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Six Minute English from BBC Learning English.  

Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English!  I'm Neil and I'm Catherine. Catherine,  

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I'm going to start this program with a quick test  just for you! Oh, I love tests! Complete this  

phrase - wake up and smell the ... Coffee! Coffee,  Neil, it's coffee! I have to say that I love  

coffee, it's great. Yeah, okay, so do you drink  much? Well, just a couple of cups, you know. Uh,  

every day? No, no, every hour! I love  coffee, don't you like coffee, Neil?  

I do. Maybe not as much as you! What's the  best thing about it? Oh, it's the smell,  

it's got to be the smell. You know when  you open the packet, it's great, isn't it?  

Uh, yes, but it never quite tastes as good as  it smells, does it? Well, no. It's always a bit  

disappointing. I live in hope. Another cup, I  think it'll be better. I might change brands,  

actually, try a different one. Yeah, okay. You've  had quite a lot of coffee today, haven't you? Oh,  

just the usual six cups. Well, our topic is  the smell of coffee and coffee is also the  

subject of today's question: the world's biggest  producer of coffee is.... Brazil, Brazil. Yes,  

yes, but that's not the question. The question is:  Brazil is the biggest coffee producer - which is  

the second largest coffee producing country? Is  it a) Colombia, b) Vietnam or c) Ethiopia? Right,  

so it's not Brazil but I bet it's another South  American country so I'm gonna go for Colombia.  

Colombia is that right? Okay, we'll have the  answer later in the program by which time maybe  

the caffeine will have left your body, Catherine.  Tim Hayward is a coffee shop owner. He appeared  

in the BBC radio 4 program, the Kitchen Cabinet.  How important does he say the smell of coffee is?  

Absolutely vital, it's the key thing and you  when you walk into the coffee shop in the  

morning and that smell hits you, you're getting  physiological responses. So, how important is it?  

I'm feeling a bit calmer now. Tim Hayward says  the smell of coffee is vital. That means it's  

very important, it's perhaps the most important  thing. And he backs this up by saying that it's  

the key thing. Something that's key is essential,  it's really important. And, he says that when you  

experience the smell, when the smell hits you,  you get a physiological response. This phrase  

means your body has a reaction to the smell of  coffee - perhaps your mouth begins to water in  

anticipation. Catherine, when you get a coffee  do you normally have it there or take it away?  

Well, I usually take it away, although if  I'm feeling really in need of a coffee hit,  

I might have one there and then get another one to  take with me. Can you describe the container that  

you're given when you have a coffee to go? Yes,  it's in a tall paper cup with a lid and the lid  

has a hole in it so that I can drink that lovely  coffee. Don't you think that's a problem? I mean,  

we know how important the smell is, so what's the  effect of the lid on that experience? The effect  

of the lid? Yeah, well, here's Tim Hayward again,  talking about coffee being served with lids. What  

baffles me is how many of the large coffee chains  actually sell a product in a cup that removes the  

smell. So, you walk into the coffee shop, you  get the smell but when you actually take the  

drink out, you're drinking it from something  that's designed to deliver the hot liquid  

directly past your tongue but stop any smell  coming up to your nose. That's just weird. So,  

what is it he's describing there? I see, yes,  he's talking about the big coffee chains.  

A chain is a company that has lots of its stores  in towns and cities, sometimes around the world.  

I think we can all think of a few well-known  coffee chains, and he says that by putting a  

lid on takeaway cups, you're actually blocking  the smell. That smell that is really important  

to the coffee experience. Yes, and he says he  finds that weird, which is a way of saying he  

finds it unusual - thinks it's strange, odd. So  much so, that he says it baffles him. If you are  

baffled by something you find it confusing.  You can't really understand it. Here's Tim  

Hayward again. What baffles me is how many of  the large coffee chains actually sell a product  

in a cup that removes the smell. So, you walk  into the coffee shop, you get the smell but when  

you actually take the drink out you're drinking  it from something that's designed to deliver the  

hot liquid directly past your tongue but stop  any smell coming up to your nose. That's just  

weird. That was coffee shop owner Tim Hayward.  Right, before we have another cup of this week's  

vocabulary, let's get the answer to the question.  After Brazil, which country produces most coffee?  

Is it a) Colombia, b) Vietnam or c) Ethiopia?  Catherine, you said... I said it was a) Colombia.  

Ah, sorry, no extra coffee for you today. The  answer is Vietnam. And now on to the vocabulary  

we looked at. Take it away, Catherine. So, the  first word was vital, which is an adjective that  

means very important. And another word with a very  similar meaning was key, meaning essential. Next,  

we had the phrase, physiological responses.  Physiological refers to what our bodies do  

and a response is a reaction. So, a physiological  response is a reaction your body has to something,  

like the smell of coffee. Something that baffles  you confuses you. You don't understand it. You  

might find something that baffles you to be  weird. This adjective means unusual or strange.  

And finally, a chain is a group of shops  from the same company with the same name.  

Well, that is the end of our program. For more  from us check out Instagram, Facebook, Twitter,  

Youtube and our app and, of course, the website  bbclearningenglish.com. See you soon, goodbye.  

Bye! Fancy a coffee? I think you've had too much!  6 Minute English from bbclearningenglish.com    

Welcome to 6 Minute English where we introduce  a refreshing topic and six related items of  

vocabulary. I'm Rob and I'm Neil and today  we're talking about water. There's nothing  

more refreshing than an ice cold bottle of  water straight out of the vending machine.

Hmm, okay, refreshing in this context means  making you feel cool again after being hot  

so has that cooled you down, Neil? Yes, I feel  very refreshed now, thanks. Can I ask you though  

why didn't you just get a glass of water from the  kitchen tap? That water is cool and refreshing  

too, and it's free! Well, I like this brand of  bottled water better. It's enriched with salts and  

minerals that are very beneficial to your health.  Enriched means improving the quality of something  

by adding to it. Enriched, honestly, Neil! It  tastes better, Rob and I'm not the only one who  

thinks so. For the first time in the UK, bottled  water is more popular than cola. In fact, can you  

tell me how many litres of bottled water was sold  in the UK in 2016? Was it a) 2.9 billion, litres  

b) 29 million litres or c 2.9 million litres? Um,  right. well, I'm going to say 29 million litres.  

OK, we'll find out later if you got that right or  wrong. But seriously, Rob, don't you think it's a  

good thing that people are choosing to buy bottled  water at the supermarket rather than fizzy drinks?  

Yes, of course, but as I said to you earlier,  why don't people just drink tap water?  

Let's listen to Natalie Fee, founder of City to  Sea, which campaigns again plastic pollution. And,  

of course, bottled water causes a huge  amount of that. Here's Natalie now talking  

about how drinks manufacturers have persuaded  people that bottled water is better for them.

They manufactured the demand for bottled water  and they spent millions of pounds on adverts,  

sort of scaring us off of tap water. The bottled  water companies set out to make us believe  

that tap water wasn't healthy and yet tap water  is way more regulated than bottled water is  

and in taste tests tap water  comes up trump most times.

If you manufacture something you make  it in large amounts in a factory.  

But here Natalie says the drinks companies  manufactured the demand for bottled water, which  

means they made adverts to persuade people that  tap water wasn't healthy and bottled water was. 

To scare people off - what does that mean,  Rob? Well, if you scare somebody off you  

make them go away by frightening them. S,o some  advertisers may have suggested, for example,  

that tap water was unsafe to drink, whereas  bottled water was safer and tasted better too.  

You're catching on! However, Natalie Fee claims  that tap water is more regulated than bottled  

water is. Regulated means controlled. Natalie  also says that in taste tests, tap water comes  

up trumps. What does she mean by that? Well, a  taste test is where you ask people to try several  

very similar products without knowing which one  is which and then you grade them according to  

which you like the best. And if something comes up  trumps, it means it produces a good result, often  

unexpectedly. So tap water comes up trump's, eh?  Yep. Perhaps we should try a taste test now, Neil?  

It would be interesting to see if your enriched  bottled water comes up trumps or not. I tell you  

what, let's leave that until later and hear the  answer to today's quiz question instead. Okay,  

I asked you: how many litres of bottled water  were sold in the UK in 2016? Was it a) 2.9 billion  

litres, b) 29 million litres or c) 2.9 million  litres? Yeah, and I said 29 million litres. And  

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