the best of intentions

Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 423: Reading Food Labels.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 423. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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This episode is a dialogue between Wendy and Ichirou. They are going to be talking about something that you will find in most American grocery stores (food stores), and that is food labels. The government requires that many, or most kinds of food have a label on them that gives you information about what is inside the food and other what we would call “nutritional information.” Let’s get started.

I never read food labels until I started going out with Wendy. She’s studying to be a nutritionist. When we go grocery shopping, she reads every label. ________

Wendy: You’re not buying