Unit 3 Food and Culture Reading and Thinking 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第二册

Unit 3 FOOD AND CULTURE Reading and Thinking 1 1. What are the people doing? The guests are sitting at the tables sharing food. A man is shooting video. Other people are walking on the street. 2. Why do you think they are gathering together? They are probably celebrating a festival. The photo is of a 1,000-Person-Long-Table Banquet in the Miao Stockade village(苗寨) of One Thousand Households in Leishan, Guizhou. This feast has a tradition dating back over 1,000 years and is usually held for marriage celebrations and festivals. While traditionally it is a local family affair, in modern times this feast has sometimes been held on national holidays so that tourists can take part and enjoy the Miao culture. Do you know the English name of these cuisines? Beijing Roast Duck pancake rolls Hot Pot lamb kebab spicy peppercorn Dumplings Dim Sum steam banboo steamer Stewed noodles General Tso’s Chicken （左宗棠鸡） There are eight main regional cuisines in China: Anhui cuisine(徽菜) Sichuan cuisine(川菜) Shandong cuisine(鲁菜) Canton cuisine(粤菜) Fujian cuisine(闽菜) Jiangsu cuisine(苏菜) Zhejiang cuisine(浙菜) Hunan cuisine(湘菜) Food cooked in a certain way 9 dietetic adj. food or drink that does not contain many calories mild adj. (of a flavour 味道) 不浓的；淡味的not strong, spicy or bitter What do these cuisines tell you about the people who eat them? At a minimun,maybe Cuisines can tell us where the people come from. ... Q1: What is the text about? Culture And Cuisine YOUR opinion ? Acvtivity 1.Prediction Maybe it is about the relation between culture and cuisines The French author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once wrote, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Put more simply, this means “You are what you eat.” Most people today relate this saying to healthy eating. However, Brillat-Savarin was referring to our personality, character and culture. Main idea: How does the writer understand the quote "You are what you eat"? The writer thinks that the food we eat reflec