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外研版《英语》必修二 Unit 1
A Child of Two Cuisines
Learning Objectives
讲
政治
At the end of the lesson, you will be able to:
get the main idea of the text through skimming and accurately explain the meaning of the title.
judge people’s opinions on food and find supporting details through scanning.
enhance cross-cultural awareness; experience cultural differences.
acquire learning resources through multiple channels .
Beijing duck
Dazhaxie
Sichuan hot pot
Dumplings
Stinky Tofu(臭豆腐)
Chinese Hamburger
(肉夹馍)
Q: Have you ever tried any of the food
What did you think of it
Lead-in
Recently, Johnson came to our school as an exchange student. At first, everything went well. But when he went to the canteen, he found he didn’t know these foods before. Refuse or try
chicken feet
Dongpo’s braised pork
dim sum
Look at the title and predict:
*Who is the child
*What are the two cuisines
*Why is he “a child of two cuisines”
Now let’s read the passage and find out the answers.
Prediction
Fast-reading:
Go through the passage silently and quickly,then complete the following tasks(1-3) to get the main idea and structure of the passage.(6minutes)
Task1:
Go through the passage quickly and choose the main idea.
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 countries.
Fast-reading
Fast reading
Para 1
Para 2
Para 3
Para 4
Para 5
Para 6
A. Parents' attitude to Chinese food
B. The author's growing background
C. The author's attitude to animals parts
D. The author’s first visit to China
E. The family’s attitude to English food
F. The author’s feeling about cross-
cultural food
Task2:
Scan the text and match the paragraphs to the following main ideas.
Part 3 (Para.____)
Part 1 (Para.____)
Part 2 (Para._____)
A. The author’s feeling
about cross-cultural food.
B. The author's growing
background.
C. The family's attitude to
different food.
Task3:
The structure of the passage
1
2-5
6
Careful-reading:
Read the passage silently and carefully ,then complete the following tasks(1-3) to get detailed information about the passage.(8minutes)
1. From the second paragraph, we can know that_________.
A. Dad has come to eat every part of an animal.
B. Dad has completely taken to eating Chinese food.
C. Dad loved hot pot the moment he tasted it.
D. Mum was fond of spicy food.
2. How does the author’s mother comment on roast food
A. Much of it is considered rubbish.
B. Eating it will make one suffer from heat inside his or her body.
C. It’s beneficial to building up one’s body.
D. It’s not good to eat too much of it.
Task 1: Choose the best answers.
Careful-reading
3. What does the author mean by saying “one man’s meat is another man’s poison”
A. Different people prefer different foods.
B. Other people may consider meat harmful.
C. People feel at home with food from different cultures.
D. People enjoy cross-cultural foods.
4. What can we learn about the author from the passage
A. He loved all the food he tried.
B. He loved Chinese food better.
C. He isn’t used to eating chicken feet even today.
D. He felt amazed when he first came across stinky tofu.
Task 2: Choose the correct symbols and complete the table on Page5.
Paragraph 2-3:
Mum has sweet memories of food from her home town in Sichuan, and often cooks spicy dishes.
Thanks to this, Dad has come to love hot pot!
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.
Mum and I just have to find a way to get him into the kitchen.
We all love roast beef and vegetables...
But just when I thought I could deal with all Chinese food, I came across stinky tofu...
Paragraph 4-5:
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.
Cross-cultural food is the best.
Task 3: What is the son’s opinion on cross-cultural eating habits Find a sentence to support your answer.
Who am I (para.1)
Have you got the answers to the questions in prediction
A Chinese from Sichuan
A British
A cross-cultural boy
I’ve enjoyed food from both countries ever since I was able to hold a knife and fork — and chopsticks!
Why am I “a child of two cuisines” (para.1)
What are the two cuisines (Para 2-5)
spicy dishes (hot pot)
animal parts
(chicken feet, pigs’ ears)
stinky tofu
full English breakfast
Sunday roast
blue cheese
Chinese food
British food
The boy's opinion(Para 6)
The cross-cultural food is the best.
Post-reading:
Summarise the table with one sentence in the passage.
“One man’s meat is another man’s poison.”
What one person likes may not be liked by someone else.
萝卜青菜,各有所爱。
甲之蜜糖,乙之砒霜。
Faced with different foods you never met before, what should you do
1. insist “one man’s meat is another man’s poison”
or
2. accept food from different cultures.
admit
understand
respect
try
accept/enjoy
tolerate
black pudding
blue cheese
haggis
fried spider
Discuss and share
Just behave positively and try to enjoy them in the cross-cultural environment!
Different countries, different foods
Chopsticks or fork
Tea or coffee
They can be together!
Johnson is going to tour China next month. Please recommend a kind of special Chinese food to him to persuade him to have a try.
Discuss and share
Useful expressions:
We would like to recommend...
dare not / need / have to /
had better
It looks / tastes / smells...
We recommend it because...
(the rich flavor/ fragrant smell/ health values…).
Homework
Recommend a kind of special Chinese food and write a letter to Johnson to persuade him to have a try.
(about 120 words)
Thank You!