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Adverbial clauses

Adverbial clauses including time clauses, contrast and

concession clauses, reason clauses, puipose and result clause

Context listening

En Maria and Stefan are being interviewed about their eating habits. Before you listen, look at some
definitions of words and phrases used in the interview. What do you think they are? Check your answers in
the Key.
1
Food with substances added to it to preserve it or to give it a new colour or taste.
2
A meal cooked before you buy it so that you only have to heat it before eating.
3
A combination of the correct quantities and sorts of food eaten every day.
4
The process of getting the right sorts of food and drink in order to keep you healthy.
1E4 (IR Listen to the interview and fill in the gaps.
1 At the weekend I like to make something myself so as not. to
eat processed food
all the time.
2 Well usually go out to eat none of us likes cooking.
3 She also talked to me about the food she made I'd learn about diet
and nutrition.
4 III get hungry, I'll eat some fruit, at school I'd buy a bar of chocolate.
5 I don't eat much for breakfast I'm always in a rush.
6 I have to get out by 7.30 catch my bus.
7 Sometimes I get up in the night and have a snack, I know it's bad for me.
8 I was absolutely exhausted I had to run for the bus yesterday.
9 I don't have the opportunity to go shopping I'm working.
10 It's very hard to put a healthy diet into practice I know all about the theory.

mg Look at the word or phrase you wrote in sentences in 1.2. What other word or phrase you wrote in
1.2 has a similar meaning? What other words or phrases are similar to the one in sentence 7?

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