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Food for thought
Book 2 Unit 1
Period 1
Starting out
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Understanding ideas
Activity 1
Watch
and
answer
Pre-reading
What different types of food are introduced in the video?
What does the foreigner think of these food? Take notes of the expressions describing food.
Have you ever tried any of the food in the video? What do you think of it?
take notes of the expressions describing food.
crispy on the outside, soft on the inside,
delicious, juicy, go well with sweet sauce (酱)
Han Dynasty, surprisingly good,
steam (蒸) it to keep its original flavor
200 years ago, hot, tasty, challenge, my mouth is on fire
What different types of food are introduced in the video?
What does the foreigner think of these food? What are the expressions describing food.
Have you ever tried any of the food in the video? What do you think of it?
Beijing duck
Dazhaxie
Sichuan hot pot
Activity 2 what are the food in the pictures?
Pre-reading
black bean salad
[ˈpɑːstə]
Pasta
意大利面食
(如意大利面条、通心粉等)
Activity 2 what are the food in the pictures?
Pre-reading
black bean salad
[ˈpɑːstə]
Pasta
意大利面食
(如意大利面条、通心粉等)
dim sum
[ˌdɪm ˈsʌm]
点心(中国食品)
curry
[ˈkʌri]
咖喱;咖喱菜
syrup
[ˈsɪrəp]
糖浆
Try to match the food to the countries on the map.
Have you ever tried any of the
food in the pictures? Which would you most like to try and why?
1
2
3
What are they?
Have you ever heard the following special cuisines?
blue cheese: a type of cheese with blue lines in it, popular in Europe and well-known for its strong taste (蓝奶酪)
black pudding: a type of dark sausage mainly made from pig's blood and fat, famous in the UK and some other parts of Europe (血肠)
haggis: a Scottish dish made from the liver , heart and lungs of a sheep (肉馅羊肚)
fried spider: a popular snack in some parts of South-east Asia (油炸蜘蛛)
special cuisines
Tick the food you would like to try and see how adventurous you are.
p.2
(肝脏)
Read the passage
P2
1 How the family stays healthy by eating Chinese food.
2 What the family has done to promote Chinese food.
3 How the family cooks both Chinese and English food.
4 How the family combines food from two countries.
Activity 1 choose the main idea of the passage.
While-reading
Activity 2 Read for details
Understanding the title
Who is the child?
What are the two cuisines?
A child of two cuisines
British cuisine
/Foreign cuisine
Chinese cuisine
A child growing up in England with
a British father and a Chinese mother
Choose the correct symbols and complete the table with information from the passage.
4
P4
Check your answers!
Mum has sweet memories of food from her home town in Sichuan, and often cooks spicy dishes.
Thanks to this, Dad has come to love hot pot!
Even today, he still does not easily take to eating things like chicken feet.
But I enjoy that sort of food myself.
Mum and I just have to find a way to get him into the kitchen.
Mum and I just have to find a way to get him into the kitchen.
We all love roast beef and vegetables...
But just when I thought I could deal with all Chinese food, I came across stinky tofu, a horrible grey thing...
Check your answers!
Mum
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
hot pot (sweet memories, often cooks)
full English breakfast (super)
Sunday roast (love)?
____________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________
hot pot (has come to love)
animal parts (was even shocked, doesn’t easily take to eating…)
Sunday roast (love)
Dad
Son
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
____________________________________
animal parts (enjoy)
full English breakfast (super)
Sunday roast (love)
stinky tofu?
Why do Mum and Dad have different attitudes towards the same food?
Why does the child enjoy more food than his parents?
Growing up in England with a British father and a Chinese mother, I ___________(enjoy) food from both countries ever since I was a child. My dad once told that he was 2_______(shock) at their wedding when he saw how the Chinese ate almost every part of an animal .After many years of marriage,my father still couldn’t get used to 3______(eat)some Chinese food like chicken feet,but I like it.
My mother can cook Chinese food 4______(good) while my dad often cooks food in a Brithish way . He can not only cook a super "full English breakfast",5________can make a typical Sunday roast.It is delicious although Mum says too much roast food is not vey healthy,according to traditional Chinese medicine,6________ (do) harm to our today. The first visit to China left a deep 7_________(impress) on me because I tasted different kinds of food. To be honest,I don’t like to eat stinky tofu,8________ is a horrible grey thing and smells like a 9________(burn) sports shoe. But local people think it delicious. I sincerely hope I will like it someday.
As the saying goes,one man’s meat is another man’s poison.To me, I enjoy 10________cross-cultural afternoon tea of English biscuits and a cup of Chinese oolong tea.
have enjoyed
shocked
eating
well
but
doing
impression
which
burnt
a
Although people say one man’s meat is another man’s poison, I feel at home with food from both my cultures. To me, there’s nothing better than a cross-cultural afternoon tea of English biscuits and a cup of Chinese oolong tea in a fine china cup!
Analyze the family’s attitudes towards the cultural difference.
What attitude should we hold when facing cultural differences?
cultural difference
Understand
Respect
Explore
Tolerate
Cultural Fusion(融合)(融合)
“TRUE” principle(原则)
Every form of beauty has its uniqueness.
Precious is to appreciate other forms of beauty with openness.
If beauty represents itself with diversity and integrity(融合),
the world will be blessed with harmony and unity.
1. It means that something that one person likes may not be liked by someone else. Similar sayings in Chinese include “萝卜青菜,各有所爱”, etc.
Think & Share.
What does the author mean by saying “one man's meat is another man's poison”? Do you know of any similar sayings in Chinese?
2. What food from other regions in China or other countries has made an impression on you? Why?
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