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Listening After a few years, having repaid her debt, she was
able to expand. She bought the property where her
1 07 Listen to the dialogue and answer the questions. pastry shop was located. She also decided to rent
two more shops in the city centre, which further
1 What is in the notebooks that Emily has borrowed
increased her sales. Now, with these three business
from her granny?
premises and a dozen staff members, she could no
______________________________________________ longer devote as much of her time to food making
2 How does Emily describe her granny’s attitude as to management work, which she thought was

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towards cooking? a downside. Yet, here she was, having fulfilled her
lifelong ambition. I couldn’t help but feel somewhat
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envious, being a keen cook myself.
3 What was the original reason for borrowing granny’s When the interview finished, she suddenly asked me
notebooks? if I wanted to work in her shop during the summer.
______________________________________________ I hesitated at first. True, for quite a while, I’d been
thinking of finding some summer employment. Still,
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4 What does Chris offer to do?
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a job behind a shop counter didn’t appeal to me as
much as one that would put me in the kitchen. So,
imagine my astonishment when she said she’d let me
work in the pie and pastry making section, adding

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with a smile she’d let me try out some of my own
Reading baking recipes. ‘Mum, you’re such a gossip! This
2 Read the text and choose the correct answers. time, thanks a lot’, I thought.
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The deadline for handing in my school project 1 The writer didn’t initially choose to do her project

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‘The Food Stories’ was fastly approaching and I still about the pie shop because she
didn’t know what to write about. Then, my mum a didn’t want her project to differ from those of her
suggested that I should talk to Debbie, who ran a pie classmates.
shop round the corner. The idea struck me as a bit b thought that other students would have chosen it
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ridiculous at first until I realised it was only because
the shop had blended in the neighbourhood so
as well.
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c didn’t want to follow her mother’s suggestion.

well that I’d stopped noticing it a long time ago. d no longer paid any attention to the place.
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The more I thought about it, the more convinced

I became that a personal story by a small business 2 The writer was surprised the most by the fact that
owner would make a refreshing change from a story a Debbie had opened the shop in spite of her
of a posh restaurant in the city centre that everyone husband’s objections.
else in my class was writing about. b Debbie used to be in a profession completely
The shop started 20 years ago and it was solely unrelated to a food business before.
Debbie’s idea. Her husband strongly opposed it at first. c Debbie hadn’t had enough of her own money to
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I was absolutely astonished to hear how she’d grown start the business.
weary of her teaching job and had decided to change d Debbie hadn’t had any experience in running her
everything. She admitted to having neither professional own business.
training in food making nor the know-how for running 3 What do we find out about the pie shop in its first
a business. Nor had she sufficient savings to secure the
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year?
future of the business if it hadn’t taken off quickly. She
took the risk anyway. I was impressed as she talked a It wasn’t popular with the local community.
about quitting her job, taking a loan to rent and fit out b It provided Debbie with a reasonable profit.
the shop premises, and hiring an assistant to sell things c It very nearly had to be closed down.
while she worked in the kitchen. d Its main customers were other food businesses.
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She went on to tell me about the tough beginnings. 4 Which is not true about Debbie’s business at present?
Although members of the local community welcomed a She owns the shop where her business began.
her pies and pastries, the turnover wasn’t high enough b She does not personally make the food anymore.
to keep the business going. She was struggling to pay c The business now has several outlets.
the rent and loan interest, not to mention making d She does not need to pay back her bank loans
anything on her side. A few times she came close to anymore.
shutting down the place in order not to plunge herself
into a debt level that she wouldn’t be able to recover 5 Why did the author hestitate to accept the job offer?
from. But all this changed after nearly a year, when a She thought it would mostly involve selling food.
she started receiving orders from some restaurants and b She hadn’t been planning to take a summer job.
bars which found her savoury pies and pastries (stuffed c She had arranged to work elsewhere.
with meat and mushrooms) a delicious lunch option. d She didn’t want her mum’s help in getting a job.
These large regular sales meant the business was safe
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Language functions 7 Translate the Polish parts of the sentences into
English.
3 Complete the sentences with the missing words.
1 I think that lots of food __________________
1 Whereas some people criticise this diet, others point
(marnuje się) simply because we buy too much of it.
____________ that it is highly effective.
2 The leaves of this plant are __________________
2 Taking everything into ____________, convenience
(jadalne), but the berries are poisonous.
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healthy, homemade meals. 3 At our restaurant, we give any __________________
(nadmiar, nadwyżka) food to local homeless people.
3 In the first ____________, fast food contains a lot of
fat. __ / 3
4 There’s strong ____________ to support the claim
that a lot of diets result in the yo-yo effect.
Grammar
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Vocabulary
Complete the sentences with the missing parts
8 Choose the correct option to complete each
sentence
1 There’s very few / little flour left. It won’t be enough
to make a cake.

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of the compound adjectives. 2 It’s a very tricky dish. No / None of the recipes I’ve
tried have worked out well.
1 This tea is ____________-sweet! How much sugar
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have you put in it? 3 Unfortunately, the whole of / most of the local
restaurants were closed so late in the evening.

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2 Some modern-____________ diets, cut out entire
groups of food, like carbohydrates. __ / 3
3 As for cooking, I’m really an open-____________
person: I like experimenting with new recipes. 9 Translate the Polish parts of the sentences into
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1 We ______________________________ (wciąż
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5 Complete the sentences with words that have wiemy bardzo niewiele) about how the brain actually
a similar meaning to the explanations given in processes information.
brackets. The first letters have been given. 2 We paid 20 pounds ____________________________
(za cały posiłek), and there were three of us. That was
1 The meat was as t____________ (hard to chew) as a good deal, wasn’t it?
the sole of a shoe!
3 The snacks Jane prepared for the meeting
2 The fish soup smelled so r____________ (disgusting) looked so mouth-watering that
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that I refused to eat it. I ______________________________ (chciałem/
3 Sarah served some pieces of s____________ (juicy, chciałam spróbować każdego) of them.
mouth-watering) chicken with garlic and a side salad.
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4 It was an excellent restaurant and we were served
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a g____________ (delicious) meal. 10 Complete the sentences with the correct form
5 This steak is clearly o____________ (cooked or fried of the words in brackets. Add extra words to express
for too long) and I asked for it rare. necessity or ability.
6 I don’t like mashed potatoes. I prefer them
b____________ (cooked in the oven). 1 If it keeps raining in the afternoon, we
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__________________ (not have) a barbecue

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2 My mum had cooked dinner earlier so all I
6 Complete the sentences with the missing words. __________________ (do) was heat it up in the oven.
1 Put the sausages in the fridge or they’ll quickly 3 X __________________ (he / take) anti-allergy
____________ off. tablets regularly or only at some times of the year?
2 My brother is a real ____________. He loves good Y He has to take them all year round.
food and enjoys trying new, exotic dishes. 4 I’d like to __________________ (cook) well, but I just
3 Late in the evening, I usually eat some ____________ haven’t got the talent for it.
from dinner that I’ve put in the fridge. 5 There were plenty of free tables at the restaurant, so
__ / 3 we __________________ (not wait).
6 I’ve got a strong allergy to citrus fruit, so I wonder
if I __________________ (ever / eat) oranges or
grapefruit.
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English in use Writing
11 Complete the second sentence so that it means 12 Read the instructions and do the writing task.
the same as the first, using the word given. Do not Niektórzy obecnie uważają, że należy korzystać
change the word given. Use no more than four words. wyłącznie z produktów żywnościowych wytworzonych
1 I still find it difficult to eat breakfast so early in the metodami ekologicznymi (organic foods). Napisz
morning. rozprawkę (200–250 słów), w której przedstawisz
wady i zalety takiego podejścia.

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I’m still _________________________ breakfast so
early in the morning. USED
2 She was unable to buy some of the ingredients. ________________________________________________
She didn’t _________________________ some of the
ingredients. SUCCEED ________________________________________________
3 She had to quit her job in the restaurant because of
her health problems.
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Her health problems _________________________
her restaurant job. MADE
4 It was such a big portion that I couldn’t eat all of it.
It was such a big portion that I wasn’t
________________________________________________

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_________________________ all of it. CAPABLE ________________________________________________
5 I’ll always remember the first time I cooked my own
meal.
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I’ll never _________________________ my own meal

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