Vocabulary and grammar: Notes from a big country

Vinsight Containers

2Choose the correct words. 

• 1Are you going to the supermarket? Could you get me a boxcartonpacket of milk?

• 2This jarcantube of toothpaste is empty. Throw it away.

• 3I'm sure there was a packetbottlecarton of biscuits in this cupboard.

• 4Put that tubebagbox of flour away. You don't need flour to make an omelette.

• 5I can't open this bottlejarcan of jam. Could you help me, please?

• 6I'd like a boxbottletube of mineral water and a chicken salad, please.

• 7One cartonbagcan of cola a week isn't too bad, but you mustn't drink too much.

• 8There's a boxtubejar of tissues in the kitchen. Could you bring me some, please?

Relative pronouns and adverbs

3Choose the correct words. 

• 1The first American supermarket, whowhich opened in 1930, was called King Kullen.

• 2It was a place thatwhere people could buy cheap food, so it quickly became popular.

• 3The person whowhen owned the supermarket was Michael Cullen, a forty-six-year-old American.

• 4Michael, whosewhere parents were Irish immigrants, lived in Queens, New York City.

• 5Before he opened King Kullen, Michael worked for a company whothat sold tea and coffee.

• 6By 1936, the year whowhen Cullen died, there were more than 1,200 supermarkets in eighty-five American cities.

Relative pronouns and adverbs

4Complete the text with who, which, whose, when or where. In which five sentences can you also use that? 

Food revolution

Jamie Oliver is a British chef 

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TV shows and cookery books are popular in many countries around the world. In his recipes, he always tries to use ingredients 

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are fresh and organic, because he thinks processed foods are really bad. For one of his shows, called Jamie's Food Revolution, he travelled to Huntington, West Virginia. It is a town 

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people eat a lot of junk food and it is officially one of the unhealthiest towns in the USA. Jamie's show taught people how to make meals 

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are healthy.

Jamie is also the person 

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started the famous Fifteen restaurant. The restaurant, 

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is in north London, serves delicious Italian food. It is a place 

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young people from poor families can train to become chefs. In 2002, the year 

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the restaurant first opened, Jamie chose fifteen unemployed young people 

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needed help, and gave them a second chance. The project was very successful. Many of the students 

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trained at the restaurant later found jobs, and some even started their own restaurants and appeared in TV shows.

You can also use that in:

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Relative pronouns and adverbs

5Add a relative pronoun or adverb to each sentence. Which sentences do not need the pronoun? 

• 1The mushrooms we bought yesterday weren't fresh.

• 2What's the name of the woman wrote The Hunger Games?

• 3I can't find the key opens this door.

• 4July and August are the months most people go on holiday.

• 5I'd like to speak to the person cooked this meal.

• 6The Italian town Parma, my father was born, is famous for the ham they make.

• 7The cookery book you gave me is very good.

• 8The happiest day in my life was the day I became a vegetarian.

• The sentences that do not need the pronoun are:  ,  ,  and 

6  Write about a famous chef you know about. What kind of food do they cook? What ingredients do they use? Do they do other things, e.g. appear in TV shows and adverts, write cookery books, etc?

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