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Tasty Tales Level 4 Intermediate
This award-winning graded readers series is full of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks especially written for teenagers. Short stories themed around food and a bed and breakfast owner is determined that a guest should try her famous 'Full English Breakfast'; a scientist invents an additive that increases peoples' attraction to certain food; a young boy learns to cook with the help of a great uncle and a magic ingredient; and a Japanese master chef must prepare his own last meal. This is a British English title. The book comes with a CD-ROM and Audio CD with games and complete text recordings. Cambridge Experience Readers, previously called Cambridge Discovery Readers, get your students hooked on reading.
96 pages, Paperback
First published June 30, 2009
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March 11, 2015
Kung fu spice.
The story is mainly about a 17 year old teenager named Alex who felt very neglected at school, because he had no sports or social skills very developed.
Alex's family owned a Chinese food restaurant, in which he cooked and he was actually very good at it, but he thought he could never succeed on this field unless he appeared on TV.
One day Alex found out he had an uncle named Tong Po, who had ran away from home when he was 14 because he wanted to chase his dreams. His grandmother told him Tong Po was going to visit them. Which was a new that Alex was very excited about.
Next morning, a man who turned out to be his uncle entered the restaurant and asked for a breakfast which Alex got to cook. Tong Po was also a cook, so he gave Alex some advice on the subject and also provided him some "magic powders", in order that food always tasted well.
Alex decided to enter the Young Cook of the Year competition, and with the apparent help of his powders he made it to the final and ended up winning.
Highlights
What I liked most about the story was the fact that it has many moral lessons that can be taken from it. Also, the fact that it is narrated in first person in such a natural way helps the reader get the idea in an easier way.
I enjoyed this story the most because it was narrated by a teenager who shares many of the same issues, that we as teenagers face and the fact that he ends up trusting his capacities even though they are different from most of the kids our age is very comforting.
Finally, I found very good that they made an emphasis on keeping traditions and taking care of their families.
Moral lesson
As I said, I found many moral lessons that can be extracted from the story. However, the one I consider most important is trusting your capacities. It's not bad to have lucky objects and other things like that. But I loved that in the end he could really see that there was nothing special about the powders, but that he himself had everything that was needed to do things right. That the magic was nowhere but in him.
I learned that under any circumstance I must trust myself and also improve and work on what I'm good at and what I like, despite what others might think about it so that I can get to value my skills even if they're different from the ones other people have.
The story is mainly about a 17 year old teenager named Alex who felt very neglected at school, because he had no sports or social skills very developed.
Alex's family owned a Chinese food restaurant, in which he cooked and he was actually very good at it, but he thought he could never succeed on this field unless he appeared on TV.
One day Alex found out he had an uncle named Tong Po, who had ran away from home when he was 14 because he wanted to chase his dreams. His grandmother told him Tong Po was going to visit them. Which was a new that Alex was very excited about.
Next morning, a man who turned out to be his uncle entered the restaurant and asked for a breakfast which Alex got to cook. Tong Po was also a cook, so he gave Alex some advice on the subject and also provided him some "magic powders", in order that food always tasted well.
Alex decided to enter the Young Cook of the Year competition, and with the apparent help of his powders he made it to the final and ended up winning.
Highlights
What I liked most about the story was the fact that it has many moral lessons that can be taken from it. Also, the fact that it is narrated in first person in such a natural way helps the reader get the idea in an easier way.
I enjoyed this story the most because it was narrated by a teenager who shares many of the same issues, that we as teenagers face and the fact that he ends up trusting his capacities even though they are different from most of the kids our age is very comforting.
Finally, I found very good that they made an emphasis on keeping traditions and taking care of their families.
Moral lesson
As I said, I found many moral lessons that can be extracted from the story. However, the one I consider most important is trusting your capacities. It's not bad to have lucky objects and other things like that. But I loved that in the end he could really see that there was nothing special about the powders, but that he himself had everything that was needed to do things right. That the magic was nowhere but in him.
I learned that under any circumstance I must trust myself and also improve and work on what I'm good at and what I like, despite what others might think about it so that I can get to value my skills even if they're different from the ones other people have.
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March 12, 2015
Tasty Tales
Frank Brennan
Full English Breakfast
The story was about the idea of Aunt Brenda to make Mr Dunn try Uncle Ralph's sausages, but as she insisted he rejected them more.
Aunt Brenda owned a small hotel. It was over 100 hundred years old and she has managed it as a guesthouse for the last 10 years. Uncle Ralph provided all the meat for it and his sausages were the best in England. Everyone had tried them and loved them. Except Mr Dunn.
Aunt Brenda really wanted him to try some. She was sure he was going to loved them even though he was vegetarian. So she made a plan which involves Claire, her niece. The idea was that Claire was going to sit with him to take breakfast and told him about the "vegetarian" sausages and try to persuade him to eat one. The thing was that those sausages weren't really vegetarian and after that he might eat meat again. But almost everything went wrong.
In the morning Claire sat with Mr Dunn to take breakfast. She ordered the Full English Breakfast which included "vegetarian" sausages. She persuaded him to tried it and he agreed. But while he was chewing it he turned into a wolf and jumped across the table and straight to the window. They ran after him, but they didn't saw him. They just saw a driver standing in front of the body of a huge grey wolf.
No one saw Mr Dunn again or even knew who he really was.
The story was very interesting. It has some misterious things and the way Aunt Brenda persists on making Mr Dunn try some sausages it's very funny. At the first part of the story you wouldn't imagine that Mr Dunn wasn't a common human.
May be it could be longer, like it can explain what happened with Mr Dunn and more details about it, but generally the story was very good.
The moral lesson might be that if you persist on something you might reach it, but if someone really don't want to try something new or do something you want to do don't push that person.
Frank Brennan
Full English Breakfast
The story was about the idea of Aunt Brenda to make Mr Dunn try Uncle Ralph's sausages, but as she insisted he rejected them more.
Aunt Brenda owned a small hotel. It was over 100 hundred years old and she has managed it as a guesthouse for the last 10 years. Uncle Ralph provided all the meat for it and his sausages were the best in England. Everyone had tried them and loved them. Except Mr Dunn.
Aunt Brenda really wanted him to try some. She was sure he was going to loved them even though he was vegetarian. So she made a plan which involves Claire, her niece. The idea was that Claire was going to sit with him to take breakfast and told him about the "vegetarian" sausages and try to persuade him to eat one. The thing was that those sausages weren't really vegetarian and after that he might eat meat again. But almost everything went wrong.
In the morning Claire sat with Mr Dunn to take breakfast. She ordered the Full English Breakfast which included "vegetarian" sausages. She persuaded him to tried it and he agreed. But while he was chewing it he turned into a wolf and jumped across the table and straight to the window. They ran after him, but they didn't saw him. They just saw a driver standing in front of the body of a huge grey wolf.
No one saw Mr Dunn again or even knew who he really was.
The story was very interesting. It has some misterious things and the way Aunt Brenda persists on making Mr Dunn try some sausages it's very funny. At the first part of the story you wouldn't imagine that Mr Dunn wasn't a common human.
May be it could be longer, like it can explain what happened with Mr Dunn and more details about it, but generally the story was very good.
The moral lesson might be that if you persist on something you might reach it, but if someone really don't want to try something new or do something you want to do don't push that person.
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March 11, 2015
I'm going to talk about the Fugu tale.
All began with a men named Taro Yamada that was a chef in a Japanese restaurant in New York.He knew perfectly to cook fishes including Fugu that was a fish that have poison in it but the liver can be prepared with specially careful .In fact if it's left more poison the the body couldn't support you die or maybe if it is left the exactly amount of it you can only get slept for a while but only expert people could like Taro.
One night while Taro was in the kitchen and his wife Anzu and his nephew Izu were closing the restaurant two men entered to the restaurant asking for Taro .When Taro got out he knew that the men were working for a man that long time ago asked for Taro to work with him in Japan so he finally agreed to do the work.The work was preparing a Fugu for the men so they would tell his boss Taro can prepare Fugu for him.
When he finished preparing the Fugu the two men ask Taro to ate the Fugu because they do not trust Taro had put the perfect amount of poison. Taro ate the Fugu and time later he felt down so the bad men thought he died but it wasn't Taro was smart and added the perfect amount only to felt aslept.
Now I want to add a good coment about this tale. I think it had a very nice end because you tought that Tao died by eating the Fugu but when the wife said that is okay you know he was smart and put the accurate amount of poison for only felt asleep.
Finally I want to share the moral lesson this tale gave me.Is for any problem have a plan "B" like Taro had if he had to ate the Fuju.
All began with a men named Taro Yamada that was a chef in a Japanese restaurant in New York.He knew perfectly to cook fishes including Fugu that was a fish that have poison in it but the liver can be prepared with specially careful .In fact if it's left more poison the the body couldn't support you die or maybe if it is left the exactly amount of it you can only get slept for a while but only expert people could like Taro.
One night while Taro was in the kitchen and his wife Anzu and his nephew Izu were closing the restaurant two men entered to the restaurant asking for Taro .When Taro got out he knew that the men were working for a man that long time ago asked for Taro to work with him in Japan so he finally agreed to do the work.The work was preparing a Fugu for the men so they would tell his boss Taro can prepare Fugu for him.
When he finished preparing the Fugu the two men ask Taro to ate the Fugu because they do not trust Taro had put the perfect amount of poison. Taro ate the Fugu and time later he felt down so the bad men thought he died but it wasn't Taro was smart and added the perfect amount only to felt aslept.
Now I want to add a good coment about this tale. I think it had a very nice end because you tought that Tao died by eating the Fugu but when the wife said that is okay you know he was smart and put the accurate amount of poison for only felt asleep.
Finally I want to share the moral lesson this tale gave me.Is for any problem have a plan "B" like Taro had if he had to ate the Fuju.
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March 11, 2015
Chapter 1, The Water of Waiting
Jean Pascal was a great chemist, he worked for a large chemical company. His company made a lot of different chemicals including chemical for food which are often called additives. He was working in a new project for the company. An additive that assured the product to be the best and the most sould. He finish the project and the results were perfects, he create a magic water that makes the food irresistible. But Jean thought that the magic water could be very dangerous too, so he decided to told all the truth to his chief and let the product with him forgetting about the magic water and the use his boss gave to it.
I really like the principal character and the attitude he had in front of the danger of the product. He thought about the risk all the people would pass if his product became popular. He didn't think about the amount of money he would eared with his investigation instead he thought about the people.
I don't like the end of the history. In an indirect form the author told that the magic water has been used by Jean's chief in his products without the consent of Jean. I think this is very unfair because jean hasn't been recognized for his brilliant work and like he predict it can be used in bad ways.
This story has two great lessons. The first is the hard work we have to make to reach what we want. Jean had to work a lot in his investigation. He had to made different things and earn a lot of time but at the end he reached a very good result of his job. And the second lesson is not trusting people. Jean trusted his brilliant idea to his boss with the hope that he didn't use it or sold it but at the end we knew that he sold it to some Hamburgers company.
Jean Pascal was a great chemist, he worked for a large chemical company. His company made a lot of different chemicals including chemical for food which are often called additives. He was working in a new project for the company. An additive that assured the product to be the best and the most sould. He finish the project and the results were perfects, he create a magic water that makes the food irresistible. But Jean thought that the magic water could be very dangerous too, so he decided to told all the truth to his chief and let the product with him forgetting about the magic water and the use his boss gave to it.
I really like the principal character and the attitude he had in front of the danger of the product. He thought about the risk all the people would pass if his product became popular. He didn't think about the amount of money he would eared with his investigation instead he thought about the people.
I don't like the end of the history. In an indirect form the author told that the magic water has been used by Jean's chief in his products without the consent of Jean. I think this is very unfair because jean hasn't been recognized for his brilliant work and like he predict it can be used in bad ways.
This story has two great lessons. The first is the hard work we have to make to reach what we want. Jean had to work a lot in his investigation. He had to made different things and earn a lot of time but at the end he reached a very good result of his job. And the second lesson is not trusting people. Jean trusted his brilliant idea to his boss with the hope that he didn't use it or sold it but at the end we knew that he sold it to some Hamburgers company.
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March 11, 2015
Fugu
Taro Yamada had learned how to cook fish in Japan, and became the best chef in Tokyo. But now he is chef in a Japanese restaurant in New York. Taro could cook Fugu, a Japanese fish with poison in the skin, heart and liver. To prepared it he had to be carefully trained and a special licence. One night two very large Japanese men came to the restaurant in New York. They were looking for Taro because their boss propose to Taro that was the best chef to work with him at Japan, but he didn't accept and he went out of Japan. The two men made Taro cook fugu for them. If he didn't accept they wouldn't go. He cooked and gave them the fish but they didn't accept. They made him ate the fugu first because probably he left poison in it. So Taro ate it and die or that's what the men thought.
From this book i can highlight how Taro love his job and do it with a very good actitude to became the best. I like when he cheat on the men and ate the fish.He knew what he was doing and what he have to eat to be paralyzed for a time. Aditionaly, i dont like how Taro escaped of the past, went to New york and doesn't face the problem and end with it.
I think that the moral lesson of this book is that when you have a work, you have to do it sereously but with good actitude and loving what you are doing. Always giving the best to became the best of it. Also, don't get away from your problems or from your past . You have to be brave and face them. So you will feel better and in peace.
Taro Yamada had learned how to cook fish in Japan, and became the best chef in Tokyo. But now he is chef in a Japanese restaurant in New York. Taro could cook Fugu, a Japanese fish with poison in the skin, heart and liver. To prepared it he had to be carefully trained and a special licence. One night two very large Japanese men came to the restaurant in New York. They were looking for Taro because their boss propose to Taro that was the best chef to work with him at Japan, but he didn't accept and he went out of Japan. The two men made Taro cook fugu for them. If he didn't accept they wouldn't go. He cooked and gave them the fish but they didn't accept. They made him ate the fugu first because probably he left poison in it. So Taro ate it and die or that's what the men thought.
From this book i can highlight how Taro love his job and do it with a very good actitude to became the best. I like when he cheat on the men and ate the fish.He knew what he was doing and what he have to eat to be paralyzed for a time. Aditionaly, i dont like how Taro escaped of the past, went to New york and doesn't face the problem and end with it.
I think that the moral lesson of this book is that when you have a work, you have to do it sereously but with good actitude and loving what you are doing. Always giving the best to became the best of it. Also, don't get away from your problems or from your past . You have to be brave and face them. So you will feel better and in peace.
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March 11, 2015
The water of waiting
Jean was a brilliant chemist. He worked in Montreal,Canada, for a large chemical company. His company made chemicals for food that are called additives. The additives give food different colour and flavour. He had a beautiful family , his wife called Katya and his son called Alain. Katya hated the hamburgers and Alain hated the green vegetables , Katya always tried to persuade Alain to eat vegetables , but she can't persuade him.
Jean was working on his new additive , he needed to create a additive for the people buy it because the company was lost a lot of money. Time later he creates a additive but the product has one problem that if the people start to eat it maybe they will become addictive. He presented his additive to the company and presented all the problems that the additive had, the company was very happy and said that Jean need a vacations and the company are going to pay the vacations with his family.
One year later , Katya and Jean had two long holidays over the last year-one in Brazil and one in Ireland. Jean was surprised because his son and his wife started to eat the food that they hated. What happen? He supposed that the company didn't sell his additive because was too dangerous.
The end.
I think that the story was really good and It had something special. I love all the stories about fiction.
Jean was a brilliant chemist. He worked in Montreal,Canada, for a large chemical company. His company made chemicals for food that are called additives. The additives give food different colour and flavour. He had a beautiful family , his wife called Katya and his son called Alain. Katya hated the hamburgers and Alain hated the green vegetables , Katya always tried to persuade Alain to eat vegetables , but she can't persuade him.
Jean was working on his new additive , he needed to create a additive for the people buy it because the company was lost a lot of money. Time later he creates a additive but the product has one problem that if the people start to eat it maybe they will become addictive. He presented his additive to the company and presented all the problems that the additive had, the company was very happy and said that Jean need a vacations and the company are going to pay the vacations with his family.
One year later , Katya and Jean had two long holidays over the last year-one in Brazil and one in Ireland. Jean was surprised because his son and his wife started to eat the food that they hated. What happen? He supposed that the company didn't sell his additive because was too dangerous.
The end.
I think that the story was really good and It had something special. I love all the stories about fiction.
March 11, 2015
Jean Pascal was a little boy. One day he was playing with firework and he burned his face. Many years later he became a brilliant chemist in Montreal, Canada. He worked in a big company making additives for food which gives flavour and color. He had a little boy named Alain and her wife was Katya. Alain hated vegetables and Katya hamburgers.
One day his company started to lose costumers and Jean started making a new additive trying with mice. He put a liquid in water and the mice became addicted to the water,they started to die because they couldn't stop. Then he putted the middle of the liquid and they just drank water so they died because of hunger. Then he putted less than the last time and an other water without the additive and they chose the water with additive, now he just finished and he named it WOW.
He showed to his boss and told him about the danger of WOW. The boss told Jean to left the additive and take a few weeks for holiday. After a year Alian started to love the vegetables and Katya the hamburgers.
It was my favorite story because calls my attention and make me ask me what is going to happen next. Anyway I would like to read the ending of the story and it WOW kill people.
For me the moral lesson was that you don't have to trust everyone because you never know how people are.
One day his company started to lose costumers and Jean started making a new additive trying with mice. He put a liquid in water and the mice became addicted to the water,they started to die because they couldn't stop. Then he putted the middle of the liquid and they just drank water so they died because of hunger. Then he putted less than the last time and an other water without the additive and they chose the water with additive, now he just finished and he named it WOW.
He showed to his boss and told him about the danger of WOW. The boss told Jean to left the additive and take a few weeks for holiday. After a year Alian started to love the vegetables and Katya the hamburgers.
It was my favorite story because calls my attention and make me ask me what is going to happen next. Anyway I would like to read the ending of the story and it WOW kill people.
For me the moral lesson was that you don't have to trust everyone because you never know how people are.
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March 11, 2015
I'm going to talk about "Full English breakfast", this story is about an English woman called Brenda who has an hotel. One of the things that make the hotel famous is "the full English breakfast" which includes tomato, bacon, eggs, mushrooms, toast and the most delicious sausages, made by her husband Ralph. But she had a vegetarian guest who haven't heat Ralph sausages. Brenda always tried to persuade him to eat the sausages but he always refuse to eat them. So one day she lie to him saying that his husband had prepared some vegetarian sausages for him. So in that way he accepted. When he fast it something weird happened, the guest started to Grow and transform. He was bigger, greyer and also hairier, he pronounce a horrible animal sound, he was a wolf. The big animal jumped and run out of the hotel but when he was about to cross not he street, a bus crush him. No one new what really was happening. Sense that day Brenda has continue doing her famous "full English breakfast" but she doesn't matter if someone prefers something else.
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April 16, 2014
1publisher: Frank Brennan
Company Cambridge
2 time: 80 minutes
3: food, mice, water, vegetable, additive, tales, human
4: Have you tried to eat food which you don't like?
Have you ever tried some experiments?
5: It was an interesting story for me. I was surprised that the chemist tried the experiment to human which he tried to the mice. I could not understand the ending. I like tales but it is difficult to understand sometimes.
Company Cambridge
2 time: 80 minutes
3: food, mice, water, vegetable, additive, tales, human
4: Have you tried to eat food which you don't like?
Have you ever tried some experiments?
5: It was an interesting story for me. I was surprised that the chemist tried the experiment to human which he tried to the mice. I could not understand the ending. I like tales but it is difficult to understand sometimes.
March 11, 2015
Kunfu Fu Spice
I liked what this story is about ,sense this story involves a little boy that wants to be a chef and his uncle teaches him how to be a great one,I like to cook too and in some way I felt identify with how he feels about cooking.I also really liked the moral lesson it gives to people ,the boy had the talent from the beginning and he didn't needed the "special ingredient"he just needed confidence,all we have to do is believe that we can do It and we will.
I liked what this story is about ,sense this story involves a little boy that wants to be a chef and his uncle teaches him how to be a great one,I like to cook too and in some way I felt identify with how he feels about cooking.I also really liked the moral lesson it gives to people ,the boy had the talent from the beginning and he didn't needed the "special ingredient"he just needed confidence,all we have to do is believe that we can do It and we will.
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