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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

  1. Look at the photos of some dishes on a restaurant website. Use compound nouns to say what you think they are.
  2. -
  3. -
  4. -
  5. 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?
  6. Listen again. What reasons does Giles give for each of his tips in d?
  7. Listen and try to complete the missing words in these extracts. What do you think they mean?

Answer

a)

  1. avocado, tomato, and onion salad
  2. grilled lamb chops
  3. chocolate and almond tart
  4. herb butter
  5. onion rings
  6. orange and strawberry sorbet

e)

  1. fish
  2. bread
  3. vegetarian
  4. outside
  5. tap
  6. complain
  7. staff

Giles would never order the New York strip steak or the sourdough bread.

f)

  1. Fresh fish is much harder to buy and cook well yourself than steak.
  2. Bread fills you up and then you don't want all the much more exciting food on offer.
  3. The best vegetarian food is cooked by good chefs who are not necessarily vegetarian.
  4. Sitting outside in London is noisy and that's where the smokers sit.
  5. Tap water is fine and it's free.
  6. If you're polite but firm, you'll probably get the replacement food free and everyone will feel relaxed, rather than angry or upset.
  7. It's just important to be polite.

g)

  1. fiddly to prepare
  2. utterly starving, gobbles up
  3. such large portions
  4. chew on
  5. whole load of stuff
  6. jug of tap
  7. make a fuss

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