Unit 3 Food and Culture Reading and Thinking 课件-2024-2025学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第二册

Unit 3 FOOD AND CULTURE Reading and Thinking： Culture and Cuisine Learning objectives In this lesson, you are expected to: 1. explore the link between food and culture. 2. figure out the structure of the passage and find out the topic 3. identify the cause-and -effect relationship between culture and cuisine. Warm up Activity 1 Look at the picture and answer the following questions. 1. What are the people doing? 2. Why do you think they are gathering together? Warm up Activity 1 Look at the picture and answer the following questions. 1. What are the people doing? The guests are sitting at the tables sharing the food. There are other people waking on the street. Warm up Activity 1 Look at the picture and answer the following questions. 2. Why do you think they are gathering together? They are probably celebrating a festival. The photo is of a 1000-Person-Long-Table Banquet in the Miao Stockade Village（苗寨） of One Thousand Households in Leishan, Guizhou. This festival has a tradition dating back over 1,000 years and is usually held for marriage celebrations and festivals. While traditionally it is a local family affair, in modern times this feast has sometimes been held on national holidays so that tourists can take part and enjoy the Miao culture. Warm up Prediction General Tso’s chicken dim sum Culture and Cuisine food cooked in a certain way It’s about the link between culture and cuisine Boiled dumplings Lamb kebab Stewed noodles Dim sum Sichuan Cuisine Sichuan Cuisine Sichuan cuisine is hot from chillies(辣椒） and from Sichuan peppercorns. peppercorns Boiled dumplings Lamb kebab Stewed noodles Dim sum Pancake rolls Sichuan Cuisine Read paragraph 4 and think over the questions. 1. What was the author's favourite dish there? 2. What's the most famous food in Shandong? 3. Why did boiled dumplings become a favourite dish of the people in North China? 4. What is important to the people there? Boiled dumplings served with vinegar. Pancake rolls stuffed with sliced Chinese green onions. Making dumplings has always been a family affair with everyone--from the youngest to the oldest--- joining in to help. Family is important to the people there. Read paragraph 5 and think over the questions. 1. What are the traditional foods in northern Xinjiang? 2. Why do people in northwest China cook traditional foods over an open fire? Their traditional foods are what you can cook over an open fire— boiled or roasted meat, such as lamb kebab. Because people there traditionally wandered the open range on horses. Beijing Shandong Guangdong Henan northern Xinjiang Read paragraph 6 and think over the questions. 1. What 're the typical dishes in Guangdong and Henan ? 2. Do people living in different places eat the same food? 3. Do people eating different foods share the same culture? 4. Do they have something in common? Elegant dim sum and exceptional stewed noodles. No,everywhere, the food was as varied as the people. No. Chinese people everywhere show friendship and kindness. Read paragraph 7 and think over the questions. 1. What can the kinds of foods local people consume tell us? 2. How to understand “culture and cuisine go hand in hand”? Cuisine in certain place can tell us what the local people like to eat, grow or dislike. The food flavor they eat the food features they cook also well demonstrate the personality, characters or culture of the local people. Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture America Beijing Shandong Northwest China South China Central China Chinese food changed to suit American tastes General Tso’s chicken Americans love bold and simple flavours, and are not afraid to try new foods. Sichuan cuisine dish with Sichuan peppercorns People there offered them good friendship Shandong cuisine Xinjiang cuisine Guangdong cuisine Henan cuisine boiled dumplings served with vinegar; pancake rolls stuffed with sliced Chinese green onions Family is important to the people there. boiled or roasted meat, such as lamb kebab People traditionally wandered the open range on horses. dim sum Through food, Chinese people everywhere show friendship and kindness. stewed noodles Cause 1.The flavour preferences of Americans often differ from those of the Chinese. 2.We had no idea how to order food. 3.These groups traditionally wandered the open range on horses. Understand cause and effect Match the causes to the effects below. Effect A.The chef just began filling our table with the best food we had ever eaten. B. Their traditional foods are what you can cook over an open fire. C. Chinese food in America is changed to suit American tastes. Understand cause and effect Sometimes two ideas are related to each other by cause and effect. That is, one thing causes something else to happen. Cause-and-effect relationships can be direct. For example, “ It was raining, so I took my umbrella.” However, some cause-and-effect relationships are not direct, and some may also have more than one cause or effect. Signal words used to identify causes and effects: because, as, since, so, therefore, consequently, as a result, and due to... 1.What is the writer's purpose in writing this text? Pragmatic Analysis To share with readers his viewpoint: Culture and cuisine go hand in hand. 2.Who do you think is the intended audience? Everyone who is interested in Chinese cuisines. Discuss the questions. Work in pairs. 1.What's the writer's opinion about culture and cuisine? Post-reading They go hand in hand. 2.What is the writer's reason? In America, Chinese food has been changed to suit American tastes, and it tells us much about the character of Americans. In China, people in different places have different kinds of traditional food, which reflect different traditional cultures. As a result, the writer thinks that culture and cuisine go hand in hand, and if you do not experience one, you can never really know the other. The writer believes that culture and cuisine go hand in hand. Do you agree with the writer? What's your own opinion? With the impact of globalisation, do you think food can still reflect diferent cultures? Critical thinking Agreement  People living in different places eat different kinds of food. For example,... Chinese cuisine is different from Western cuisine because of different cultures. For example,... A Bite of China is not just a documentary about food. More importantly, it is a show of Chinese culture. ... Disagreement  Food from different places is available everywhere. The combination of Chinese and Western food is common now. In this fast-changing world, everything is changing, including cuisines. ... Prior to coming to China, my only experience with Chinese cooking was in America, with Chinese food that ___________________(change) to suit American tastes. Later, I had a chance to experience authentic Chinese food by _______ ( come) to China. A Sichuan restaurant had been recommended to me and my family by a friend.______(tire), hungry,and not knowing a word of Chinese, we had no idea how to order , so the chef just began filling our table _______ the best food we had ever eaten. With this, we had the pleasure of experiencing an __________( entire )new taste: Sichuan peppercorns. The food was wonderful and different, but _________was even more important was the friendship _______ (offer) us. In northern Xinjiang, the traditional foods are what you can cook over _____open fire -usually boiled or roasted meat. From south to central China, in each place we experienced wonderful local_______ ( dish), from Guangdong's elegant dim sum to the exceptional stewed noodles in Henan. Everywhere,the food was as varied as the people. However,one thing is always true: Through food, Chinese people everywhere show friendship and____________(kind). had been changed coming Tired with entirely what offered an dishes kindness Summary $$