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Free Exercises: Grammar, Vocabulary & Phrases

Level: Elementary Intermediate Advanced

Exercise: Grammar Vocabulary Phrases

Advanced Phrases: Food and Eating Phrases

For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below.

  1. If the children have a short nap in the afternoon, then they're full of   for another four hours until their bedtime at eight.
  2. When I was little, my mother always told me that if you   down your food too quickly, you'll get indigestion.
  3. English food is a bit of a(n)   . Many people don't like it at first but if you keep eating it, you soon learn to love it.
  4. He obviously wasn't enjoying what I'd cooked for him. He   at it for a few minutes and then left most of the meat on the side of his plate.
  5. My absolute favourite food is chocolate ice-cream. I could eat it till the cows   .
  6. My first two years in the job were pretty hard. The pay was   but I learnt quickly and now I'm on a much better rate as a tele sales manager.
  7. We're going to be out all day. But if you feel   just help yourself to anything from the fridge.
  8. Please, don't wait for me. I'll be another five minutes. Do   or your food will get cold. I'll get there as soon as I can.
  9. Last week I won a bar of chocolate in a class competition. I was going to share it with the class but in the end, I made a   of myself and ate it all.
  10. I'm sorry, I just cannot eat red peppers at all. They simply don't   me.
  11. Did you know, the UK spends more on pet food than on foreign aid for poor countries? That's   .
  12. I'll meet you in the pub next to the station. It's called the Butcher's Arms. I haven't been there before but I've heard the   is pretty good.

Your answers

 

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