The key answer of exercise 5
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9B - How to cook, how to eat 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
- Look at the photos of some dishes on a restaurant website. Use compound nouns to say what you think they are.
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- Listen once and complete the tips. Did you guess any of them correctly? What two things on the Henry's menu would Giles Coren never order?
- Listen again. What reasons does Giles give for each of his tips in d?
- Listen and try to complete the missing words in these extracts. What do you think they mean?
Answer
a)
- avocado, tomato, and onion salad
- grilled lamb chops
- chocolate and almond tart
- herb butter
- onion rings
- orange and strawberry sorbet
e)
- fish
- bread
- vegetarian
- outside
- tap
- complain
- staff
Giles would never order the New York strip steak or the sourdough bread.
f)
- Fresh fish is much harder to buy and cook well yourself than steak.
- Bread fills you up and then you don't want all the much more exciting food on offer.
- The best vegetarian food is cooked by good chefs who are not necessarily vegetarian.
- Sitting outside in London is noisy and that's where the smokers sit.
- Tap water is fine and it's free.
- If you're polite but firm, you'll probably get the replacement food free and everyone will feel relaxed, rather than angry or upset.
- It's just important to be polite.
g)
- fiddly to prepare
- utterly starving, gobbles up
- such large portions
- chew on
- whole load of stuff
- jug of tap
- make a fuss
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