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# 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.