Unit 5 - Five Senses English Grammar Worksheet Page 3
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Fragrance fact file
Use pictures to help you understand
SPEAK AND READ
HOW TO
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Work in pairs. Answer the questions.
find specific information
1 Which perfumes and fragrances can you name?
Before you read, look at any pictures or other
2 What different types of products use fragrances?
visuals.
2 a
Read the tips in the
box.
HOW TO
Think about the connection between the pictures,
the title, the topic and the style of text (news
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Before you read, look at the text and
story, manual ...).
pictures, and answer the questions.
Look at the visuals when you read. They can help
1 Where do you think the text comes from – an
you understand new words.
encyclopaedia, a magazine or a history book?
2 What is it about?
3 What information do you think it includes?
things you should know about
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The world’s first chemist was a woman
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When you buy a fragrance, the cheapest
called Tapputi, who made perfumes in
thing you are buying is the actual fragrance.
Mesopotamia in the 2nd millennium BC.
The bottle and the box cost more to produce.
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The word ‘perfume’ comes from the
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It is almost impossible to tell the difference
Latin per fumum which means ‘through
between fragrances that have been created
smoke’. The first form of perfume was
for women and for men. The first popular
incense. It was produced from burning
unisex fragrance for both women and men
wood or plants and
was first sold in 1994.
was used in religious
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Companies that create perfume for fragrances
ceremonies.
also make the fragrances that are used for
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Ancient Egyptians and
cleaning products, air fresheners and crisps.
Romans created the
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More than 4,000 ingredients
first liquid perfumes
are used in the fragrance
using water and oils. In Rome, perfume
industry. The formula of each
was used by both women and men on
perfume is kept secret, and
their bodies and in their houses.
the ingredients aren’t listed
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Today, perfumes are
on the bottle.
often called fragrances.
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Some fragrances can cause headaches or allergic
A new fragrance
skin reactions in some people. Many people don’t
appears almost every
like the smell of fragrances and hope they will be
day, and many of them
banned in public spaces.
are promoted by celebrities.
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Read the text and decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect. If it’s correct, write C.
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If it’s incorrect, write I.
1 The very first perfumes were oils and water.
4 The first fragrance for men appeared in 1994.
2 New fragrances appear every day.
5 Each fragrance has more than 5,000 ingredients.
3 The world’s first perfume maker was called
6 The fragrance bottle is often more expensive to
Mesopotamia.
produce than the fragrance.
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Which tips in the
box did you use for help with Exercises 2b and 3? Tick ( ) them.
HOW TO
GO BEYOND
REACT
A picture caption is a short text that
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Work in pairs. What do you think? Tell your partner.
usually appears under a picture.
1 Which facts in the article surprised you? Why?
Write captions for the pictures in the
2 Should fragrances be banned in some public places? If so, which?
text. Use information from the text.
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