How do you like your tea?

Where was the teabag invented?

brew (in this context) add boiling water to tea and allow the flavour to develop

sanative making you feel better

mouthful a small amount

All I need is a sip of water.

She had just two bites of an apple.

She choked down a mouthful of food.

to eat something, even though it is hard to swallow or tastes bad

He stared at her intently while he chewed a mouthful of food.

can't drink that! You didn’t let the tea brew for long enough.

A marvellous little invention!

Tea is a shrub that grows naturally in the mountainous areas of China and several thousand years ago

tea has a sanative effect – making you feel better – so I might try munching a few leaves later on.

I like tea with a delicate flavour – Lapsang Suchong is my favourite with its evocative fragrance.

A woman enjoys the fragrance of her flowers.

distinctive smoky flavour

Teabags first appeared commercially in the first decade of the 20th century and were successfully marketed by Thomas Sullivan, a tea merchant from New York, who shipped his teabags around the world.

Merchant is defined as a person or company engaged in the business of selling or trading goods.