For Those Full of Beans in the Summer Part 1 - Exercises for Country in the City - Going to Market

Exercises for Country in the City – Going to Market

For questions 1-15 read the text below. Use the verb given with relevant number to form a verbal structure that fits the space.

1.                  top up -.............................................

2.                  load-..................................................

3.                  help -..............................................

4.                  explore-.....................................

5.                  choose-...............................................

6.                  taste -..........................................

7.                  harvest-..............................................

8.                  collect-.........................................

9.                  draw-................................................

10.              transport-........................................

The article is teeming with adjective+noun collocations describing different types of food. Pick them up from the text.

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For Those Full of Beans in the Summer Part 1 - Country in the City - Going to Market from Country Living July 2012

For Those Full of Beans in the Summer Part 1 - Exercise for Feel the Buzz

Feel the Buzz – Its venomous sting can heal arthritis, while its fragrant honey cleanses and cures wounds: the busy bee provides power-packed products for the modern medicine cabinet.You are going to read an article about bees. Answer the questions connected to the text.

1. Name some of the benefits of having bees in our environment:

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1. How was honey used in the ancient times ?
2. What and when was the medical breakthrough which overshadowed the use of honey in wound healing?
3. What is that significant component in honey and why?
4. The terms medical and medicinal occur in the text. What makes the difference between medical and medicinal uses? Explain it:

6. What is hospital superbug?
7. What are the advantages of honey in general?
8. What is propolis? What are its main features?
9. What is the secret of Royal Jelly? Why is it an elixir of life?
10. What is the medical use of bee venom?

For Those Full of Beans in the Summer Part 1 - Feel the Buzz from Country Living June 2009

For Those Full of Beans in the Summer Part 1 - Exercises for My Countryside - Dick Strawbridge

My Countryside  - Dick Strawbridge

You are going to read a magazine article about Dick Strawbridge. A childhood spent outdoors gave the presenter a lifelong love of the natural world that he has passed on to his family.

Some parts of the article have been removed. Choose from the sentence chunks A-I and match them with the numbers 1-9.

A./ You don’t need land to lead a more…

B./ The natural world totally fascinated me.

C./ In the holidays, Mum would kick us out…

D./ My pride and joy in those days was my …

E./ The countryside makes you take the time …

F./ I used to go tickling trout when I was a boy.

G./ I became a grandad last year, James and …

H./I had quite a free childhood, but I was …

I./ When my son James was small (he’s now 28),…

Find some expressions, phrases in the text which are equivalent for the definitions provided.

1. An idea or expression that has been too much used, a stereotyped phrase (paragraph 1)-……………………………………………………..
2. steal apples from an orchard or garden (paragraph 3)-………………………………………………..………………………………………
3. An awkward, heavy  or stupid creature  (paragraph 3)- ………………………………..……………………………………………………….
4. eat hungrily or greedily (paragraph 5) -……………………………………………….
5. place where monks live as a community under religious vows (paragraph 5) -………………………………………………………………………………..
6. live without the usual comforts and conveniences of life (paragraph 6) -…………………………………………………………………………………
7. a type of dog originating in England and Ireland (paragraph 7) - ……………………………………..
8. put up a tent at a campsite (paragraph 6) -……………………………………………………………...
9. the ability to provide for oneself without the help of some others (paragraph 8) - …………………………………………………………………………….
10. include some disadvantages in order to get what you want  (paragraph 8) - ……………………………………………………………………………………..

For Those Full of Beans in the Summer Part 1 - My Countryside - Dick Strawbridge from Country Living July 2012

For Those Full of Beans in the Summer Part 1 - Exercise for Driftwood Sculptor Robert Race

Driftwood Sculptor Robert Race

Read the following text and decide which prepositions are missing from 1-10. Some of them can occur more than once.

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