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Unit 1 Food matters
Workbook
Building skills
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A1
People all over the world eat different kinds of noodles. Read the magazine article about the history of noodles and answer the questions below.
What does the underlined word “Archaeologists” in the first paragraph mean?
2. Why were dried noodles a popular travel food?
Reading
A1
What does the underlined word “Archaeologists” in the first paragraph mean?
“Archaeologists” are people who study the cultures of the past and certain periods of history by examining the remains of buildings and objects found in the ground.
Reading
People all over the world eat different kinds of noodles. Read the magazine article about the history of noodles and answer the questions below.
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A1
2. Why were dried noodles a popular travel food?
Dried noodles were a popular travel food because they were tasty, easy to carry and never went bad.
Reading
People all over the world eat different kinds of noodles. Read the magazine article about the history of noodles and answer the questions below.
In pairs, role-play a conversation between a Chinese student and an exchanging student who wants to try different kinds of Chinese noodles in a food court. Use the example below to help you and pay attention to the expressions in bold.
A2
Speaking
A: Wow, this food court is really big. Can you recommend me a typical Chinese noodle dish?
B: There are many kinds of noodles to choose from. Over here, you can get a famous dish from the north-western part of China—it’s called Lanzhou lamian. As you can see, there are hand-pulled noodles in a rich beef soup.
A: That looks delicious—the color of the soup is really appetizing!
A2
Speaking
B: There are some mouth-watering fried rice noodles over here. This dish is called chao mixian. It’s from Yunnan, in the south-west of China. These rice noodles are quite chewy.
A: It’s going to be really hard to choose what to eat. What are those wide noodles over there?
B: That’s a dish called liangpi. It’s a k