English Conversation for Listening | Coffee | 1
In this English conversation for listening practice, listen to a short English conversation about coffee to practice your English speaking and listening skills.
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English Conversation for Listening | Transcript
Emma: You are listening to Dialogue Frog’s short and sometimes silly conversations for listening, imitation, and shadowing practice. This is Episode 1 and our topic is coffee. My name is Emma and I am joined today by Luke.
Luke: Hey everyone, I’m Luke. Nice to meet you.
Emma: I think everyone just said, “Nice to meet you too.” But they wanna hear about coffee.
Luke: Who doesn’t.
Emma: No one. No one doesn’t. Except for maybe the people who prefer tea.
Luke: That’s true. Tea is good too, but, I for one, prefer coffee.
Emma: I also prefer coffee. How many cups of coffee do you drink a day?
Luke: I…usually between 1 and 4. 4 is probably too much but somedays I just need to get a lot of stuff done. So that’s when I drink a lot of coffee. How about you?
Emma: 4 is probably reasonable. Um, lately I don’t even finish one cup. Although I used to drink maybe, I don’t know, 2 or 3 cups.
Luke: That’s a lot of caffeine by the end of the day.
Emma: It is. It is. It can mess with some people who might not be able to sleep. But it is getting to be summer and you know what summer means.
Luke: More coffee.
Emma: Specifically, Iced Coffee.
Luke: Oh yeah.
Emma: And frozen coffee.
Luke: Those are good too.
Emma: I like to make my own iced coffee. I have, its called, its the Toddy Brewer, cold brew system.
Luke: Oh yeah.
Emma: Yeah.
Luke: Yep.
Emma: Course it doesn’t taste as good as Starbucks, or a café but then you have an endless supply of coffee and that’s a good but dangerous thing.
Luke: That’s true. I kind of like the homemade coffee though because then you can control exactly how it’s made and you know, I- I think you still end up with a pretty good tasting cup of coffee at the end of it.
Emma: And its more economical. Because if you are buying a coffee everyday that could be between 2 and 5 dollars, so, you get to save the dollars for other things.
Luke: That’s true. So, do you put creamer in your coffee. Or do you drink it with milk or…
Emma: I am a cream and sugar person. Although lately I am putting less sugar in.
Luke: Hmm.
Emma: I think it’s because I’m getting older. It’s that, that thing where you start wanting less sweet. It’s kind of sad.
Luke: I can’t relate to that because I’m still very young. I’m just kidding. I drink my coffee black. Um, Yeah, cause I gave up the, the sugar and the milk in my coffee a long time ago.
Emma: Yeah, yeah. That’s one of the, the uh health, uh health properties of coffee I think are always when its black coffee and so whenever you read those scientific articles that say coffee is good for you they are usually referring to 8 ounces of black coffee that’s at reasonable strength.
Luke: Yeah.
Emma: Because how much coffee you add changes the strength of it and then of course that changes the caffeine.
Luke: Yeah. I always like to forget those though and usually I just end up drinking as much as I can, so,
Emma: That, I think a lot of people do that.
Luke: That’s true. That’s easy to do at a, at a, co-, at a café or something when they give you generous portions and- or like bottomless cups of coffee at a restaurant and then-
Emma: Yeah.
Luke: You just keep end up drinking it.
Emma: Yeah, its dangerous to order the bottomless cup.
Luke: Mm-hmm.
Emma: Yep. Okay, well, that’s the end of our short conversation because we are about to hit a long conversation. Thank you for joining us today and we hope to see you on the next episode.
Luke: Yep.
Emma: Of Dialogue Frog.
English Conversation for Listening | Vocabulary List
probably
reasonable
although
caffeine
mess with
specifically
iced
frozen
cold brew
system
endless
supply
dangerous
homemade
control
tasting
economical
creamer
cream
relate
gave up
health
properties
scientific
articles
strength
generous
portions
bottomless cup
English Conversation for Listening | Transcript
Emma: You are listening to Dialogue Frog’s short and sometimes silly conversations for listening, imitation, and shadowing practice. This is Episode 1 and our topic is coffee. My name is Emma and I am joined today by Luke.
Luke: Hey everyone, I’m Luke. Nice to meet you.
Emma: I think everyone just said, “Nice to meet you too.” But they wanna hear about coffee.
Luke: Who doesn’t.
Emma: No one. No one doesn’t. Except for maybe the people who prefer tea.
Luke: That’s true. Tea is good too, but, I for one, prefer coffee.
Emma: I also prefer coffee. How many cups of coffee do you drink a day?
Luke: I…usually between 1 and 4. 4 is probably too much but somedays I just need to get a lot of stuff done. So that’s when I drink a lot of coffee. How about you?
Emma: 4 is probably reasonable. Um, lately I don’t even finish one cup. Although I used to drink maybe, I don’t know, 2 or 3 cups.
Luke: That’s a lot of caffeine by the end of the day.
Emma: It is. It is. It can mess with some people who might not be able to sleep. But it is getting to be summer and you know what summer means.
Luke: More coffee.
Emma: Specifically, Iced Coffee.
Luke: Oh yeah.
Emma: And frozen coffee.
Luke: Those are good too.
Emma: I like to make my own iced coffee. I have, its called, its the Toddy Brewer, cold brew system.
Luke: Oh yeah.
Emma: Yeah.
Luke: Yep.
Emma: Course it doesn’t taste as good as Starbucks, or a café but then you have an endless supply of coffee and that’s a good but dangerous thing.
Luke: That’s true. I kind of like the homemade coffee though because then you can control exactly how it’s made and you know, I- I think you still end up with a pretty good tasting cup of coffee at the end of it.
Emma: And its more economical. Because if you are buying a coffee everyday that could be between 2 and 5 dollars, so, you get to save the dollars for other things.
Luke: That’s true. So, do you put creamer in your coffee. Or do you drink it with milk or…
Emma: I am a cream and sugar person. Although lately I am putting less sugar in.
Luke: Hmm.
Emma: I think it’s because I’m getting older. It’s that, that thing where you start wanting less sweet. It’s kind of sad.
Luke: I can’t relate to that because I’m still very young. I’m just kidding. I drink my coffee black. Um, Yeah, cause I gave up the, the sugar and the milk in my coffee a long time ago.
Emma: Yeah, yeah. That’s one of the, the uh health, uh health properties of coffee I think are always when its black coffee and so whenever you read those scientific articles that say coffee is good for you they are usually referring to 8 ounces of black coffee that’s at reasonable strength.
Luke: Yeah.
Emma: Because how much coffee you add changes the strength of it and then of course that changes the caffeine.
Luke: Yeah. I always like to forget those though and usually I just end up drinking as much as I can, so,
Emma: That, I think a lot of people do that.
Luke: That’s true. That’s easy to do at a, at a, co-, at a café or something when they give you generous portions and- or like bottomless cups of coffee at a restaurant and then-
Emma: Yeah.
Luke: You just keep end up drinking it.
Emma: Yeah, its dangerous to order the bottomless cup.
Luke: Mm-hmm.
Emma: Yep. Okay, well, that’s the end of our short conversation because we are about to hit a long conversation. Thank you for joining us today and we hope to see you on the next episode.
Luke: Yep.
Emma: Of Dialogue Frog.
English Conversation for Listening | Vocabulary List
probably
reasonable
although
caffeine
mess with
specifically
iced
frozen
cold brew
system
endless
supply
dangerous
homemade
control
tasting
economical
creamer
cream
relate
gave up
health
properties
scientific
articles
strength
generous
portions
bottomless cup
