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Practice dictation & shadowing on the daily life story: Favourite Cookies
Dictation & Shadowing: Favourite Cookies
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Favorite cookies
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N Americans are known for their sweet tooth.
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This means that they like snacks with lots of sugar.
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Americans drink a lot of coffee, tea, and hot chocolate, and usually they have something sweet with their drink.
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Cookies are one of America's favorite desserts.
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The word cookie comes from a Dutch word meaning little cake.
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People from Europe brought their favorite recipes with them when they came to America.
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The English brought their custom of having tea in the afternoon.
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Usually with their tea they would have cakes or biscuits.
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Biscuits are usually hard wafers, like for example ginger snaps.
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In fact, the Italian slang word for Englishmen is cake eater.
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In the early days all cookies were homemade, but in the late 19th century biscuits began to be manufactured in large quantities by machine.
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In 1912 the National Biscuit Company Nabisco in the USA introduced Oreo cookies.
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This cookie has a rich cream vanilla filling between 2 crispy chocolate wafers.
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This product was designed to meet the demand for an English style biscuits.
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Oreos were good to dunk in a drink, to eat whole, to eat in parts, or to use in cooking.
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Oreos have become both America's and the world's favorite commercial cookie.
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New varieties of Oreos are added regularly to the original product.
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Although commercial biscuits like Oreos are very popular, many people prefer home baked ones.
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In fact, there is a whole line of commercial cookies called Homestyle which try to imitate homemade cookies.
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The most popular cookie in America can be either bought in the package or baked at home.
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These are chocolate chip cookies.
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Ruth and Kenneth Wakefield operated the Toll House Inn in Whitman, MA.
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One day in 1930, Mrs.
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Wakefield ran out of baking chocolate for her baking cookies.
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She broke up a chocolate bar and added the pieces to her cookie mix.
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She expected that the chocolate bits would melt into the dough when she'd bake them, but they didn't.
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Soon, chocolate chip cookies were being made commercially by adding small chunks of chocolate to regular chocolate cookie dough.
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Lots of people like to make their own by adding commercial chocolate chips to their dough.
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Now, chocolate chip cookies are the most popular kind of cookie in North America.
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Over 7 billion are eaten annually here.
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Half of all the cookies baked in American homes are chocolate chip cookies.
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Experiments in baking and packaging have led to new kinds of cookies.
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Recently.
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Soft cookies have become very popular.
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Since they are packaged in foil, they can stay fresh and soft for many months.
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It seems likely that the love of cookies will be around for a long time.