Free English Class! Topic: Snacks! 🍌🍎🍫 (Lesson Only)

Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about snacks.

Now as you go through your day you usually eat two or three

meals. But in between those meals sometimes you're hungry

and you need something else to eat. You need something to eat

because you can't wait for lunch or you can't wait for a

dinner. So we call those little times where we eat. We call it

snack time. And it's a time where we eat snacks. When I was

a little kid I really like snack time. I liked it when my

mom said hey it's snack time. Do you want a snack? And then

she would give me something yummy to eat. But don't worry I

will talk about healthy snacks and unhealthy snacks. You can

judge whether the snack I'm talking about would be

something that would be good for you. Or if it's something

that you probably shouldn't eat. But in this English lesson

I just want to welcome you one more time. Welcome to this

English lesson about snacks. I did want to mention that this

English lesson does have a study pack. If you visit Bob

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you'll find a study pack that contains a crossword puzzle, a

word search, a matching exercise and other worksheets

that you can use to practice the words and phrases that are

taught in this lesson. So there are a couple of categories for

snacks and I thought I would put them all on one slide.

Generally we describe snacks as being sweet. Snacks that are

made with sugar. Things like donuts and cookies and

chocolate. Those would be sweet snacks. And then we have salty

snacks. Things like chips. Which I think they call crisps

in the UK. Or pretzels or even nuts sometimes have salt on

them. And then we have healthy snacks. This would be like a

banana or an apple. Or a carrot. Those would be things

you eat because you like healthy snacks. And people

generally fall into one of these categories. I know

myself. I'm definitely someone who likes sweet snacks. Jen is

someone who likes salty snacks. Um Both of us try to eat as

many healthy snacks as we can. I usually try to think to

myself okay I'm hungry. I want a snack. Should I have a cookie

or an apple? And then I try to choose the apple. But I'm not

always successful. Anyways in the chat why don't you let me

know what do you like? Sweet, salty, healthy. What's your

preferred snack of choice? So in Canada and I think this is

probably true in the United States as well. The snack I see

the most often at school is a granola bar. A granola bar is a

bar which is usually sweet. It usually has chocolate chips in

it. Sometimes it's coated in chocolate as well. Uh and it's

made with oats. It's made with rice puffed rice. Um and it's

just a really simple sweet snack. It comes in a box like

the one you see in the pitcher. And they come in individually

wrapped. If you remember the lesson Brent and I did about

food we talked about how some food comes individually

wrapped. We would say that granola bars are a very

convenient snack. You can grab and go. You can grab a granola

bar and a banana and go to work and you have a little bit of of

a lunch I guess. Two snacks I guess makes a lunch. But

granola bars are very popular in North America as a snack

choice. So we call these suckers. But I guess the

correct word would be lollipop. When my kids would go out for

Halloween and go trick or treating they would get

different treats. And one of the things they would get is

they would get suckers. So a sucker is like a candy on the

end of a stick. That's how I would describe it. It's

definitely sweet. Sometimes it has something in the middle. It

might have a different kind of candy in the middle. But

usually a sucker or lollipop is a hard candy on a stick that is

really easy for kids to eat. And then usually you get

different flavours. And it's interesting. We sometimes use

colours to describe flavours. Like someone might say oh I

like orange suckers. I like red suckers. So they're using the

colour. Um because the flavour is really just sweet. They

don't actually have real flavours as a bit of a fruit to

them but definitely suckers or lollipops. A sweet and fun

snack for kids. Uh adults usually don't eat them. Now

this is a newer snack in the last 10 or 20 years. They've

become very popular with people who work out. So when you eat a

granola bar you get a lot of sugar and you get some

chocolate chips and some oats and some rice puffs or puffed

rice. But a protein bar has more protein in it. They

usually put I don't know the different types of protein. But

a protein bar is good if you go and lift weights. Uh after you

lift weights people will sometimes eat a protein bar

after they've gone to the gym because you need protein to

build muscle in your body. So a protein bar would be a very

popular snack for someone who exercises a lot. Someone who

exercises a lot would probably like eating protein bars as a

snack to help their body kind of rebuild and build muscle in

their body. A donut is not healthy at all. A donut is

fried dough. So it's deep fried dough which is unhealthy in the

first place. And then with a topping usually chocolate or

vanilla or some kind of topping. Now there are donuts

that also have things in it like pieces of apple in an

apple fritter. But I would say a doughnut is very unhealthy

but also very very yummy. Um there's a lot of calories in a

donut. We call this a chocolate dip donut because after the

donut was fried in oil it was dipped in chocolate in order to

get the chocolate icing on top. Um but I if you were to ask me

I think I eat donuts about

I was I was going to say about two a month but maybe not once

a week. I don't have a donut once a week. That that would be

a lot. I think about every other week or so there's donuts

at school and I might have a donut as a snack. Now here we

have some of the healthy snacks. So they fall into two

categories. Either you're eating fruit or vegetables. I'm

going to go back to the fruit. So for me I like having a

banana as a snack. And lately I've been eating an apple in

the afternoon as a snack. So I go to work around ten o'clock.

I I'm a little bit but I'm not ready for lunch. And so I'll

eat a banana. And then at lunch I'll eat my lunch. In the

afternoon when I'm hungry I'll eat an apple. So I do like

bananas and apples. In the winter I do like to eat oranges

as well. For some reason oranges make me feel pretty

good in the winter. I think it's the vitamin C that you get

from it. So in terms of healthy snack anything like fruit any

banana, apple, orange, tangerines, nectarines,

peaches, all of those would be considered healthy snacks. We

also have an unhealthy form of fruit and it's called a fruit

roll up. This is I don't know if you've seen these but they

dry fruit and sometimes mix it with other ingredients

including sugar. And they make it into a long it kind of looks

like tape. Uh and you can unroll it and you can eat it.

These are very popular with kids as well. I still see even

high school kids eating fruit roll ups at school. Um I don't

actually like them. I find them quite sticky. Like they stick

to your teeth. Um but a fruit roll up is kind of an unhealthy

replacement for actual fruit. If you go if you want fruit you

should eat actual fruit I think. And then we have dried

fruit of course dried fruit like dried apples dried we

sometimes have dried bananas, dried apricots, dried mangoes,

dried fruit is just fruit that has had the moisture removed.

And then it lasts for a long time. So fresh fruit go bad.

Dried fruit is able to it has a long shelf life we would say.

So dried fruit lasts a long time. Again I'm talking about

when food goes rotten. Fresh fruit goes bad. Fresh fruit

rots after a week. Or two. But dried fruit lasts a very very

long time. We have something called a fruit cup. This is

fruit usually in a sweet syrup. That's also ready to eat. So if

you don't want to keep fresh fruit in your house because it

does go bad. You have fruit cups in your cupboard and

they're they're sized we would call this like a single serving

it's enough for one person so sometimes you have like

tangerine slices in a fruit cup or you might have peach peaches

chopped up peaches in a fruit cup that would be very popular

or pears as well but just another way to eat fruit very

convenient way to eat fruit but also with added sugar. You

might eat vegetables. Probably the two most common vegetable

snacks would be baby carrots. On the far side you'll see a

bag of baby carrots. Baby carrots are very tiny carrots.

So they're just they're really handy and easy to eat. Or you

might cut celery up into sticks and take celery sticks. When I

look around my staff room at lunch a lot of people eat baby

carrots. Or they might eat sliced cucumber. That's very

popular as a snack or celery all very very common and

popular snacks healthy snacks I really like chocolate chip

cookies. These are chocolate chip cookies. Cookies for me

are any kind of flat sweet snack. Um usually having

chocolate chips in it. Sometimes they have nuts in it.

Sometimes there's two cookies with something in the middle

like an Oreo cookie. But any kind of small sweet sweet

snack. Um we usually call a cookie. Sometimes they're

crunchy. And sometimes they're soft but they're usually

delicious. Almost always delicious. I We have something

in Canada and in North America called a brownie. I'm not sure

if this is popular in other parts of the world. Uh a

brownie is a mixture of flour and cocoa and sugar and oil and

then it's baked and it makes this really soft and tasty and

yummy chocolate square. We usually cut them into squares.

I had a lot of brownies when I was a kid. My mom liked to make

brownies. They were very very yummy. So this is a muffin and

I'll talk about cupcakes later. Muffins and cupcakes look very

similar. The theory is that muffins are healthier. Muffins

usually don't have icing or frosting on top. And muffins

sometimes are made with healthy ingredients. This is a

chocolate chip muffin. It's not that healthy. But you can have

carrot muffins. You can have zucchini muffins. You can have

there's a you can have blueberry muffins. So a muffin

is kind of a small almost like a cake but sort of healthy.

Again this one is not really healthy. I think a blueberry

muffin would be healthier than a chocolate chip muffin. But if

you go to a cafe or if you go to a coffee shop you can order

donuts you can order muffins and they'll probably have a

wide selection. When you go to a party probably a very common

snack to see at a party would be cheese and crackers. So

cheese is obviously this dairy product on the close side here.

And on the far side you'll see really thin crunchy what we

call crackers. Crackers are usually a salty snack. Um and

they taste really good with cheese on them. So cheese and

crackers are a pretty common thing to see if you go to a

party. When we go to a Christmas party often we will

bring a vegetable tray and we'll bring some cheese and

crackers. You know different people bring different food. We

often bring cheese and crackers. Very easy to make and

very easy to bring to someone's house. So I think in the UK

they call these crisps. We call them chips or potato chips. Um

they are made from thinly sliced potatoes that are then

deep fried in really hot oil. We don't make potato chips

though. We buy them in bags at the grocery store or from

wherever you buy snacks. Like you can buy you can buy chips

at the gas station. You can buy chips from a vending machine.

You can buy chips at the grocery store. And they are

super yummy. Jen really likes chips. As I mentioned though I

actually like sweet snacks better but I will eat chips.

They're quite yummy. And sometimes people use dip. They

might have a dip that they dip the chip in. The dip might be

made from yogurt. It might be made from sour cream. It might

be made from salad dressing mixed with mayonnaise and sour

cream. Like there's all different ways to make dips.

Sometimes the dip will have onions or chives in it. Um I'm

not a big fan of dip. Um I like chips. But I'm not I don't know

and then when you dipping them they get extra unhealthy I

think. We also have tortilla chips and salsa. I think I

mentioned this in another lesson. Um when I was a

teenager a friend of mine had a bag of tortilla chips and had

salsa. And I had never had either before. Uh and I love

them. We have tortilla chips in our house all the time. So

tortilla chips are made from corn sometimes from wheat. Um

and they are a crispy salty chip. That you can dip into

salsa. Salsa is made from tomato and onion and cilantro.

It's a it's just a really yummy thing to dip tortilla chips

into. I really really like salsa. Pretzels. So pretzels

are another salty snack. They're usually made from flour

and water. So you make a dough and then you either bake or fry

the pretzel. I think they're usually baked. I'm not a

pretzel expert. But one of the things that pretzels do have is

you can see the salt on the outside of the pretzel. It

usually has really really big pieces of salt. And hot pretzel

with mustard is quite yummy. That is my preferred way to eat

pretzel. So again another snack that's made from flour and

water. Um but also pretzels have a very unique taste. Um I

do like pretzels but some people don't like the taste of

pretzels. Jerky. So sometimes people will dry and salt meat

to preserve it. And this is called jerky. Most of the here

is beef jerky. You can buy beef jerky anywhere. Literally

anywhere. Like you can buy beef jerky at the farmers market.

You can buy beef jerky at the gas station. You can buy beef

jerky at the grocery store. You can buy beef jerky from a

vending machine. So it's dried strips of usually beef. That's

the type of meat they use. And they put a lot of salt on it

and they dry it. So some people really like this as a snack. I

don't mind it. I find it quite tough. Like it's hard to chew.

But definitely if you ever are in the United States or Canada

you can find jerky everywhere. Pudding. So these are pudding

cups. Um pudding is like a soft sweet it's it's almost creamy.

Um I like chocolate pudding. Um when you eat it you eat it with

a spoon. These are similar to the fruit cups. These are

single serving chocolate pudding cups. So you take a

chocolate pudding cup to work or to school and you peel off

the lid and then inside there's this yummy in this case yummy

chocolate it's like almost like a chocolate mousse like a

chocolate cream. Very very sweet. Very very tasty. Very

very yummy. And then of course there's popcorn. My favourite

thing about popcorn is making it. I don't actually like

popcorn that much. I do like caramel corn though when they

put a a sweet coating of caramel on the corn. But

anyways there is a certain kind of corn where the kernel. So

those are corn kernels on the bottom there. The small what

are actually the corn seeds. The corn kernels when heated

with oil will pop and then they will look like this which is

popcorn. Popcorn is you eaten when watching TV or when

watching movies in Canada and in the United States if you go

to the movie theater it's very common for people to buy a big

bag of popcorn when they go to watch the movie and popcorn is

usually a salty snack but for me I as I said I like sweet

popcorn I like popcorn that has caramel on it very very very

yummy and very very tasty. Jen likes popcorn with salt and

most of my kids do too. Oh and butter. Salt and butter on the

popcorn. Candy candy is any kind of small sweet snack or

treat it would probably be considered more of a treat than

a snack a snack is something you eat everyday a treat is

something you eat every once in a while when I was a kid my

grandma always had candies in her purse when my grandma came

to visit she would give us candies candies can be hard or

soft but they are definitely sweet and there's all different

flavours my favorite kind of can Or one of my favourite

kinds of candy would be jelly beans. I like jelly beans a

lot. Those are fun. Different all the different flavours. Uh

this though would be my favourite snack. Like it okay

you don't eat chocolate bars everyday but sometimes I have

chocolate every day. Um in Canada we call these chocolate

bars in other parts of the world. They might be candy

bars. Um and they're things like Snickers bars, Mars bars.

Um what else is there? We have one called Mister Big. It's

kind of a name now that I think about it. Uh we have Kit Kat is

probably one of the most popular types or a Hershey bar.

But it is of course a sweet snack. Sometimes it's just

chocolate. Sometimes it's chocolate with caramel or

chocolate with nuts or chocolate with nuts and

caramel. There are a whole bunch of different chocolate

bars or candy bars in the world. Or it might have a

cookie wafer on the inside as well. Um but definitely

chocolate bars a very very popular snack. And then ice

cream. So I eat too much ice cream. We always have ice cream

at our house. It's in the freezer of course. Ice cream is

a frozen snack. It's made from milk. It's made from milk or

cream and sugar. Um and it's just very very tasty. There are

a lot of different flavours. I like any of the flavours that

have chocolate in them. I think mint chocolate chip would be

one of my favourites. It's a mint a green mint flavoured ice

cream with chocolate chips in it And of course you can eat

ice cream in a bowl or you can have an ice cream cone. So

again a really sweet snack made from milk and cream and sugar

that people do really enjoy. And then sometimes you have

toppings. Uh I think I did a whole lesson on toppings once

didn't I? Um but things you put on top. Sometimes people will

have ice cream in a bowl. And they'll put chocolate syrup or

chocolate sauce on top. They might put chocolate chips on

top or some nuts. Cake. So cake is usually it's a baked sweet

product made from flour and eggs and water and chocolate

and other flavours. You can have vanilla cake. You can have

chocolate cake. Um and usually cake will have icing or

frosting on top. So you'll have the cake you'll bake the cake

in the oven. When the cake has cooled off you will put a layer

of really sweet icing or a frosting top. Um and that makes

the cake super yummy. Sometimes there's icing in the middle of

the cake too. They might cut the cake into layers. And then

it's a layer cake and put icing in the middle. I do like cake.

But it's a little bit too sweet for me sometimes. Cake. I'm not

I'm not a like I like birthday cake. It's traditional to have

a cake to celebrate someone's birthday but it's not always

something I enjoy. I like ice cream better in cookies and

stuff like that. A cupcake is a small cake for one person. It's

exactly the same. There's no difference between a cake and a

cupcake except the size. And usually cupcakes are cuter. I

do however like pie. So pie this would be considered pastry

as well. Pie has a crust and a filling. I like apple pie.

Apple pie is my although there is chocolate pie too. Anyways I

like apple pie. Um so there is a thin crust on the bottom. Um

so the crust is made from flour and some type of oil and sugar

and and then in the middle there's cooked fruit like

cooked apples with sugar or something sweet but trying to

think there are meat pies as well. I do like those but as a

snack I do like a piece of pie. Apple pie is good. Apple pie

with ice cream is really good. Uh or lemon meringue pie is

good as well. Fudge. So how do I describe fudge? Fudge is a

very rich snack. Fudge is made from chocolate. Cocoa or

chocolate and usually condensed milk. So milk that has been

turned almost into like a milk syrup. Um but fudge is very

rich. When I say rich I mean like there's a lot of sugar and

fat in a piece of fudge. You can't eat more than one or two

small pieces of fudge. Like I could eat a entire chocolate

bar. But if I was having fudge I would have one or two pieces.

And again as with a lot of snacks there's many different

flavours. Uh so there's some that have nuts. Some that

don't. Some that some are vanilla flavoured. Some are

chocolate flavoured. But fudge is definitely a fun snack.

Usually you find fudge here in Canada. You don't usually buy

fudge at a store. Usually when you go to a festival or a fair

there will be a booth where someone sells fudge. That's the

common place to buy fudge. Very yummy. Nuts. So I could have

included this as one of the healthy snacks. Although most

of the nuts that you buy to eat here are roasted and salted.

Which might make them a little bit less healthy. As I

mentioned earlier I like almonds. But I like raw

almonds. You can also have roasted almonds. Roasted and

salted almonds or chocolate covered almonds which I also

like a lot. But generally we have almonds at our house. We

have unsalted raw almonds. The are yummy. I really like those.

But a good snack. Lot of protein. Um and very easy to

carry around. Although we do need to be careful because

sometimes schools will have they'll be like no nuts are

allowed because someone at the school might have a nut

allergy. So the general term for all of this is snack food.

Uh and in fact if you go to a grocery store there is a snack

food aisle in Canada. But snack food be the general term for

anything you eat as a snack. You know when I sit down for a

snack I might have a granola bar. I might have a banana. I

might have a few nuts. Um I might have an apple. I might

have a couple cookies. We would call all of that snack food. As

opposed to foods you eat for a meal. You know you have

breakfast food and lunch food and supper food. This is food

you eat as a snack. And I think the pitcher has most of them in

it. Crackers, pretzel sticks, candies, chips, popcorn is

there popcorn at the front there? It's kind of hard to see

actually. I think that's popcorn. Yeah it looks like it.

Some crackers. The chocolate at the very back. You see the

chocolate covered nuts at the very back. That looks that

looks the most appetizing to me. Again you can buy it at the

snack food aisle in the grocery store. You might just call it

the snack aisle. Like where are the snacks? And then they'll

say oh they're down there and you'll see bags of chips and

cookies and all that Kind of stuff. Usually there's the

snack food aisle has chips, candies. Sometimes the cookies

are in a different aisle. But it definitely will also have

pop or soda in the snack food aisle aisle in our store. And

then of course if you're at maybe you're at an arena or

maybe you're at some sort of event. There will probably be

vending machines somewhere that sells snacks as well. So always

nice to if you have a little bit of extra money on you or

you can just use your watch or phone or bank card you can go

to a vending machine and get a little snack. And I think

almost everything I mentioned would be in there as long as it

doesn't need to be frozen. Like a vending machine would have

chips. It would have little cookies and packages. It would

have it wouldn't have fudge. It might have might even have beef

jerky in it for sure. Nuts. Those kinds of things.