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    The document provides examples of collocations involving food and eating verbs with various nouns related to food. It includes exercises to test the reader's understanding of these collocations by asking them to complete sentences using the collocations. It also includes expressions involving the verb "eat" and asks the reader to match them with their meanings. The overall purpose is to help expand the reader's vocabulary related to food and eating by exposing them to common collocations and idiomatic expressions.

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    Food For Thoughts

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    The document provides examples of collocations involving food and eating verbs with various nouns related to food. It includes exercises to test the reader's understanding of these collocations by asking them to complete sentences using the collocations. It also includes expressions involving the verb "eat" and asks the reader to match them with their meanings. The overall purpose is to help expand the reader's vocabulary related to food and eating by exposing them to common collocations and idiomatic expressions.

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    The document provides examples of collocations involving food and eating verbs with various nouns related to food. It includes exercises to test the reader's understanding of these collocations by asking them to complete sentences using the collocations. It also includes expressions involving the verb "eat" and asks the reader to match them with their meanings. The overall purpose is to help expand the reader's vocabulary related to food and eating by exposing them to common collocations and idiomatic expressions.

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    Food For Thoughts

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    The document provides examples of collocations involving food and eating verbs with various nouns related to food. It includes exercises to test the reader's understanding of these collocations by asking them to complete sentences using the collocations. It also includes expressions involving the verb "eat" and asks the reader to match them with their meanings. The overall purpose is to help expand the reader's vocabulary related to food and eating by exposing them to common collocations and idiomatic expressions.

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    FOOD FOR THOUGHTS

    1 All the verb phrases in each of the groups 1-8 below can be used in combination with one of the nouns in
    the box. Write an appropriate noun from the box in each of the spaces. There is an example at the beginning
    (0).

    food drink hunger thirst meal dish stomach appetite eater

    0 prepare your favourite

    __dish___

    order a side

    1 have a raging

    ______________

    quench your

    2 feel faint with

    ______________

    satisfy your

    3 pick at

    _______________

    gulp down

    4 have a soft

    _______________

    go out for a celebratory

    5 work up a big

    _______________

    lose your
    6 be a fussy

    _______________

    be a big

    7 do smth. on a full

    _______________

    do smth. on an empty

    8 heat up a ready

    ________________

    have a square

    2 Study the collocations in exercise 1 for two minutes. Then look at the nouns in the box and cover the
    exercise. How many collocations can you remember?

    3 Use five of the collocations to write sentences about yourself and / or people you know.

    Example:

    Whenever I come home after a trip away, my mother prepares my favourite dish of lamb chops and fried
    potatoes.

    4 Complete each of the gaps with one of the prepositions from the box.

    at up off down up

    1 She heated _________ some of the previous day’s stew in the microwave.

    2 I polished _________ the remains of that chocolate cake when I got home last night – I was so hungry!

    3 When he noticed the time, he gulped _________ the rest of his tea and hurried out.

    4 She sat at the table looking sad and dejected, just picking ___________ her food.

    5 I often go for a run in the morning to work ____________ an appetite for breakfast.

    5 Expressions with eat

    Complete each of the expressions in bold by writing an appropriate noun from the box in each gap

    bird hand home horse profits words


    1 When my son and his family come to stay they usually eat us out of house and ___________: it costs us a
    small fortune!

    2 Judy, our accountant, has got the boss eating out of her __________: she can get him to do anything she
    wants.

    3 The increase in shoplifting from the company’s city centre stores has eaten into its __________ quite
    considerably.

    4 I always said he’d be a failure, but I was made to eat my __________ recently when I read he’d become a
    millionaire three times over.

    5 Is dinner nearly ready? I could eat a __________!

    6 I don’t know how that child puts on weight – she eats like a __________.

    6 Match each of the expressions in 1-6 of exercise 5 with an appropriate meaning a-e.

    Example: 1 c

    a make someone like you so much they do whatever you want

    b be forced to admit you were wrong about something

    c eat a lot of someone’s food when you are a guest in their home

    d eat very little

    e be extremely hungry

    f use up or reduce a part of something, especially time or money

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