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Unit 3 Food and Culture
Reading and Thinking
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How does the writer prove that culture and cuisine go hand in hand?
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Contents
01 Lead-in
02 Pre-reading
03 While-reading
04 Post-reading Analysis
05 Language Building
06 Micro-writing
07 Homework
Final output: an 80–100-word culture explanation about how a local food reflects environment, lifestyle or relationships.
Contents
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Lead-in
Food as evidence of culture
Lead-in
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Quote to Unit Question
How can food tell us about a person or a culture?
flavour
ingredients
cooking method
sharing style
environment
relationships
Lead-in
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Cuisine Brainstorm
Name one local food.
Describe its taste.
What does it suggest about place or people?
Avoid stereotypes.
Lead-in
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From Dish to Culture
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food detail
2
local condition
3
people’s life
4
cultural value
The lesson is not about listing dishes. It is about explaining evidence.
Lead-in
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Pre-reading
Predict the relationship between culture and cuisine
Pre-reading
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Predict from the Title
CULTURE AND CUISINE
What is the relationship?
Which examples may appear?
Will the writer use personal experience?
Pre-reading
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Read for Source and Purpose
traveller with personal experience
not a menu list
not a scientific report
purpose: prove a relationship through examples
Pre-reading
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Find the Thesis
Look at the first and last paragraphs.
Culture and cuisine go hand in hand.
You cannot really know one without experiencing the other.
Pre-reading
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While-reading
Follow the route and collect food–culture evidence
While-reading
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Travel Route Map
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America
2
Beijing
3
Shandong
4
Xinjiang
5
South China
6
Central China
The route organizes examples. Each place provides one kind of evidence.
While-reading
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Cuisine Table Overview
Place
Food
Culture clue
America
General Tso’s chicken
Chinese food adapted to local taste
Beijing
Sichuan food
bold flavours and hospitality
Shandong
dumplings
family affair and tradition
Xinjiang
lamb kebab
nomadic lifestyle
South / Central China
dim sum / noodles
regional variety
While-reading
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Case 1: Chinese Food in America
Why can General Tso’s chicken say more about Americans than Chinese?
local adaptation
foreign expectation
food changes in a new culture
While-reading
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Case 2: Sichuan Food in Beijing
What does the chef’s behaviour reveal?
friendliness
hospitality
bold flavours
shared table experience
While-reading
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Case 3: Shandong Dumplings
Why is “a family affair” more important than “delicious”?
making together
family bond
tradition passed on
food as relationship
While-reading
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Case 4: Xinjiang Lamb Kebab
Use because / as a result to explain the link.
nomadic groups
open grassland
sheep and lamb
portable cooking
While-reading
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South and Central China
Region
Food
Meaning
Guangdong
elegant dim sum
delicate style and social eating
Central China
stewed noodles
local taste and daily comfort
Conclusion
varied food
people and places are varied
While-reading
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Cause and Effect Match
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local condition
2
available ingredients
3
cooking style
4
food habit
5
culture meaning
A culture explanation needs a cause-effect chain.
While-reading
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Evidence or Impression?
Text evidence
Overgeneralisation
The chef filled the table with food.
Making dumplings is a family affair.
Chinese food is always spicy.
All people are exactly like their cuisine.
While-reading
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Writer’s Method: Examples to Claim
1
personal experience
2
regional example
3
specific dish
4
culture interpretation
5
general claim
The writer proves a thesis by moving from examples to meaning.
While-reading
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Sentence Focus
What we can say, however, is that culture and cuisine go hand in hand...
main clause
that-clause
if-clause
meaning in simple English
While-reading
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Do Not Overgeneralise
Discuss: Are personalities closely linked to foods?
Use one example.
Avoid “always/all/never”.
Explain with evidence.
While-reading
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Post-reading Analysis
Turn food details into cultural explanations
Post-reading
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Food–Culture Explanation Chain
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Dish
2
Feature
3
Local reason
4
Cultural value
This chain prepares the 80–100-word paragraph.
Post-reading
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Example Analysis
Food detail
What it suggests
Why
dumplings made together
family bond
people gather to prepare and share food
lamb kebab
nomadic life
available meat and outdoor cooking fit local lifestyle
Post-reading
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Exit Ticket
Food can tell us about culture because ...
it reflects local environment
it shows lifestyle
it reveals relationships
it carries values
Post-reading
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Language Building
Use precise language for flavour and culture
Language Building
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Word Bank
Flavour
Ingredient
Cooking method
Cultural meaning
bold / mild
lamb / wheat / rice
stew / boil / roast
hospitality
spicy / delicate
vegetables / spices
steam / fry
family bond
Language Building
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Cause-effect Expressions
because
as a result
therefore
be linked to
reflect
reveal
suggest
Language Building
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Useful Frames
This dish reflects ... because ...
The use of ... is linked to ...
Eating / making ... shows ...
Rather than simply ..., it reveals ...
Language Building
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Micro-writing
Write an 80–100-word culture explanation
Writing
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Writing Task
Introduce one local food and explain how it reflects environment, lifestyle or relationships.
Name the food and place.
Describe one feature.
Explain the local reason.
Connect it to culture.
Writing
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Planning Box
Part
Content
Food/place
...
Feature
...
Local reason
...
Cultural value
...
Writing
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Peer Review
Does it avoid stereotypes?
Does it explain why?
Does it include one specific food detail?
Is it 80–100 words?
Writing
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Self-assessment
Checklist
80–100 words
one specific food
one local reason
one cultural meaning
cause-effect language
no overgeneralisation
Self-assessment
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Practice
Evidence Check
Return to the text and choose the strongest evidence.
What exactly happened?
Which phrase proves it?
What does it suggest?
Self-assessment
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Practice
Oral Rehearsal: Main Claim
Say your main idea before writing.
The text shows ...
The strongest evidence is ...
This matters because ...
Writing
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Practice
Detail Selection
Keep details that support the final task; remove decorative details.
Useful for the task
Interesting but not necessary
Too general to prove
Writing
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Practice
Pair Discussion
Discuss and revise one answer with your partner.
Is the answer text-based?
Is the logic clear?
Can one word be made more precise?
Writing
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Practice
From Notes to Sentence
Turn table notes into a complete sentence.
Use one connector.
Use one precise verb.
Explain why, not only what.
Writing
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Practice
Teacher Wrap-up
Before writing, check whether the reading work can support the output.
Key evidence
Writing structure
Language support
Writing
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Homework
Revise the culture explanation.
Add one precise flavour or cooking word.
Underline cause-effect expressions.
Preview healthy eating writing.
Writing
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Ending
Takeaway
Food becomes cultural evidence when we explain the link between dish, place and people.
Dish
Place
Culture
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