内容正文:
FOOD!
I’d like to eat some food when …
Food heals everything!
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Unit 1 Reading
Comfort Food
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Raise some questions on the article.
What’s the meaning of the title?
What’s the purpose of this article?
What’s the genre of this article?
…
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Observing
Food keeps us healthy and energetic. It can also do more than that. The article below, from a food magazine, discusses the idea of comfort food.
Predicting
What’s the meaning of the title?
-The food which can make people feel comfortable, such as chicken soup.
What’s the purpose of this article?
-To discuss/inform/define/explain…
What’s the genre of this article?
-Exposition(说明文)
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Read the passage and find out the following
information about comfort food:
definition
feature
function
Read the lines
Read between the lines
Read beyond the lines
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para 2
n.联想
What is the definition of comfort food?
In a broad sense: ____________________________
In a narrow sense: ________________________________
________________________________
any food that makes us feel better
a particular type of food whose power
lies in the associations it calls to mind
Read the lines
Read between the lines
Read beyond the lines
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paras 3&4
Feature Reason Example
individual
It depends on unique experiences that have shaped one’s life.
Chicken soup is often tied up with happy childhood.
regional/
cultural
Each person’s comfort food largely depends on where they come from.
Chinese dumplings
and British fish and chips take people back to their cultural roots.
Read the lines
Read between the lines
Read beyond the lines
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Function
para 3
para 4
unlock the memories of a time when…; cheer us up
take us back to our cultural roots; give us the “taste of home”; relieve feelings of homesickness
Comfort food can not only________________________(Para3)
but also___________________________________(Para4)
so as to _____________________________________.
recall our happy memories
give us a taste of “home”
make us fe