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?1)When feeling lonely and in a bad mood,what does the author usually do?A.Eating rice pudding B.Going outside to walkC.Talking with families D.
2、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.Read the article quickl
3、y 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 highly individual,depen
4、ding 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 problem for later solut
5、ion.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 spirits.Read paragraph 2 a
6、nd 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.2)According to Para 3
7、,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 author explain the relati
8、onship 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 emotions recall happy m
9、emories 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 certain foods in our fami
10、ly,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 cultural roots,_(give)us the
11、“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 speakingWhat foods can remind you of your happy memories?Describe t
12、he memories they recall.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.Live for love and love for food!
