Learning English

Welcome to my kitchen. Today I'm going to try and talk you through making my favourite dish – a traditional full English breakfast – or what we sometimes call a fry-up – can you guess why we call it that? Well maybe you will when you listen to this!

So we've got to have some meat in a fry-up so I'll start with my sausages so I'm going to put those in the frying pan carefully – the cooking oil's quite hot so you can already hear them sizzling away – and sounding delicious as well. We sometimes call them bangers simply because they 'bang' and 'pop' when they're cooking. Like that!

And let's quickly stick in the bacon too – trying not to splatter myself with hot cooking oil – I should be wearing an apron - there it goes crackling away in the pan. Listen to that! It makes your mouth water, doesn't it?

Now a fry-up usually includes baked beans – so I have a bowl here to heat some up – I'll just plop the beans in there and heat them in the microwave - stirring them occasionally so they don't burn.

Ah, we can't forget the eggs so in another frying pan, I'm just going to gently crack open an egg and fry that too – lovely!

And I need a few mushrooms, so I'm going to chop those up into small slices -  and fry those up in the pan too.

Of course, I need some toast to accompany my breakfast, so I'm going to slice some bread with the bread knife – put that in the toaster – and hopefully when it pops up it will be nice and crunchy and I can smother it in butter.

Ah, there's the ping of the microwave so the beans are ready now, let's get those out.

And finally, you've always got to have a big mug of steaming hot tea to slurp  -  something to wash down all that lovely greasy food. Cooking is thirsty work.

OK the toast has popped up so I'm about ready to serve up and munch on all this tasty food. I just need to put it on the plate now and smother it all with tomato ketchup and sprinkle on some salt. Now it's time chomp away and gulp down my tea –  ahhh!

So that's my perfect meal - I'm sorry you're not here to join me.