Unit 1 Food for Thought Understanding ideas课件 -2025-2026学年高一英语外研版必修第二册

Learning objectives At the end of the class, I will be able to learn and understand the main idea and the title. explore the three characters’ opinions on different foods. develop the correct attitude towards different cultures. 1 Lead in Chinese food black pudding blue cheese fried spider haggis stinky tofu river snails rice noodles/luosifen Chicken feet century egg Foreign food How do you understand the title? A Child of Two Cuisines Chinese cuisine & Foreign cuisine The child has chances to enjoy food from two countries. cultures. Activity 1 Read for title Look at the title and the pictures, what can you predict? for example, we can predict who the child is? what are the two cuisines? why is he a child of two cuisines? 3 Which one is the main idea of the passage? Why? How the family stays healthy by eating Chinese food. What the family has done to promote Chinese food. How the family cooks both Chinese and English food. How the family combines food from two cultures. ... enjoyed food from both countries... ... feel at home with food from both my cultures... Activity 2 Read for main idea Para. 1 Para. 2 Para. 3 Para. 4 Para. 5 Para. 6 A. My mother’s attitude(态度) towards English food. B. I enjoy Chinese food. C. I experience(体验) unusual Chinese food on his first visit to China. D.I enjoy food from two cultures. E. My father’s attitude towards Chinese food. F. I grows up in two different cultures. Activity 3 Read for main idea of each paragraph 可以提示文本是记叙文，且按照总分总的形式来写的 Activity 4 Read for details（Para.2-5) What Chinese food and British food are mentioned in the passage? A Child of Two Cuisines Sichuan hot pot Animal parts Stinky tofu Full English breakfast Sunday roast Chinese British Choose the correct symbols and complete the table with information from the passage. P5 Para. 2 Para. 2-3 Para. 4 Para. 4 Para. 5 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! Activity 5 Discuss and share (Para 6) 2. What’s the author’s attitude towards food from both cultures? 1. What does the author mean by saying “one man’s meat is another man’s poison”? 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. Becuase he feels at home with food from both his cultures. Activity 5 Think and share What attitude should we hold towards different cultures? First, we have to _______ differences, then we had better _ ______ other countries’ cultures and we need_______ their customs. Moreover, we dare_______ something different. In this case, we will be able to ______ _ different cultures. tolerate understand respect try adapt to 宽容 理解 尊重 尝试 适应 Conclusion We should be open-minded about food from different cultures, which can help us break down stereotypes(刻板印象). That’s how we become a person with good cross-cultural (跨文化）ability. Assignment Writing 假设你是李华，请你给你的留学生朋友Robert写一封邮件，邀请他参加你所在的社区在本周末举办的美食节活动。 内容包括： 1.活动时间和地点 2.活动内容品尝美食展示厨艺 3.期待参加 注意：词数100左右 $