is simply; only.
That does look easy
The emphatic form of That looks easy. Note the strong stress on does.

Source: U.S. State Department

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