📙 Part 2: Describe a special cake you received from others

This episode's vocabulary

Icing (noun) - a sweet food used to cover or fill cakes, made from sugar and water or sugar and butter.

Edible (adj.) - suitable or safe for eating.

Ribbon (noun) - a long, narrow strip of material used to tie things together or as a decoration.

Layer (noun) - a level of material, such as a type of rock or gas, that is different from the material above or below it, or a thin sheet of a substance.

To line (verb) - to form a row along the side of something.

Interior (noun) - the inside part of something.

To serve (sth) up (phrasal verb) - to put food on plates for people to eat.

Wayward (adj.) - doing only what you want and often changing your behaviour in a way that is difficult to control.

To wrap up sth (phrasal verb) - to cover or surround something in paper, cloth, or other material.

Cling firm (noun) - thin, transparent, plastic material, used for wrapping food to keep it fresh.

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Questions and Answers

M: Rory, the Rory is going to describe a special cake he received from others. He's going to say when it happened, who he got the cake from, and he's going to explain why that cake was a special cake. Rory, are you ready for this delicious, yummy, yummy, tasty episode?

R: Yes.

M: About cake. Off you go.

R: I suppose birthday cake is the most obvious. And my last one certainly went on an adventure. It was for my 32nd birthday. And my folks had it made with a picture of me on the icing, although the whole thing was edible, apart from the ribbon around it. And well, the box of course, while it was my parents who paid to have it made, it was really a gift from the whole family since that's what birthdays are, or at least they should be about. And it was the first one I'd had in two years because I was away from my family for the whole pandemic. Aside from that particular aspect, it wasn't particularly special cake, it was just a couple of layers of sponge with jam in the middle. And I think icing lining the interior sites to help them fit together more solidly. I'm no expert on cakes, though. So don't take my word for it. The only other remarkable thing I can think of is what happened with it over the course of well, my birthday week. To begin with it was in one piece for my main party aside from some bits at the edges for the kids who were there. So those got caught away and served up. And then on the subject of serving it up, we also did that before we went on a walk the following day. My friends and I went down the beach. But before we did that we had the cake. And then after that it was actually partially eaten by a wayward dog. Well, one of my friends brought their dog with him. So the dog actually had to go at it too. Although my dad did manage to rescue it, so it wasn't all gone. It was just a significant part of it, actually. I thought it was funny. I wasn't particularly annoyed, the dog seemed happy. So in the closing parts of the week, the remaining bits were cut up and wrapped up in cling film and put in boxes. And I gave them to my friends who were in distant places around the city because they hadn't been able to make it to the other events. So I thought that that was a nice thing for them. Like I said, it was quite the adventure.

M: Did your friends enjoy the cake before it got eaten up by a dog?

R: They said so, yes, they seemed quite happy about it.

M: Thank you Rory!

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