Revision Exercises

Reading
The vegetarian option
1 Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)? Circle your
answers.
1 Vegetarians don’t eat any meat T / F
2 70% of people in India don’t eat any meat. T / F
3 Eating a lot of meat is bad for our planet. T / F
4 People eat vegetarian food around the world. T / F
2 Read the magazine article and check your answers to
exercise 1.


The vegetarian option

In today’s food column, we look at vegetarian food. It’s a popular option in restaurants

around the world, but what exactly is a vegetarian?

Vegetarians, semi-vegetarians and vegans

Vegetarians don’t eat any meat or fish. That is clear, but there are different types of

vegetarian. Vegans, for example, don’t eat any animal products, so vegan food doesn’t

have any cheese, eggs or milk in it. Other people are semi-vegetarians and eat some fish

but don’t eat any meat.

Why be a vegetarian?

About 70% of the world’s vegetarians live in India, where about 30% of the population

are vegetarians. A lot of these people are Hindus, so religion is an important reason for

eating vegetarian food.

Other people eat vegetarian food to help our planet. We eat a lot of meat, and to make

the space to produce it, we need to cut down trees and plants, and that’s bad for the

environment. Also, to produce 1 kilo of meat, an animal needs 8 kilos of vegetarian

food. It’s better for the global population if we eat this food.

There are also vegetarians who think it’s wrong to eat animals, or who eat vegetarian

food because it’s healthy.

A global option

For all these reasons, vegetarian food has a good future. Between 3 and 7% of people

in the UK are vegetarian, and 86% of the population eat vegetarian food one or two

days a week. In Brazil the figure is between 5 and 10%. And Ghent, in Belgium, is the

first city in the world to have one official vegetarian day every week.

Glossary

• cut down (verb) – to make a tree fall to the ground
• Hindu (noun) – a person who follows Hinduism,
• the major religion in India
• produce (verb) – to make or grow
• religion (noun) – Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and
• Christianity are examples of a religion
• wrong (adjective) – bad, not good

Complete the questions with the correct option. Then
answer the questions.


1 How much / many reasons does the article mention for
eating vegetarian food?
2 How much / many food does an animal eat to produce a
kilo of meat?
3 How much / many people in the UK are vegetarians?
4 How much / often does Ghent have a vegetarian day?


5 Complete the description with any, some, much, many or
a lot of.





VEGETARIAN,NOT VEGETARIAN

‘I’m a flexitarian. I’m not a vegetarian, but I don’t

eat (1)....................... meat, just one or two times

a week. I eat (2)....................... vegetarian food –

two or three times a day – , and I also eat

(3).............................. fish for lunch or dinner two

days a week. I don’t eat (4).......................... fruit

because I hate it.

I don’t have (5)......................... reasons for being

a flexitarian – just one, in fact. Vegetarian food is

good for the planet. There are (6).......................

people in the world who need more food – millions

of people – and vegetarian food is more economical

to produce.

Celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens 2012

WAYS TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH EASILY

 Easy Ways to Improve Your English

1. Learn a new word or expression every day and try to use it in a sentence.

2. Read a book over the holidays. Try setting yourself the goal of just 10 pages a day.

3. Sign up for a language-learning newsletter and receive free content via e-mail or mobile phone text messages.

4. Listen to or read the lyrics to a song. Once you’ve learnt it, sing along to the song… or sing it to some friends.

5. Learn as many words as you can from one lexical set: the computer, sports, hobbies, pets, the pub, etc.

6. Watch a DVD in English with the English subtitles switched on.

7. Try watching a film that you’ve already seen in your own language. You’ll find it much easier to follow.

8. Write updates on your Facebook or Twitter page in English. Alternatively, write a blog in English and share it with your friends.

9. As you’re doing something, describe what it is in English. For example, “I’m writing a report. / I’m sending an e-mail. / I’m jogging in the park.”

10. Speak in English with your friends for ten minutes every day.

11. Get someone to have a conversation with him/her for an hour a week. Foreign students in most towns or cities would be more than happy to earn €10 to €15 an hour just for chatting.

12. Read an article online in your own language. Then, copy and paste the text into “Google Translate” and translate it into English. Once you’ve done that, read the English translation of the article. As you’ve already read it in your own language, you’ll be amazed at how much you understand.

Have fun! And happy learning.

How often do you wash your hands a day?

Here you have a list with questions of the type "How often do you.....? 
Answer them using :
(always, never, often, once a day.........).
If you need examples have a look at this link: ADVERBIOS DE FRECUENCIA [ you'll find examples translated ]

• How often do you travel?
• How often do you wake up in the middle of the night?
• How often do you go to the dentist?
• How often do you go to church?
• How often do you eat candies?
• How often do you go to the doctor?
• How often do you say "I Love you" to your parents?
• How often do you take your English book to study?
• How often do you practice sports?
• How often do you brush your teeth?
• How often do you listen to music?
• How often do you read?
• How often do you go to the shopping mall?
• How often do you buy clothes?
• How often do you eat fast food?
• How often do you have English classes?
• How often do you go out with your friends?
• How often do you go to the movies?
• How often do you go for a walk?
• How often do you use the Internet?