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Word Power

creepers: plants with weak stems that grow delicious: tasty
along the ground roast: cook in dry heat

pulp: soft part inside a fruit stir: move in order to mix (with a spoon)

spit: throw out from the mouth discovered: found

Listening Skills

Listen to the text first. Your teacher will then read out the statements given below. Say

whether they are true or false.

1. The rain forest in Central America is home to the cocoa tree.

2. The monkeys ate the beans in the pods.

3. Choco drink tasted very sweet.

4. Francis Fry was an Englishman.

5. Chocolate has very few calories.

Comprehension Skills

A. Tick () the correct answer.

1. Chocolate was a big secret ______________.

a. hundred years ago b. thousand years ago

c. ten years ago

2. When a bean landed on the soil, ______________.

a. it grew into a cocoa tree b. it turned into a chocolate

c. it grew into a pod

3. A pile of rotting beans gave out a ______________.
a. bad smell b. delicious smell c. rotten smell

4. Henry Nestle showed how ______________.

a. chocolates could be made into different shapes

b. cocoa butter could be used to make chocolate hard

c. dried milk could be used to thicken the chocolate mix

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