Unit 1 Food for thought Understanding ideas A Child of Two Cuisines 导学案-2024-2025学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

A Child of Two Cuisines

Book 2 Unit 1 Food for thought   Starting out & Understanding ideas

导学案

王继华 四川省芦山中学

课前准备：

1.复习已讲过的单词。

2.预习课文A Child of Two Cuisines

  A.扫清生词障碍

B.能熟读课文

 

课堂活动：

Step1 Pre-reading

1.Match the food to the countries on the map. P1

2.What’s your favourite food?

 

Step2. While-reading

Task1

1.What's the main idea of the passage? 

A.How the family stays healthy by eating Chinese food.

B.What the fmily has done to promoteChinese food.

C.How the family cooks both Chinese and English food.

D.How the family combines food from two cultures.

2.How do you understand the title “A child of two cuisines”?

Who is the child? What are the two cuisines?Why is he the child of two cuisines?

3. Match the main ideas with each paragraph.

Para.1                  Dad still has a problem with certain Chinese

                       dishes though he loves Chinese food.

Para.2                  I do not have Dad's problem with Chinese food.

Para.3                  I have a British father and a Chinese mother.

Para.4                  I enjoy both British and Chinese food.

Para.5                  I enjoy British breakfast made by Dad.

Para.6                  I gathered my courage to try stinky tofu.

 

Task2 Group Work

1.What Chinese and British food are mentioned in the passage?

2. Choose the correct symbols and complete the table with information from the passage.

3.What specific expressions can tell you about their attitudes?

Task3 Group Work

Try to retell the passage and complete the exercises on your sheet.

Draw your own mind-map and retell the story.

For example:

 

1. Summary

      The narrator, a mixed-race boy, enjoys both __________ and ______________. Unlike his British father, who _______ Chinese food but still ____________certain dishes, the boy is _______ to Chinese diet challenges he has come across. His adaptation, positive behaviors and attitude towards the ______________ environment have benefited him, so that he is able to _________ and blend aspects of both ___________________________ in an enjoyable way.

2. Translation

Useful expressions:

be made from

be famous/popular in

have sweet memories of

thanks to

take to doing sth

suffer from

come across

gather one’s courage to do

take/have a bite

be amazed to find...

make an impression on sb.

be shocked at...

 

I would like to recommend... 

It comes from... 

It is famous for...

It looks/tastes/smells...

I recommend it because...