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The history of chocolate
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Follow the stages of a historical development.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
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Words to know
- bean
- A seed from a plant, used as food.
- spicy
- With a strong, hot flavour.
- explorer
- A person who travels to unknown places.
Answer key
- Chocolate is made from the beans of the cocoa tree.“Cocoa” is said “koh-koh”.
- In Mexico and Central America, people made it into a bitter, spicy drink.“Made it into” means changed it into.
- Spanish explorers brought it to Europe in the sixteenth century.“Sixteenth” and “16th” are both accepted.
- Sugar was added to make it sweeter and more popular.“Was added” is a passive.
- Solid chocolate bars only appeared in the nineteenth century.“Nineteenth” and “19th” are both accepted.