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Unit 3
Food and Culture
Reading and Thinking
Master vocabulary and expressions related to food and culture, and use them to describe different cuisines.
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教学目标
Use reading strategiesto extract key information about food and culture from texts efficiently.
Understand the rich cultural connotations behind Chinese cuisine and enhance their cross - cultural awareness.
Analyze the relationship between cuisine and culture, and develop logical and critical thinking skills.
教学重难点
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Guide students to extract details of Chinese cuisines from the text, including characteristics, ingredients, and cultural meanings. Help them analyze the link between food and regional culture, history, and local personalities.
Help students grasp the implicit meanings of food and culture descriptions, infer causal relationships with context clues and discourse markers. Prompt critical thinking on cuisine - culture links and encourage text - based insights.
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Reading
人生苦短
再来一碗
Do you know any famous dishes from different regions across China
Look at the title and pictures, and make a predication.
1. What will be talked about
2. What is the relationship between culture and cuisine
Each food represents ________
culture
The __________ between ______ and _________.
connection
culture
food
Skimming for the structure of the passage.
para.1 General（总）
para. 2-6: Particular（分）
para. 7: General（总）
Introduction of the topic: you are what you eat.
My different experiences with Chinese food.
Conclusion--culture and cuisine go hand in hand.
Skimming for the main idea of wach paragraph.
A. Topic:______________________.
B. Experience of China dish in _________.
C. Experience of _______ food in ________.
D. Chinese food in_________.
E. Chinese food in _________.
F. Experience of food in ___________ and _______ .
G. Conclusion: Culture and cuisine________________.
Para. 1
Para. 2
Para. 3
Para. 4
Para. 5
Para. 6
Para. 7
You are what you eat
America
Beijing
Sichuan
Shandong
Xinjiang
Guangdong
Henan
go hand in hand
Read para.1 and answer the question.
The French author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once 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.
Why does the author quote Jean’s words at the beginning
To introduce the topic of the passage.
Read para.2 and find the information.
Certainly, in many ways this seems to be true. Chinese cuisine is a case in point. Prior to coming to China, my only experience with Chinese cooking was in America, with Chinese food that had been changed to suit American tastes. For example, America’s most popular Chinese dish is General Tso’s chicken, which consists of fried chicken covered in a sweet sauce, flavoured 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 example, that Americans love bold, simple flavours. And, since the dish was also invented recently, it tells us that Americans are not afraid to try new foods.
Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture
America
Chinese food changed to suit American tastes
General Tso’s chicken
Americans love bold, simple flavours, and are not afraid to try new foods.
Read para.3 and find the information.
Later, I had a chance to experience authentic Chinese food by coming to China. When my family and I had just 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 eaten. 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.
Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture
Beijing
Sichuan cuisine
Dishes with Sichuan peppercorns
People there offered them good friendship.
Read para.4 and find the information.
We soon moved to Shandong Province in the eastern part of North China. My favourite dish there was boiled dumplings 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 everyone—from the youngest to the oldest—joining in to help. Later, I learnt that the most famous food in Shandong is pancake rolls stuffed with sliced Chinese green onions.
Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture
Shandon
Shandong cuisine
boiled dumplings
served with vinegar, pancake rolls stuffed with sliced Chinese green onions
Family is important to the people there.
Read para.5 and find the information.
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, their traditional foods are what you can cook over an open fire—usually boiled or roasted meat, such as lamb kebab.
Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture
Northwest Xinjiang
Xinjiang and Inner Mongolian cuisine
boiled or roasted meat, such as lamb kebab
People there traditionally wandered the open range on horses so their traditional foods are what you can cook over an open fire.
Read para.6 and find the information.
Our travels then took us to South China, and then on to central China. In each place we went, we experienced wonderful local dishes, from Guangdong’s elegant dim sum—small servings of food in bamboo steamers—to 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.
Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture
South China
Central China Guangdong cuisine
dim sum
Through food, Chinese people everywhere show friendship and kindness.
Henan cuisine
stewed noodles
Read para.6 and find the information.
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. 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.
Q: What can be inferred from the last Paragraph
A. We can know people’s culture from their food.
B. The people who like bold flavors must be bold.
C. The people who don’t like spicy food cannot have a hot temper.
D. One can know a culture only through the cuisine.
Match the causes to the effects below. Then find more examples from the text.
Cause
1. 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 horses.
Effect
A. 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.
Do you think “culture and cuisine go hand in hand” Give your reasons.
1. Yes, because so much of a culture is based upon food and how it is eaten and served.
2. Possibly, people who like spicy food love excitement and new experiences. And people who like junk food like to enjoy life without worrying about the future.
Sample Answer
Imagine that it is true that people’s personalities are closely linked to the foods they eat. What does eating the following foods tell you about a person
spicy food vegetarian food junk food seafood sweets chocolate rice noodles onion garlic bacon ham sausage cabbage mushroom bean curd
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Language points
senior to… 比……年长的；级别高的
junior to… 比……年轻的
inferior to … 比……差的
superior to… 比……好的
priority n. 优先考虑的事；当务之急
take priority (over sth.) （比某事）更重要；优先于
top priority 头等大事；最高优先级
1. prior to 在……之前
Education should be a top _________ for any government.
练习：
priority
consist in 在于，存在于
consist with 与……一致
consistent adj. 一致的；持续的；连续的
be consistent with ... 与……一致
be consistent in ... 在……方面一致
注意：consist of 无被动语态和进行时态
2. consist of 由……组成/ 构成
Your explanation must be _________ with the facts.
练习：
consistent
stuff... into... 把……塞进……
stuff... with... 用……填满……
stuff up 搞砸；弄糟（非正式）；用……堵上
and stuff 等等；之类的（非正式，用于列举后补充）
stuff and nonsense 胡说八道；废话
注意：stuff 作为名词时是不可数名词，不能直接加 -s 表示复数，需用 some/a piece of/a lot of 等修饰
3. stuff vt. 填满；把……塞进 n. 东西；物品
Can you grab some _______ from the store
练习：
stuff
a minimum of 最少……
above the minimum 超过最低限度
at a/the minimum 至少
below the minimum 低于最低限度
down to a minimum 降到最低点
minimum and maximum 最小值和最大值
4. minimum adj.最低（限度）的；最小的
n. 最小量；最少量
The temperature ranges between a __________ of -5°C and a maximum of 15°C.
练习：
minimum
consume resources 消耗资源
consume away 消耗掉；憔悴；枯萎凋谢
consume with passion 满怀热情地做某事
be consumed by/with 被… 吞噬；沉迷于
consumable items 消耗品
consumer n. 含义：消费者；用户
consumption n.消耗；消费；消费量
5. consume vt. 吃；喝；饮；消耗
Alcohol is __________ in large quantities in some countries.
练习：
consumed
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Exercise
His father said that _______ a minimum, he should spend half an hour in the evening reading classics.
His hands __________(stuff) in his pockets while he was wandering around the street with his friends last night.
All the drawers were _______(填满) with letters and papers.
The hotel restaurant is noted for its excellent _______(菜肴), which is low in fat and healthier.
Since you are not a child any more, you must learn to control your _________ (脾气).
stuffed
temper
cuisine
at
were stuffed
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Homework
Homework
1. Summarise what we have learnt in this lesson;
2. Prepare for the next lesson
See you next class!

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