Unit3 Food and Culture Reading and Thinking 课件-2025-2026学年高中英语人教版选择性必修第二册

cuisine recipe chef dim sum elegant stuff n. 菜肴；风味；烹饪 n. 烹饪法；食谱 n. 厨师；主厨 n. 点心(中国食品) adj. 精美的；讲究的；文雅的 vt. 填满；把……塞进 n. 东西；物品 lamb lamb kebab consist consist of pepper peppercorn n.羊羔肉；羔羊 烤羊肉串 vi. 由……组成(或构成) n. 甜椒；灯笼椒；胡椒粉 n. 胡椒粒 vinegar n. 醋 bold adj. 大胆自信的；敢于冒险的 minimum n. 最小值；最少量 adj. 最低(限度)的；最小的 prior prior to adj. 先前的；优先的 在……之前的 exceptional adj. 特别的；罕见的 Please check in half an hour prior to departure. 请在起飞前半小时办理登机手续。 This deadline will be extended only in exceptional circumstances . 只有在特殊情况下才会延长最后期限。 slice slice...off onion n. (切下的食物)薄片 vt. 把……切成薄片 切下 n. 洋葱;葱头 garlic n. 蒜 bacon n. 熏猪肉；咸肉 ham n. 火腿 sausage n. 香肠；腊肠 cabbage n. 甘蓝；卷心菜；洋白菜 bean curd n. (=tofu)豆腐 temper n. 脾气；火气 vegetarian n. 素食者 junk junk food n. 无用的东西 (=junk) 垃圾食品 consume vt. 吃；喝；饮；消耗 1. put more simply 2. a case in point 3. prior to… 4. suit one’s taste 5. consist of… 6. have the pleasure of ... 7. stuff…with… 8. slice…off 9. wander the open range on horses 10. at a/the minimum 11. tend to 12. a hot temper 13. go hand in hand 简而言之 一个恰当的例子 在……之前的 适应/满足某人的口味 由……组成(或构成) 用……填满…… 骑着马在开阔的牧场上漫步 切下…… 有……的荣幸 往往会，常常就 密切关联，息息相关 脾气暴躁 至少；最低限度 1. What can you see in this photo? Hundreds of long tables are put together with hundreds of hot pots on them, winding their ways along the street like a dragon. 2. Where do you think this photo was taken? Judging from the buildings and lanterns, it seems that it was taken in an ethnic minority area during a festival. The photo was taken in the Miao Stockade Village of One Thousand Households in Leishan, Guizhou(贵州雷山千户苗寨). People are having a 1,000-Person-Long-Table Banquet(千人长桌宴), which is popular in ethnic minority areas in Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, etc. What is happening in this photo? 3. What kind of lives do these people lead? How are their lives similar to or different from that of your own? Their lives in general are quite different to mine. Most of them work on farms, live very close to their relatives, and some do not have TVs or computers. But I rely on modern technology for almost everything. Possible answers CULTURE AND CUISINE Look at the title and the pictures. What do you think the text is about? Now read the passage and check whether you are right. Read with the recording and check your prediction. What is the text about? Task 1 It is about different kinds of _____________ and ____________ each food represents. Chinese food the culture Read the whole text and answer the questions. 1. What places are mentioned where the writer experienced Chinese food? 2. In what way does the writer show us that culture and cuisine go hand in hand? Task 2 By sharing his different experiences with Chinese cuisine. America, Beijing, Shandong, Northwest China, South China and Central China. America Beijing Shandong Northwest China Central China South China lamb kebab General Tso's chicken elegant dim sum stewed noodles Sichuan dishes pancake rolls stuffed with sliced Chinese green onions Read and match the places the writer went to with the Chinese dishes. Task 3 Use the information from the text to complete the table below. Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture America Beijing Shandong Northwest China South China Central China Task 4 P27 3 Check your answers. Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture America Beijing Shandong Chinese food changed to suit American tastes General Tso’s chicken Americans love bold, simple flavours, and are not afraid to try new foods. Sichuan cuisine dishes with Sichuan peppercorns People there offered them good friendship. Shandong cuisine boiled dumplings served with vinegar; pancake rolls stuffed with sliced Chinese green onions Family is important to the people there. Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture Northwest China South China Central China Xinjiang and Inner Mongolian cuisine Guangdong cuisine Henan cuisine boiled or roasted meat, such as lamb kebab dim sum People there traditionally wandered the open range on horses so their traditional foods are what you can cook over an open fire. stewed noodles Through food, Chinese people everywhere show friendship and kindness. 1. Why did the author and his family go to a Sichuan restaurant? A. They has a special preference for Sichuan cuisine. B. They hoped to have a taste of Sichuan peppercorns. C. They accepted the recommendation from one friend. D. They have heard that the chef there was very friendly. Task 5 Choose the best answers. 2. What does the author think of boiled dumplings? A. Delicious and meaningful. B. Expensive and important. C. Special and traditional. D. Nutritious and impressive. 3. What can we infer according to the last paragraph? A. People’s personalities are linked to what they eat. B. We should be brave to taste new kinds of food. C. The brave people often enjoy eating spicy food. D. In a sense spicy food will lead to a quarrel. 1. What does the author think of the saying: “You are what you eat”? 2. Why does the writer mention the French author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in the first paragraph? Task 6 Discuss the following questions. Check your answers. 1. What does the author think of the saying: “You are what you eat”? The saying means that the kind of food we eat tells something about our personality, character and culture. 2. Why does the writer mention the French author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin in the first paragraph? To introduce a famous saying about food and personality: You are what you eat. 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. 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. Match the causes to the effects below. Task 7 Cause Effect 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. P27 4 Now find more examples about Causes and Effects from the text. Family is important to the people in north China. More examples for reference: Making dumplings has always been a family affair with everyone—from the youngest to the oldest—joining in to help. Cause Effect 26 Do you think “culture and cuisine go hand in hand”? Give your reasons. P27 5 Possible answer: Yes, because so much of a culture is based upon food and how it is eaten and served. 1. Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. and 连接两个并列句子 ① Take more exercise and you’ll become healthy. ② Work hard, and you will pass the exams. 多锻炼，你就会身体健康。 努力学习，你就会通过考试。 祈使句 陈述句 此句型中祈使句表示条件，连词and后的陈述句表示一种结果，常用一般将来时。 告诉我你平时吃什么，我就可以说出你是个什么样的人。 2. For example, America’s most popular Chinese dish is General Tso’s chicken, which consists of fried chicken covered in a sweet sauce, flavoured with hot red peppers. 定语从句 过去分词短语作定语 过去分词短语作定语 例如， 在美国最受欢迎的中国菜是“左宗棠鸡”，这道菜是在油炸的鸡肉上淋上甜酱，再佐以煸炒过的红辣椒制成的。 to be made of or formed from sth 由……组成，由……构成 3. Tired, hungry, and not knowing a word of Chinese, we had no idea how to order, so the chef just began filling our table with the best food we had ever eaten. 定语从句，先行词被最高级修饰时要用关系代词that，作宾语时可省略 so连接两个并列句子 形容词及V-ing短语作并列状语 ( ) “how +不定式” 作同位语 我们疲惫不堪，饥肠辘辘，也不认识一个汉字，不知道该怎么点餐，所以厨师径自在我们的桌子上摆满食物；那是我们吃过的最可口的佳肴。 Ⅰ.用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空。 1. My eldest brother is _______ and ambitious, dreaming of climbing to the top of the highest mountain in the world. 2. Due to his bad ___________, Jack’s colleagues don’t like to work with him. 3. In 2009, Uncle Lee opened his first restaurant in London, which serves Chinese ____________. 4. If you want to make traditional Italian food, just follow these _________. 5. Tomatoes might make it hard for potatoes and _________ to grow. When you are planting, please keep tomatoes away from them. bold temper cuisine recipes cabbages temper cabbages cuisine recipes bold You are what you eat. Many people today relate this saying to healthy eating. However, it 1. _______ (actual) refers to our personality, character and culture. Certainly, in many ways this seems to be true. Chinese cuisine is a case in point. Prior 2. ___ coming to China, my only experience with Chinese cooking was in America, with Chinese food that 3. ________________ (change) to suit American tastes. Later, I experienced authentic Chinese food by 4. ________ (visit) China. In Beijing, my family and I had the pleasure of experiencing 5. ___ entirely new taste: Sichuan peppercorns. actually to had been changed visiting an The food was wonderful and different, but 6. _____ was even more important was the friendship offered us. We soon moved to Shandong Province, where we tasted boiled dumplings 7. ______ (serve) with vinegar. Family is important to the local people. Then we moved to Xinjiang. The 8. __________ (tradition) food there is boiled or roasted meat. We also went to South China and central China. Everywhere, the food was as varied as the people. However, one thing is always true: Through food, Chinese people everywhere show friendship and 9.________ (kind). Culture and cuisine go hand 10. ___ hand, and if you don’t experience one, you can never really know the other. traditional kindness in what served 《黄帝内经》有云: 五谷为养，五果为助， 五畜为益，五菜为充。 平衡膳食 健康人生 302833.16 $