Experience: I drink more than 50 cups of tea a day

This is a list of key vocabulary and expressions from the article in order of how useful they are. The student must choose 6 items from the list to study in the lesson.

Messy

To figure out

To set up

To end up (doing) something 

Plenty

To put (someone) off

A degree

A passion

To spit/ To spit something out

To be after (something)

To get in the way (of something)

Nerve-racking

To reveal (something)

I must admit

A nerd

To get through (something)

A snob

Throughout

To distinguish (between)(something from something)

To get to grips (with something)

A cuppa

Downtime

Fully-fledged

A batch

To slurp

15 conversation-provoking questions related to the article.

1. How and why did Yasmin become a tea taster?

2. How do you become a fully-fledged tea buyer and blender?

3. Has her job always been easy?

4. ‘Yasmin’s time at university was completely pointless.’ Do you agree?

5. ‘I’m jealous of Yasmin and her career.’ Is this true for you?

6. ‘If you haven’t started planning your career by the age of 16, you are in serious trouble.’ Do you agree?

7. ‘Dream jobs don’t exist.’ Do you agree?

8. ‘The vast majority of people hate their jobs.’ Do you agree?

9. ‘Your first day in a new job is always the worst.’ Do you agree?

10. ‘All tea is the same, so spending extra money on fancy tea is stupid.’ Do you agree?

11. ‘I couldn’t live without tea and coffee’. Is this true for you?

12. ‘Caffeine is a drug that should be avoided.’ Do you agree?

13. ‘I would much rather go to an independent café than to a chain café like Starbucks’. Is this true for you?

14. ‘Meeting friends in a café is more enjoyable than meeting friends in a pub.’ Do you agree?

15. ‘The pubs in my country are the same as the pubs in the UK.’ Is this true for you?