Exercises for April 2015

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Tulip Fever- Springtime in Philippa Burrough’s Essex garden means a floral fiesta of her favourite flowers. Vibrant coloured tulips stand to attention in beds and borders, their striking range of hues offset by a backdrop of ancient, black tarred barns

You are going to read an article about a tulip fad and her garden in glory. Answer the questions connected to the text.

1. What makes this spring setting of tulips incredible for her compared to the summery feel?
2. Why does Philippa find it difficult to go ahead with the ’cutting garden’?
3. What took place before she and her husband started creating their garden?
4. How did she draw up the design of the garden?
5. What is in the backdrop of the garden?
6. Why are tulips kept on changing in and out of years?
7. Which time of the year is it and how long does it take to plant the ordered 3,000 tulips?
8. What does the vegetable garden look like?
9. Why did she replace the laurel hedges?
10. Why does she feel under pressure year after year?

A Century of Change

You are going to read an article about the evolution of the countryside over the past century in Britain. Answer the questions connected to the text.

1. If you happened to compare the British countryside today with that of a 100 years ago what can kind of changes would you find?

2. What are the features of the countryside, which are present even today like in the Edwardian Period?

3. Why did the 1950s mean a low point in the scope of wildlife? What happened?Name a few!

4. What changes took place to the landscape in the first part of the 20th century?

5. Was the British countryside opened for the general public all the time?

6. Who were the heroes of this access revolution?

7. What regulations contributed to its access? Name a few!

8. How did Octavia Hill, a founder of National Trust comment on the need of the countryside a century ago?

9. Give some examples of the fact that countryside communities are thriving!

10. Who and what have raised awareness of rural issues since the mid 20th century?

11. What climate changes have occured since the Edwardian Period?

12. How do country folks  in Britain try to live along with nature?

13. Why did Britain plunge into food production after the WWII?

14. What is the real fruit of modern day agriculture?

Let Your Talent Shine – This Month: The Foodie

The following phrases are from the text. Put them in Hungarian.

1. Although this might appear odd to anyone watching, it’s very much second nature for Jacqui who’s been using the device since she was a little girl.- ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. However it never occured to her to turn her talent into turnover until four years ago.-…………………………………………………………………………………………
3. It wasn’t something I had ever considered but it suddenly seemed to make a lot of sense-…………………………………………………………………………………..
4. Jacqui began by making more pies for family and friends to gauge their reactions, which were unanimously positive.-…………………………………………….……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
5. The people of Yorkshire don’t mince their words-…………………………………….
6. Working in that kind of environment could feel incredibly monotonous – it was often just boredom punctuated by cups of tea.-……………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………….

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7. On Mondays that means keeping on top of general admin and social media - .…………………………………………………………………………………………..
8. Adding another string to her culinary bow last year, Jacqui started offering cookery classes-…………………………………………………………………………………..
9. „We’ve had hen parties and all sorts of groups – people love being hands-on and enjoy wandering into the garden with a colander to pick the ingredients or gather eggs from the chickens.”-…………………………………………………………………………...

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In Cupcake Heaven

Read the following text and decide which of the prepositions a-j  are missing from 1-15. Some of them can occur more than once.

a./ on               b./ for             c./ in               d./ with          e./ at    f./ of    g./ about         h./ to         i./ by   j./ from          

The Handcrafted Home

For questions 1-11 read the text below. Use the root of the words given with relevant number to form a word that fits the space.

1. SECLUDE-……………………………………………
2. GENTLE-……………………………………………
3. RESIST-………………………………………..
4. VIRTUE-………………………………………...
5. PART-………………………………………
6. BASIC-…………………………………………
7. WARM-………………………………………….
8. CHUNK-………………………………………….
9. ART-………………………………………..
10. USUAL-……………………………………..
11. SKILL-………………………………………..

My Countryside – Celia Imrie – The Calendar Girls actor and novelist explains why part of her heart will always lie in Scotland

You are going to read a magazine article about Celia Imrie. Some parts of the article have been removed. Choose from the sentence chunks A-G and match them with the numbers 1-7.

A./ I love springtime for its flowers.

B./The great thing about filming on locations is that you don’t have to imagine your setting.

C./ It was a beautiful area to work in, and the home of Yorkshire Tea, which, in my opinion, is the best in the world.

D./ The coastline of our marvellous island is incredible.

E./ My first lead role on television was filmed in Cornwall’s Port Isaac pretending to be Scotland – and it pretended very well, actually.

F./ The Isle of Mull is one of the most memorable locations I’ve worked in.

G./ I love exploring and going to new places.