Answer — Exercise 3
9B - How to cook, how to eat·English File Advanced - Student's Book
Question
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- Look at the cover of The Food Lab and read the extract from a review of the book. What do you think makes it different from most cookery books?
- Read the extract from The Food Lab on p.91 and complete it with verbs from the list. What makes hard-boiled eggs difficult to cook well?
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- Read two more extracts from the book. Which is about fried eggs and which is about scrambled eggs? How do you know?
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- Look at the sentences from the extracts. What do the highlighted adjectives mean? Which three have a positive meaning? Which one is negative?
- Which of the adjectives in g might you use to describe ...?
Answer
b)
The author uses scientific methods to work out how to cook things better.
c)
- lower
- add
- drop
- heat
- bring
- stick
- remove
- peel
e)
- fried eggs: He mentions heating oil in a pan and spooning it over the eggs.
- scrambled eggs: He uses the words dense / creamy and light / fluffy.
g)
- rubbery = feeling like rubber - negative
- creamy = thick and smooth, like cream - positive
- fluffy = soft and light, containing air - positive
- crispy = pleasantly hard and dry - positive
h)
- an apple - crunchy, juicy
- chips - greasy, crispy
- honey - sticky
- an omelette - fluffy, greasy
- an oyster - slimy
- a sauce - creamy, lumpy, watery
- squid - rubbery