English Questions

Georgie Which was... the correct answer! Smoked salmon is best avoided because of the risk of bacteria, but oily fish is good, and even a bowl of chips now and then are fine. Right, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned in the programme, starting with the idiom _____________ which means to be pregnant.

Phil Jaega's food cravings led to a chocolate _____________. A _____________ is an occasion where you do something in an extreme way, like eating or drinking too much.

When these _____________ are for food that's not so healthy, some women feel guilty, thinking "I know I should be eating healthily, but all I want is chips!" Here's Jaega Wise again speaking with nutritional therapist, Henrietta Wilson, on the best way to deal with guilty feelings:

Phil Jaega says that during pregnancy, her body went _____________ - it stopped working properly.

It is a very critical window, but at the same time it can be the time when all you want to do is to eat chips because your body is going through what it perceives to be physiological stress. So it's doing the best that you can, and it's absolutely not about _____________.

_____________ is a special time of life, and all a baby can ask is that mum does her best. And, of course, avoids some foods, which reminds me of your question, Georgie - which food does the NHS recommend pregnant woman do not eat? I guessed it was smoked salmon...

Jaega Wise I feel like throughout this pregnancy my body has just gone a bit _____________, and there are things that my body is doing [laughs] that are frankly weird...

_____________s is a really good example. I can count the amount of _____________s pre-pregnancy I've had on one hand and now I seem to get them all the time.

Georgie The female human body is amazing. During _____________, it protects the growing baby by allowing it to take whatever nutrients it needs from the mother.

Georgie But first, I have a question for you, Phil. For some pregnant women, finding reliable information on what food to eat can be hard. Finding out about harmful foods to avoid, on the other hand, is much easier. So, according to NHS _____________, which of these foods should pregnant women NOT eat: a)chips? b)oily fish? or, c) smoked salmon?

Phil If you ask a woman, 'Are you _____________ ?', the phrase has a very specific meaning. You're asking, 'Are you pregnant?'

For example, she had lots of _____________ whereas before being pregnant,

Phil I think the answer is c) smoked salmon. Georgie OK, Phil. We'll find out the correct answer at the end of the programme. Although eating healthy and nutritious food is important for mums and babies, the story gets complicated because of the changes a woman's body goes through during _____________. Here's Jaega Wise, presenter of BBC Radio 4's, The Food Programme, reporting on her experience of _____________:

This means it's the _____________, not the baby, who experiences any nutritional problems. It's also the reason why it's so important that pregnant women eat well.

Phil In this programme, we'll be finding out how a woman's relationship to food changes during _____________. And, as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary too.

And like many of the idioms we commonly use in English, this phrase contains a little bit of truth. A pregnant woman really is _____________ - herself and the baby growing inside her.

out of order (one e of your personal devices was out of order)

kebbina l-ma ñعăl Z-ZeRbiya.NB : mass nouns almost always take the definite article. Thus, le-حlib, depending on context, is variously translated into English as "milk", "some milk", or "the milk". Mass nouns occur without the definite article only in a very limited number of special circumstances. There are a small number of nouns (like "atay") which never take the definite article under any circumstances.

glesna ñعăl š-šelyat, ma-ši ñعăl L-LeRD.NB : mass nouns almost always take the definite article. Thus, le-حlib, depending on context, is variously translated into English as "milk", "some milk", or "the milk". Mass nouns occur without the definite article only in a very limited number of special circumstances. There are a small number of nouns (like "atay") which never take the definite article under any circumstances.NB : (Reference Grammar) the Moroccan definite article is also widely used in referring to categories as a whole, in which case it is often omitted in English translation or rendered by "some" or the idefinite article.

"š-عăndhom f-had S-SenDuq ?""ñعăndhom le-ktub u-le-knaneš u-t-tSaweR f-had S-SenDuq."NB : mass nouns almost always take the definite article. Thus, le-حlib, depending on context, is variously translated into English as "milk", "some milk", or "the milk". Mass nouns occur without the definite article only in a very limited number of special circumstances. There are a small number of nouns (like "atay") which never take the definite article under any circumstances.NB : (Reference Grammar) the Moroccan definite article is also widely used in referring to categories as a whole, in which case it is often omitted in English translation or rendered by "some" or the idefinite article.