The Chocolate Capital of the World

B1 – Intermediate

Chocolates! One of the most famous desserts and confectionery known to man. So just how famous is chocolate in Belgium? Read on and be ready to talk about some of your cocoa favourites.

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Discussion Questions:

  1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?
  2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
  3. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
  4. What are some of the products that your country famously export?
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37 replies on “The Chocolate Capital of the World”

1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites
I like chocolate but not much, I prefer dark chocolate (>70%) instead of treats or bars, I also occasionally eat some dessert.
2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
In Spain it’s typically take hot chocolate with churros to breakfast on weekends or after party.
3. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
My favourite sweets are gummy bears and gummy strawberry.
4. What are some of the products that your country famously export?
I think the most exported products are wine, olive oil, serrano ham and oranges.

It’s good to see you continuing your writing practice.

Take a look at how this sentence can be revised:

In Spain it’s typically take hot chocolate with churros to breakfast on weekends or after party.

In Spain, it’s typical to take hot chocolate with churros to for breakfast on weekends or after a party.

Happy writing!

Do you like chocolates? Yes, I love chocolates in all their formats and types (dark, milk chocolate or white chocolate). Chocolate is my preferred dessert.
What are some of your favourites? My favourites are dark chocolate, chocolate with fruits, chocolate with orange, chocolate with hazelnut and the Toblerone.
Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate? In my country Venezuela people take chocolate in tablets.
Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy? I really like all kind of sweets very much, wafers, cookies, donuts, fruit candies, etc.
What are some of the products that your country famously export? The most famous product the Venezuela exports is petroleum but cocoa also is very famous for its high quality.

1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites
I like chocolates, but I prefer the ones that contain over 80% cocoa.
2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
In my country, people enjoy chocolate in various forms: they eat bonbons, desserts made with chocolate, or drink hot chocolate.
3. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
I enjoy other types of sweets such as ice cream or turron.
4. What are some of the products that your country famously export?
Spain exports products such as serrano ham, olive oil, oranges, turrón, and wine.

Good job practicing your writing. Continue working on improving your skills.

Here is how you can write this sentence better:

In my country, people enjoy chocolate in various forms: they eat bonbons, desserts made with chocolate, or drink hot chocolate.

In my country, people enjoy chocolates in various forms ways: such as they eating bonbons, making desserts made with from chocolates, or drinking hot chocolate.

Until your next entry.

Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites
– Yes, I like a lot. My favourite chocolate are the tablets made above 70% cocoa. But, in generally I like all of kind of chocolates and deserts made with dark chocolate.
Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
– In Spain, the most traditionally way of take chocolate is “Chocolate con Churros”. It consists of a cup of hot chocolate with “Churros”. A “churro” is a fried long dough made of flour and water.
Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
– Cakes in general, and particularly I like a lot the “Milhojas”. These cakes are made with crispy puff pastry sheets mixed with custard cream and sugar glass on top.

What are some of the products that your country famously export?
– Iberic Jam, Turron, red wines as Riojas or Riveras del Duero.

Great job answering the discussion questions for this lesson!

Take a look at how this sentence can be improved:

But, in generally I like all of kind of chocolates and deserts made with dark chocolate.

But, in general, I like all of kinds of chocolates and desserts made from dark chocolates.

Keep going with this exercise. Until your next entry.

1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?
Yes, I do. When I was a child I liked chocolates made with milk chocolate, but actually I prefer dark chocolate.
2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
We usually buy a chocolate bar. We also drink hot chocolate, but we preapre it thicker than other countries.
3. What are some of the products that your country famously export?
We export oranges, peanuts, olive oil and wine.
4. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
Any dessert made with vanilla or coconut. I enjoy with desserts or bakery, but I do not with candies.

You are doing a good job practicing your writing skills through this exercise.

See a way to improve this sentence a bit:

I enjoy with desserts or bakery, but I do not with candies.

I enjoy with desserts and pastries, but I do not like candies.

Until your next entry!

1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?
My favorite chocolates are the ones with honey and salt. The contrast of sweet and salty is spectacular.
2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
Here, in Spain it is normal to take chocolate in tablet, but on Three Kings Day, January 6 it is typical to have breakfast with a cup of chocolate and a sweet called roscon de reyes.
3. What are some of the products that your country famously export?
Spain is well known for the quality of its food. I think the most exported products are fruits and vegetables, as well as ham, oil and wine.
4. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
I don’t usually eat a lot of sweets. Besides chocolate, I like homemade biscuits, but I don’t eat them every day.

Good job staying consistent with your writing practice.

Here is how you can write this sentence a bit better:

Here, in Spain it is normal to take chocolate in tablet, but on Three Kings Day, January 6 it is typical to have breakfast with a cup of chocolate and a sweet called roscon de reyes.

Here in Spain, it is normal to take chocolates in bars, but on Three Kings Day, on January 6, it is typical to have a cup of hot chocolate and a cake/dessert called Roscon de Reyes for breakfast.

Well done!

1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?
I love chocolate. My favorite one is dark chocolate.

2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
You can find in Spain a large variety of chocolates. Yo can also dink it dipping churros.

3. What are some of the products that your country famously export?
There are two great products in the Spanish exportations, olive oil and iberic ham.

4. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
In summer I love to eat a good ice cream.

Well done continuing with your writing practice.

Here is a sentence you can still revise:

In summer I love to eat a good ice cream.

In summer, I love eating a good ice cream.

Until your next entry!

1.Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?
I love chocolate. My favorite chocolate is white and with milk. The only chocolate I don’t like is pure chocolate.

2.Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
Traditionally in Spain we drink hot chocolate in a cup, especially in winter. It is also typical to eat it with churros.

3.What are some of the products that your country famously export?
The most exported products from Spain are olive oil and serrano ham.

4.Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
I love all kinds of sweet. One of my favorite sweets is the cheesecake with caramel topping. And another of my favorite desserts is panna cotta.

Good going with your writing practice. Keep up the nice work!

Here are minor revisions you can make in the following sentences:

I love all kinds of sweet.

I love all kinds of sweets.

The only chocolate I don’t like is pure chocolate.

The only kind of chocolate I don’t like is the dark ones.

Until your next entry!

1 Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?
In general, I like chocolate, but the ones I like the most are milk chocolate and white chocolate.

2 Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
I think he takes it after meals

3 What are some of the products that your country famously export?
Well, I don’t know if you export any product outside of Spain

4 Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
I like almost all sweets, but I don’t usually consume them

Good work with your answers. Remember, you can still be more elaborate to express your thoughts better.

See how this sentence can be revised:

I think he takes it after meals

I think we normally take chocolates as dessert after meals.

Practice more and more to improve your skills further.

1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?
Yes, I love chocolates. My favorites are dark chocolates and chocolates with salt.
2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
Usually, people in my country take drink of chocolate with “churros”. Churros are a dough fried of flour and water.
3. What are some of the products that your country famously export?
The most famous product is olive oil but, also, we export a lot of Iberian ham and wine.
4. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
I love cheesecakes, all kind cheesecakes.

Good job practicing your writing consistently!

Here is a sentence you can revise:

Churros are a dough fried of flour and water.

Churros is a fried dough made of flour and water.

Always enjoy practicing your writing through this exercise!

1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?
Yes, I like chocolates. My favourites are all kind of chocolates, I like all kind of sweets.
2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
In my country people take chocolate in all ways, in solid form and liquid form with fritter, in spanish “churros”
3. What are some of the products that your country famously export?
Some of the products that my contry famously export are wines, olive oil and footwear.
4. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
I enjoy all kind of sweets, I don’t mind the type of sweet, I like them, creams, ice creams, …

It’s great to see you staying consistent with your practice. This can definitely help improve your skills more and more.

Take a look at how this sentence can be revised and make sure to punctuate them properly.

I enjoy all kind of sweets, I don’t mind the type of sweet, I like them, creams, ice creams, …

I enjoy all kind of sweets. I don’t mind the type of sweets. I like all of them, such as creams, ice creams, and cakes.

Try to incorporate the writing rules you learned from your previous posts. You can do it!
Until your next one then!

1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?
I love chocolates. Pure chocolate, milk chocolate, with croissants, is same for me
2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
Ussualy in tablet, with milk (like Cola-Cao) and with any repostery product
3. What are some of the products that your country famously export?
Spain is a big chocolate exporter at the worl, also i think that are hundreds of different products that Spain export.
4. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
Croissants, cupcakes, cookies…

Good job continuing with your writing practice.

Take a look at how you can write this sentence a little better:

Spain is a big chocolate exporter at the worl, also i think that are hundreds of different products that Spain export.

Spain is one of the biggest chocolate exporters in the world., I also think that there are hundreds of different products that Spain exports.

Until your next entries!

1- Yes, I like a lot the chocolate. My favorite chocoalte is a bombom name it Ferro Rocher…. I always said that this is Andorra Gold, because in this country, Andorra, is very cheap this chocolate.

2- In my conuntry is more tipycal eat a cup of chocolate with churros. You can buy this on the street, in coffe shops, supermarket, etc…. In my familiy, we eat cup of chocolate & churros every Christmas day, after open the gift of Santa.

3- In my country, Spain, we have a tipycal export product like a Serrano ham, Ratafia (is a alcoholic drink) & the better olive oil of the world 🙂 And the wine, obviusly.

4- I like cooking cake’s, breads, etc… and my favorite cake is a Sacher’s Cake. For my birthday, always, my husbund bringht one this.

It’s so good to see you continuing with your writing practice!

Here is one sentence you can revise:

I like cooking cake’s, breads, etc… and my favorite cake is a Sacher’s Cake. For my birthday, always, my husbund bringht one this.

I like baking cakes, breads, etc. and my favorite cake is a Sacher’s Cake. For my birthday, my husband always buys one this.

Keep going with this exercise!

1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?
Yes, I love chocolates. My favourites are ferrero chocolates and the red box of Nestlé brand, which is full of chocolates with different ingredients, with white chocolate, with milk, or with cookies, and more.

2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
In some restaurant it is common to eat coulants for desser, which is like a chocolate muffin, filled with melted chocolate. And also in Spain when it is cold, for example in winter, we eat hot chocolate with toast or with deep-fried choux pastry.

3. What are some of the products that your country famously export?
In Spain we export automobiles and chemical products. But a large part of fruits and vegetables are also exported.

4. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
Aside from chocolates, I also like bakery, like cookies, donuts ans croissants.

Well done writing your answers to this lesson’s discussion questions.

Here is one sentence you can improve a bit:

In some restaurant it is common to eat coulants for desser, which is like a chocolate muffin, filled with melted chocolate.

In some restaurants, it is common to eat coulants for dessert, which is like a chocolate muffin, filled with melted chocolate.

Keep going with your writing practice.

1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?, Yes, I do, I like all types of chocolates, and my favorites are dark chocolate, above up the 85% of chocolate, but also I like the white chocolate
2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate? In Spain we are different, we make hot chocolate as if it were chocolate sauce, this sauce is hot, many times we mix with hot milk
3. What are some of the products that your country famously export? In Spain we don’t export chocolate
4. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy? I like much croissant

We appreciate your diligence in responding to your lessons’ discussion questions. Good going.

You can revise this sentence this way to improve it:

Yes, I do, I like all types of chocolates, and my favorites are dark chocolate, above up the 85% of chocolate, but also I like the white chocolate

Yes, I do. I like all types of chocolates, and my favorite is dark chocolates, that are above up the 85% of chocolate. but I also like the milk chocolates.

Yes, I do. I like all types of chocolates and my favorite is dark chocolates that are above 85% of chocolate. I also like milk chocolates.

Just keep doing this exercise to practice your writing.

1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?
Yes, I like chocolates. My favourite is milk chocolate. I like cadbury’s brand chocolates.
2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
We eat a lot of differents types of food that contains chocolate, for example ice creams, cakes, drinks. In winter or Christmas especially, people drink hot chocolate.
3. What are some of the products that your country famously export?
There are a lot of high quality products: olive oil, iberian ham, and wine.
4. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
I love chocolate donuts and the typical Easter desserts, but my favourite is the carrot cake.

We recognize your efforts to do your best in answering the questions for this lesson. Good job and just continue practicing regularly.

This is a better way to say the sentence: There are a lot of high quality products: olive oil, iberian ham, and wine.

There are a lot of high quality products from Spain such as olive oil, Iberian ham, and wine.

1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?
I love chocolate. My favourite is milk chocolate.

2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
I think people in Spain eats chocolate often. We eat a lot of differents types of food that contains chocolate, for example ice creams, cakes, energy bars, drinks.

3. What are some of the products that your country famously export?
There are a lot of high quality products: olive oil, ham, and others iberian products. I live in a region that export a lot of avocados and mangos.

4. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
I enjoy eating typical Christmas and Easter sweets. There are elaborated with almonds, sugar, bread, honey, eggs, etc.

Thank you for all the efforts you put into answering our discussion questions. You are doing a good job.

Be a little careful with your subject-verb agreement and where you put your adverb of frequency in sentences such as this one:

I think people in Spain eats chocolate often.

I think people in Spain often eat chocolates.

1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?
I like chocolates, all chocolates but my favorites is with milk
2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
in my country is typical chocolate with churros
3. What are some of the products that your country famously export?
my country export fruits and vegetables
4. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
I like the cake,s

1.- Yes I like chocolates. One of muy favorites chocolates is with milk,. (nestle chocolate with milk)

2.- Traditionally, take chocolate ans creamy fillings.

3.- The products export are cava, calçots.

4.- I eat a piece of chocolate when I finished lunch.

1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?
I like chocolate, all of them except white chocolate. My favourite is chocolate Valor 90% cocoa.
2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
Taking chocolate in my country is not so typical. We usually take liquied chocolate together with churros and cakes.
3. What are some of the products that your country famously export?
Famous and really good products Spain exports are Wine and Olive Oil.
4. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
I don´t like sweets very much, I prefer salty ones.

1. Do you like chocolates? What are some of your favourites?
a. Yes, I like chocolates. One of my favorites chocolates is pure chocolate 100%
2. Traditionally, how do people in your country take chocolate?
a. Tradicionally, the people take hard chocolate and creamy fillings
3. What are some of the products that your country famously export?
a. The products that Spain famously export are oranges, wine and Serrano jam
4. Aside from chocolates, what other types of sweets do you enjoy?
a. In certain moments, I eat a piece of cake or a bable.

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