Part 1 Question 1: Transcript: Did you sign up for the special workshop on Monday? (A) Yes, I’m looking forward to it
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1-ANSWERS OF MOCK. 26.11.22
PART 2
Answer & Audioscript 9 frost 10 worm 11 hand 12 bucket 13 leaves 14 stains 15 line / queue 16 lamps 17 ripe 18 pepper Audioscripts Thanks for inviting me to talk to you about my experiences of olive farming. I’m aware you’re thinking of doing this yourselves, so I’ll tell you about the oil production process as I’ve experienced it this year for the first time. Growing the olives went pretty smoothly, but every crop farmer falls victim to the weather at some point. I’d been lucky to get away with a generally mild winter, and fortunately the farm wasn’t damaged in the one violent storm there was. A sudden frost did claim a number of our trees, though, so their olives didn’t mature. I also found out that humans aren’t the only creatures which like olives! There are a few insects, such as the olive fly, which can hang around the fruit. I wasn’t bothered by them but I was by a certain species of worm. Fortunately these aren’t harmful to the olives, though. I picked the olives with help from my wife in autumn, and it was as challenging as you’d expect. Some methods are more efficient than others – I was tempted to pick them by using an electric-powered tool. In the end I opted to collect them by hand in order to maintain quality – though they can also be collected by machine – the trees are shaken and shaken and the olives fall. Traditionally, olives are collected straight from the tree into a basket. This keeps them in the best condition and they say it produces the best oil. Not having any, I used a bucket instead – and hoped it wouldn’t affect the olives too much! Once they were picked, the next step was cleaning the olives. I knew I’d have to select only the best ones for pressing – that’s the process where they’re squeezed to produce oil. Any with bruises I threw on the fire, and picking out leaves was possibly the most uninteresting job I’ve ever done – I was glad I didn’t need to take the olive stones out as well. I remember standing there after I’d finished sorting the olives. It was as though the kitchen had turned into a kind of temporary factory. There were boxes and trays everywhere. Everything was covered in stains – not just the tables but our clothes and skin, too. The next step was getting the olives to the busy press outside the village. I’d booked the first time slot, so we loaded up at dawn. I arrived on time but then confusingly had to sit in a line while trucks got waved in ahead of me. Whatever the system was, I clearly didn’t understand it. After only half an hour the old was bottled. The taste was disappointing to say the least. Olive oil is often used to pour over salads, but you wouldn’t have wanted to put my oil on anything! I knew it would be OK to use for cooking and my wife laughingly said we’d be able to burn it in lamps. My first attempt at oil production had not been the great success I’d imagined! What had gone wrong? I concluded that it must have been choosing the wrong time to pick the olives. We say that fruit becomes ripe when it’s ready to be picked, and this word is used to describe olives, too. But many of the olives in our first batch had gone past that point. We’d been waiting for them to grow bigger, and so picked them too late. That’s why there was so little flavour to my first oil. Hopefully next year, I’ll be much more successful! I’d like my oil to have that delicious pepper taste it should have. If that works, then the following year I might even try making some flavoured oils – chilli, garlic and herbs are great ingredients. I can’t wait! |
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