Optimise B1, Unit 6 - Language in Use

Rosemary: What are you doing with all those ​ (a)   books, Jason? Jason: I'm trying to make a ​ (b)   for this evening. It's paella, the ​ (c)   dish of Valencia. It's one of the most famous dishes in the ​ (d)   world.

• cookery
• meal
• national
• whole
• eating
• food
• plate
• tradition
• country
• full

Rosemary: Really? What's in it? Jason: What isn't in it! There is a ​ (a)   variety of paellas, but this one has got rice, chicken, rabbit and garlic and lots of other ingredients! It is going to take me a ​ (b)   time!

• wide
• long
• big
• range
• huge
• great

Rosemary: Too difficult for me. I never set ​​ (a)   in my parent's kitchen. You should just buy some pizzas. Jason: My parents are trying to have a healthier ​ (b)   . I think it's a good idea.

• foot
• lifestyle
• habit
• step
• toe
• body
• behaviour
• ptactice

Rosemary: Well, I'm looking ​ (a)   to trying your paella. The one thing that we do have in ​ (b)   that we both like eating!

• forward
• common
• excited
• pleased
• happy
• equal
• same
• like

Do you know what the national ​ (a)   of Britain is? Some people say fish and chips, others say it is a curry, but many say it's the full English breakfast. The full English breakfast includes meat, eggs, tomatoes, mushrooms, fried bread or toast with butter, and sausages. In fact, the one thing that almost all these things ​ (b)   in common is that they are fried.

• dish
• have
• plate
• menu
• cooking
• take
• make
• share

This is why many people call this meal a'fry-up'. This meal originated in the 13t century as a way for the people with land to show the ​ (a)   world the ​ (b)   variety of food they had.

• whole
• wide
• absolute
• total
• complete
• full
• big
• deep

They ​ (a)   this meal very seriously and if you could set ​ (b)   in the kitchen you would see many cooks at work preparing meat and vegetables that came from the land of the owners.

• took
• foot
• had
• made
• thought
• step
• toe
• body

Today, we don't think of the full English breakfast as part of a healthy​ (a)   . If you ate one every day you would probably ​ (b)   ill.

• lifestyle
• fall
• habit
• living
• behaviour
• land
• arrive
• take

• But once in a while, it is something you can ​ (a)   forward to. However, if you are trying not to put on weight and see a cafe serving a full English breakfast, you should walk very quickly in the ​ (b)   direction!

• look
• opposite
• desire
• hope
• see
• backward
• next
• forward