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day but kept her sylph-like figure to her death. Not everybody's metabolism is so benign. Because of its fat and sugar
content, chocolate is usually an enemy of slender elegance. Hence the guilt invariably associated with the dark, melting
temptressand hence the ambivalent title of the exhibition that runs at the Chelsea Physic Garden until September 7
th
: "Vice
or Virtue?"
T a s k T w o. Read the description of the latest production developments. Highlight the expressions which are used to
describe the new plant in a positive way.
E x e r c i s e O n e
. Read the article below and write one word to fill the gap.
Cadbury and New Technology
Cadbury operate three chocolate factories in the UK. Two are at Bournville producing chocolate bars and chocolate
assortments; 1. _____ other, the Somerdale factory, produces bars such 2. _____
Double Decker
,
Crunchie
and
Fry's Turkish
Delight
which are known as 'countlines'.
The modernization programme at Bournville, begun in 1980, 3. _____ involved the rationalization of production. This
consisted 4. _____ bringing together individual product processing, 5. _____ the one hand, and the most modern processing
and control technology, 6. _____ the other. The specialist machinery comes from Britain and abroad and 7. _____ number of
these machines have 8. _____ produced to Cadbury's own design and specification.
The new plants operate 24 hours a day producing Cadbury products 9. _____ the highest standards of quality control.
The new
Wispa
plant produces 1,680 bars per minute with such precision that the size of the tiny air bubbles in the chocolate
10. _____ controlled. The
Creme Egg
plant will produce 300 million eggs a year at the rate of 1,100 per minute, and has the
capacity to produce 370 million. 11. _____ comparison the machinery which it replaced was capable 12. _____ producing
only 257 million eggs annually.
Each week the Bournville site alone produces 1,500 tonnes of chocolate 1.6 million bars of various kinds plus 50
million
Hazelnut Whirls
,
Almond Clusters
and other individual chocolates.
E x e r c i s e T w o
. Mark whether the statements below are true or false:
1. The Bournville produces the countlines.
2. The specialist machinery is produced by Cadbury.
3. The size of air bubbles in the chocolate is precisely controlled.
4. The old machinery could only produce 257 million eggs annually.
5. Chocolates ae no longer individually packed.
6. Individual microprocessors control temperature changes.
7. The packing systems check the weight of the additional ingredients.
E x e r c i s e T h r e e
. Read the article below, there is an extra word in every sentence, find the mistakes.
1. Before the automation programme, manufacture was a series of operations individually supervised by at separate
control points.
2. Now one person does supervises the whole operation from a control room full of computer terminals and TV
screens.
3. In the new
Wispa
plant, individual microprocessors monitor temperature at about 1,000 different points and
information is fed up into the central computers that can deal with some 360,000 instructions per minute.
4. A major revolution was has been the automation of the packing systems.
5. Where previously chocolates were individually placed out by hand in the boxes, machines now do this.
6. New high speed chocolate bar packing plants have been introduced which are capable of making and wrapping 800
chocolate bars a minute and considerably more than of the treat size bars.
7. These variable high speed systems will be check the weight and where chocolate is produced with added fruit and
nuts will also check for even distribution of these additional ingredients.
8. The automation programme means that a dozen of individual manufacturing plants will have replaced 37 old plants.
E x e r c i s e F o u r
. Look at the statements below and at the reviews of a few businesses. Which review (A, B, C, D, E, F)
Does each statement 1 – 9 refer to? You will need to use some of these letters more than once.
1. The company didn’t want to have branded chocolate products in stock.
2. The company is going to utilize innovative equipment.
3. The project of the new plant will benefit the public.
4. The company ignores its customers’ health risks.
5. The company provides a set of services for finished products.
6. A new definition of confectionary products is approved of by this company.
7. The company products may be displayed at the exhibition.
8. The lawsuit is in store for the company.
9. The company chose a new place in California.
A. Kraft to possibly separate from parent company