Passage 1
Dicuss the questions before listening.
Have you ever eaten biscuits with tea?
Do you think it makes the biscuits taste better?
What problems might you have dunking a biscuit in hot tea?
Do you think science might be able to help overcome these problems?
3 Listen to Passage 1 and correct the sentences according to the passage.
1) Scientists at the University of Bristol carried out a 12-month study to find the best way to
dunk a biscuit.
2) About one in five biscuits break up when dunked.
3) Unlike doughnuts, biscuits are held together by gluten, which doesn't break down in hot liquids.
4) Vertically dunking a biscuit into tea allows alonger dunking time, as the liquid takes longer to soak into it.
5) The hotter the tea, the more slowly the biscuit breaks up.
6) Dunking a biscuit in a hot drink releases four times more flavour than eating the biscuit dry.
