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33 Problems around the house

1 Basic vocabulary

Translate the words in colour:

The window’s broken

This radiator is leaking

The hot water tap is dripping

The drain is blocked

It has left a stain on the carpet

All the carpets were ruined

The window won't open It’s stuck

Have you had the lock fixed?

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2 Saying something doesn’t work

Make complete expressions for describing

problems:

1 It doesn’t a making a funny noise

2 There’s b open it / close it properly

4.1 canTt d something wrong with it

3 Problems

Match each pair of beginnings on the left with one

of the endings on the right:

1 My watch has a leaking

The clock has

The pipe is

3 The window is c stopped

The lock is

4 The light bulb has d blocked

The fuse has

5 The handle has e come off,

One of the buttons has

The drain is

4 Accidents Complete the following dialogues with the correct form of the verbs below Be careful - one of them

is irregular

1 Who broke my grandmother’s vase?

> I’m afraid it was me.I it off the table yesterday when I was cleaning

2 Your Dad doesn’t look very happy What’s happened?

> I was kicking a ball about in the garden earlier andI the bathroom window

3 How did this plate get broken?

> m sorry.Ì it on the floor when

I was washing up yesterday

4 Did you have a good time round at Steve’s last night?

> No, not really I spilled a glass of red wine It’s completely his carpet

5 Oh, you’ve dyed your hair I like the colour

> Thanks, but the problem is ’ve the bath a horrible brown colour and I can’t get it off

6 Where are you going?

> Round to Mark’s house A pipe’s

in his kitchen and there’s water all over the floor

We also say that something leaves a stain — “the blood left a stain on my shirt.”

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5 Plumbers, builders, electricians

Match the six sentences below with the responses:

The bathroom tap’s still dripping

All of these power points need replacing

That bathroom ceiling needs fixing

Some of these cables look very old to me

I don’t know what’s wrong with the central

heating system

This wall doesn’t look safe at all

This radiator’s leaking again

The damp on this wall is getting worse

There’s something wrong with this light

switch

>I know We’d better find an electrician

> Yes, I know We’ll have to get a builder in

> Well, we’d better call a plumber

Around the house English Vocatbulary Orgarnser

6 Tools and things

Match the words and phrases with the pictures: scissors

glue screws spanner

screwdriver

paintbrush

mousetrap

needle and thread nails

hammer torch

saw

ladder

pliers

Add your own words and expressions

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34 Meat, fish and groceries

1 Meat

Put the different types of meat below into the correct place on the diagram:

pig Different kinds of cow

Have you ever tried pheasant, rabbit, quail, venison or ostrich?

2 Meat collocations

Add the following words to their correct group below:

1 fillet / rump / sirloin/ T-bone 4 chicken /beef/ bacon

3 chops / sausages

The most common kind of meat of all is perhaps the hamburger, but of course, it isn’t made of ham!

3 Fish and seafood

Match the words with the pictures:

In Britain fish and chips is very popular The fish is usually cod, haddock or plaice

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Food and drink

4 Do you take sugar?

Match these sentences with the responses Check any words you don’t know in your dictionary

Do you take sugar? a > I’'d rather have noodles, actually

Would you like some cereal for breakfast? b > I’m going to make a few cakes

Why did you buy flour? > No thanks, ketchup is fine

Can you get a loaf when you’re out? > Yes, two, please

Do you want some mustard on your burger? > I'll just have a little dressing, please

Do you want anything on this salad? > White or brown?

Shall we have rice with this stir-fry? > No thanks, just butter

5 Collocations 1

Match each of the following lines of words with one of the types of food below:

white, brown, wholemeal, rye, sliced, garlic ww sw eee

tomato, chicken, mushroom, home-made, tinned

mild, mature, soft, cream, blue, goat’s te eee ee

6 Collocations 2

Now do the same with the following:

chocolate, fruit, cheese, birthday, wedding = = = ws ee

natural, strawberry, black cherry, Greek, low fat

tomato, pesto, soy, oyster, apple, mint =e ss eee ee

milk, plain, white, dark, Belgian ee ve eee

meat, chicken, apple, cherry, home-made = ees

vanilla, strawberry, chocolate, Italian mm we eee ee

7 Expressions with and

Match the words on the left with the words on the right:

5 strawberries and e chips

Add your own words and expressions

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35 Fruit and vegetables

1 Different kinds of fruit

Match these words with the pictures:

apple

peach

cherries

2 Collocation

Write the following words in the correct box below

Some of them go with both words

fresh

ripe

citrus

tropical

rotten

fruit

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frozen raw tinned stir-fried organic

3 Fruit words

Complete the sentences with the following words:

varieties seedless birter bunches Whatever you do, don’t try to eat the y › y Lees of a banana!

Plums and peaches have large Grapes and bananas growin Grapes can be seeded or

Grapes have seeds, but lemons and limes have

Mangoes, lychees and starfruit are sometimes called tropical or fruit

Golden Delicious, Cox’s, and Granny Smith are different of apple

A grapefruit is part of the same family as the orange, but much more

4 Different kinds of vegetable

Match these words with the pictures:

Food and drink English Vocabulary Organiser

5 Salad vegetables

Match the words with the pictures:

1 Aubergines are sometimes also called ;

2 In English we sometimes use the Italian word

—— for courgettes,

3 Sweet peppers are red, green or yellow and are sometimes called

4 Haricot, broad, green, are kinds of

5 Small cucumbers which are pickled are called

6 Maris Piper, King Edwards and Jersey Royals are three kinds of

7 Before eating peas, you have to them

8 You potatoes before cooking them

36 Talking about food

1 Basic vocabulary

Match the words in colour with the definitions

below:

Have you had breakfast?

What time do you have hunch?

What are we having for dinner?

Do you want some supper?

We’ve only got time for a snack

[hope you’ve got a good appetite

Pm starving

We had a barbecue in the back garden

a small meal eaten just before you go to bed

the desire for food

the meal eaten around midday

very hungry

the first meal of the day

a quick and easy meal

when you grill food outside

the main evening meal

In British English we say !.11'° breakfast, lunch,

dinner In American English people often say cat

breakfast, eat lunch and eat dinner

In the United States people have brunch What

do you think it is?

2 Abalanced diet

in each of the following groups, three words

collocate with the word in colour Which is the odd

one out in each group?

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3 Problems with food

Complete the following sentences with these words:

burnt rotten

stale

sour

ripe

fresh

1 ’'m afraid P’ve done it again! The toast’s

¬ eee Pll make some more

2 I wouldn’t drink that milk if I were you It

doesn’t smell very

3 This milk tastes a bit Did somebody forget to put it back in the fridge again? 4 I can’t believe it I only bought this bread yesterday It’s already! 5 Some of these apples are I only bought them at the weekend 6 I'd leave these bananas for another day They re not yet You can also say that meat, fish, fruit or milk is off or bas gone off — “This milk’s off This fish is starting to go off.” 4 It’s absolutely delicious Complete the following dialogues with the pairs of words below: tasty / delicious flavour / bland flavour / tender wonderful / revolting off / disgusting 1 Yuk! This salmon smells a bit

> Yes, it’s absolutely

2 Your chicken looks very

> Mn, it’s absolutely

3 This sauce hasn’t got much , has it? > No, iv’sabit , I’m afraid 4, I’ve just discovereda blue cheese from Spain > Oh, how ! I can’t stand blue cheese 5 P’ve never tasted lamb with so much

> Yes, and it wasso , wasn’t it?

5 Negative comments

Match up the food on the left with the most suitable

comments:

1 coffee or tea a too strong / weak / sweet

2 steak b too many bones

3 an Indian dish c too rich / thick / bland

5 fish e too hot / spicy

6 a cake f a bit dry / stale

6 Talking about what you don’t like

Now use the comments in exercise 5 to complete

these conversations:

1

2

Have I put too much sugar in your tea?

> Yes, it IS a bit , actually

Pve put quite a few chillies in this stir-fry

Do you like it?

> Actually, it’s a bit

How’s your steak?

> Well, I prefer it well done This is a bit

for my taste

More sauce?

> No thanks It’s a bit

Remember, I’m on a diet

5

Food and arink

That cake looks delicious

> Well, it’s not very fresh I think it’s at least

a week old It’s very In fact, I would even say it’s a bit Why didn’t you choose the fish?

> There are alwayS - eee eee !

I can’t be bothered with them

7 Are you hungry?

Match these sentences with the follow-up comments below:

Is dinner nearly ready?

I don’t know what’s wrong with me

No more for me, thanks

I’m glad we went for that walk

I shouldn’t really be eating this chocolate before dinner

Pve lost my appetite

It’s really given me an appetite

It'll spoil my appetite

Pm starving

Pm full

Add your own words and expressions

37 Cooking

Before starting this unit, look again at unit 30 —

The kitchen

1 Basic vocabulary

Match the verbs in the following cooking

instructions to the pictures below:

1 Fry the onions in a little oil until they are

brown,

2 Boil the pasta in a saucepan of salted water

for 15 minutes

3 Place the chicken in a pre-heated oven at

190° and roast for one and a half hours

4 Place the pizza directly on the top shelf of

the oven and bake for 10 minutes

5 Grill the sausages under a medium heat,

turning occasionally

6 To steam asparagus, place it in a steamer

above a saucepan of boiling water and cook

until it is tender

Now match the verbs on the left with the nouns on

the right:

7 bake g.an egg / bacon / hamburgers

8 roast h.a leg of lamb /a chicken

9 boil i bread / a cake / a lasagne

10 fry =‘ j rice / carrots / green beans

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2 Cooking at home

Complete the following text with these words:

helping cook

recipe sauce

ingredients delicious

I wouldn’t say I’m a great (1) , but I had some friends round for dinner recently and

it went quite well ’'d seen a (2) for fish curry in a magazine the week before and it

sounded (3) — so I thought I'd try it

I went to the market and bought all the (4) and then spent the day in the

kitchen Everybody said they really liked it,

especially the (5) , and I think they were telling the truth because everyone wanted a second (6) Ị

3 Preparing food

Label the pictures below with these verbs:

grate squeeze beat slice chop _ peel

Now match the verbs on the left with the phrases

on the right in the two lists below:

1 peel a the mixture with a wooden spoon

2 pour — b the potatoes and boil in a pan

3 slice c the cheese and add to the sauce

4 grate d the sauce over the meat and serve

5, stir e the ham as thinly as possible

6.chop _ f the eggs until light and fluffy

8 beat h a little butter in a frying pan 9.melt i, the vegetables into small pieces

10 squeeze j all the ingredients together

4 Ways of cooking

Some types of food are usually cooked or prepared

in a particular way Complete the following

sentences with the types of food below:

steak

1 I think Pll have fried / boiled / poached /

scrambled for breakfast

2 Would you like your rare, medium or

well-done?

3 I fancy a baked / a jacket / some mashed

tees with these sausages

4 Shall we give them smoked or poached

bees as a starter?

5 Would you like a couple of pickled

with your salad?

6 Do you prefer plain boiled or fried

A baked potato is the same as a jacket potato

6 Asimple recipe

5 Entertaining a guest for dinner

Look at the following sentences that come from a conversation at the dinner table Decide who is speaking, the host (H) or the guest (G)

1 The food’s ready Would you like to come through now?

What can I get you to drink?

T’ve brought some wine I hope red’s OK Dressing?

Where do you want me to sit?

Help yourself to some salad

This pie is delicious You must give me the recipe

8 I forgot to ask if you were vegetarian

9, Did you make this yourself?

10 I don’t seem to have a fork

11 What do you call these? I’ve never had them before They’re delicious

12 Would you like another helping?

13 Not for me, thanks I’m full

14 Thanks for a lovely evening The food was really lovely

Complete the following recipe with the words and phrases below:

Spicy Stir-fry Beef

Preparation: 30 minutes Cooking: 5 minutes Ingredients:

450 grams fillet of beef

1 tablespoon of soft brown sugar

1 tablespoon of dark soy sauce

2 cm piece of fresh ginger, grated

a pinch of salt

2 tablespoons of oil

6 spring onions freshly ground black pepper

heat the oil cook gently

serve slice

stirring add

1 the beef into thin strips about

3 cm long

2 Mix the sugar, spices and soy sauce ina

bowl the beef, ginger and salt

and stir well

onions for one minute

4 Add the beef and fry,

constantly, for four minutes, or until the meat is browned

5 Stir in a little more soy sauce and black

pepper and for a minute or two

rr with plain boiled rice

Add your own words and expressions

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