# Nuovo Espresso Plus 2, Unit 6: Cooking a healthy lunch

**Language:** Italian  
**CEFR Level:** A2  

> Join Alice and Jacopo for a Sunday lunch that is supposed to be healthy, one short conversation at a time, pairing with the themes of unit 6 of Nuovo Espresso Plus 2. Each lesson trains your ear until you can follow every word and answer back.

**Setting:** Alice's kitchen in Ancona on a Sunday in March. Since January Alice has been following a nutritionist online, and today she is cooking one of her recipes for her friend Jacopo, who sleeps five hours a night and lives on coffee. They use tu with each other from the first line.

## Lessons

### 1. Offering to help in the kitchen

Jacopo offers to help, and Alice gives him the courgettes to slice.

### 2. Saying how something tastes

Alice asks Jacopo to taste the sauce, and he finds it needs salt.

### 3. Talking about your daily habits

Alice tells Jacopo how she has changed her habits since January, and Jacopo confesses his.

### 4. Giving a friend advice

Alice tells Jacopo to cut down on coffee and switch his phone off at night.

### 5. Saying what has worked for you

Jacopo asks Alice if she believes everything the nutritionist says, and she tells him what has worked.

### 6. Posting a photo of the meal

Alice photographs the dish for her profile, and Jacopo suggests the caption.

### 7. Asking about dessert

Jacopo fears the cake has no sugar in it, and Alice makes him try it before he runs to the pastry shop.