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Unit 11 Fantastic Chinese Culture
Reading for Writing
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extract key information about Beijing duck;
use target language to talk about traditional food;
draft and revise a food experience essay.
Learning Objectives
Chinese traditional food
Write down your answers to the following questions, and then talk about your favorite traditional food.
I want to write about . It is one of the most famous traditional foods in my hometown.
Activity 1 Pair work.
1. What favorite food do you want to write about?
Sentence structure:
2. When and where did you eat the food for the first time?
3. How do people cook or eat the food?
I ate it ______ (时间) at ______ (地点).
People usually ______ (烹饪方式). To eat it, you can ______ (食用方式). It tastes ______.
Free talk
I want to write about Beijing roast duck. It is one of the most famous traditional foods in my hometown.
Activity 1 Pair work.
1. What favorite food do you want to write about?
2. When and where did you eat the food for the first time?
For example:
I ate it last weekend at a famous restaurant with my family.
3. How do people cook or eat the food?
People usually roast the duck with wood fire in a big oven. To eat it, you can roll the duck meat, cucumber and sweet sauce in a small pancake. It tastes very special.
Dear Jane,
How are you doing these days? Last weekend, my cousin visited us, and we took him to have Beijing roast duck-one of the most famous traditional foods in my hometown.
When we sat down in a nice restaurant, a waiter came up to take the order. He told us that people use wood fire to roast the duck in a big oven. The wood fire makes the duck smell nice and taste special. After some time, the duck came to our table. It looked golden and beautiful. Then my father showed my cousin how to eat it. He put some duck meat, duck skin, cucumber, spring onion and sweet sauce on a small pancake, rolled it up and gave it to him. My cousin tasted it and couldn't stop smiling. He enjoyed it so much that he rolled two more pancakes, one for himself and the other for me.
I hope you can visit China one day. I will take you to eat Beijing roast duck too! I'm sure you'll love it.
Take care,
LiMei
Activity 2 Read and match.
Introduction
cooking method, appearance and tastes, and eating method
Invitation(邀请)
Skim the text. Match the main idea with each paragraph.
Fast reading:
Characters
To take the order.
Actions
The waiter
Came up to Li Mei’s family.
Li Mei’s father
Li Mei
Put some duck meat, duck skin, cucumber, spring onions and sweet sauce on a small pancake, rolled it up and gave it to Li Mei’s cousin.
To show him how to eat it.
Introduce Beijing roast duck to Jane.
To invite Jane to eat Beijing roast duck someday.
Activity 2 Fill in the chart.
intensive reading:
Locate the original text by finding key words.
Motives
Knowledge points.
take sb. to have/eat sth. 带某人去吃某物
come up to… 走近;来到…… 面前
take the order 点餐;接受点餐
come to one’s table 端到某人的桌前
roll it up 把它卷起来
couldn‘t stop doing 忍不住做
How are you doing these days? Last weekend, my cousin visited us, and we took him to have Beijing roast duck-one of the most famous traditional foods in my hometown.
When we sat down in a nice restaurant, a waiter came up to take the order. He told us that people use wood fire to roast the duck in a big oven. The wood fire makes the duck smell nice and taste special. After some time, the duck came to our table. It looked golden and beautiful. Then my father showed my cousin how to eat it. He put some duck meat, duck skin, cucumber, spring onion and sweet sauce on a small pancake, rolled it up and gave it to him. My cousin tasted it and couldn't stop smiling. He enjoyed it so much that he rolled two more pancakes, one for himself and the other for me.
I hope you can visit China one day. I will take you to eat Beijing roast duck too! I'm sure you'll love it.
Take care,
LiMei
Activity 3 Draw a chart about your experience of eating a traditional Chinese food for the first time, and then draft your essay. These phrases and sentence patterns may help you.
Useful phrases Useful sentence patterns
come up to …
take the order
taste special
couldn’t stop … He told us that …
It looked …
I hope you …
I’m sure …
Introduction
Dear xxx,
History
Cooking method
Appearance and taste
Eating method
Invitation(邀请)
Yours,
xxx
Activity 3 Draw a chart.
Beginning
Middle
End
structure
How well can you ______________? Self rating Partner’s rating
express your view of being confident in our culture
use the thinking skill of identifying characters’ motives
introduce a traditional food in your hometown
organize ideas into a well-balanced structure
use the theme vocabulary of the unit
use object clauses
use punctuation
spell the words
Rate your draft, and then complete your essay.
Activity 4 Rate your final draft.
1-Needs improvement; 2-Satisfactory; 3-Good; 4-Excellent
一、汉译英
家乡传统美食 ______________________________________________
北京烤鸭 _________________________点餐 ____________________________
吃烤鸭(卷饼) _________________
忍不住微笑 _______________________________________________
traditional food in my hometown
Beijing roast duck
take the order
eat Beijing roast duck (roll it in a pancake)
couldn’t stop smiling
Review
Exercise
The waiter to take our order when we sat down in the restaurant.
A. went away B. came up C.ran outD.got down
2. He enjoyed the duck so much that he couldn‘t stop .
A. to smile B. smiling C. smiled D. smiles
3. After putting the meat on a pancake, my father and gave it to my cousin.
A. made; up B. rolled; up C. took; away D.put;on
Exercise
适当形式填空
Basic (基础)
Improving(提升)
Extend (拓展)
Homework
Copy 10 key phrases from the model essay and write one simple example sentence for each phrase.
Follow the structure of the model essay. Use one object clause and two action description phrases to write about an experience of eating traditional hometown food with your family.
Design an English mini-poster for the hometown food you introduce. Include the food name, one simple introduction, and one reason for recommendation.
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