(共21张PPT)
Unit1 Food matters
Reading
Comfort Food
Food is as fundamental to man as the people are to the state.
------Chen Shou (陈寿《三国志》)
fundamental: the most basic and important parts of sth.
1. What food will you eat if you are in low spirits How does it affect your feelings
2. What food will you miss much if you are away from home for a long time How does it affect your feelings
Free talk:
Comfort Food
You are going to work together to figure out the definition, the features and the functions of comfort food.
Group Work
Reading Circle
Original group:
Structure master
Word master
Cultural Collector
Life Connector
Word master
Passage
person
Expert group:
Structure master
Structure master
Structure master
Structure master
divided by your seat arrangement
divided by your tasks
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A5 B5 C5 D5 E5 F5 G5 H5
A4 B4 C4 D4 E4 F4 G4 H4
A3 B3 C3 D3 E3 F3 G3 H3
A2 B2 C2 D2 E2 F2 G2 H2
A1 B1 C1 D1 E1 F1 G1 H1
ABCDEFG stand for your original group name
123456 stand for your task name
Blackboard
Today’s tasks:
Group discussion for the homework:
Share and discuss your homework in the expert group(circled group) and exchange your ideas. (4minutes)
Summarize the main idea of each paragraph
Figure out the functions of each paragraph
Structure master
Para1: Rice pudding cheers me up whenever I feel unhappy.
Para2: Comfort food has the unique power to make us feel better.
Para3: Comfort foods are highly individual, depending on their own unique experiences.
Para4: Comfort food gives the “taste of home” to people who feel homesick when they move to a new country.
Para5: Comfort food is food for the soul.
Introduction:
Give the definition and narrow down the topic
Talk about the comfort food linked with positive emotions
in our memories.
Talk about the comfort food related to one’s sense of belonging and cultural roots.
Make a conclusion
Para1 Find out expressions about sensory details of the rice pudding and the way I enjoy it
Word master
Sensory details
(感官细节) of the rice pudding
Writing techniques:
Using descriptive writing and sensory details can create a vivid picture in readers’ minds .
succeed in achieving certain results
thick and smooth like cream
Find out expressions about the way I enjoy the rice pudding.
Word master
the way “I” enjoy it
How does the author connect the past experience to the current feeling
By using simile (明喻) :“works like a time machine transporting me back to my sunny childhood”
transport…back to….: to imagine that you are in another place or time because of something that you see or feel
Find out phrases to express “to make sb. feel better”
and “to make sb. think of sth.”
Word master
in a broad sense: it refers to any food that makes us feel happy
to make sb. feel better
lift my spirits
make up for bad feelings
cheer sb. up
relieve feelings of
transport me back to
call sth. to mind
recall happy memories of
unlock memories of
take sb. back to
Para2:What is the definition of comfort food in a broad/narrow sense
in a narrow sense: food which makes up for bad feelings by helping us recall happy memories
to make sb. think of sth.
Share the experience when you are served chicken soup in your daily life.
Why does the author mention the chicken soup in para3
Life Connector
Symbol (象征) : food connected with positive emotions
Chicken soup is used as a typical example to explain foods can linked with positive emotions.
Feature 1: Comfort food are highly individual and linked with positive emotions.
Feature2 : Comfort food can give us a feeling of happiness and sense of belonging, which is particularly important for people away from their home country.
How do you understand the words of food experts in para4
Passage
person
Para4: “ There are some aspects of culture that people will lose right away, but with food, there are more opportunities to connect to memory, family and place.”
Functions of food:
Food is big part of our history and culture.
The food we eat also teaches us about the important values in our culture.
the joint family values
remind us of the historical story
Behind the comfort foods lies the culture.
Watch the video and finish the exercises on page1.
Cultural Collector
Share more information about those foods.
Cultural Collector
Summarize similarities of these food.
Cultural Collector
taste good
popular among people
typical food of each country
give us a sense of belonging
take us back to our cultural roots
give us the taste of home that we cry out for
relieve feelings of homesickness
What’s your understanding of the last sentence “it’s food for the soul.”
Discussion
Para5:“ It isn’t just a bowl of noodles or chicken soup. It’s food for the soul”.
Functions of comfort food:
Comfort food not only relieves our hunger and satisfies our appetite(胃口), but also makes us feel comfortable m_________ and e__________.
entally
motionally
What is the comfort food
Summary
In a narrow s_______, comfort food r_____ to a particular type of food whose power mainly l____ in the associations it c_______ to mind. It often _________ for bad feelings by helping us r_______ happy memories of the people, things or places we love.
Comfort foods are highly i_________. They vary from person to person, depending on our own unique experiences that have s______ our lives. They also depends on where people come from, giving us a sense of b_______, taking us back to our cultural r_________ and relieving feelings of h____________. They tastes good and by building an emotional b______ with our happy memories, always c________ us up. It’s food for the s___.
ense
efers
ies
alls
makes up
ecall
ndividual
haped
elonging
oots
omesickness
ond
heers
oul
Homework:
Share your final work within your original group and make a poster together.
Write a short passage in about 100 words to describe your comfort food which can recall the fond memories.
1) state clearly what your comfort food is
2) describe the features of your comfort food by using the sensory details, such as its appearance, smell, taste, etc.
3) mention your experience or story behind the food