Lesson Introduction: In this podcast we’re answering the question, “What’s for breakfast”, and the answer is eggs. In English, there are many, many, many ways to describe eggs, and in this lesson, we’re going to teach you a few of them. We hope you’re hungry!

A: Wow, you’re up early today! What’s for breakfast?
B: Well, I felt like baking, so I made some muffins.
A: Smells good! I’ll make some coffee. Do you want me to make you some eggs?
B: Sure, I’ll take mine, sunny side up.
A: Eww, I don’t know how you can eat your eggs like that! Ever since I was small, I’ve had eggs and soldiers.
B: You know, my dad had scrambled eggs every morning for twenty years. It drove my mom crazy!
A: You know what really drives me crazy? When I ask for soft boiled eggs, and they overcook them,so they come out hard boiled! How can you dip your toast into a hard boiled egg?
B: You’re so picky sometimes.
A: Here you go, honey, fried eggs.
B: Dammit! I asked for sunny side up! How many times do I have to tell you.

bake   cook in the oven
muffin   a small bread or cake people usually eat for breakfast
sunny-side up  with egg fried on only one side
eggs and soldiers   soft-boiled eggs with strips of buttered toast on it which people usually eat for breakfast
scrambled eggs  a way of cooking eggs by mixing them in a pan
soft boiled egg   eggs cooked in the shell so the yellow part is still soft and wet
hard boiled egg   egg cooked in the shell until the inside becomes solid
picky   too careful at selecting things and usually hard to please
egg   the egg of a bird (especially a chicken or a duck) people usually eat as food
hen   female chicken
over-easy  an egg fried on both sides; cooked so the yolk is still soft
omlete   eggs mixed, then cooked, and then folded in half;
yolk   the yellow part of the egg
egg white  the white part of the egg
frying pan  a large, flat pot used for cooking eggs and other things