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Unit 3
FOOD AND CULTURE
Reading and Thinking:
Culture and Cuisine
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The photo is of a 1000-Person-Long-Table Banquet in the Miao Stockade Village of One Thousand Households in Leishan, Guizhou.(贵州雷山千户苗寨的“千人长桌宴”)
The Long Table Banquet
There are a large quantities of guests sitting at the long tables sharing quantities of food.
Food brings people together on many different levels.It’s nourishment(n.滋养品) of the soul and body; it’s truly love.
------------ Giada De Laurentiis
食物在许多不同的层面上把人们聚集在一起,它是心灵和身体的养料,是真正的爱。
Food and Culture
Pre-reading
1.What can you see from the pictures in the text
Food.
3.What do you think the word “cuisine” in the title means
Food cooked in a certain way.
4.What kinds of food are they
Chinese food.
5.What do you think the text is about
Maybe it’s about different kinds of Chinese food and the culture each food represents.
Pre-reading
How many kinds of Chinese cuisine are there
Do these cuisines tell you about the people who eat them
Shangdong cuisine(鲁菜)
China’s Eight Cuisines
Sichuan cuisine
(川菜)
Anhui cuisine
(徽菜)
Jiangsu cuisine(苏菜)
Zhejiang cuisine(浙菜)
China’s Eight Cuisines
Fujian cuisine(闽菜)
Hunan cuisine(湘菜)
Guangdong cuisine
(粤菜)
In addition, there are many other local cuisines that are famous, such as
Beijing Cuisine,
Hubei Cuisine,
Jiangxi Cuisine,
Shanghai Cuisine.
Boiled dumplings
Lamb kebab
Stewed noodles
Dim sum
Pancake rolls
Do you know their English names
Food idioms
1. Public concern for the health of farm animals has mushroomed in the UK.
2. Anderson may be young but he’s rolling in dough!
3. George is a popular lecturer. He often peppers his speech with jokes.
4. As the person to bring home the bacon, he needs to find a stable job.
5 He is often regarded as a ham actor for his overemphasised facial expressions.
6. The media reported that these companies had treated pollution as a hot potato.
7. Don’t worry about the test tomorrow. It’s going to be a piece of cake!
8. It’s best to fold the swimming ring when it is as flat as a pancake.
A completely flat
B something that is very easy
C an issue that is hard to deal with
D to include large numbers of something
E to earn one’s living to support a family
F wealthy
G to rapidly increase in number
H an actor who performs badly, especially by overemphasising emotions
Culture and Cuisines
Now please read the article and while you are reading, think about the following questions:
The kind of food we eat tells something about our personality, character and culture.
1.How does the writer understand the saying “You are what you eat.”
2. Which is the topic paragragh
3. Which is the topic sentence
Para.1
Para.7
Explore the topic paragraph
Tips: Topic Paragraph
主题段落具有概括、点明主题的作用。
主题段落一般是第一段和最后一段。
常在转折词之后:but, however,yet, in fact,etc.
常跟在“表总结的短语之后”:In short/In conclusion, What we can say/conclude is that....., etc.
定位主题段落和主题句,非常重要
How does the writer show us culture and cuisine go hand in hand
By sharing his different experiences with Chinese cuisine.
Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture
America
Beijing
Shandong
Chinese food changed to suit American tastes
General Tso's chicken
Americans love bold, simple flavours, and are not afraid to try new foods.
Sichan cuisine
dishes with Sichuan peppercorns
offer them good friendship.
Shandong cuisine
boiled dumplings served with vinegar; pancake rolls stuffed with sliced Chinese green onions
Family is important to the people there.
3. Use the information to complete the table below.
Detailed reading
Family is important to the people there.
Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture
Northwest China
South China
Central China
Xinjiang and Inner Mongolian cuisine
boiled or roasted meat such as lamb kebab
wandered the open range on horses ; cook food over an open fire.
Guangdong cuisine
dim sum
Henan cuisine
stewed noodles
show friendship and kindness.
Fast reading
Do people living in different places share the same culture or different culture
People living in different places share different cultures.
Do people living in different places eat the same food or different kinds of food
People living in different places eat different kinds of food.
People living in different places share different cultures.As a result,they have different kinds of food.
That means, people living in different places have different kinds of food because they share different cultures.
Or we can say, people living in different places share different cultures so they have different kinds of food.
Which idea is “cause” and which idea is “effect”
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. For example,“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.
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.
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.
cause
effect
4. Match the causes to the effects below. Then find more examples from the text.
Conclusion
Culture and cuisine go hand in hand.
You are what you eat
Framework: How is the passage developed
A: narrative / n r t v/ 记叙文
B: expository writing 说明文
C: argumentative essay 议论文
D: practical writing 应用文
Explore: What kind of passage is it
In what order did the writer write the article
A: Time
B: Space
C: Logic (逻辑)
Thank you ~