Drinks

Question 1

Coffee

• drink coffee
• sip coffee (=drink it slowly)
• have a coffee
• pour the coffee (out)
• spill coffee (on the table)
• grind coffee beans
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• instant coffee / real coffee
• fresh coffee
• strong/weak coffee
• Do you take your coffee black or white?
• milky coffee (= with a lot of milk in it)
• a quick coffee (= in a short time)
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• a coffee break
• The table was covered in coffee stains.
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• skinny (= with very low-fat milk) latte (= adding a lot of hot milk to a small amount of strong coffee)
• cappuccino (= has hot milk with a lot of bubbles)
• espresso (= strong black Italian coffee)
• decaf
• filter coffee (= coffee made using a paper filter)
• iced coffee

Question 2

Beer

• brew beer
• order a beer
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• cold/ ice-cold beer
• draft beer (=taken from a large container, not served in a bottle)
• bottled beer
• strong beer (=with a lot of alcohol)
• light beer (= lower in alcohol)
• alcohol-free beer
• My beer was flat, there was no fizz in it.
• stale beer (=old beer which has an unpleasant smell)
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• a six-pack of beer
• a pint of beer
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• I was so thirsty, I downed (= drink quickly) two pints of beer in 5 minutes.
• He knocked back his beer (= drink quickly) and left the bar.
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• a beer belly
• a beer mat
• a beer mug
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• drink whisky neat/straight (= with nothing

Question 3

Tea

• serve tea
• make tea
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• strong/weak tea
• sweat tea
• white tea (= with milk)
• herbal tea
• I don‘t like my tea so milky.
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• I could murder a cup of tea right now. (= you really need it)
• He gulped his tea down and rushed back to work.
• He slurped his tea. (= made a noise as he drank)
• blow on the hot tea to cool it down
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• Would you like a drop of tea?
• buy a packet of tea bags
• loose tea

Question 4

Wine

• store wine in cool dry place
• help yourself to the wine
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• a sweet / dry wine
• a good/fine wine
• The best-known sparkling wine is champagne.
• a strong/light wine
• fruity wine
• a collector of vintage wines (= good quality wine from a particular year)
• a table wine (= an inexpensive wine to drink with a meal)
• the house wine (= ordinary wine that is used in restaurants)
• white wine with fish and red wine with a meat dish
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• a case of wine
• the wine list
• a wine cellar
• a wine rack
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• My father believes in the beneficial effects of red wine.

Question 5

Glass

• knock over a glass (of wine)
• a glass falls out of (my) hand and smashes on the floor
• hold out (my) glass (for some more wine)
• raise (our) glasses
• glass shatters (= break into small pieces)
• glass cracks
• collect the empty glasses from the table
• fill a glass to the brim

Question 6

Bottle

• recycle bottles
• pass a bottle to (you)
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• pull a cork out of a bottle
• unscrew the top off a bottle
• put the cap back on a bottle
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• When we got to our hotel room, there was a complimentary bottle of champagne waiting for us. (= a free bottle)
• It‘s one of those parties where you bring your own bottle. (BYOB!)

Question 7

Cup

• pick up your cup
• drain (your) cup (= drink it quickly)
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• a set of cups
• a cup and saucer
• a paper/plastic/china cup
• a chipped cup (= has a small piece broken off the edge of it)
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  Would you like another cup?