You follow a British recipe or cook with a British family, and the words are unfamiliar: the hob, gas mark 4, a knob of butter, bring to the boil. Learners who translate directly from their own language may say "the cooker plates" or "the fire" for the hob, "put it in the grill" when they mean the oven, or "200 gram" without the plural. This episode teaches British kitchen words, how to say measurements aloud and the phrases people use while cooking together. In this episode: • The kitchen • Oven temperatures and measurements • Action words • Cooking together • Listening lab • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key phrases from this episode: the hob — the flat top where you cook in pans the oven — the closed box where you bake and roast the grill — in Britain, cooking with heat from above a saucepan — a deep pan with a handle, for boiling and sauces a frying pan — a flat pan for frying a baking tray — a flat metal tray for the oven the scales — the machine for weighing food a measuring jug — for measuring liquids Pop it under the grill. — cook it with heat from above Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. — heat it before you cook 160 for a fan oven — a fan oven is hotter, so use a lower number gas mark 4 — the setting on a gas oven, about 180 degrees Weigh out 200 grams of flour. — grams (GRAMZ) 250 millilitres of milk — millilitres (MIL-ee-lee-tuhz), often said "em-el" (ml) a tablespoon — a big spoon (TAY-bl-spoon) a teaspoon — a small spoon (TEE-spoon) a pinch of salt — a tiny amount, held between two fingers a knob of butter — a small piece of butter a splash of milk — a little milk Real British English: the complete spoken course for learners worldwide — modern British accent, everyday grammar, phrasal verbs, idioms, slang, he/she/it for things, and real conversations at home. Listen, repeat out loud, then take the 52-question quiz. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair.