Listening: A Cooking Show Segment
A cooking show segment is an A2 listening text in the procedural-media genre. The audio covers a TV chef demonstrating a simple recipe — listing ingredients, narrating each step, offering tips, and showing the finished dish. Learners practise tracking sequence, catching specific quantities and times, and recognising imperative-mood instructions in connected speech.
This worksheet builds A2 listening comprehension through a cooking-show audio.
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What’s inside:
- A cooking-show audio segment (~3 minutes) with annotated transcript
- Pre-listening vocabulary box with cooking-method and ingredient terms
- Recipe-recording task: write down the ingredients and steps as you hear them
- Multiple-choice items on quantities and cooking times
- Production task: describe a simple recipe you can cook
- Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes
Common challenges: Imperative instructions in connected speech: chop the onions, fry the chicken, add a pinch of salt. Quantity vocabulary: a tablespoon, a teaspoon, a pinch, half a cup, a clove of garlic. Sequence markers: first, next, while, when, finally. Cooking-verb collocations: boil the pasta, sauté the vegetables, simmer for 10 minutes.
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR A2, in pre-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Maps onto Cambridge A2 Key (KET) Listening. Part of the Media & Entertainment collection — the natural next step is A Documentary: Endangered Animals, which extends media listening into the documentary genre.
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