How bubble tea got its bubbles
6 Minute English
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đď¸ 23 May 2024
âąď¸ 6 minutes
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Summary
How did bubble tea get its bubbles? How was this drink invented? Neil and Beth chat about this.
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| 0:00.0 | 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English.com |
| 0:07.0 | Hello this is 6 minute English from BBC learning English. I'm Neil and I'm Beth. Are you a tea or coffee drinker, Neil? |
| 0:16.0 | Well, I usually drink a cup of coffee in the morning. How about you, Beth? |
| 0:21.0 | I'm definitely a tea drinker. There's nothing like a good cup-a to start the day. |
| 0:25.5 | Yes a cupa. It's a word in British English meaning a cup of tea, right? But there are many |
| 0:32.1 | different types of tea. Which tea do you like? |
| 0:36.0 | Well, I usually drink English breakfast tea in the morning and then a match of tea at lunch and |
| 0:42.3 | then maybe a calming herbal tea before bed. |
| 0:45.2 | Wow it sounds like you're a real tea addict Beth so you'll love this program |
| 0:50.5 | because we're discussing an exciting drink called bubble tea and as usual |
| 0:55.7 | we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well. |
| 0:59.2 | Great but first I have a question for you, Neil. Today British supermarkets sell almost twice as much |
| 1:06.8 | coffee as tea. And consumer surveys have found that a majority of Brits prefer drinking coffee. |
| 1:14.0 | So what proportion of Brits do you think still regularly drink tea? |
| 1:20.0 | Is it A, 39%, B, 49%, or C, 59%. |
| 1:28.0 | Well, let me think about that. |
| 1:30.0 | I'm going to say B 49%. |
| 1:33.7 | Okay, Neil. I will reveal the answer at the end of the program. |
| 1:37.6 | People have been drinking tea for centuries, |
| 1:40.6 | but that doesn't mean tea drinking hasn't changed over the years. |
| 1:45.0 | Here in Britain, new trends such as ice tea and green macho tea |
| 1:50.0 | have become as popular as the traditional English c cupa, which, as everyone knows, is black tea |
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