MARCH 2022

Listening Part Three

THE MILLIONAIRE CHEF

1 Ayers

2 (from) (his) girlfriend

3 (in) 1998

4 (a) cooking competition

5 chocolate cake

6 fifty-two / 52

7 $14,000 / fourteen thousand dollars

8 T-shirts / (a) T-shirt

EXTRA TASK

1A, 2B, 3B, 4 I didn’t understand, 5 much / a lot, 6 20 or so / approximately 20 / about 20 / twenty-something

The Puzzler

QUOTATION MAZE

The first verse of “The Walrus and the Carpenter” by Lewis Carroll:

The sun was shining on the sea

Shining with all his might

He did his very best to make

The billows smooth and bright

And this was odd, because it was

The middle of the night.

WORD WHEEL

Note: This is not a complete list – we have excluded most rare or obsolete words.

deft, dent, diet, dine, done, dote, edit, fend, fine, neon, nine, node, none, note, tend, tide, tied, tine, toed, tone, feint, f(o)etid, fiend, fined, indie, noted, often, tenon, tined, toned, tonne, finite, finned, indent, intend, intone, iodine, tendon, tinned, edition, intoned, infinite, notified

The ten‑letter word: definition

RIDDLES

1 The moon

2 Your mood

3 Breath

4 A bridge

The Masters of Nonsense

“The Quangle-Wangle’s Hat”: bibbons

“Jabberwocky”: uffish, Jabberwock, whiffling, tulgey

B2 Language Practice

THE BEAUTY OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN

1 visitors

2 invasion

3 notably

4 replaced

5 Luckily

6 architectural

7 charming

8 executions

9 inhabitants

10 imprisoned

PEOPLE OF THE MOUNTAINS

1T – they are better adapted to the Himalayas; c

2F – Slovak sherpas are not ethnic Sherpas; d

3F – settled in the last 400 years; a

4F – there is no competition; e

5T – Nepal was closed to Western tourists; b

6F – some have summited more than 20 times; c