Talking at the table
6 Minute English
BBC
4.6 ⢠1.3K Ratings
đď¸ 2 May 2024
âąď¸ 6 minutes
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Summary
A lot can happen at the dinner table, and not just eating! Beth and Neil discuss chatting at meal times and teach you some useful vocabulary.
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| 0:00.0 | 6 Minute English from the BBC. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello, this is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm Neil. |
| 0:11.5 | And I'm Beth. In this program we'll be discussing the dinner table, but we're not interested in food. We're talking about talking. |
| 0:21.0 | A lot can happen around the dinner table. Gossip, arguments. You might meet the love of your life on a blind dinner date or find out you're a great storyteller. |
| 0:32.0 | Neil, when you were younger, did you eat with your family around a dinner table? |
| 0:37.0 | We did. Eating at the table was an important ritual. |
| 0:40.0 | It was something we did every day, and quite often it was the only time we could get together and chat |
| 0:46.6 | I think there's something very comforting about eating good food and being with the people you're closest to. |
| 0:53.0 | And now I do the same with my own family. |
| 0:56.0 | The kids are more likely to open up, |
| 0:58.0 | talk more easily, about their day or something troubling them while they're eating. |
| 1:02.0 | Well, the dinner table is a space that... or something troubling them while they're eating? |
| 1:02.6 | Well, the dinner table is a space that families across the world get together at |
| 1:08.1 | to not only eat but chat, and is often the only point in the day or week that the whole family gathers together. |
| 1:16.0 | In this programme we'll be discussing how people behave at the table and of course we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well. |
| 1:24.5 | But first I have a question for you Beth. |
| 1:27.4 | In 2016 a couple from Germany won the world record for the fastest time to set a dinner table. |
| 1:34.4 | But how long did it take them? |
| 1:36.7 | Was it A 25 seconds? |
| 1:39.1 | B, 1 minute and 5 seconds or 2 minutes and 5 seconds. |
| 1:44.4 | Surely not 25 seconds. |
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