BOX SET: 6 Minute English - 'Food and Drink 3' English mega-class! 30 minutes of new vocabulary!

Food and Drink 3' English mega-class! 30 minutes of new vocabulary

Hello, I'm Catherine. Welcome to Six Minute English where we engage in some lively debate and discuss six stimulating items of vocabulary! And let's start. Here's your cup of coffee, Rob. Thanks! But what took you so long, Catherine? Sorry Rob. I bumped into somebody I knew in the cafe and stopped for a chat. OK, well, that fits well with today's show where we're talking about cafes or coffee houses. Did you know, Catherine, that coffee houses were originally a meeting place for lively debate andintellectual discussion? Really. I didn't know that, Rob. A debate, by the way, means adiscussion that a lot of people take part in. So how long ago was this debating society?The first coffee house was set up in Oxford in 1650. But they quickly becamepopular and soon they were all over London too. You paid a penny to get in, and thisincluded access to newspapers - and stimulating conversation! If something is stimulating it encourages ideas and enthusiasm. I expect the coffee helped with that a bit did it