Assignments 6 - Randall's Cyber Listening Lab

Title: Baking Cookies
Level: medium
Topic: baking
Type: cooking show
Speakers: man - young woma
Length: 02:31

1.humble : (1)not proud or not believing that you are important

He's very humble about his success.

(2)poor or of a low social rank

Even when she became rich and famous, she never forgot her humble background.

(3)ordinary; not large, special or very important

Welcome to our humble abode.

2.crisp : hard enough to be broken easily; describes cooked foods, such as pastry and biscuits, that are well cooked so that they are just dry and hard enough

Bake until the pastry is golden and crisp.

3.fire extinguisher : 滅火器

4.pinch : [verb] to squeeze something, especially someone's skin, strongly between two hard things such as a finger and a thumb, usually causing pain

He pinched the baby’s cheek playfully.

[noun]a small amount of something, such as a powder, especially the amount which a person can hold between their first finger and thumb

While the tomatoes are cooking add a pinch of salt

5.batch : a number of people or things that are dealt with as a group

We deliver the goods in batches.

Title: Baking Cookies

Level: medium

Topic: food

Type: conversation

Speakers: man - woman

Length: 01:44

1.bruise : [noun] (1)a blue, brown or purple mark that appears on the skin after sb has fallen, been hit, etc

His arms and back were covered in bruises.

(2) a mark on a fruit or vegetable where it is damaged

[verb] (1)to develop a bruise or to cause someone or something to have a bruise

Strawberries bruise easily.

(2)to affect sb badly and make them feel unhappy and less confident

They had been badly bruised by the defeat.

[adj] (1)having bruises

a bruised shoulder/knee/elbow

(2)emotionally hurt as a result of a bad experience

2.cereal : a food that is made from grain and eaten with milk, especially in the morning

a bowl of cereal

3.powered milk : dried milk in the form of a powder

4.cupboard : a piece of furniture or a small part of a room with a door or doors behind which there is pace for storing things, usually on shelves

a built-in cupboard

5.nasty : (1)bad or very unpleasant

She has a nasty habit of picking on people in meetings.

(2)dangerous or violent

In an emergency you could get out through a window, but it would be a nasty drop.

(3)rude or offensive

She said some quite nasty things about him.

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