Food Vocabulary and Shopping Guide
Food Vocabulary and Shopping Guide
REMEMBER BETTER
VOCABULARY
To remember the names of containers in which certain
2.1 Food containers • food products
• phrases related to food
products are sold, learn them as chunks (a container
and a sample product together), e.g. I’ve got some
chocolate. I’ve got a bar of chocolate.
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about the food you can see in the fridge. Check any
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new words in a dictionary.
1 Decide which word is different to the others in In my fridge, there is: In my fridge, there are:
groups 1–4. What kind of food is it? Find the right 1 a carton of milk 3
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3 juice onion tea a long walk to get there. Have you got a drink?
4 ice cream strawberry apple Chris: Yes. I’ve got some cola.
Lisa: Cola! That isn’t healthy. I’ve got two small
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ketchup lemonade milk potatoes tins of chocolate, two 4tins / jars / cans of cola
tuna white chocolate and a 5box / packet / jar of crisps.
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4 4 Look at Word Stores 2A and 2B in the Student’s Book.
Complete the expressions.
Four a c _ _ s of ______
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1a bag of potatoes / /
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A large ab _ r of ______
b
6 2a bar of
3a bottle of /
A ab _ _ _ _ e of ______
b
7 4a can of /
5a carton of / /
A at _ b of strawberry ______
b
8 6a jar of / /
7a loaf of
A a c _ _ _ _ n of ______
b
9 8a packet of / / /
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9 a tin of /
10 a tub of
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5 Complete the text with the words from the box.
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bag bars bottle dish jar packet (x2)
tin tub For some food products, we use different words in British
and American English, e.g.
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biscuits cookies
sweets candies
to use a quarter of a cup. I want a 3 2 If you’re going to the shops, could you get me
of onions, but I only need to use one. I also need a carton of , please?
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of chocolate for your friends or family. jar loaf packet tins tub
In a supermarket …
Mr Jenkins: Well, here we are at the supermarket.
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from the box. There is one extra word. of potatoes, onions, tomatoes, five
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of milk, a 2 of
food have them for dessert spaghetti, water and two 3 of
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get a takeaway ingredients make a snack tuna. OK. You get the vegetables, and I’ll
get the rest.
Amy: I’m hungry. Mr Jenkins: OK, OK ...
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Liz: What do you do when you’re hungry? Do you Five minutes later …
make a snack?
Mr Jenkins: … I’ve got everything.
Amy: Yes, sometimes, when I have the
1 Can we pay and go now?
that I need, but today I want
Mrs Jenkins: No, I forgot to get a 4 of
to 2 .
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cream!
this evening.
Mrs Jenkins: Oh, Harry …
Amy: OK. I’ve got some strawberries.
Mr Jenkins: For dessert!
We can 3 .
Liz: Not ice cream? /10
Amy: No. Not after a big Indian dinner.
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GRAMMAR 4 Complete the questions and short answers.
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Alex: . One or two a month.
S G R E T H N H O Maggie: And 6 cheese do you eat?
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Alex: . Just a little bit on
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E E E N P O F R U
a Saturday evening.
M N A P P L E Y R Maggie: OK. Last question. 8 hot
S O D H O T D O G dogs do you eat a week?
Alex: Hot dogs? Yuk. I don’t eat 9 hot dogs
or hamburgers. I hate fast food.
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egg
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are some / is any cheese in the fridge. of packets in the kitchen. About twenty, I think.
Sian: Great! Er ...2Is there any / Is there some / Brett: Twenty! Wow. And have we got any cola?
Are there any mushrooms? I can’t see them. Tanya: Yes. Not 3 . One or two bottles.
Peter: Mushrooms. Oh, no. I forgot. Brett: Oh. Why not more?
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Sian: And there 3isn’t some / aren’t some / isn’t any Tanya: Well, there is 4 lot of juice and
spaghetti. 5
many of our guests drink cola.
Peter: Oh. Brett: OK, you know best. Oh, here’s the phone
Sian: So, no spaghetti bolognese for us today. What number of the pizza restaurant. We can order
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LISTENING LANGUAGE PRACTICE
2.3 Preparing food • cooking verbs
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How / it / make / you / do 1–5 in the text in Exercise 1 and decide whether the
How do you make it? words are adjectives (A) or nouns (N).
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3 olive d dog
4 tomato e sauce
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KG: For the first recipe you just need eggs, potatoes I love fruit pancakes. My favourites are with
and olive oil. It’s called a Spanish omelette. strawberries. What are your favourite kinds?
P: How do you make it? 1 When you have a , do you put
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KG: There are many different ways. But this is how you mustard or ketchup on it?
make a healthy Spanish omelette. First, slice four 2 In Italy, they often put on bread. I
potatoes. Then boil the potatoes in some water. know it’s unhealthy, but I prefer butter. Which do you
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After that, put the potatoes in a bowl, add some prefer on your bread?
eggs and mix together. 3 Some people always call ketchup.
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P: OK, so you mix all the ingredients. A ? Do you put ketchup on a lot of food?
KG: You need six eggs for four people. So, mix the 4 For lunch, I often have two .
eggs with the potatoes. Then put some olive (N) Sometimes, I have ham.
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oil ( ) into a pan. Fry the omelette on both sides. 5 I always have with lots of milk on
And that’s it – your 2Spanish ( ) 3omelette ( ) them for breakfast.
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is ready! Eat it with some salad for a really healthy 6 Jenny: This is a lovely . Thank you.
meal. Mum: Well, it’s a special day. You’re eighteen. An adult.
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dessert is pancakes. B ?
KG: Yes, I’ve got a very easy recipe for 4fruit ( )
1 Fry / Slice the omelette for one minute
on
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pancakes ( ).
on each side.
P: Cool. C ?
KG: Some fruit, for example some bananas and
strawberries. Then you need one cup of flour, 2 Mix / Chop the fruit into small
one cup of milk and one egg. Plus some oil. pieces and put them into a bowl.
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pancakes.
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4 Slice / Mix the eggs with the potatoes,
KG: You mix the flour, milk
then add salt and pepper.
and the egg together.
Then you put some oil
into a pan. When it is 5 Chop / Fry the meat for about 5 minutes.
hot, you put some of Be careful not to let it burn.
the mixture into the
pan and make a pancake. You fry it on both sides. 6 Slice / Boil the cheese thinly and put it
Take it out of the pan and put the fruit on top. on the bread.
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READING
2.4 Unusual restaurants
• food adjectives • food
‘How much is it?’ In some restaurants, the answer is: ‘What you want to pay.’
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in Vienna. You go down some stairs lunch. The menu has choices of
to a small room with seats for about starters — my favourite is the mixed
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fifty people. There are no menus and green salad, main course — fish,
no waiters. The food is in large, hot, meat or vegetarian, and dessert.
containers on a table and you take But, it doesn’t have any prices.
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what you want. The meal then costs That’s because you can pay what you
want. The restaurant asks for $10 or
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is healthy and local. The restaurant are four Lentil As Anything restaurants
even has a garden and grows a lot of in the city. Nine hundred people eat in
the vegetables that they use in their the restaurant in the Abbotsford
what you want to pay. The traditional, meals. district of the city every day. The
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Pakistani food is delicious, but be restaurants are open all day and you
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careful, some of it is very spicy! Try can eat breakfast, lunch and dinner
the Methi Gajar — spicy but sweet there. They are friendly places where
vegetables — and, of course, some you can chat to other customers,
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Pakistani rice. The restaurant isn’t listen to good music and, when you
only a ‘pay-what-you-want’ restaurant leave, you put some money in a box.
but also a ‘play what you want’ The food is healthy and delicious.
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restaurant. In the evenings, you can They don’t serve meat but you can
take a djembe, an African drum, and find great food with other ingredients
play music with others. It’s a really like pumpkin. Their pumpkin curry is
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GLOSSARY
drum (n) – a musical instrument played by hitting chat (v) – talk in a friendly, informal way
it with your hand or a stick customer (n) – someone who buys goods or services
grow (v) – to make plants develop and produce fruit or from a shop, restaurant, etc.
flowers or become big enough to eat pumpkin (n) – a large, orange vegetable that is popular
district (n) – an area of a town at Halloween
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1 Read the text and decide which restaurant A–C
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is best for customers 1–4. One customer doesn’t have
a suitable restaurant.
The word meal means everything we eat, e.g. for breakfast
1 ‘I love hot food from China and India. I’d like or dinner. Some meals, e.g. dinner, consist of courses, e.g.
to try food from a different country in Asia.’ soup, meat and vegetables, dessert. The word ingredients
2 ‘I don’t eat meat. I think it is wrong to kill animals for means the food items a particular dish is made from, e.g.
food. I don’t even like seeing other people eat meat.’ to make spaghetti bolognese or Yorkshire pudding (a dish)
3 ‘I love traditional English breakfasts with we need cheese and tomatoes, or flour, milk and eggs
sausages, bacon and fried eggs.’ (ingredients).
4 ‘I haven’t got a job. I have a lot of time in the
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2 Read the text again. Match questions 1–9 with the text on page 28 under the correct heading.
the restaurants. Write DWD (Der Weiner Deewan),
Meals of the day Courses Dishes Ingredients
SK (Soul Kitchen) or LAA (Lentil As Anything).
breakfast
Where …
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5 can you play music? 6 Complete the sentences with one word in each gap.
6 can you eat at any time of the day? The first letters are given.
7 can you get a three-course meal?
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chat eat go (×2) listen pay play 4 I’m sorry, we don’t have rice. We only serve
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When I’m on holiday, I always eat in small, local It smells terrible! But it tastes much better than it smells,
restaurants. they say.
1 I’ve got the chance to the guitar some In Cambodia – a country in Southeast Asia – a very popular
really good musicians. s f is spiders. I’ve heard they
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2 Where do you want to dinner? taste like chicken. Would you like to eat hákarl or fried
3 My dad always the meal when we go spiders for your m ?
out to a restaurant with the whole family.
4 To get to the toilet, the stairs and turn
left.
5 The tables in the restaurant are very big, so you can
meet other people and them.
6 Jan likes it when she can Spanish
music in real Spanish restaurants.
Hákarl
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GRAMMAR 4 Each sentence has one mistake.
2.5 Articles
Find the mistake and correct it.
I don’t eat the meat but I eat a lot of vegetables. –
1 The shops in this town don’t sell an ingredients
I need.
2 I live in the town in southern England.
3 We’ve got a pizza for lunch but the pizza has got
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mushrooms on it and I don’t like the mushrooms.
1 Write a or an before the nouns. 4 We stay in a small town in the Italy every August.
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2 potato 7 onion
3 orange 8 pizza Do you like food that they sell at café in Market
4 carrot 9 ingredient Street?
Do you like the food that they sell at the café in
Market Street?
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2 Choose the correct word. 1 I need onion for this dinner but I haven’t got any and
shops near here aren’t open.
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aunt’s house is in 2 city centre. Bristol is 3 exciting We always go there on the way back to
city. There are 4 lot of restaurants and we always eat the hotel from the beach.
in one when we stay with my aunt. Near her house, there Melanie: So what are those things on your plate?
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is 5 Chinese restaurant, 6 Indian restaurant, Jason: They are churros. They are Spanish cakes.
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two Italian restaurants and 8 Moroccan Melanie: So, you like 5 Spanish cakes, eh?
restaurant. 9 Moroccan restaurant is my favourite. Jason: I love all cakes, from England, Spain,
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food there is amazing. I love 11 Moroccan food. Germany – everywhere.
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SPEAKING
2.6 Ordering food
SPEAKING BANK
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Ordering food
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Large or small?
3 your / meal / Enjoy
Anything else? .
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It’s … (+ price)
6 Yes, / a / like / hot dog / I’d
Here you are. .
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8 else / Anything
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2 Complete the sentences with the prices in words. 4 Look at the sentences in Exercise 3. Decide who says
Use the verb be in the correct form. them: the customer (C) or the waiter (W).
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Customer:
Tuna £3.89 Tea Waiter: 4
45p Waiter: 6
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Customer:
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Waiter:
Menu Customer: Thanks.
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Hot dog 6 Complete the dialogue with one word in each gap.
€3.00
Waiter: Are you ready to order?
Cheese €3.50 Customer: Yes, please. I’d 1 a hot dog.
sandwich
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C a birthday party
D an after-exams party
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Tom! SHOW THAT YOU’VE CHECKED
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are you? I’m fine. It’s my birthday next week.
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Finished? Always check your writing.
you like to come to my party? It’s 4 Friday at my Can you tick √ everything on this list?
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house. you come?
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3 A Do B Are C Would
4 A at B in C on • I have invited my friend to my party.
5 A Do B Can C Are
• I have given the details about the party.
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at delicious hope let love party • I have used an appropriate ending, e.g. Love,
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Hi Mary,
How are things? • I have used emoticons and/or acronyms
Do you 1 to come to our 2 ? It’s on (info / CU / gr8), but not too many.
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Saturday 4 p.m. at the pizza restaurant in
• I have checked my spelling.
Turner Road. The pizzas there are 4 . It’s an
aer-exams party – no-one talks about school or exams! • My text is neat and clear.
I5 you can come. Email or 6 me and
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me know.
Best 8 .
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2.8 EXAM SPEAKING
4 Do you play a musical instrument? 5 What’s your favourite local food? Why?
5 Do you enjoy going for a run? Why?/Why not?
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PART 2
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In pairs, ask and answer the questions. 4 What’s your favourite type of street food? Why?
1 How do you make pancakes? 5 Is it healthy to eat a lot of fast food? Why?/Why not?
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2 How often do you eat vegetarian food? 6 Do you like eating spicy food? Why?/Why not?
3 Do you prefer eating vegetables or meat? Why? 7 Which of these types of food do you like best? Why?
3 Read the instructions on your card. In pairs, take turns to role-play the conversation.
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Student A Student B
You are the waiter in a restaurant. You’re in a restaurant and Student A is the
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Ask Student B the questions. waiter. You want to order the grilled salmon
• Say hello and ask Student B if he/she and potatoes and some orange juice. Answer
is ready to order. Student A’s questions.
• Ask what he/she would like to eat. • Say that you are ready to order.
• Ask what he/she would like to drink. • Answer the question about the food.
• Ask if he/she wants a large or a small drink. • Answer the question about the drink.
• Say that the large drink is $2. • Ask about the price of the large drink.
• Ask if he/she wants anything else. • Say that you would like the large size.
• End the conversation.
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2.9 SELF-CHECK
2 Complete the note with one word in each gap. 5 Complete the dialogue with a, an, the or Ø in each gap.
The first letters are given.
Nathan: What’s this?
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a nice snack and eat it 5 front
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of the telly.
3 Complete the sentences with one word in each gap. We’ve got a DVD. If you want to watch
The first letters are given. it with us, you’re very welcome – but
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This is a traditional meal from the south of Spain. not if you eat our food!
1 Ali: This curry is very s . See you later,
Noah: Good, I love hot food. Tom
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9 Complete the text with the correct answers A–C.
USE OF ENGLISH
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7 Complete each pair of sentences with the same
word A–C.
She’s going to the shop to buy a of crisps and
Easy chocolate cake
a drink. This cake is very easy to make! It’s a quick
I need a of flour to make a cake. and C dessert. You cook it in a cup in your
A bar B bag C packet
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A loaf B tub C carton vanilla ice cream? Put it on top of the cake
3 Street is very popular in Asia.
and enjoy your dessert!
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Add some salt to the meat before you it. A grilled B local C delicious
A mix B slice C fry 1 A ingredients B specialities C dishes
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2 This is an amazing pizza. I just love mushroom
3 Lucy: What do you do after school? topping! Yum!
Dan: I / snack / make / usually / a A –
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4 Jim: drink / would / to / like / you / what C the
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