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Topic: FOOD AND DRINK

Complete these colloquial expressions.

1

We've got some officials coming over next week who we're intending to ........ and dine.

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b)
c)
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2

The restaurant was lovely and the fish was done to a .........

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b)
c)
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3

I told you not to put too much on your plate children. Your ........ are bigger than your belly.

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b)
c)
Well done! If your 'eyes are bigger than your belly' you put more food on your plate than you can eat.Sorry, try again.Your answer has been saved.
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Now complete the gaps with the missing words.

4

A) If you want to win him round to your way of thinking you should wine and him and his wife.

B) I've only ever once tasted steak that was to a turn and that was in that restaurant we went to on holiday.

C) I'm sorry but I'm full up. My eyes must be bigger than my !

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Make them your own!

1) If someone were to wine and dine you, what would be the best thing they could serve you with?
2) Are you able to cook meat or fish that is done to a turn?
3) Are your eyes bigger than your belly or are you always able to empty your plate?