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Exercise 9. Fill in the blanks with prepositions or adverbs
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Fill in the blanks with prepositions or adverbs.
1. In the park Bob treated us... an ice cream each. 2. There were no vegetable dishes... the menu. 3. May I help you... some salad? 4. My brother suggested that we should buy some smoked fish... oil and two or three tins of stuffed pepper... tomato sauce. 5. He came down... breakfast though he did not feel well. 6. What shall we have... dinner tomorrow? Don't forget it is my birthday. 7. At noon all workers have a break... lunch. 8. Mary said she would dine... next Monday as she was invited... dinner at her friends'. 9.... dessert, they served plum pudding. 10. You cannot see Peter now, he has gone... lunch. 11. The party met again... dinner. 12. Mr. Pickwick raised his glass... the well being and happiness of the bride and bridegroom. 13. Will you lay the table... dinner, Alice?
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Read about different drinks and the drinking habits. Note down the beverages below that you have tried. Beside each, put whether you like it or not and when you would normally drink it.
The cocktail you couldn't mix
It's funny, isn't it, how your friends never seem to get on well together? Let me introduce you to some of mine. They're nice people, all of them, but put them in a room together and the silence is shattering. I just don't understand it. I should have known they wouldn't get on, though, from their drinking habits.
Retired Colonel, William Smythe-Johnson, MBE: double gins at hisclub with just a dash of tonic and a slice of lemon, claret at dinner and brandy, French cognac, after dinner always has a cup of tea at four o'clock sharp.
His wife, Wilhelmina: dry martini most of the time, champagne cocktail, when entertaining - vintage champagne.
Will Smythe, bank manager: scotch and bourbon, usuallywith ice, occasionally soda, mainly at home goes mad with duty-free schnapps after annual skiing holiday, German light white wine with clients, sometimes treats himself to a glass of port after dinner.
His wife, Helen: Bacardi or other white rums with various mixers, most often Coke; insists on a glass of medium dry sherry before evening meal; they share freshly ground coffee (never instant) at breakfast and offer the children pure, natural, unsweetened, nothing-added whole fruit juice.
W. P. Smytheson, university professor: a teetotaller - greatest love (after books) a cup of cocoa or drinking chocolate in the comfort of his rooms; drinks mineral water at the functions he has to attend.
Helena Johnson, fashion designer: occasionally a few vodkas in the lounge; bar vermouth - Cinzano, Dubonnet, etc. - at home enjoys a good sparkling wine as an aperitif.
Willy Johns, one of my best friends, a teacher: Guinness (draught, not bottled) in thesaloon bar; a lot of orange squash after cross-country runs with the boys.
Billy Johns, unemployed at the moment: either lager in the saloon bar or rough cider in the public bar; has had to cut down on drinking lately.
Bill Smith, labourer: drinks mild (dark beer) or bitter (brown beer) in the public bar; if he's won on the horses, he'll have abottle of light ale and whisky.
His wife, Minny: drinks milk stout, which makes her quite tipsy, or - less often - shandy (beer and lemonade), which doesn't; keeps an undrinkable blackcurrant cordial (she calls it a liqueur) for when visitors come - visitors don't come very often.
— Speaking
Discuss the answers to these questions:
1. What do you think a typical evening meal would be for each of the people in the text about drinking habits?
2. How serious would you say alcoholism is in your country and/or any other countries you have visited?
Drinking
Part 1. Make sentence by connecting each person on the left below with the correct phrase on the right.
| a) | A teetotaller | serves people in a pub. |
| b) | A secret drinker | runs a pub. |
| c) | A social drinker | has a drink from time to time |
| d) | An occasional drinker | only drinks with other people, e.g. at parties. |
| e) | An alcoholic | doesn’t want other people to know he drinks. |
| f) | A drunkard | drinks a lot. |
| g) | A ‘wino’ | is often drunk. |
| h) | A heavy drinker | never drinks alcohol. |
| i) | A publican | produces beer in large quantities. |
| j) | A barman | is addicted to alcohol. |
| k) | A brewer | is a poor person, often homeless, who drinks anything, anywhere. |
Part 2. The dangers of alcoholism are very real. Put the people in the above exercise (on the left) in order of the danger they are in from alcoholism, with those in greatest at the top. Then draw a line between those you think are safe alcoholism and those who might become, or already are, in danger from this disease.
Part 3. Match each drink on the left below with its description on the right.
| a) | squash | a last (alcoholic) drink before going to bed |
| b) | a cocktail | a non-alcoholic fruit drink |
| c) | a nightcap | a mixture of beer and lemonade (or a similar drink) |
| d) | one for the road | a mixture of wine or spirits and hot water, sugar, lemon etc. |
| e) | a shady | a refreshing non-alcoholic drink, e.g. squash, coca-Cola |
| f) | punch | a single drink of spirits |
| g) | a soft drink | a mixed alcoholic drink |
| h) | a short | a last drink before driving |
Part 4. From the list of drinks on the left above, choose one or more which would be a good drink for…
…. a children’s party
…. an adults’ party
…. a formal reception
…. someone who’s going to drive
…. a last drink of the evening
…. a hot day
…. someone who is nervous before an important occasion
…. someone who is trying to give up alcohol
Part 5. Put each of the following words into its correct place in the sentences.
| sip | pub-crawl | toast | breathalyzer |
| drop | stagger | booze | corkscrew |
| intoxicated | vineyard | cheers | hangover |
| a) | Let’s open another bottle of wine. Where’s the __________? |
| b) | We went on a _________ last night. This morning I’ve got a terrible _________. |
| c) | Wine is made of grapes which is grown in a _______. |
| d) | Here’s a _______ to John and Elizabeth. |
| e) | Don’t drink it all at once. Just _______ it. |
| f) | When British people drink they often say, ‘_________’. |
| g) | The police stopped the driver and gave him a ________ test. |
| h) | I don’t want much, please, just a ________. |
| i) | A slang word for alcoholic drink is ‘________’. |
| j) | A formal word for ‘drunk’ is ‘_______’. |
| k) | He couldn’t walk properly, he could only ________. |
Part 6. Briefly describe, as a warning of the possible dangers of alcohol, an evening in which some people start drinking and end up in a police cell. Use at least six of the words at the top of the exercise above.
Part 7. Explain the difference in each of the following pairs.
| a) | sober and drunk |
| b) | tipsy and drunk |
| c) | still orange and fizzy orange |
| d) | draught beer and bottled beer |
| e) | ‘on the wagon’ and teetotal |
| f) | vintage wine and ‘plonk’ |
| g) | a pub and an off-licence |
| h) | neat whisky and whisky ‘on the rocks’ |
| i) | ‘Dutch courage’ and ‘to go Dutch’ |
It is interesting to know
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