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CHOCOLATE REVEALED
The secrets of the success of chocolate. By Patrick Howarth
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. So, you need to buy some dark chocolate. Then, you if you are “lost”, you don’t know
how to do something, or you don’t
should follow these five tips from connoisseur chocolate understand it
4 Language focus makers Ghirardelli. They say that when choosing a brain n
the organ in your head that you use
Raise versus Rise chocolate, you need to use all five senses: for thinking
an optiate n
Look at this extract from the article, “...that the a drug containing opium or one of
anandamide in chocolate raises levels of the 1. Sight: good chocolate has its natural or synthetic derivatives
to raise vb
chemical in our brain.” The writer has used the verb a shine to it. to increase
to raise. This verb is a transitive verb (it requires an object). to slow down phr vb
if X “slows down” Y, X makes Y
However, to rise is an intransitive verb (it doesn’t require 2. Smell: rub the chocolate with your happen more slowly and not so
quickly
an object). Complete the following sentences with a finger to release the aroma. It should a tip n
conjugated form of either raise or rise. have a deep chocolate smell. advice / information
to have a shine to it exp
1. The sun in the east. if something “has a shine to it”, it is
2. The government interest 3. Sound: when you break a piece of chocolate it bright and clean
deep adj
rates last week. should snap crisply, creating a sound similar to a “deep” smell is a strong, powerful
smell
3. The level of the water if you that of a thin piece of wood being broken. to snap vb
put the stones in the container. to break
crisply adv
4. They want to standards of 4. Touch: the chocolate should melt easily in your if something breaks “crisply”, it
literacy in schools. mouth becoming a thick liquid. breaks cleanly, completely and easily
to melt vb
when a solid “melts”, it becomes
5 Discussion 5. Taste: good chocolate should not taste too sweet a liquid
thick adj
1. What’s your favourite brand of chocolate? or too bitter. not thin
sweet adj
Why? with sugar
2. What’s your favourite sweet or dessert? So, why don’t you go out and buy some chocolate and bitter adj
a taste that is not sweet, and slightly
3. How much chocolate do you eat a week? put it to the test! unpleasant
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