6A  Food preparation

(Chuẩn bị thức ăn)

1  Complete the recipe with the verbs below. Use a dictionary to help you.

(Hoàn thành công thức nấu ăn với các động từ bên dưới. Hãy sử dụng từ điển để giúp bạn.)

No-bake cheesecake

¹_________some butter in a pan over a medium heat. Finely ²_________some biscuits and ³_________to the butter in the pan. Then put the mixture into a cake tin.

⁴_________some cream cheese and icing sugar together until they are soft. ⁵_________the cream until it is stiff and add to the cream cheese. ⁶_________in some chopped chocolate pieces.

Then ⁷_________the mixture over the biscuit base and put in the fridge to cool.

6C  Fitness idioms

(Thành ngữ thể hình)

2  Match the idioms below with the definitions (1-8). Use a dictionary to help you.

(Nối các thành ngữ dưới đây với định nghĩa (1-8). Hãy sử dụng từ điển để giúp bạn.)

be fighting fit   

be in good / bad shape   

be on the mend

get back into shape   

go down with something

have a new lease of life   

look the picture of health

look / be under the weather

1  to be in poor / excellent physical condition __________________.

2  to feel not quite well or in low spirits __________________.

3  to get some exercise and become fit again __________________

4  to become ill __________________.

5  to appear extremely well and healthy __________________.

6  to be recovering after an illness __________________.

7  to have an opportunity to live with greater enjoyment and satisfaction __________________.

8  to be very healthy and physically fit __________________.

3  Complete the sentences with idioms from exercise 2 in the correct form.

(Hoàn thành các câu với thành ngữ ở bài tập 2 ở dạng đúng.)

1  Hello, Mrs White. I must say, you __________________! Have you been on holiday?

2  What’s wrong with Tim? He’s been looking a bit fed up and __________________ lately.

3  I’ve just weighted myself and I was horrified. I’m pretty __________________, it seem.

4  Let’s join the gym again. I need to __________________ for the summer.

5  I’ve had terrible flu, but I think I __________________ now, thank goodness.

6  She’s shivering and she’s got a temperature. She must be __________________ with something.

7  My grandad had __________________ after his hip operation. He was so happy he could move about again.

8  I can’t wait for the 10 km race. I’m __________________ and ready to go.