Eggstravagant Easter eggs – answers
questions
- What can you say about the title of this story? the word should be ‘extravagant’ meaning excessive – here the use of eggstravagant plays with ‘egg’ because it has almost the same sound as extra.. – the egg is extravagant – this is a common use of language in English jokes
- What’s the answer for someone who has everything? this giant chocolate egg
- What is the egg a re-creation of? a Faberge egg
- What is it worth? $10,000
- Who is Beate Wolfstein? patisserie chef to the stars
- How long did the egg take to create? 70 hours
- What was the most difficult thing for her? how to produce the little ornaments
- She says ‘without any breakage" what does she mean? nothing got broken
- What might be hard to swallow? the price of this egg (hard to swallow – hard to accept)
- How much does the 30kg egg cost? $1,000
- Where won’t you be putting an egg this big? What does this refer to? into one basket – it’s a saying in English ‘don’t put all your eggs in one basket’ ie spread risk