Learning to make a perfect pizza

According to the European Pizza-Makers' Association, making a good pizza is not a straightforward skill to learn. The ingredients seem very simple: flour, yeast, water and a bit of salt. (31)_____, water and flour can easily(32)_____ a rather unappetizing gluey mix, and anyone who has eaten a (33)_____ quality pizza will know how bad it can make your stomach (34)_____.

'In Italy, 70 per cent of pizza makers could improve on their product, not to (35)_____ all the pizza makers around the world who (36)_____ uneatable meals,' says Antonio Primiceri, the Association's founder. He has now started a pizza school in an attempt to (37)_____ the reputation of this traditional dish. As part of an (38)_____course, the students at Mr Primiceri's school are taught to (39)_____ common mistakes, produce a good basic mixture, add a tasty topping and cook the pizza properly. 'Test the finished pizza by breaking the crust,' advises Mr Primiceri. 'If the soft (40)_____ inside the pizza is white, clean and dry, it's a good pizza. If it is not like this, the pizza will (41)_____ your stomach. You will feel (42)_____ full and also thirsty.'

31	A However	B Despite	C Although	D Conversely
32	A make out	B take up	C put out	D turn into
33	A sad	B poor	C short	D weak
34	A sense	B do	C feel	D be
35	A state	B mention	C remark	D tell
36	A submit	B give	C provide	D deal
37	A save	B hold	C deliver	D return
38	A extensive	B extreme	C intensive	D intentional
39	A pass	B escape	C miss	D avoid
40	A spot	B part	C side	D slice
41	A worry	B upset	C ache	D depress
42	A discouragingly	B tightly	C uncomfortably	D heavily

 

Listening Comprehension Test for 11^th Form Students

 

I. Questions 1 through 10 (on your answer sheet put “T” if the statement is true, “F” if it is false).

1. The Notting Hill Carnival is a celebration of the victory of democracy.
2. It happens at the Bank holiday weekend every May.
3. Approximately one million people attend the carnival.
4. It is a great multi-cultural festival taking place in Notting Hill.
5. There are three live stages of the carnival where high quality music goes on.
6. A range of 250 different cuisines is represented in the carnival.
7. Every spectator is a participant in the carnival.
8. The costume bands are made up of seventy per cent men.
9. What makes the Notting Hill Carnival special is that it is spontaneous and it includes everybody.
10. Every spectator is expected to contribute and be creative in the carnival.

II. O n your answer sheet circle the correct letter A, B, C, or D.

11. The Notting Hill Carnival is…

  a) a religious festival

  b) a celebration of freedom from slavery

  c) an annual Bank holiday

  d) a folk music festival.

12. There are… main artistic disciplines in the carnival       

a) two

b) three

c) four

d) five

13. One of two main artistic disciplines in the carnival is the pan which are the steel …

a) artists

b) bands

c) live statues

d) clowns

14. The calypsonians are…

a) the reporters or raconteurs of carnival

b) the dancers

c) the food stalls

d) the participants in fancy dress

15. Nothing is charged for in the carnival, except for the…

a) fireworks

b) souvenirs

c) food

d) tickets

16. There are seventy costume… in the carnival.

a) dance groups

b) bands

c) foreign delegations

d) actors and actresses

17. What makes the Notting Hill Carnival special is that…

a) it is a religious festival

b) it reflects the spirit of the British people

c) it is spontaneous and it includes everybody

d) it is the only time of the year when the weather is warm.

18. For a tourist coming to the carnival, the experience isn’t necessarily…

a) a useful one

b) a great one

c) a planned one

d) a useless one

19. As a spectator at the carnival you are expected…

a) to act in a play

b) to sing a folk song

c) to dance, jig a little

d) to recite a poem

20. The main goal of the Notting Hill Carnival is…

a) to entertain people

b) to let people dance, sing

c) to free up people’s spirit

d) to make people relax

Tapescript 11

The Notting Hill Carnival happens at the bank holiday weekend every August. The carnival is really a religious festival, but our carnival is a celebration of our ancestors' freedom from slavery. We commemorate that in the carnival activity. We brought that with us from Trinidad, where it is a huge pre-Lenten festival that would normally take place in February, or March, but the reason why we have it at August bank holiday here in England is because, one, it's a bank holiday weekend, and two, it is the only time of the year you can guarantee warm weather.

Approximately two million people attend the carnival from all walks of life, all races, all creeds. We have the English, the Irish, the Greeks, the Spanish, the Caribbean people, the Africans, and all of them contribute towards making the carnival what it is today, a great multi-cultural festival that takes place in the streets of Notting Hill.

 There are five main artistic disciplines in carnival. They are the mas. short for masquerade, the costume bands in carnival; then we have the pan which are the steel bands; and then we have the static sound systems. These are like steel bands to be found on street corners and they cater for more contemporary forms of celebration, so you'll find jazz music, pop music, rap music, reggae music, whatever, being played on those static sound systems, and then there are the calypsonians who are the reporters or raconteurs of carnival who will make up calypsos on any theme that affects us in society, like the senior citizens, like the crime rate, like the interest rate, whatever, they will make a song or calypso about it. These disciplines are found in the main in carnival, added to that there are three live stages of carnival where very high quality music goes on.

 Nothing is charged for in carnival, except of course the food you eat, and the food is provided by 250 food stalls that are scattered across the carnival area, and those food stalls represent a range of different cuisines. So for a tourist coming to carnival, the experience isn't necessarily a planned one, you just have to go with the flow of the crowd and you know, we have a saying in carnival, 'You do not come to carnival just to spectate, every spectator is a participant.' So you. as a spectator, you're expected to dance, jig a little and add to the general atmosphere and the culture of carnival. Freeing up your spirit to celebrate your freedom as an individual.

We have over seventy costume bands in carnival, each one with over a hundred players in them. Each band is allowed to choose their own theme for the particular carnival and then they have to make costumes that reflect that theme. The bands are made up of, I would say, seventy per cent women, because it is the women who tend to be able to make the costumes, because they can sew, and who tend to take costume-wearing certainly more seriously than the men do. There is no embarrassment, whereas the men feel embarrassed about prancing around in a leotard.

What makes the Notting Hill Carnival special is that it is, by and large, spontaneous and it includes everybody. No spectator stands and spectates. Every spectator is expected to contribute and in contributing you express yourself, you find yourself. You can be as creative as possible and that makes it different.

 

Writing Test for 11^h Form Students

You should use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with relevant evidence.

1. Discuss the difference between a play in the theatre or a novel and their screen version. What do you like and what do you dislike about the screen version of the book you admire?

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