1、Unit 3 FOOD AND CULTURE To learn to gain some knowledge about culture and cuisine To learn to understand the passage by using different reading skillsWhat are the people doing?They are sitting at the tables sharing the food.There are other people walking on the street.Why do you think they are gateh
2、ring together?They are probably celebrating a festival.The photo is of a 1,000-person-Long-Table Banquet(千人长桌宴)in the Miao Stockade Village(苗寨)of One Thousand Households in Leishan,Guizhou.This feast(筵席)has a tradition dating back over 1,000 years and is usually held for marriage celebrations and fe
3、stivals.Chinas Eight Cuisine MapHow many kinds of Chinese cuisine are there,and how can these cuisines be described?Sichuan cuisinehot,spicy,mouth-numbing Cantonese cuisinemild,slightly sweet Fujian cuisineumami,light,healthy Anhui cuisinefresh,oily,Jiangsu cuisinesoft,mild,a little sweet Hunan cuis
4、inehot,spicy,salty Shandong cuisinesalty,fresh Zhejiang cuisinefresh,softChinas Eight Cuisine MapHow many kinds of Chinese cuisine are there,and how can these cuisines be described?What,if anything,do these cuisines tell you about the people who eat them?Food cooked in a certain way.It is believed t
5、hat different cuisines reflect different personalities of people who eat them.For instance,it is said that people who likes spicy food are probably adventurous and rash.adj.勇于冒险的adj.轻率的,鲁莽的Culture and cuisineGeneral Tsos chicken左宗棠鸡左宗棠鸡dim sum点心点心The text is about _.the relationship between culture
6、and cuisinepancake rolls stuffed with sliced Chinese green onions煎饼卷煎饼卷大葱大葱boiled dumplings served with vinegar蘸着醋吃的水饺蘸着醋吃的水饺Do you know the names of these cuisine?Sichuan cuisine is hot from chillies or peppers and mouth-numbing from Sichuan peppercorns.Sichuan cuisinechillies/peppers辣椒辣椒peppercorn
7、s花椒花椒lamb kebab(roasted meat)烤烤羊肉串羊肉串(烤肉烤肉)boiled meat水煮肉水煮肉Do you know the names of these cuisine?stewed noodles烩面烩面dim sum点心点心Do you know the names of these cuisine?The author of the passage is from _.AmericaPara.2 line 2-3 Prior to coming to China,my only experience with Chinese cooking was in Am
8、erica,=before prep.Which of the following shows the structure of the text?A.B.C.D.P1P2P3P4P5P6P7Which is the topic paragraph?The last paragraph.At a minimum,the kinds of food local people consume tell us what they grow in their region,what kinds of lives they lead,and what they like and do not like.
9、Could we also say,for example,that those who like bold flavours are bold themselves?Or,that those who like spicy food tend to have a hot temper?Maybe.Maybe not.What we can say,however,is that culture and cuisine go hand in hand,and if you do not experience one,you can never really know the other.Whi
10、ch is the topic sentence?to eat or drink somethingto become angry very easily=at leastare closely connectedTopic sentenceIn what way does the writer show us that culture and cuisine go hand in hand?By citing a saying from a French author and giving examples.Para.1 line 1-2The French author Jean Anth
11、elme Brillat-Savarin once wrote,“Tell me what you eat,and I will tell you what you are.”Para.2 line 1Certainly,in many ways this seems to be true.Chinese cuisine is a case in point.=a good exampleof his different experiences with Chinese cuisinePara.1The French author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin o
12、nce wrote,“Tell me what you eat,and I will tell you what you are.”Put more simply,this means“You are what you eat.”Most people today relate this saying to healthy eating.However,Brillat-Savarin was actually referring to our personality,character,and culture.Discuss what you think this saying means.R
13、ead the article to see if you share the same ideas as the author.ChinaWhat places are mentioned where the writer experienced Chinese food?Prior to coming to China,my only experience with Chinese cooking was in America Later,I had a chance to experience authentic Chinese food by coming to China.eat i
14、n Beijing.time and space Prior to coming to China,my only experience with Chinese cooking was in America Later,I had a chance to experience authentic Chinese food by coming to China.eat in Beijing.We soon moved to Shandong Province in the eastern part of North China.Then we moved to northern Xinjian
15、g.Our travels then took us to South China,and then on to central China.from Guangdongs to in Henan=continuouslyThe text is developed in the order of _.=beforetime orderspace orderPara.2 was in America,with Chinese food that had been changed to suit American tastes.For example,Americas most popular C
16、hinese dish is General Tsos chicken,which consists of fried chicken covered in a sweet sauce,favoured with hot red peppers.This is probably not an authentic Chinese recipe,however,so it cannot tell us much about the Chinese.On the other hand,it does tell us a lot about Americans.It tells us,for exam
17、ple,that Americans love bold,simple favours.And since the dish was also invented recently,it tells us that Americans are not afraid to try new foods.Whats the writers experience with Chinese food in America?Whats the writers experience with Chinese food in China?Para.3.When my family and I had just
18、arrived in China,we went looking for a good place to eat in Beijing.A Sichuan restaurant had been recommended to us by a friend,and finally,we found it.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 e
19、aten.With this,we had the pleasure of experiencing an entirely new taste:Sichuan peppercorns.The food was wonderful and different,but what was even more important was the friendship offered us.Whats the writers experience with Chinese food in China?Para.4.My favourite dish there was boiled dumplings
20、 served with vinegar.I observed that family is important to the people there.It has become a favourite traditional dish of the people in North China,where making dumplings has always been a family affair with everyonefrom the youngest to the oldestjoining in to help.Later,I learnt that the most famo
21、us food in Shandong is pancake rolls stuffed with sliced Chinese green onions.Whats the writers experience with Chinese food in China?Para.5.Then we moved to northern Xinjiang.Some of our friends were Kazak and Inner Mongolian.These groups traditionally wandered the open range on horses.As a result,
22、their traditional foods are what you can cook over an open fireusually boiled or roasted meat,such as lamb kebab.Whats the writers experience with Chinese food in China?Para.6.In each place we went,we experienced wonderful local dishes,from Guangdongs elegant dim sumsmall servings of food in bamboo
23、steamersto the exceptional stewed noodles In Henan.Everywhere,the food was as varied as the people.However,one thing is always true:Through food,Chinese people everywhere show friendship and kindness.PlaceKinds of Chinese foodTypical dishPeople or cultureAmericaBeijingShandongNorthwest ChinaSouth Ch
24、inaCentral ChinaGeneral Tsos chickendishes with Sichuan pepper cornsboiled dumplings served with vinegarboiled or roasted meat,such as lamb kebabdim sumstewed noodlestry new thingsfriendshipFamily is important.People wander the open range on horsesfriendship and kindnessChinese food changed to suit
25、American tastes.Sichuan cuisineShandong cuisineXj and Inner M.cuisineCantonese cuisineHenan cuisinePara.5 line 1-3These groups traditionally wandered the open range on horses.As a result,their traditional foods are what you can cook over an open fireusually boiled or roasted meat,such as lamb kebab.
26、causeeffectUnderstand cause and effectSometimes 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(1)direct.For example,“It was raining,so I took my umbrella.”However,some cause-and-effect relationships are(
27、2)not direct,and some may also(3)have more than one cause or effect.Reading strategyCauses:because,for,because of,as,since,while(既然既然),in that,thanks to,due to,owing to,as a result of(由于由于),etc.Effects:so,therefore,thus,consequently,accordingly,as a result(结果结果),result in(结果是结果是),lead to,etc.1Scanni
28、ng for signal words2Making a logical connection 4.Match the causes to the effects below.Then find more examples from the text.Cause1 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
29、horses.EffectA 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 A with BPara.3 line 3-5Tired,hungry,and not knowing a word of Chinese,we had
30、 no idea how to order,so the chef just began filling our table with the best food we had ever eaten.Para.2 line 7-8 with Chinese food that had been changed to suit American tastes.On the other hand,it does tell us a lot about Americans.It tells us,for example,that Americans love bold,simple favours.
31、Why had Chinese food been changed to suit American tastes?Para.2 line 3-8 with Chinese food that had been changed to suit American tastes.For example,Americas most popular Chinese dish is General Tsos chicken,which consists of fried chicken covered in a sweet sauce,favoured with hot red peppers.This
32、 is probably not an authentic Chinese recipe,.It tells us,for example,that Americans love bold,simple favours.causeWhat does the writer think of the Chinese food in America?Why?Making a logical connection effecteffectcauseWhy does General Tsos chicken tell us that Americans are not afraid to try new
33、 foods?Para.2 line 8-9And since the dish was also invented recently,it tells us that Americans are not afraid to try new foods.Why cant General Tsos chicken tell us much about the Chinese?Para.2 line 6-7This is probably not an authentic Chinese recipe,however,so it cannot tell us much about the Chin
34、ese.Scanning for signal wordscauseeffectcauseeffectPara.3 line 2-3A Sichuan restaurant had been recommended to us by a friend,and finally,we found it.Why did the writer and his family go to a S.c.restaurant in Beijing?Why did they have no idea how to order in the restaurant.?Para.3 line 3-4Tired,hun
35、gry,and not knowing a word of Chinese,we had no idea how to order.Making a logical connection causeeffectcauseeffectWhy has making dumplings always been a family affair with everyone in North China?Para.4 line 2-4family is important to the people there.It has become a favourite traditional dish of t
36、he people in North China,where making dumplings has always been a family affair with everyonefrom the youngest to the oldestjoining in to help.causeeffectMaking a logical connection Para.6 line 5if you do not experience one,you can never really know the other.causeeffectDo you think“culture and cuisine go hand in hand”?Give your reasons.Group Discussion
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