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Unit 3 Food and Culture
Reading and thinking:Culture and Cuisine
In today’s lesson, you are expected to:
1. scan the text to find out the Chinese food and typical dishes in different places and what the author learnt about people through his food experiences;
2. identify and understand the causes and effects in the text;
3. think about how food influences culture and people’s personalities;
4. learn some new words and expressions in this text.
Warming-up
Read and predict
1. What impressed you
most in the picture
The photo is of a 1,000-Person-Long-Table Banquet in the Miao Stockade Village of One Thousand Households in Leishan, Guizhou.
2. What are people
doing
3. Where do you think
this photo was taken
Matching
Tokyo,
Janpan
Chongqing,
China
London,
the UK
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Do you think there is a link between food and culture
What is the link between food and culture
Lead-in:free talk
Read the article to see if you share the same ideas as the author.
While-reading
Fast reading
01 Literal Questions
1. What is the change of Chinese food in America
2. What is making dumpling like in Shandong
3. What do Shandong people attach great importance to
4. What is the traditional lifestyle of people in northern Xinjiang
Food and Culture
01 Literal Questions
1. What is the change of Chinese food in America
It had been changed to suit American tastes. (para. 2)
2. What is making dumpling like in Shandong
It is a family affair with everyone-from the youngest to the oldest-joining in to help. (para.4)
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3. What do Shandong people attach great importance to
Family is important to the people in Shandong. (para.4)
4. What is the traditional lifestyle of people in northern Xinjiang
They traditionally wandered the open range on horses. (para.5)
Activity 2:
What are the circled word
Fast Reading
Time clues
Read Para.2 carefully and answer the following questions.
What is America’s most popular Chinese dish
And what can the dish tell us about Americans
Certainly, in many ways this seems to be true. Chinese cuisine is a case in point. Prior to coming to China, my only experience with Chinese cooking was in America, with Chinese food that had been changed to suit American tastes. For example, America’s most popular Chinese dish is General Tso’s chicken, which consists of fried chicken covered in a sweet sauce, flavoured with hot red peppers. This is probably not an authentic Chinese recipe, however, so it cannot tell us much about the Chinese. On the other hand, it does tell us a lot about Americans. It tells us, for example, that Americans love bold, simple flavours. And, since the dish was also invented recently, it tells us that Americans are not afraid to try new foods.
Culture and cuisine go hand in hand.
Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture
America
Beijing
Shandong
Northwest China
South China
Central China
Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture
America
Beijing
Shandong
Northwest China
South China
Central China
Chinese food changed to suit American tastes General Tso’s chicken American love bold, simple flavors and are not afraid to try new foods
Sichuan Cuisine Dishes with Sichuan Peppercorns People there offered them good friendship
Shandong Cuisine Pancake rolls Family is important to the people there
Xinjiang Cuisine Lamb kebab People traditionally wandered the open range on horses so their traditional foods are what you can cook over and open fire.
Guangdong Cuisine Guangdong’s elegant dim sum
Henan cuisine Stewed noodles
Through food, Chinese people everywhere show friendship and kindness.
What conclusion does the author get through his experience of the Chinese cuisine in the last paragraph
Para 6
Read the last paragraph and answer the question.
1.What can be told by the Chinese food that has been changed in America
2.Why has dumpling become Shandong people's favourite traditional dish
3. What is the influence of northern Xinjiang people's lifestyle on food
4. What is common among Chinese food everywhere
5. According to the author's opinion, what kinds of information about culture (including people who grow in it) can the foods tell us
02 Interpretive Questions
Food and Culture
1.What can be told by the Chinese food that has been changed in America
Americans love bold, simple flavours.
2.Why has dumpling become Shandong people's favourite traditional dish
They attach importance to family, and making dumplings is a family affair.
02 Interpretive Questions
Food and Culture
3. What is the influence of northern Xinjiang people's lifestyle on food
Their traditional foods are what you can cook over an open fire-usually boilded or roasted meat, such as lamb kebab.
4. What is common among Chinese food everywhere
Through food, Chinese people show kind and friendship.
5. According to the author's opinion, what kinds of information about culture (including people who grow in it) can the foods tell us
Characters, flavours, Lifestyles...
eg. In northern Xinjiang, food: boiled or roasted meats such as lamb kebab →information about the food: cooked over open fire
→people’s culture: lifestyle of wandering the open range
02 Interpretive Questions
Food and Culture
Understand cause and effect
Sometimes two ideas are related to each other by cause and effect. That is, one thing causes something else to happen.
Cause-and-effect relationships can be direct.
It was raining, so I took my umbrella.
However, some cause-and-effect relationships are not direct, and some may also have more than one cause or effect.
People living in different places share different cultures.
People living in different places eat different kinds of food.
Which idea is “cause” and which idea is “effect”
Can you combine two sentences into one sentence
People living in different places share different cultures, so they have different kinds of food.
People living in different places have different kinds of food because they have different kinds of food.
Cause
1. The flavour preferences of Americans often differ from those of the Chinese.
2. We had no idea how to
order food.
3. These groups traditionally wandered the open range on
horses.
Effect
A. The chef just began filling our table with the best food we had ever eaten.
B. Their traditional foods are what you can cook over an open fire.
C. Chinese food in America is changed to suit American tastes.
Match the causes and effects below and find more examples from the text.
1. Do you think "culture and cuisine go hand in hand" Give your reasons.
2. Can you name any typical dish of Cantonese(Guangdong) cuisine
What Cantonese culture can you see from these foods
03 Applied Questions
Dim Sum
Food and Culture
Questions for thought
1. Do you think “culture and cuisine go hand in hand” Give your reasons.
I do think culture and cuisine go hand in hand. Reasons are as follows: Cuisine in certain places can tell us what the climate is like and what the geographical features are. And it also tells us much about the flavors they prefer. All this can demonstrate the personalities of a people in a specific place and its culture because so much of a culture is based on how it is eaten and served.
Topic: ______________________
Chinese food in America
Chinese food in China
in Beijing
in Shandong
in
_________
in
_________
in Henan
Conclusion: _____________________________
Culture and Cuisine
Xinjiang
Guangdong
Culture and cuisine go hand in hand
Homework checking
Thank you for your listening.