Comprensión lectora - Listening comprehension, Estudiantes de Inglés, all levels
Un "Listening" muy especial: Tenemos dos voces, una nativa americana, Valerie, y una nativa española, yo misma, jeje.
La elección de voces ha sido intencionada. Igual que en el próximo hilo para estudiantes de español se eligirá un nativo de habla inglesa más un nativo de habla hispana. Así se verá cómo suenan todos los acentos.
El tema del listening es Fast food, un tema muy accesible, el nivel lo considero intermedio.
Se añadirá el texto después de ofrecer correcciones
This listening for native Spanish speakers is special: two voices, a native English speaker and a Spanish native. I will make the same experiment with the next Spanish listening. The text will be added after the corrections.
Fast Food by Valerie ---- Fast Food by Heidita (slower version)
Por favor, contesten las preguntas siguientes en frases completas.
1) Where is fast food served?
2) What are fast-food outlets?
3) Explain the meaning of "drive-thru".
4) What does fast food not require?
5) Mention at least three traditional and three "new" items you can eat at fast food outlets.
6) What was the main product served by early fast-food restaurants?
7) Where was the first outlet opened and when?
8) How did they surprise the customers?
9) When did Mc Donald's open its first franchised restaurant?
10) Mention one of the new concepts Ray Kroc introduced.
Everybody welcome Please comment on the excercise: Improvements? Sound? Idea?
Se agradece cualquier comentario acerca del ejercicio.
15 Answers
1) Where is fast food served?
It's served at an outlet called fast-food restaurant.
2) What are fast-food outlets?
They are take-away or take-out providers.
3) Explain the meaning of "drive-thru".
It's a service that allows customers to order or pick up food from their cars.
4) What does fast food not require?
It does not require **-- traditional dominant cutlery.**
5) Mention at least three traditional and three "new" items you can eat at fast food outlets.
Fish-- and chips, sandwiches, hamburgers, tacos, fried chicken, french fries, chicken nuggets, pizza, ice cream.**
6) What was the main product served by early fast-food restaurants?
It was hamburgers.
7) Where was the first outlet opened and when? The first oulet was opened in Topeka, Kansas, USA in 1921.
8) How did they surprise the customers?
They allowed customers to see the food being prepared.
9) When did Mc Donald's open its first franchised restaurant?
Mc Donald's first franchise was opened in 1955.
10) Mention one of the new concepts Ray Kroc introduced.
He introduced the "standardization concept" uniformed products, indentical outlet, cutting food costs.
My corrections, muy buen trabajo, mira arriba el texto, para más información
1) Where is fast food served?
It is served on fast-food outlets restaurants
2) What are fast-food outlets?
They are take-away reataurants
3) Explain the meaning of "drive-thru".
It means to order and pick up food.
4) What does fast food not require?
It does not require cutlery.
5) Mention at least three traditional and three "new" items you can eat at fast food outlets.
Some traditional food is: sandwiches, hamburguers and tacos. We can also find slow food like chile, mashed potatoes and salads.
6) What was the main product served by early fast-food restaurants?
The hamburguer
7) Where was the first outlet opened and when?
It was opened in Topeka, Kansas in 1921
8) How did they surprise the customers?
They allowed to customers to see how they prepared the food.
9) When did Mc Donald's open its first franchised restaurant?
In 1955.
10) Mention one of the new concepts Ray Kroc introduced.
Standardization of products was the main concept.
Que buen ejercicio. Justo lo que se necesita para afinar el oído.
El contraste de las pronunciaciones y su velocidad, hace el desafío más interesante, particularmente por las bellas voces participantes.
Ojalá existan muchos de estos ejercicios en EnglishDict, perdón SpanishDict...
Muchas gracias Heidita y Valerie por esta iniciativa....
Fast Food - My Transcripton
Fast food is food which is prepared and served quickly at outlets courts fast food restaurants. It is a multibillion dollar industry which continues to grow rapidly in many countries. Fast food outlets are take away or take out providers often with the drive thru service which allows customers to order and pick up food from their cars but most also have a sitting area in which customers can eat the food on their privacies (???). Nearly from his inceptions fast food has been designed to be eaten on the go and often does not require traditional dominant cutlery.
Common menu items at fast food outlets include fish and chips, sandwiches, pitos(???), hamburgers, fried chicken, french fries, chicken nuggets, taccos, pizza and ice cream.
Although many fast food restaurants offers slower food like chile, mashed potatoes and salads. However even the western style chinnese cuisine is most often served as takes away, it is seldom considered to be fast food.
The modern history of fast food in America is connected with the history of the hamburger as the earliest fast food outlets sold hamburgers as their primary product.
The American company White Castle is generally credited with opening the first fast outlet in Topeka, Kansas in 1921, selling hamburgers for 5 cents a piece. A manner(???) innovation the company allowed customers to see the food be in prepared. White Castle later added five halls to each feed party(???) to increase a service area and speed cooking times. White Castle was succesful from his inceptions and spun(???) numerous competitors.
In recent decades Mexican style food like taccos and burritos as well as pizza has also became tables of fast food culture.
McDonald's an outer fast food suplier opened his first franchise restaurant in 1955, it has became a phenomenally succesful enterprise in terms of financial growing, brand name recognition and worldwide expansion.
Ray Kroc upon the franchise in license from the McDonald's brothers pioneered many concepts which emphasizes standardization, it introduces uniform products, identical in all respects at each outlet to increase sales, at the same time Kroc also insisted on cutting food costs as much as possible eventually using the McDonald's cooperation size to force suppliers to conform to this (???)
My corrections
) Where is fast food served?
It is served in fast-food outlets .
2) What are fast-food outlets?
They are take-away restaurants
Parece que el mismo restaurante es "take-away", es la comida que es take-away De todas formas no es solo take away sino que también se puede comer ahí.
Respuesta sugerida: Restaurants which offer fast food, to take away or eat there.
3) Explain the meaning of "drive-thru".
It means to order and pick up food.
Not exact enough, you go by car and don't even leave the car, order your food and the food is brought to you.
4) What does fast food not require?
It does not require cutlery.
5) Mention at least three traditional and three "new" items you can eat at fast food outlets.
Some traditional food is: sandwiches, hamburguers and tacos. We can also find slow food like chile, mashed potatoes and salads.
6) What was the main product served by early fast-food restaurants?
The hamburguer
7) Where was the first outlet opened and when?
It was opened in Topeka, Kansas in 1921
8) How did they surprise the customers?
They allowed -- customers to see how they prepared the food.
9) When did Mc Donald's open its first franchised restaurant?
In 1955.
10) Mention one of the new concepts Ray Kroc introduced.
Standardization of products was the main concept.
Como era de esperar casi perfecto En tu texto hay algunas faltas, mira el texto , lo he pegado arriba
Pareces una locutora de la BBC, Heidita. ¿Tu acento británico es intencional o así lo aprendiste? Felicitaciones por el nuevo proyecto. Siempre viene bien ser revolucionario y llevar las cosas más allá de lo "normal".
1) Where is fast food served?
At outlets called "fast food restaurants"
2) What are fast-food outlets?
Take-away or take out providers.
3) Explain the meaning of "drive-thru".
A service that allows customers to order and pick up food from their cars.
4) What does fast food not require?
Traditional dominant cutlery. (What is "dominant cutlery"? Never heard that term before!)
5) Mention at least three traditional and three "new" items you can eat at fast food outlets.
Traditional: Fish and chips, Sandwiches, Hamburgers New: Chicken nuggets, tacos, ice cream
(Actually, I find this question a bit confusing, since the distinction is not actually made on the recording)
6) What was the main product served by early fast-food restaurants?
Hamburgers
7) Where was the first outlet opened and when? Topeka, Kansas, 1921
8) How did they surprise the customers? Customers could see the food being prepared.
9) When did Mc Donald's open its first franchised restaurant? 1955
10) Mention one of the new concepts Ray Kroc introduced. Uniform, identical products at all outlets, cutting costs
I like the idea of the two speakers. I am more familiar with the North American accent. I am sure that other listeners will feel more comfortable with the slower, European accent.
Very nice!
Un decir so de mis correcciones", jeje, ni me molesto en leerlo
Noooo, que lo he leído, perfecto, fácil para ti
1) Where is fast food served?
The fast food is served at fast food restaurants.
2) What are fast-food outlets?
Fast-food outlets are the restaurants where fast food is served.
3) Explain the meaning of "drive-thru".
“Drive-thru” is a service which allows customers to order and pick up food from their cars.
4) What does fast food not require?
Fast food does not require traditional dominant cutlery
5) Mention at least three traditional and three "new" items you can eat at fast food outlets.
Three traditional items you can eat at fast food outlets are chips, pitas and hamburgers.
Three new items you can eat at fast food outlets are burritos, pizza and tacos.
6) What was the main product served by early fast-food restaurants?
Hamburgers were the main product served by early fast-food restaurants.
(Was or were) Please, I would like correction if it is needed.
7) Where was the first outlet opened and when?
The first outlet was opened in Kansas in 1921.
8) How did they surprise the customers?
The company allowed customers to see the food being prepared
9) When did Mc Donald's open its first franchised restaurant?
Mc Donald’s opened its first franchised restaurant in 1955.
10) Mention one of the new concepts Ray Kroc introduced.
Ray kroc introduced uniform products in all restaurants.
My corrections, muy buen trabajo, mira arriba el texto, para más información
By the way, you see at the door of the shops: open- closed. But when you say that a shop has opened, you should say "opened", but then you should say that the shop is open. Is that it?.
Hola Heidita, tu foto nueva es muy linda,
Wow!! The Queen of the Forum speaks like a true English Rose too.
I hope these Audio recordings will become a regular feature. Both Valerie and Heidi have professional intonation which are a joy to listen to, in fact their voices would not be out of place on a TV commercial. Samedi would be good too.....so ermm take note Paralee - te toka!!! jajaja
Mark.
Una cosa Heidita, ¿La idea sería comparar un acento americano con un inglés o un australiano o un canadiense? El acento de un español hablando en inglés no sería una variedad que se fuera a utilizar, al menos creo yo.
Valerie sounds like she has a bit of a southern US accent to me.I am laughing hearing Heidita in her formal British accent say the words "White Castle".We always make jokes about the gastronomic effect of "sliders".Greasy little hamburgers.I like the format, the sound was good. I would have no idea if a Spanish speaker would think this sounded "fast". To me it sounded measured and well paced.
I wish I knew you were going to mention White Castle when I drove back to Kentucky last month. My mother lives there. I will ask her to take a picture of a White Castle so you can post it on this thread.
No hay mucha gente aprendiendo inglés, está visto Pero gracias por la participación
Heidita, you could stand in for Her Majesty the Queen!! I'm astounded at how perfect your pronunciation is. Very interesting to hear both of you. 
The term 'dominant cutlery' is a new one to me too.
I, too, noticed a very slight southern accent on the part of Valerie. I would guess South Carolina. (This is not a criticism, just a notation). I was also very surprised at Heidita's perfected upper-crust London accent. And as it has been mentioned earlier, "Como locutora." Both were done at a good pace and not what I would ever consider fast, and both very understandable for any lower-intermediate EFL student or higher. (I did, however, find the topic a bit humorous since the industry discussed is one the reasons there are so many fat people in America. So foreigners, beware!). Over all, I think this could be a very helpful language-learning tool. Valerie and Heidita have done a superb job!
That was truly excellent Heidita, your diction was perfect and very easy to follow. I want to learn English all over again, cannot wait for the next one.
Hola Heidita
Gracias por la invitación. Yo ya no estoy participando en SpanishDict, no obstante, si me interesan estos ejercicios de listening. Muchas gracias.
Si fuese posible recibir notificaciones sobre nuevos ejercicios como este, genial, o si se pudiera hacerlo mediante canales webs (feeds), o algo para facilitar su lectura.
Si se quisiera ir más alla, se podría incluir la transcripción y palabras interesantes p.e. resaltadas en negrita, p.e. para mí es nueva la palabra 'inception', por ejemplo, "Nearly from its inception, fast food has been designed to be eaten "on the go" (Casi desde sus inicios, la comidas rápidas han sido diseñadas para comerse al paso".
Si se quiere, se podría poner una sola versión leida por un/una nativa, a velocidad normal y el mismo audio a menor velocidad, si hubiera el interés.
Muchas gracias,
Pablo
I have a White Castle coffee cup, by the way. I will never see White Castle the same after hearing those two lovely voices. The American style accent of Valerie, and Heidita's British accent. Both were great! Congratulations on not rolling the "R's" especially in burrito.
You both sound very authoritative and confident. To los estadounidenses the British accent always seem to add a touch of class. I could only add one picture here so I will answer again with a picture of White Castle food. It is quite tasty but not very filling, in my opinion. Hola a todas studying English. Keep up the good work, friends.
