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Chocolate
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Chocolate
巧克力

English Lesson about Chocolate

Date: May 16 2012

Themes: Food

Grammar: Present Progressive Tense

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Cookies, cake, and pie are all tasty desserts. But sometimes, nothing hits the spot like a simple piece of rich, dark chocolate.

Most candy bars are made with milk chocolate, which is sweeter and less bitter than dark chocolate. Some people only like milk chocolate. For others, it has to be dark or it doesn’t count. Find out if Amy and Jason are chocoholics.

饼干、蛋糕和馅饼都是美味的甜点。但有时不是每样东西都能做到正合要求,就像一块味道浓郁的黑巧克力。
大多数糖果都是用牛奶巧克力制成的,与黑巧克力相比,味道更甜,苦味更少。有些人只喜欢吃牛奶巧克力。而其他人则只吃黑巧克力,从来不考虑其他口味。看看艾米和詹森是不是巧克力控。

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Amy

Amy

Jason

Jason

Amy:  I’m just dying for some chocolate, Jason. You don’t have any, do you?

Jason:  No. Don’t carry chocolate in my pockets or anything.

Amy:  I just like to have a little bit of chocolate every day.

Jason:  Wow, really? So it’s almost like coffee to you or something?

Amy:  It’s similar to coffee. I don’t need it to wake up, but it is kind of a pick me up in the afternoon. Just like a square or two of really dark, creamy, delicious chocolate.

Jason:  What percentage cacao are you going for here?

Amy:  I like to go, you know, 70% or higher.

Jason:  Alright.

Amy:  Yeah. But it also has to be creamy. I don’t like it when it’s so dark that it has that kind of brittle texture.

Jason:  And you want just the chocolate. You don’t want it in a chocolate bar with nuts and raisins and different things?

Amy:  I do not like nuts in chocolate. But sometimes a little something, like lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of chocolate with salt.

Jason:  Oh yeah, that actually is really good.

Amy:  It’s so good, I know.

Jason:  It’s so surprising.

Amy:  I know. But it really brings out that chocolate flavor.

Jason:  Hot chocolate, does that do the trick in the winter?

Amy:  Yeah, but it has to be that really dense, thick, dark hot chocolate.

Jason:  I like a good milk chocolate. You can kind of suck on it and dissolve it in your mouth. It’s nice.

Amy:  Yeah, it’s just kind of a different thing. It doesn’t give me that sort of high that real dark chocolate gives me.

Jason:  Wow. I’m not familiar with the dark chocolate feeling.

Amy:  You don’t get kind of a buzz when you eat a piece of dark chocolate?

Jason:  I’ll have to pay more attention.

 

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Amy wants a piece of chocolate and asks Jason if he has any. Jason is surprised to hear that Amy likes to eat chocolate every day.

Jason asks Amy what kind of chocolate she likes. She prefers dark chocolate to milk chocolate. She likes chocolate that is creamy, bitter and sweet. She doesn’t like brittle chocolate or chocolate with nuts. Both Amy and Jason like chocolate with salt, because the salt brings out the chocolate flavor.

In the winter, Amy sometimes like to drink hot chocolate. But it has to be thick and rich. Jason enjoys milk chocolate as well as dark chocolate. Amy says milk chocolate is OK, but it doesn’t give her a buzz like dark chocolate does.

Do you like to eat chocolate? What kind of chocolate is your favorite?

 

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Joy900

Joy900

Japan

Baset :


Is this true ! how do you know this ???

01:02 AM May 16 2012 |

The Last Joke

Yemen

In fact i like chocolate too much  , but most cocoa used in chocolate comes from the Ivory Coast of Africa …in this country ,the children are often sold by their own families  into slavery. Parents in very poor and they sell their children to traffickers, hoping that they will get a good job and be able to send some money home to the family. The children are taken and then subjected to so bad conditions. They don’t get paid for their labor. They are forced to work long days that start  in early in the morning.



Most of the labor on the cocoa fields was done by children . i think that there are so many children working as slaves on the cocoa farms.


I like chocolate to be produced from cocoa that was not farmed by child slave labor.


i like  1- white chocolate    2- dark chocolate !     3- milk chocolate !

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