tailieunhanh - New english file upper intermediate student's book part 15

Britain's largest ever speed dating evening took place this week at the Hydro Bar in London, so I deeded to go along and see what it was all about I pretended to be a single 24-year-old lawyer. | reached this conclusion because over several years he d been delivering three baskets of bagels to a company that was on three floors. The top floor was the executive floor and the lower two floors were people who worked in sales and service and administrative employees. Well it turned out that the least honest floor was the executive floor It makes you wonder whether maybe these guys got to be executives because they were good at cheating But in general the story of Feldman s bagel business is a really positive one. It s true that some people do steal from him but the vast majority even though no-one is watching them are honest. U Presenter Now it s time for our regular Wednesday afternoon spot about words and their origins. And I have with me as usual our English language expert Sally Davies. So what are the three words you are going to tell us about today Sally Sally Hello John. My three words today are ketchup orange - that s the fruit the colour came later and tennis . Presenter Let s start with ketchup then. Sally Yes well the Chinese invented a sauce called ke-tsiap spelled K-E-hyphen-T-S-I-A-P in the 1690s. It was made from fish and spices but absolutely no tomatoes. By the early eighteenth century its popularity had spread to Malaysia and this is where British explorers first found it and obviously really lilted it. By 1740 the sauce was part of the English diet - people were eating a lot of it and it was also becoming popular in the American colonies. And they renamed the sauce ketchup because it was a bit easier for the English to pronounce. Then about fifty years later in 1790 some American colonists in New England mixed tomatoes into the sauce and it became known as tomato ketchup . Presenter So it is American after all Sally Well tomato ketchup is. Presenter So tell us about orange Sally Well it s very interesting that neither orange in English nor naranja in Spanish or arancia in Italian come from the Latin word for orange which was citrus aurentium