Test 12

bread	sandwich	cake
biscuit	pasta	rice
potatoes	chips	chocolate
sugar	salt	/

Identifying the key word

1. [potatoes] - grow, boil, peel, slice

2. [bread] - make, slice, fresh, brown

3. [salt] - add, cut down on, pass, pinch of

4. [biscuit] - plain, chocolate, packet

5. [cake] - bake, cut, birthday, recipe

6. [chocolate] - melt, dark, milk, bar

7. [rice] - grow, boiled, fried, grain of

8. [sandwich] - have, make, order, ham, cheese

9. [sugar] - contain, sprinkle, cube, sachet

10. [pasta] - boil, cook, drain, eat

11. [chips] - greasy, bag, portion

The correct collocation

1. Could you cover / spread some butter on the toast, please!

2. Let's do / make some sandwiches for lunch.

3. Honestly! I baked / cooked the cake myself.

4. Mike, could you peel / skin the potatoes and slice them for chips?

5. I don't like milk chocolate. I'd rather have dark / strong chocolate.

Key word quiz

1. I ordered a cup of coffee and a ham sandwich.

2. love fish and chips.

3. No dessert for me, thanks. I'lI just have some biscuits and cheese.

4. I try to eat wholemeal bread. I think it's much better for your health.

5. I much prefer plain boiled rice to tried rice.

6. I failed to blow out all the candles on my birthday cake. I must be getting old!

7. Sprinkle a little salt over the potatoes before you serve them.

8. Drain the pasta then serve it with a little olive oil.

Noun phrases

1. I bought a large unsliced loaf of bread from the supermarket.

2. You must give me the recipe for your orange and chocolate cake.

3. Would you like another slice of cake?

4. What a greedy thing! He ate the whole packet of biscuits himself.

5. I had a large helping / bowl / plate of pasta for lunch today.

6. There were some grains of rice at the bottom of the kitchen cupboard.

7. They serve huge portions of chips at Divernos.

8. I was so hungry I ate a whole bar of milk chocolate.

9. Can you bring me a couple of sachets of brown sugar from the counter? I forgot.

10. I only put a pinch of salt on my food. Too much salt is bad for you.