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User: Title: Just Chatting #01 / NATURAL English listening practice - my POOR OLD Microwave just died😥!
Caption: More intermediate English listening practice for you!  This is an everyday English conversation topic.  I speak in comprehenible English, but I speak more quickly than usual.  If necessary, change the speed on YouTube!  I tried to make it fun!

When I was working as an engineer in England and I moved into my first flat (apartment), my parents bought me a microwave.  That was more than 20 years ago.  But my microwave has just died😥... what am I going to do without it😆?

00:00  Introduction
00:26  My first flat (apartment) un England
01:57  American motels and microwaves
03:41  Hong Kong and teapots (not microwaves)
05:32  Bread and chocolate in the microwave
07:58  Other microwave uses

Let me know in the comments :
- did I speak too quickly or too slowly for you, or just right?
- how do you use a microwave?



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Description: Today is a very dark, sad day, because I'm just&nbsp;
about to take my microwave away to the tip.
My microwave has broken.
My mum and dad bought my microwave a long time ago&nbsp;
when I was in England, when I lived in England.
At the time we lived in a very strange house.
It had four floors. I'm not sure if it was a&nbsp;
flat, which is the English word for an apartment,&nbsp;&nbsp;
or a house, but it had a lot of stairs&nbsp;
and you had to go up to the next rooms.
So you went in the house and&nbsp;
you walked up to the bathroom.
Then you walked up to the, the sitting room&nbsp;
(the living room), then you walked up again&nbsp;&nbsp;
to the kitchen, and then you walked right&nbsp;
to the top of the house to the bedroom.
And so my little microwave had its little&nbsp;&nbsp;
home in the corner of my little&nbsp;
kitchen in my first apartment.
Bye bye microwave.
But it's exciting too, because I've got a new one!
I thought I would chat to you,&nbsp;
I thought I would talk to you&nbsp;&nbsp;
about microwaves today, because&nbsp;
microwaves can be so practical,&nbsp;&nbsp;
and they can save a lot of time, and they can&nbsp;
even save you money when you're travelling.
When we went to America a couple&nbsp;
of years ago, two years ago,&nbsp;&nbsp;
when I was booking the hotels or the motels&nbsp;
where we stayed in America (because we drove&nbsp;&nbsp;
around part of California and some of the&nbsp;
other nearby states), I chose places which&nbsp;&nbsp;
had microwaves on purpose, simply because&nbsp;
I knew that in America, if you go out&nbsp;&nbsp;
for lunch or for dinner, you usually get a very&nbsp;
big portion, and you can ask for a “doggie bag”.
Do you know what that is? A “doggie bag”, you&nbsp;
know it's when you ask for like a container,&nbsp;&nbsp;
a bag or a polystyrene container&nbsp;
where you can put the extra food in,&nbsp;&nbsp;
the food you don't eat, and you can take it away.
So that's what we did, and we usually went&nbsp;
out for lunch because it was just practical.
We were driving. We had a lot of kilometres to&nbsp;
drive and we didn't want to think about food.&nbsp;&nbsp;
So we went out for lunch, and then we took the&nbsp;
extra food that we just couldn't eat back to&nbsp;&nbsp;
the motel in the evening, and we just heated&nbsp;
it up (we made it warmer) in the microwave.&nbsp;&nbsp;
It was really practical and&nbsp;
we saved quite a lot of money.
When we were travelling in Hong Kong&nbsp;
when my daughter was a little baby,&nbsp;&nbsp;
it wasn't so practical, because&nbsp;
places didn't have microwaves that&nbsp;&nbsp;
customers could use (which is often the case here&nbsp;
in France and I think probably in England too).
And my daughter was very fussy (she was&nbsp;
very difficult) with her milk, because she&nbsp;&nbsp;
had to drink it warm, not cold, and so we&nbsp;
were constantly looking for restaurants...&nbsp;&nbsp;
but not with microwaves, with teapots!
Do you have a teapot? Very practical in England.&nbsp;&nbsp;
And in Hong Kong we used to ask for tea, which&nbsp;
is very very common to drink in a restaurant,&nbsp;&nbsp;
and we would put my daughter's bottle&nbsp;
in the teapot to warm it up. A good tip&nbsp;&nbsp;
if you have a baby and you want&nbsp;
to travel to Hong Kong or China!
I know some people say we should be reducing&nbsp;
(we should be using things less), as in&nbsp;&nbsp;
electrical equipment and yeah, perhaps&nbsp;
I shouldn't have bought a new microwave.&nbsp;&nbsp;
I should have tried to do without my microwave...&nbsp;
but it's just too... it's just too practical!
I mean what would you do without a microwave?
In France we do eat a lot of bread, and I have&nbsp;
slices of nice French bread in my freezer. I&nbsp;&nbsp;
take out how much I need and I put it in&nbsp;
the microwave to defrost... so practical!
In England we tend to use sliced bread and I've&nbsp;
kept that habit to make toast. It's just perfect&nbsp;&nbsp;
for toast, and so I keep the sliced bread in the&nbsp;
freezer, but I don't put it in the microwave...&nbsp;&nbsp;
no I don't put it in the microwave,&nbsp;
don't worry! I put it in the toaster.
And I mean a long time ago, if you wanted to&nbsp;
melt chocolate, you would have to take out a&nbsp;&nbsp;
pan, put water in the pan, put a bowl in&nbsp;
the pan and melt the chocolate that way.
But today who needs pans and bowls? You&nbsp;
just want... you need a bowl... you just&nbsp;&nbsp;
put the chocolate in the bowl and put it&nbsp;
in the microwave... it's so practical!
Do you like chocolate too?
And my daughter, she likes hot chocolate&nbsp;
sometimes. So what do you do? Do you take&nbsp;&nbsp;
out a pan? No! You put the milk in&nbsp;
a nice big mug. Where's my big mug?&nbsp;&nbsp;
In a nice big mug... this is a nice big&nbsp;
American mug... and you put chocolate powder&nbsp;&nbsp;
in the milk, you mix it together with a spoon,&nbsp;
and then you put it in the microwave of course!
Do you, yeah, so what would&nbsp;
you do without a microwave?
Do you have a microwave? Perhaps&nbsp;
I already asked you that!
And she has another good one! She makes&nbsp;
chocolate cake in the microwave sometimes.&nbsp;&nbsp;
She mixes all the ingredients together in&nbsp;
a mug, either an enormous American mug,&nbsp;&nbsp;
or a little one… it depends how hungry she&nbsp;
is, and then she cooks it in the microwave.
I don't know if it's good&nbsp;
because she never gives me any!
It's not true!
I mean without a microwave, how would&nbsp;
you warm fajitas up? Fajitas are one of&nbsp;&nbsp;
our family favourites. I mean I'm not going to&nbsp;
switch the oven on to warm up some fajitas am I?
I used to work for Moulinex&nbsp;&nbsp;
and the ladies in the laboratory tested&nbsp;
microwaves because it was one of our products.&nbsp;&nbsp;
And the ladies used to make all sorts of things&nbsp;
in microwaves. Sometimes the microwaves had grills&nbsp;&nbsp;
too, so you could make “creme brûlée” which is&nbsp;
which is quite a popular dessert here in France.
And in England my mum makes custard&nbsp;
in the microwave. I only tried once.&nbsp;&nbsp;
I put my milk in this jug,&nbsp;&nbsp;
and I think the jug wasn't big enough&nbsp;
and the milk came out over the top&nbsp;&nbsp;
of the jug, and it went all over the inside of my&nbsp;
microwave. So it wasn't very practical to clean.
Oh I'm sure there's lots of other&nbsp;
things you can do with microwaves.
Let me know in the comments what you&nbsp;
do. There's all sorts of recipes.
I cook salmon, I cook fish in the microwave too.&nbsp;
Have you ever tried? It's actually okay. You put&nbsp;&nbsp;
it in a bowl, a little bit bigger than this bowl,&nbsp;
with a little bit of lemon juice. You cover it&nbsp;&nbsp;
and you put it in the microwave&nbsp;
for a couple of minutes.
My husband who's very&nbsp;&nbsp;
proud of French cuisine... he doesn't just quite&nbsp;
agree with that method of cooking fish, but I do!
And in England I used to cook&nbsp;
potatoes in the microwave,&nbsp;&nbsp;
And in England I used to cook&nbsp;
potatoes in the microwave,&nbsp;&nbsp;
jacket potatoes. I would take a fork, prick&nbsp;
the potato all over, put it in the microwave,&nbsp;&nbsp;
I'm not sure for how long, uh I don't know... try&nbsp;
two minutes and two minutes on the other side...&nbsp;&nbsp;
and then I would eat it for a snack with&nbsp;
cheese, or English baked beans, or coleslaw.
But something my husband does&nbsp;
agree with is cooking rice&nbsp;&nbsp;
in the microwave. It's so easy! You put the rice&nbsp;
in, well you need to buy a special rice cooker&nbsp;&nbsp;
which my mum brought me too... thanks&nbsp;
mum... and you just put the rice in&nbsp;&nbsp;
the bowl, which has like slits... can you&nbsp;
see slits under it?... and then you put&nbsp;&nbsp;
boiling water from the kettle (of course if&nbsp;
you’re in England, you have a kettle) over the top&nbsp;&nbsp;
of the rice and put the lid on, put&nbsp;
it in the microwave for five minutes,&nbsp;&nbsp;
take it out, stir it up, put it in the microwave&nbsp;
for another five minutes and… “Bob’s your uncle!”&nbsp;&nbsp;
as an Australian lady said to me recently... that&nbsp;
means “et voilà!” and “there you are, it's ready!”
So I think that's all I have to&nbsp;
say about microwaves for today.&nbsp;&nbsp;
I hope you found that fun and let me know in&nbsp;
the comments if you have any other ideas for me&nbsp;&nbsp;
and my new, beautiful, silver microwave.
Take care see you soon!
you
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