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Reading and Thinking: Culture and Cuisine
Unit3 Food and Culture
Look at the picture and answer the following questions:
1.What are the people doing?
2.Why do you think they are gathering together?
The guests are sitting at the tables sharing the food. There are other peple walking on the street.
They are probably celebrating a festival.
A 1,000-Person-Long-Table Banquet
The photo/video 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(宴会,盛宴) has a tradition dating back over 1 ,000 years and is usually held for marriage celebrations and festivals.
It is also popular in ethnic minority areas in Guangxi,Yunnan, Hunan, etc.
Food brings people together on many diffenrent levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truely love.
--Giada De Laurentiis
食物在许多不同层面上把人聚集在一起,它市心灵和身体的养料,是真正的爱。
What do we know from the quote and picture?
From the picture and the quote, we know that there is a link betweenfood and culture.
Boiled dumplings
Dim sum
Lamb kebab
Stewed noodles
Sichuan Cuisine
Pancake rolls
Prediction
Q1: What do you think the text is about?
It is about the link between various culture and cuisine.
Culture And Cuisine
Food cooked in a certain way
1. What is the genre(体裁) of this text?
A: argumentation B: narration
C: reason exposition
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2. The writer described his experience in the order of _____________
clue words
time & space
Read for text type
Read for theme
1. Find out the topic para.
2. Which is the topic sentence?
The last paragraph.
What we can say, however, is that culture and cuisine go hand in hand, and if you do not experience one, you can never really know the other.
1.Why does the author cite “You are what you eat” in Paragraph 1?A.To introduce the theme of the article.B.To persuade people to eat healthy food.C.To show the impact of food on health.D.To prove culture has little to do with cuisine.
Read for the details (para.1)
CULTURE A