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Diverse Culture
Unit 3 Listening and Speaking
What can you see in the picture?
Where do you think the photo was taken?
Buildings, lamp post (路灯柱), lanterns, Chinese and English shop signs…
Is it a typical place to show cultural diversity?
A Chinatown in the United States
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Can you think of other examples to show diverse cultures?
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delicious and delectable cuisines /kwɪˈziːn/
from diverse countries
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Fortune cookie __
Gumbo __
Hamburger __
Before listening, look at Ex.1 and match the food with their names. Then listen to a radio interview to check whether your answers are correct.
Nachos ___
D
C
B
A
What kind of American food have you ever eaten?
D
C
B
A
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Nachos 墨西哥玉米片
A Mexican dish of small pieces of thin crisp chips served with beans, cheese, spices, etc.
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Fortune cookie 签饼
A crisp hollow cake which contains a piece of paper which is supposed to say what will happen to you in the future. Fortune cookies are often served in Chinese restaurants.
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Gumbo 秋葵汤
A thick seafood soup or a spicy stew from the southern United States. It can be made with meat,seafood or fish, and usually contains okra(秋葵).
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Hamburger
A sandwich containing cooked meat and some other vegetables in a bread roll.
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Listen again to decide whether the statements are true (T) or false (F).
1. No food was ever invented in America. ______
2. Hamburgers were invented in Germany. ______
3. Nachos were invented for Americans by a foreigner. ______
4. Every Chinese restaurant in America has fortune cookies. ______
5. American cooking often mixes things from around the world to make something completely new. ______
T
F
T
T
F
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Learn the listening skills for taking notes to complete the table.
part of speech 词性
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how to take notes
read and predict
part of speech
noun
adjective
content
numbers
dates
names
time
use symbols and short hand
and +
don’t ×
increase ↑
decrease ↓
use abbreviations
San Francisco-SF
Mexican-Mex
because-bc
Read the form and predict the content of the blanks below.
Names of food Notes
Hamburger mix of _______ + ________ cultures
Nachos _____________ chips covered in cheese
made by _______ cook for _________________
Fortune cookie invented in __________ about __________ yrs ago
a piece of ________ with _______ on it inside cookie
Gumbo spicy stew
invented in N.O. about ______ yrs ago
mixes ________, ________, ________________, + Spanish cooking
adj.
nation
adj.
adj.
n.(people)
nation
number
nation
n.
n.
number
adj.
nation
nation
nation
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Names of food Notes
Hamburger mix of _______ + ________ cultures
Text:
Steve: Hmm...That’s not really true. For example, some say the hamburger comes from Hamburg in _________, but they’re wrong. The recipe for _________ in a hamburger may have come from __________, but the final hamburger we know today was ________________________________.
Interviewer: You mean there is ______________________? Food from overseas changed when it arrived in the States?
Germany
the meat
Germany
definitely created by Americans
a mixing of cultures
German
American
Listen again and fill in the blanks below.
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Names of food Notes
Nachos _____________ chips covered in cheese
made by _______ cook for _________________
Text:
Steve: _____. And there are many more mixed-culture dishes. Like nachos, for example.
Interviewer: Oh, I just love nachos! _____________ chips covered in cheese!
Steve: Yeah, they’re delicious, but they’re not traditional Mexican food.
The recipe was actually _______________________ cook for his ______________________. Then there are fortune cookies...
Mexican corn
Mexican
American customers
Right
Mexican corn
invented by a Mexican
American customers
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Names of food Notes
Fortune cookie invented in _____________ about _____ yrs ago
a piece of ________ with _______ on it inside cookie
Interviewer: _______________?
Steve: They’re ______________.
Interviewer: ___________________! But every Chinese restaurant in America has them!
Steve: Yes, but they’re __________ in China. About ____ years ago, someone in ________________ put a piece of ________ with _________ on it inside a Japanese-style cookie, and the fortune cookie was born!
Interviewer: Wow! ________________! So they’re like a mix of the Chinese, American, and Japanese cultures.
San Francisco
unknown
What do you mean
not Chinese
You’re kidding
100
paper
a fortune
That’s interesting
San Francisco
100
paper
fortune
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Names of food Notes
Gumbo spicy stew
invented in N.O. about ______ yrs ago
mixes ________, ________, ________________, + Spanish cooking
Steve:You got it. And then we have gumbo, the spicy stew. It was invented in New Orleans over _____ years ago and mixes ________, _______, _________________and Spanish cooking.
Interviewer: So it’s the food of many different cultures, all in ________?
Steve:Exactly. American cooking often mixes things ______________
to make something ______________.
French
African
Native American
200
200
French
African
Native American
one dish
from around the world
completely new
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Being invited to a potluck dinner at an American friend’s house is a good chance to experience multiculturalism.
What food that shows our Chinese culture will you bring?
Dumplings were invented by a famous doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, Zhang Zhongjing, more than 1,800 years ago. Doctor Zhang stuffed small dough wrappers with meat, black pepper, and some warming herbs to dispel coldness. He boiled these dumplings and distributed them to his patients. In order to celebrate Lunar New Year people imitated Zhang’s recipe and made dumplings, which make it a traditional Chinese New Year food today.
Who invented it?
What’s the original purpose of this food?
stuff A with B. 用B把A塞满
Wonton is a traditional snack originating in the North of China. They are also popular in the south. Even its name “wonton” comes from Cantonese. With a variety of fillings, and cooking methods, wonton has all kinds of local flavors.
Why is it called “Wonton”?
A hot pot is a stew of meat and vegetables cooked in a pot of soup . It can be roughly divided into two types: spicy and not spicy, but there are also hundreds of different flavors. Almost all the ingredients you can think of can be cooked in a hot pot, making it one of the most comprehensive dishes in the world.
Spring rolls are fried pancakes with different fillings in south China. The name is linked to the Chinese New Year. In the past, the Chinese had the custom of having spring rolls to mark the end of winter and the beginning of spring.
The filling can be either sweet or salty depending on your preference. The skins of perfect spring rolls should be crispy, and the filling tender.
Peking Duck is a renowned Beijing dish with a worldwide reputation. The high-quality duck meat, roasted using wood charcoal, looks reddish, with crisp skin and tender meat, and is known as “one of heaven’s delicacies”.
There are three well-known restaurants for authentic Peking Duck in Beijing: Quanjude (全聚德), Dadong (大董), and Bianyifang (便宜坊).
Fried rice is a very simple but popular Chinese cuisine. It is a dish of boiled rice that is usually mixed with diced meat and scrambled eggs.
The name “Chow Mein” comes from Cantonese. Chow means “fried” and “mein” means noodles. So Chow Mein is actually a dish of fried noodles.
Sweet and Sour Pork is one of the classics of Chinese cuisine. No one can reject its sweet and sour flavor and bright appearance. Some people don’t eat pork, so some restaurants change it to Sweet and Sour Chicken, which shows how adorable its taste is.
The dish is particularly popular in the Shanghai area.
Commonly seen in the US TV series, Kung Pao Chicken has spread around the world as typical Chinese food. It is basically diced chicken cooked with peanuts, cucumbers, and peppers. This red cuisine is moderately spicy with tender meat and delicious flavor.
Chinese pancake is a traditional Chinese food made with flour, egg, and sauce.
The pancake is thin and round, and it tastes crispy. In China, people usually eat pancakes for breakfast or as a snack.
When eating, different fillings and sauces can be added according to personal preferences, such as crispy crackers, ham, and chili sauce. It is usually folded several times before being eaten.
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