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Do you like garlic?

Do you like garlic?

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It makes our food tasty and our breath smelly, but what are some of the other uses of garlic...? Apart from warding off vampires, of course! Neil and Beth discuss this and teach you some new vocabulary.

Find a full transcript, worksheet and interactive quiz for this episode at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english_2025/ep-251106

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Comments (4)

Marlen Flores

This episode was very interesting, in fact, I had no idea of how an ingredient as Garlic can be different meanings for example INDIA

Nov 24th
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Wania

❤️❤️

Nov 6th
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essi

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Nov 6th
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Do you like garlic?

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