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How Maple Syrup is Made?
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1. Read the text and fill in the missing verb phrases with an appropriate form (Simple Present or Past Simple) of the given verbs. Use Passive Voice.
Maple syrup (make)
from the sap of several types of maple trees. The area is called sugar bush. Most of the world�s supply of maple syrup (produce)
in Quebec, Canada.
Maple syrup (collect)�
first
and (used)
by Native Americans and was later adopted by European settlers.
It (eat)�
most often
with pancakes, waffles or French
toast. A litre of finished maple syrup (produce)
from approximately 40 litres of sugar maple tree sap.
A galvanized steel sap bucket with a cover, a hammer, and hand brace with
drill bit (use)
as traditional tapping equipment.
The trees, not younger than 30-40 years old, (tap)
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The tap hole (drill)
a couple inches deep and (angle up)
just a bit.
A sap spile (hammer)
in the hole
until it is snug, not too tight. Once the spile is in the tree, the sap will start to drip out, unless the temperature is freezing. The bucket (hang)
on the hook under the spile. Rain (prevent)
from getting into the bucket by a lid.
The buckets (empty)
into even larger buckets and those (carry)�
to the sugar shack. The sap (filter)
through a cloth, (store)
in barrels and in cold weather it (can/keep)�
for a few days before it (process)
further
. The sap contains a large amount of water. It (boil down)
to make syrup in large kettles over an open fire. Maple candy and maple
sugar
(produce)
by
the further thickening of the syrup.
2. What is (happening) in the pictures? Chose the correct answer.
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the sap is boil
the sap is being boiled
the sap is boiled
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maple sugar
maple taffy
maple candy
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the sap is being collected by buckets
the bucket is collected by the sap
the sap is being collected in buckets
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a hole is hammered into a tap
a tap is hammer into a hole
a tap is being hammered into a hole
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pancakes are eated with maple syrup
pancakes are eat with maple syrup
pancakes are being served with maple syrup
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maple candy
maple sugar
maple taffy
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a hole is being drilled
a hole is being tapped
a tap is being drilled
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the sap is collected in winter
the sap is being collected
the sap is collect in early spring
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shugar bush
sugar shack
sugar woods
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maple syrup
maple candy
maple taffy
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maple syrup is dripping into the bucket
maple sap is being drip into the bucket
maple sap is dripping into the bucket
3. Number the maple syrup making process in the order of its pruduction.
The sap starts to drip from the tree.
The sap is boiled in large kettles until it thickens to the one fortieth of its original volume
The tap is hammered into the tap hole.
Bottles are filled up with syrup and sealed.
The sap is�collected from the buckets and poured into larger buckets.
Holes are drilled in the maple trees in the height of about 1 m from the ground.
Further boiling and thickening causes the formation of sugar crystals.
Buckets are hung on hooks bellow the tap.
The sap is taken to the sugar shack and is collected in a barrel.
Maple candy is made as the molten sugar is poured into moulds.
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