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Unit 1 Food matters
Reading:Comfort food
Learning aims:
By the end of this class, you will be able to:
Learn to identify the structure of articles;
Learn to analyze long and complex sentences;
Learn to use sentence patterns and get much writing practice.
2
Read the article and complete the chart below with the main idea of each paragraph.
Para. 1: Rice pudding cheers me up whenever I feel unhappy.
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Para. 5: _______________________________________________________
Fast reading
Para. 1: Rice pudding cheers me up whenever I feel unhappy.
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Comfort food has the unique power to make us feel better.
Our comfort foods are highly individual, depending on our own unique experiences.
Comfort food gives the “taste of home” to people who feel homesick when they move to a new country.
Comfort food is food for the soul.
Read for structure
Para. 1: To introduce the topic of “comfort food” by describing the author’s personal experience.
Para. 2: To give the definition of comfort food and narrow down the topic which will be discussed later.
Para. 3: To talk about one kind of comfort food linked with positive emotions in our memories.
Para. 4: To fully discuss the other kind of comfort food related to one’s sense of belonging and cultural roots.
Para. 5: To make a conclusion.
In-depth reading
Figure out the function of each paragraph of the article.
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