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Read the text and accomplish the post-reading tasks:

Eating the Elvis Presley Way

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There are more than 400 books about Elvis Presley. There are books about his music,
his films, his life, his death, his religion his food. There is the Presley Family Cookbook, the Elvis
Presley Cookbook, Elvis Favorite Recipes, and now Eating the Elvis Presley Way. What makes this
book different? To begin with, this is not a cookbook. You can find recipes here, but this book is the
story of Elvis life. It is the story of the food that he ate and the people who cooked it for him.
Moreover, an extremely interesting life it was, too.
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The food in the first two or three chapters is quite normal- baby food, boring school
diners, army meals when he was doing military service, that sort of thing. However, later, when Elvis
was rich and famous, it is a very different story. With all the money in the world, Elvis chose to eat
like a child. Elvis got up late and his first meal of the day was breakfast at five oclock in the
afternoon: bacon and eggs, or sausage and eggs. After that, it was snacks: pizza and hot dogs,
hamburgers and fries, chocolate and cakes all day and every day. Elvis even had a fridge in his
bedroom for his favorite snacks.
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As the years passed, Elvis eating problems became really serious. One day, when Elvis
was going to the White House to meet the President, he was feeling a bit hungry and ate 250g of
chocolate and then 12 donuts in his taxi. Another time, he ordered a large ice cream for breakfast. He
ate it quickly, ordered a second, a third, a fourth and a fifth before falling asleep again. Elvis last meal
before he died was four scoops of ice cream with six chocolate cookies.
Elvis was an extremely unhappy man. His food and the drugs that he took made him feel good,
but killed him in the end. It is a sad story, but a fascinating one, too.
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2. Match the headings below to the paragraphs 1-3
a) A captivating story. ______________________________________________________
b) Stories of Elvis life. ______________________________________________________
c) Elvis eating habits. ______________________________________________________
3. Answer the question.
What did Elvis last meal consist of?
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4. Identify the correct variant (True/False). Encircle the right opinion.
a) His eating problems started when he was a child.
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b) The President gave him a large box of chocolates.
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5. Choose the most suitable variant.
What sort of food do you think Elvis liked?

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a) junk food
b) balanced diet
c) dairy products
6. Comment on: Elvis was an extremely unhappy man.
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II. Grammar. Underline the correct variant using the words in bold, insert the article where
necessary. Put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense form. Fill in the gaps with suitable
prepositions.
1. What films ______________________(be) on now? I ___________________(not/know).
2. What is she doing? She ______________________(make) a cake.
3. I saw Tom only ___________________(a few, a little) days ago.
4. Take _______________(off, of, on) your coat. Its warm here.
5. How ________________(much, many) does this coat cost?
6. Would you like _____________ (a, the, -) glass of milk?
7. Alice _______________(not, go) to work by bus, she lives near her office.
8. She told me she __________________(invite) all her friends to her next birthday party.
9. Is there _____________________(some, any) milk in the jug?
III.Written production. How do you think computers changed the world? (10-15 lines)
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