December Issue 2013

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Exercises

My Country Memories

Eventful Christmases while growing up in rural Gloucestershire have given Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall a love of festive family traditions and fresh air.

Read the following text and decide which of the words a-t is missing in items 1-17. There are three extras given.

a./sniffy                      b./then                        c./canapés                   d./sorry           e./beautifully

f./plantation                g./traditionalists                     h./extremely                i./scrambling  

j./bonfires                   k./end              l./sweetens                  m./alight                     n./with

o./same            p./beginning                q./case             r./off               s./good                        t./gumboots

Country in the City

This month: the salmon smoker

For questions 1-10, read the given  text and think of the tense or verbal structure which best fits each space.

    1.      choose

    2.      pedal

    3.      create

   4.      source

   5.      ensure

   6.      blow

   7.      vary

   8.      slice

   9.      seek

  10.  prepare

Christmas character – ’I deliver groceries around the village with my donkey’

For questions 1-10 read the given  text. Use the word given in capitals with relevant number  to form a word that fits the space.

    1.      LIKELY

    2.      SUPPLY

    3.      BEAUTY

   4.      FRESH

   5.      DELIVER

   6.      STUBBORN

   7.      ACCESS

   8.      RESIDE

   9.      REVIVE

   10.  COMBINE

Christmas character – ’I have become an expert on all matters mistletoe’

For questions 1-10 read the given  text

. Use the word given in capitals with relevant number  to form a word that fits the space.

    1.      RELATE

    2.      FASCINATE

    3.      APPEAR

    4.      UNDERSTAND

   5.      CONSULT

   6.      PRUNE

   7.      EVENTUAL

   8.      WED

   9.      INSTRUC
10.     GERM