Learn: melted, mouth-watering, in the run-up to, chocoholic, charity

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Melted chocolate – now that’s a mouth-watering sight.
This chocolatier in the English county of Lincolnshire has been working hard to create big eggs in the run-up to Easter. But not this one – that one!
Over 100kg of chocolate was used to create the two-metre-tall egg.
But Jan Hensen knows it is too much even for his chocoholic clients. He says he’ll sell it in pieces to raise money for charity.

Vocabulary

melted
something solid turned into liquid

mouth-watering
so delicious that it makes you salivate

in the run-up to
in the period leading to a particular event

chocoholic
someone addicted to chocolate

charity
a system of giving help, such as money, to people who don’t have enough for basic life

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