内容正文:
An Accidental Invention
Lead-in
What drinks are now in your vacuum cup(保温杯)?
Mount Wuyi, Nanping, Fujian
Anxi, Quanzhou
tip:
at the bottle of the picture is the origin of tea
Mount Dongting, Suzhou, Jiangsu
The West Lake, Hangzhou, zhejiang
大红袍
碧螺春
铁观音
龙井茶
Benefits of drinking tea
Among the three major drinks today, tea has the best health care function, which is unmatched by coffee and milk.
Drinking tea can excite the central nervous system, help refresh and relieve fatigue, and enhance memory.
Drinking tea has the advantage of delaying aging.
Drinking tea has the advantage of anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory(消炎). It can detoxify(解毒) heavy metal salt and alkaloid (生物碱) poisoning.
Drinking tea can prevent coronary heart disease, hypertension(高血压), stroke(中风) and other diseases.
A brief introduction about Cha Jing.
Cha Jing is the earliest, most complete and comprehensive monograph on tea in China and even in the world. It is known as the encyclopedia of tea, written by Lu Yu in Tang Dynasty.
This book is a comprehensive treatise on the history, origin, present situation, production technology, tea drinking skills and principles of tea ceremony. It is an epoch-making monograph on tea science and an incisive agricultural work. It upgraded ordinary tea to a wonderful culture and art and promoted the development of Chinese tea culture. And the Chinese tea culture has spread all over the world with the tea going abroad.
First Reading
1.Skim the passage and summarize each paragraph with its main idea
P1
P2
P3
How tea was invented by accident
Lu Yu and his book Cha Jing
How tea spread to other countries
Second Reading
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Read the passage carefully for the second time, and then answer the following questions.
When was first drunk?
Who first discovered as a drink?
How was invented?
What is Cha Jing about?
What did the “ tea trade” bring about?
Vocabulary Building
Choose the option that can best replace the italicized word or phrase.
1.The most popular drink in the world was invented by accident.
A. found
B. published
C. created
2. It also discusses where the finest leaves were produced and what kinds of water were used.
A. composed
B. made
C. designed
3. The tea trade from China to Western countries took place in the 19th century.
A. took after
B. replace
C. occur
4. This helped to spread the popularity of tea and the tea plant to more places around the world.
A. fame
B. acceptance
C. beauty
1.What does “a Chinese ruler called Shen Nong was the first to discover tea as a drink”mean?
2.What does “even though many people now know about tea culture, the Chinese are without doubt the ones who best understand the nature of tea” mean?
Third Reading
Read paragraph 1 and answer the questions.
1.Shen Nong was () when some leaves from a tea plant fell into the water.
A.taking a rest
B.boiling water to drink
C.setting an open fire
2.Shen Nong thought the brown water tasted ( )
A.bad
B.sweet
C.delicious
D.salty
Read para2 and finish the mind map with your partner
Lu YU
Cha Jing
used to make tea
how
were used
were produced
mentioned
Read paragraph 3 and complete a time line.
about 5000 years ago
a Chinese ruler called Shen Nong
fell into
remained
boiling
mentioned
the saint of tea
How tea plants were grown and used to make tea
Korea and Japan
Where the finest tea leaves were produced and what kind of water were used
England
Western countries
Homework
1.Drink tea and write about your experience.
2. Think of another invention or an accidental invention and share with your deskmate.
Thank you !
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