(共17张PPT)
Unit 1 Food for thought
Understanding ideas
After this lesson, you are able to:
Get the main idea of this passage by skimming.
Find out the family’s opinions on different kinds of food by scanning.
Develop the correct attitude to the difference between Chinese and British food.
Learning Objectives
Lead-in
Look at the food and say which country each food is from.
China
United Kingdom
Canada
India
Italy
Mexico
Look at the title and pictures, and try to predict what the text is about.
Pre-reading
Who is the child
What are the two cuisines
Why is he/she “a child of two cuisines”
While-reading
Read para.1 and para.6 quickly, and choose the main idea of the passage.
A How the family stays healthy by eating Chinese food.
B What the family has done to promote Chinese food.
C How the family cooks both Chinese and English food.
D How the family combines food from two cultures.
While-reading
Can you find some information about family members in para.1
A Chinese
A British
A mixed-blood /cross-cultural boy
What kinds of food are mentioned in the passage (Para 2-5)
While-reading
spicy dishes (hot pot)
animal parts
(chicken feet, pigs’ ears)
stinky tofu
full English breakfast
Sunday roast
blue cheese
Chinese food
British food
While-reading
Opinion
Supporting details
Mum has sweet memories of the food from her home town in Sichuan, and often cooks spicy dishes.
Thanks to this, Dad has come to love hot pot.
Read para.2-3 carefully and find some details about their opinions on Chinese food.
While-reading
Opinion
Supporting details
Read para.2-3 carefully and find some details about their opinions on Chinese food.
Even today, he still does not easily take to eating things like chicken feet.
But I enjoy that sort of food myself.
Mum and I just have to find a way to get him into the kitchen.
While-reading
Read para. 4 carefully and find some details about their opinions on British food.
Opinion
Supporting details
While-reading
Read para. 4 carefully and find some details about their opinions on British food.
Opinion
Supporting details
We all love roast beef and vegetables.
Do they often eat Sunday roast
We’d better not eat too much roast food as it may make us suffer from heat inside our bodies.
When I came across stinky tofu
When I gathered courage to __________
Finally, I thought...
I was ________ to find it wasn’t so bad.
maybe I’ll_____________ stinky tofu someday.
While-reading
Read para. 5 carefully and find some details about the son’s change in eating stinky tofu.
a _________ grey thing that looked and smelt like a _____ sport shoe.
horrible
take a bite
amazed
fall in love with
burnt
While-reading
Read para.6 and find the son’s opinion on cross-cultural eating habits.
There’s nothing better than a cross-cultural afternoon tea of English biscuits and a cup of Chinese oolong tea in a fine china cup.
Post-reading
What does the author mean by saying
Do you know of any similar sayings in Chinese
Think & Share
“one man’s meat is another man’s poison”
Post-reading
Think & Share
1. insist “one man’s meat is another man’s poison”
or
2. accept food from different cultures.
understand
respect
try
accept/enjoy
tolerate(包容)
Faced with different kinds of food, what should you do
Homework
Write a short essay about the food that has made an impression on you and give your reasons.
Thank you for your attention!