Food vocab
What's the meaning of BLAND in Spanish?
Soso
Doubt the truth or value of something
Take something with a pinch of salt
To compensate
Make up for
Rephrasing: You have two options: you can drink coffee or tea (EITHER)
You can drink either coffee or tea
Complete with the right form of the verb in brackets: When we saw the vegetables that __________(sell) at the market that morning, we thought it wasn't a good idea to buy anything from there. They looked horrible!
were being sold
How do you say ESCASEZ in English?
Shortage
Earn money to support your family
Bring home the bacon
To tolerate
Put up with
Rephrasing: I don't like bacon or ham (NEITHER)
I like neither bacon nor ham
Neither do I like bacon nor ham
Complete with the right form of the verb in brackets: By the end of next decade, global temperatures __________ (rise) by 2.5 degrees in a 200-year period.
will have risen
What's a synonym for GO BAD when talking about food?
GO OFF
A problem that is very difficult to solve, or a person who's very difficult to understand
(Be) a hard nut to crack
To avoid the negative results of
Get away with
Rephrasing: Don't speak to him; I warn you (BETTER)
You had better not speak to him
Rephrasing: Tom asked for his house to be painted last week. (HAD)
Tom had his house painted last week.
How do you say CAPRICHO in English?
TREAT
Fail or become unpleasant
Turn sour
To give the impression of
Come across as
Rephrasing: Aunt Mary didn't mind cold winds. She lived through it her whole life. (USED)
Turn into a reported-speech sentence: Claire asked Mario, "What time will you be coming home tomorrow"? [two months ago]
Claire asked Mario what time he would be coming home the day after / the following day /the next day
Name the verb corresponding to this definition: "feel a powerful desire for something, particularly food"
CRAVE
To try to do more than you can manage
Bite off more than you can chew
To find the time for
Get around to
Rephrasing: After spending 3 weeks by myself, I realised I had become accustomed to living alone. (GOT)
After spending 3 weeks by myself, I realised I had got used to living alone.
Rephrasing: "If you dropped out from the course, you'd get a bad reputation" --> Start the transformed sentence with WERE
Were you to drop out from the course, you'd get a bad reputation