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Delicious Pie

Unit 1: Photograph

An Italian Proverb

He who never fails never grows rich.

Unit 2: Reading

Delicious Pie

We were two Australian student nurses training at an English hospital. During visiting hours, we would take a break in the ward kitchen and often a kindly visitor would slip us a cake or some chocolate.
One night a woman brought a pork pie to the kitchen and asked me, "Would you 'eat this up, love?" My friend and I ate every crumb and were delighted--until the woman returned and asked, "Is my 'usband's pie 'ot yet, dear?"

Vocabulary Practice

Mark the best choice.

1) 'Ward' here means .......

• a) a kind of cooker
• b) head nurse
• c) a part in a hospital
• d) temperature

2) To 'Slip' here means to ......

• a) divide
• b) give secretly
• c) move slowly
• d) get worse

3) 'Pork' means meat from ......

• a) cow
• b) sheep
• c) hen
• d) pig

4) 'Crumb' means a ......

• a) kind of fresh fruit
• b) very big piece of pie
• c) very small bit of bread, cake, etc.
• d) person who works in a hospital

5) 'Delighted' means .......

• a) very angry
• b) quite tired
• c) pretty dark
• d) very pleased