Autumn food festivals - Module 6

C2 Proficiency · Word Formation · Expert Proficiency, Pearson Education

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in CAPITALS at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

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SPOIL

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DIVERSE

COMPARE

RICH

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Autumn is the season of food festivals in Europe, giving food (0) ___ the world over the chance to combine travel with their favourite pastime. From the Helsinki Baltic Herring Fair to the Living Food Festival in Scotland, different regions celebrate their local produce. Restaurants demonstrate their culinary (1) ___ , offering visitors tasting sessions at knock-down prices. Some regions even offer cookery (2) ___ , where people can learn to make some local recipes under the supervision of well-known chefs. One particularly popular destination is the Invito a Pranzo ('Come for lunch') festival held in Friuli, a wonderfully (3) ___ mountainous region on the Italian border with Slovenia. Against this magnificent (4) ___ , twelve local restaurants serve up delicious dishes ranging from river trout to wild boar and venison. Their gastronomic delights are infused with the (5) ___ of wild herbs and berries that grow in the surrounding forests. The (6) ___ flavour of the chestnut and porcini soup is not to be missed, and the otherwise simple home-made pasta is (7) ___ with nettles. So, if you wish to allow yourself a little (8) ___ this autumn, you could do worse than head for Italy.

Autumn food festivals

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