Unit 4: Tastes

If I had known about the sale, I would have bought two jackets. The sentence above can be rewritten using inversion as ..........

.......... for your help, I would never have finished the project on time.

If these trends should continue, there may be major consequences for our health. The same sentence using inversion is ..........

If you were to consume a lot of protein, you would gain weight. The same sentence using inversion is ..........

If the manager had reacted faster, we might have avoided the crisis. The same sentence using inversion is ..........

If we thought more about the consequences of our actions, we .......... these practices long ago.

If those city children hadn't been on a farm visit last year, they .......... that milk was produced in factories!

If companies .......... use so much packaging on produce, it would be better for the environment.

If he .......... ask you what the recipe is, you mustn't tell him.

The restaurant wouldn't be doing so well .......... your help.

.......... it hadn't been for governments banning dangerous pesticides, the situation would be much worse.

As .......... as you cook it slowly in the oven for a few hours, it will be wonderfully tender.

.......... for the sprigs of parsley, there would be no greenery on the plate at all.

If we .......... to leave parts of our gardens untended, it would encourage biodiversity.

.......... I brought some eggs? Would that help at all?

.......... we start buying wonky fruit, the practice of throwing away good food is not going to change.

I'll eat at that restaurant again on .......... that they bring down some of their prices.

We need enough people to enrol, .......... the nutrition course won't start on 4th September.

We need enough people to enrol on the course for it to start in September. The sentence with the same meaning is ..........

There will be a dramatic reduction in plastic waste .......... the new packaging policy be adopted.

Without water, life .......... .

Don't eat that bread! It has been in the cupboard for two weeks and it's ..........

I was expecting the steak to be .......... , but instead it was tough and very gristly.

I couldn't drink the tea immediately. It was .......... and burnt my tongue!

The mashed potatoes were light and fluffy, better than the .......... chips my sister had, dripping with oil!

They served the fish with a smooth and .......... sauce.

The kunafa looked lovely, but it was too heavy and .......... for me.

The croutons should have been light and crisp, but they'd been in the soup too long and were all .......... !

This roast chicken is so .......... . It's juicy and full of flavour.

The children loved the warm, .......... chocolate cake that stuck to their fingers.

When boredom sets in, my healthy habits .......... and I start eating crisps.

The smell of freshly baked bread .......... out of the baker's and stopped me in my tracks.

I was so hungry that my stomach started to .......... loudly in the middle of the exam.

Within ten minutes, the hungry boys had .......... the whole pizza.

There wasn't much in the fridge, but my brother managed to .......... a delicious omelette.

I was fed up with .......... social media for hours without finding anything interesting.

We're continually being .......... with advice and warnings about healthy eating.

Supermarkets have researched the smells that .......... food responses in us.

Seeing photos of plastic in the ocean really .......... to me how serious the problem is.

Laila: What else could we write about? How about food waste? Reem: .......... What is the reason behind that, do you think?

'My reason for saying that is that supermarkets reject perfectly good food.' The speaker is .......... .

Given the urgency of the problem, we need to tackle it .......... .

A: Large portions in restaurants make people eat more than they need. B: You're .......... on! That's exactly the problem.

The brother's reaction shows that he was ..........

What triggers the writer's appetite in this text?

The phrase 'rustle up' in the text means .......... .

How does the writer feel after eating the food he saw on TV?

According to the writer's friends, what leads them to eat crisps?

The word 'them' in 'it's stress or anger that leads them' refers to .......... .

The phrase 'I have no such excuses' means that the writer .......... .

Why do supermarkets release certain smells in their aisles?

The pronoun 'them' in 'they purposely release them' refers to .......... .

In a formal restaurant review, the colloquial phrase 'give it a wide berth' should be replaced with .......... .

In a formal review, the colloquial word 'a letdown' should be replaced with .......... .

The designers have cleverly used various shades of blue to create a relaxing eating area. The nominalised sentence is: .......... various shades of blue creates a relaxing eating area.

Which of the following is good advice for writing a restaurant review?