Roast

Learning English Conversations

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Language Learning, Education

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🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Learn the other meaning of the word 'roast'.

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to the English we speak.
0:10.0	I'm Fay Fay.
0:12.0	And hello, I'm Faye Faye and hello I'm Rob.
0:16.0	Rob. What's the smell? Are you cooking something?
0:20.0	Yes, it's my favourite. Roast beef, yummy.
0:24.4	Roast beef, this isn't really the time to be cooking.
0:29.4	Well, you said let's do roast today, so I thought I'd make a start.
0:35.4	Just got to do the roast potatoes now.
0:37.8	Rob, stop. I meant let's do the word roast.
0:44.0	Oh, right. Well, this is a good example of roasting.
0:49.7	No, Rob, it's not the meaning I had in mind.
0:53.5	Roasting is not just about cooking food in an oven.
0:57.7	We can roast people by criticizing them harshly.
1:02.4	So Rob, you were very foolish to start cooking something while
1:05.9	we're presenting a program. Oh, am I being roasted now? You sure are, but you're not alone. Here are some examples.
1:17.0	We had to roast the teacher after she was seen shopping when she was supposed to be off work with
1:24.7	flu.
1:27.2	After my PowerPoint presentation froze during an important meeting, my boss gave me a roasting.
1:35.0	She was roasted by her friends after she posted pictures of herself on social media showing
1:40.2	off her amazing suntown. This is the English we speak from BBC Learning English and we're talking about the word
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