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The key answer of exercise 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 2A - Do you remember…? for the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden, Jerry Lambert and Kate Chomacki from Oxford University Press

Question

  1. -
  2. Read Part 1 of an extract from Boy, the autobiography of author Roald Dahl. Answer the questions with a partner.
  3. Now do the same for Part 2.
  4. Roald Dahl achieves a more dramatic effect in Part 2 through his choice of language. Look at the dramatic verbs and listen to Part 2 as an extract from an audio book. Match the verbs to their synonyms 1-7.

Answer

b)

  1. So that the boys could give each chocolate bar a mark and write a comment.
  2. To give the boys something they knew well, that they could compare the products against.
  3. They had to taste each chocolate bar, mark it from 0 to 10, and comment on why they liked or didn't like it.
  4. Because they knew a lot about all the chocolate bars that were available.
  5. They were very enthusiastic and took it very seriously.

c)

  1. A long white room like a laboratory, full of pans of chocolate and other sweets cooking, with scientists working on their inventions.
  2. Working in the lab and suddenly creating something that tasted wonderful, and running to show it to the owner of the factory, Mr Cadbury.
  3. He imagined Mr Cadbury tasting his chocolate carefully and the congratulating Roald Dahl to his wonder idea.
  4. He used the experience in his book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

d)

  1. leap
  2. grab
  3. concocting
  4. bubbling away
  5. rushing
  6. slap
  7. picture

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