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Exercises

58.1 Can you write down a vegetable and fruit:
Vegetable Fruit
1 beginning with the letter ‘p’ POTATO oc teen
esettee
cece
tt
eee
2 beginning with the letter ‘b> cc cece teeeteetttttteeeees
3 beginning with the letter Sm? one eee eteeee ee cttteeeetees
cette
4 beginning with the letter ‘Cece
eettetteteeeeeees
settee
5 beginning with the letter ‘ae eteteeetteeeees
38.2 Find a word in the right-hand box where the underlined letter(s) are pronounced in the same
way as the underlined letter(s) in a word in the left-hand box. Be careful: there are two extra
words in the right-hand box which you do not need.

lettuce onion tomato melon
orange banana salad chicken
aubergine salmon calf lamb

cauliflower mushroom

58.3 Which is the odd one out in each group, and why?
1 pork veal salmon beef
2 salmon shrimp oyster lobster
3 lettuce aubergine tomato cucumber
4 peach onion mushroom courgette
5 chicken lamb beef mussels

58.4 Do you eat the skin (= the outside) of these fruits — always, usually, or never? Make three
lists.
apples pineapples cherries grapes
pears bananas peaches mangoes
oranges lemons melons strawberries

58.5 Using words from the opposite page, complete these sentences about yourself and your
country. If possible, compare your answers with someone else who has done this exercise.
1 In my country ..0000.....0 ee is/are more common than ............0......:ccccceceeseeeteees .
2 In my country ...000 ee is/are more expensive than ............0...00cccecccceeeseteteeee: .
3 In my country a mixed salad usually contains .......00.....00.00ccccccceceeeeecee eetteteeesetsees
tsetse
ce
ett
4 In my country we don’t ZrOW 22.00. e cece eect eect e ent e ec ee teeta ce cteeeteeetteecsetetteenees .
5 And we don’t often eat 22.00... ccc cece cece ccc ce beet eet e eet bettttcettuteceitecttenesire .
6 Personally, I prefer 0.000.000.0000... CO oe eee cece ceecceceeeeeceeeeeevevevteteeeeeeeeeccvetttteetteettrtstee
7 Tlove wo... but I don’t really like 00000 c cette eect ee tttteen cess .
8 My favourite meat iS oo. cece cece cece eee cbt e ete bcbeeeeeeeceectectseeegetessetcctetentreesees .

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