General Listening Quiz
"Baby Food"
| Level: | Topic: | Speakers: | Length: |
| intermediate | baby food | man - woman | 01:37 |
Pre-Listening Exercise
What kinds of foods are appropriate for babies and toddlers at different times in their lives?
Idioms
"be someone's baby" = be a very special possession, goal, or project.
"Hey, don't touch the car. That's my brother's baby, and it is very protective of it."
"sleep like a baby" = sleep deeply and soundly
"Mark worked 16 hours yesterday, so he's going to sleep like a baby tonight."
Listening Exercise
A. Listen to the recording and answer the questions.
What is the boy's name?
Hey. Logan. How about some chocolate peanut butter milkshake?
The man wants to feed his grandson some _______.
Hey. Logan. How about some chocolate peanut butter milkshake? Yum Yum Yum.
The boy, Logan, should only be eating rice and ______.
He shouldn’t eat anything but rice and plain bread. He’s not supposed to eat anything else right now.
The boy has the food all over his ______.
Well. . . . Logan. Look. You have chocolate all over your face. Let me clean up your face before your mom comes in here.
The grandfather says he is talking to his grandson about ______.
No, no, no. We’re fine. Thanks. Logan and I are just talking about politics, the stock market. You know, the economic turmoil in the world. Just light stuff like that.
Vocabulary Practice
Do the vocabulary quizzes with the words from the conversation for more practice:
COMING SOON
- Mixed-Up Sentence | Sentence and Vocabulary Matching
Post-Listening Exercise
What are some common, traditional foods in your country that people feed to their babies and children?
Online Investigation
Use the Internet to discover what foods are given to babies in one or more of these countries. What cultural or environmental factors (e.g., climate, weather, geography, etc.) play a factor in what foods are available?
- Vietnam
- Japan
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Kenya
- Peru
- Australia
- France
- China
- Thailand
- Saudi Arabia
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