Unit 1 Think for thought (A Child of Two Cuisines)
教学目标
To help students predict the main idea of the passage according to its title and pictures.
To help students master some useful reading skills, such as reading some key words and sentences.
To find out the information sentences about expressing one's opinions about food.
To know more about the food differences between China and England and increase our cross-cultural awareness（跨文化意识）
教学重难点
Important points：
to help students understand the passage and know about different cultures
Difficult points:
to help students understand the title and the sentence “One man’s meat is another man’s poison.”
To lead students have a positive attitude on other cultures and build an confidence in our culture.
教学准备
课件、导学案、彩纸、贵州地图
教学过程
步骤 教师活动/方法 学生活动/学法 目的
Step 1 Warming-up（2m） Greet the students. show a map to lead in the title of this unit Unit 1 Think for thought 3.Ask one students to answer the questions 4. Lead the students to discuss about the dark cuisines. 1.Greet to the teacher 2.Look at the map and answer the questions. 3. Read the riddle and guess the name of the food. 4. Share their ideas about the cuisines from other countries. 了解中外食物使学生进入学习状态，引起学习兴趣。
Step II Pre-reading Step III While-reading Fast-reading. Careful-reading. Lead the students to predict what the passage is about according to the pictures and title. Lead the students to skim the passage for the first time to understand the title and the main idea of passage. Ask some students to share their understandings of the title. Ask one students to choose the main idea of the passage Read for the second time and match the main idea with its corresponding paragraph. Part 1(Para___) The family's opinions on different foods. Part 2(Para___) Feeling at home with food from both cultures. Part 3(Para___) My birth background Invite the students to scan paragraph 1 to find the details about the son’s birth background. Lead students to read Para.2-5 carefully to complete the table with information from the passage in study list. Lead students to discuss：Why the family have different opinions about these two kinds of food Ask students to read Para. 6 and discuss their understanding of the sentence“One man’s meat is another man’s poison” Ask some students to share t Look at the the pictures and title and predict what the passage is about. Read for the first time and finish the following tasks. ①Talk about your understanding of the title. ②Choose the main idea of the passage Read for the second time to get the main idea of each parts. Read paragraph 1 to find the details. The son’s birth background Read Para2-5: Complete the table with information from the passage. To discuss：Why the family have different opinions about these two kinds of food 3.Read Para. 6 and discuss What does the author mean by saying “One man’s meat is another man’s poison” 。 通过猜测，掌握阅读技巧 通过快速阅读让学生了解文章大意。 通过精读提升学生通过关键词理解文章的能力。并学会独立思考问题
Step IV Post-reading Show some pictures about cuisines of Guizhou. Think&share. Group work ①play a video Give students some useful words Useful words: spicy(辣的)，tender（嫩的），salty（咸的），bitter（苦的），greasy（油腻的），strong（口味重的），raw（生的），mouth-watering（令人垂涎的），boiled（煮的），cold and dressed with sauce( 凉拌的) Learn some cuisines of Guizhou. Think&share. Group work ①Watch a video Think :Suppose your friend Tom who is from England is going to visit you, try to recommend your favorite Chinese food or the delicious food from your hometown to him. Show your ideas with your group members 通过介绍家乡美食建立学生文化自信。
Step V Summary Help students review what they have learnt today. Review what they have learnt today. 回顾所学话题。
Step 6 Homework （1分钟） Assignment 1.Write a passage to introduce a experience that you tired a new kind of food before. 2. Further reading: Dividing and Conquering the Cuisines of China ()
Blackboard design Unit 1 Think for thought (A Child of Two Cuisines) Guizhou Map One man’s meat is another man’s poisonUnit 1 Think for thought 导学案
(A Child of Two Cuisines)
【教师寄语】：When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
I Learning goals：
1. To get the main idea of the passage and understand the title.
2. To find out the information sentences about expressing one's opinions about food.
3. To know more about the food differences between China and England and increase our cross-cultural awareness（跨文化意识 ）.
II Useful learning methods
Preview the new vocabularies before the class.
Try to predict what a passage is about according to its title and pictures.
Pay attention to some key words and sentences while reading.
Try to share your ideas with your group members in English.
III Pre-class activities
Form groups
Learn about British food and British culture.
g. lack pudding, haggis, full English breakfast, Sunday toast,afternoon tea
Preview the new vocabularies
black pudding
butcher
marriage
wedding
sort
super
bacon
sausage
toast
butter
typical
roast
suffer
stinky
tofu
horrible
gather
bite
cheese
someday
poison
oolong
china
opinion
Scottish
liver
lung
nationality
foodie
IV While-class activities
Step I Warming up
Watch a picture and answer the teacher’s questions
Read the riddle and guess the name of the food.
Riddle:
When you smell it, it is stinky. But when you eat it , you will fall in love with it.
It is made from tofu. What is it
Learn the names of the dark cuisines and answer the questions.
Would you like to try one of them
Step II Pre-reading
Predict what the passage is about according to the pictures and title.
Step III While-reading
Fast-reading.
Read and finish the following tasks.(2m)
①Talk about your understanding of the title.
A Child of Two Cuisines
②Choose the main idea of the passage
How the family stays healthy by eating Chinese food.
What the family has done to promote Chinese food.
How the family cooks both Chinese and English food.
How the family combines food from two cultures.
Read and match the main idea with its corresponding paragraph.
Part 1(Para___) The family's opinions on different foods.
Part 2(Para___) Feeling at home with food from both cultures.
Part 3(Para___) My birth background
Careful-reading.
Read Paragraph 1 to find the details.
The son’s birth background
Living place:______________________ Father’s nationality:________________
Mother’s nationality:_______________ Favorite food:_____________________
Read Para2-5: Complete the table with information from the passage.
Thinking：Why the family have different opinions about these two kinds of food
Read Para. 6:
What does the author mean by saying “One man’s meat is another man’s poison”
Step IV Post-reading
Learn some cuisines of Guizhou.
Think&share. Group work
①Watch a video
Suppose your friend Tom who is from England is going to visit you, try to recommend your favorite Chinese food or the delicious food from your hometown to him. Show your ideas with your group members
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Name
Place :
Ingredients(材料）
Flavour
Function
History
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Pictures
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Useful words: spicy(辣的)，tender（嫩的），salty（咸的），bitter（苦的），greasy（油腻的），strong（口味重的），raw（生的），mouth-watering（令人垂涎的），boiled（煮的），cold and dressed with sauce(
凉拌的)
②If you are in a foreign country, you come across some food that you never meet, what should you do
【Summary】：____________________________________________________________________
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Assignment
1.Write a passage to introduce a experience that you tired a new kind of food before.
2. Further reading: Dividing and Conquering the Cuisines of China
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When you smell it, it is stinky.
But when you eat it , you will fall in love with it.
It is made from tofu. What is it
Stinky Tofu
Warming up. Guess the food. Do you like the food
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Warming up. Learn the names of the dark cuisines
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A child of two cuisines
A Child of Two Cuisines
Talk about your understanding of the title.
A child of two cuisines
A Child of Two Cuisines
1. How the family stays healthy by eating Chinese food.
2. What the family has done to promote Chinese food.
3. How the family cooks both Chinese and English food.
4. How the family combines food from two cultures.
Choose the main idea of the passage.
Fast-reading.Read and answer the following two questions.
2
My birth background.
The family's opinions on different foods.
Part 1(Para___)
Part 2(Para___)
Part 3(Para___)
Feeling at home with food from both cultures.
1
2-5
6
Fast-reading.Match the main idea with its corresponding paragraph.
3
My birth background.
The family's opinions on different foods.
Part 1(Para___)
Part 2(Para___)
Part 3(Para___)
Feeling at home with food from both cultures.
1
2-5
6
Fast-reading.Match the main idea with its corresponding paragraph.
3
Part 1(Para.1) My birth background.
Living place:______________________
Father’s nationality:________________
Mother’s nationality:_______________
Favorite food:_____________________
The birth background
Chinese
British
both Chinese and British food.
England
Careful-reading. Read Paragraph 1to find the details.
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Part 2 (Para.2-5) The family's opinions on different foods.
Read Para.2-5: What cuisines are mentioned in the passage
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Read Para.2-5: What cuisines are mentioned in the passage
But just when I thought I could deal with all Chinese food, I came across stinky tofu, a horrible grey thing...
We all love roast beef and vegetables...
Mum and I just have to find a way to get him into the kitchen!
Mum and I just have to find a way to get him into the kitchen!
But I enjoy that sort of food myself.
Even today, he still does not easily take to eating things like chicken feet.
Thanks to this, Dad has come to love hot pot!
Mum has sweet memories of the food from her home town in Sichuan, and often cooks spicy dishes.
Read Para2-5: Complete the table with information from the passage.
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It means that something that one person likes may not be liked by someone else.
What does the author mean by saying
“One man’s meat is another man’s poison”
“萝卜青菜，各有所爱。”
Read Para2-5: Complete the table with information from the passage.
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Think&share. Watch a video and make a food map of Guizhou.
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Suppose your friend Tom who is from England is going to visit Guizhou. Try to introduce your favorite food or the delicious food from Guizhou to him. Let’s make a food map for him!
Think&share.
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If you are in a foreign country, you come across some food that you never meet, what should you do
__________
One world, one family！
Assignment
1.Write a passage to introduce a experience that you tired a new kind of food before.
2. Further reading: Dividing and Conquering the Cuisines of China
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Thank you!
