1、Unit 1What do you usually do when you are in a bad mood?Can you predict what comfort food is according to the title of the article and the picture on page 3?What is comfort food?1)When feeling lonely and in a bad mood,what does the author usually do?A.Eating rice pudding B.Going outside to walkC.Tal
2、king with families D.Listening to wonderful stories2)What is comfort food in its broadest sense?Any food that makes us feel better.3)How does comfort food make us feel good according to the last paragraph?By building an emotional bond with our happy memories,comfort food always makes us feel good.Re
3、ad the article quickly and match the main idea of each paragraph.Para 1Para 2Para 3Para 4Para 5Comfort food gives the“taste of home”to people who feel homesick when they move to a new country.Rice pudding cheers me up whenever I feel unhappy.Comfort food is food for the soul.Our comfort foods are hi
4、ghly individual,depending on our own unique experiences.Comfort food has the unique power to make us feel better.1)Whats the function of the first paragraph?A.To explain the happiness of the authors childhood.B.To describe how delicious the rice pudding is.C.To lead to the main topic.D.To raise a pr
5、oblem for later solution.2)Why does the author refer to rice pudding in Para 1?A.To tell us something about the sunny childhood.B.To illustrate the unique power of“comfort food”.C.To show that the author likes eating food made by Grandma.D.To teach us how to lift our spirits when we are in low spiri
6、ts.Read paragraph 2 and paragraph 3 carefully and then answer the questions.1)What is the topic of this article according to Para 2?A particular type of comfort food whose power mainly lies in the associations it calls to mind,especially recalls happy memories of the people,things or places we love.
7、2)According to Para 3,how does comfort food such as chicken soup cheer us up?By connecting with our happy childhood and being tied up with the feeling of being taken care of.How does the author explain the relationship between comfort food and ones sense of belonging in paragraph 4?How does the auth
8、or explain the relationship between comfort food and ones sense of belonging in paragraph 4?quote(引用引用)some food experts words draw a _._give examplesconclusionHow do you understand the last sentence of this article“Its food for the soul”?feel comfortable mentally and emotionlly positive personal em
9、otions recall happy memories lift ones spiritsfood for the soul This article talks about a type of comfort food_ power mainly lies in the associations it calls to mind by recalling happy memories.Comfort foods vary from person to person,depending _our own unique experiences.If we grow up eating cert
10、ain foods in our family,then those foods tend _(link)with positive emotions.The feeling of _(happy)and sense of belonging can become _ (particular)important to people who move away from their home country._is hardest to give up the food that you grow up with.Comfort food takes us back to our cultura
11、l roots,_(give)us the“taste of home”.Comfort food tastes good and by building an _(emotion)bond with our happy memories,always makes us feel good.Its food for the soul.whoseonto be linked happinessparticularlyItgivingemotionalConsolidationDiscussion and speaking1)How does the author introduce the to
12、pic of comfort food?What do you think of this technique?2)What foods can remind you of your happy memories?Describe the memories they recall.3)In your opinion,is there any difference between ones comfort food and favourite food?Give your reasons.Discussion and speakingHow does the author introduce t
13、he topic of comfort food?What do you think of this technique?The author introduces the topic with a personal experience from her childhood that illustrates the power comfort food has to lift our spiits,before continuing with a more detailed decription of exactly how comfort food does that.This techn
14、ique is quite effective,as it attracts the readers attention and inspires interest in the topic of discussion.Discussion and speakingWhat foods can remind you of your happy memories?Describe the memories they recall.Discussion and speakingIn your opinion,is there any difference between ones comfort
15、food and favourite food?Give your reasons.They are different in two ways.First,peoples favourite food can come and go,while their comfort food often remains the same.Second,peoples favourite food often connects with satisfyig their hunger,while comfort food usually connects with memories from their
16、childhood.Except for the dumplings(jiaozi)mentioned in the article,we all know the other traditional foods such as zongzi,qingtuan,yuanxiao,mooncakes(yuebing)and so on.So,apart from the function of healing our hearts,what other functions does food have?Further thinkingFood is part of our history and culture.Further thinkingHow to better carry forward Chinese food culture?Live for love and love for food!
