verb · informal
bake
/beɪk/BAKE
Band 4-5speakingtask2
to cook food by dry heat, especially in an oven
Examples
“She bakes bread every weekend.”
“I'm going to bake a cake for my friend's birthday.”
“The cookies were baked until golden brown.”
Band 8 sentence
“I often bake bread at home because it tastes better and I can avoid additives found in store-bought loaves.”
Collocations
- bake a cake / bake bread
- freshly baked
- bake at 180°C
Word family
bake verbbaker nounbakery noun
Common mistakes
I want bake a cake this weekend.→I want to bake a cake this weekend.
She will bake yesterday.→She baked yesterday.
Say it for a higher band
5cook→6roast→7+bake
Synonyms
roast
Easily confused
roast
“They roasted a whole chicken for Sunday lunch.”
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