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(共20张PPT)
Welcome to the unit
Food matters
Unit 1
Food is as fundamental to man as the people are to the state.
—Chen Shou
What does the quotation from Chen Shou mean
It indicates that the importance of food to people is comparable to the importance of people to their countries. People cannot live without food and a country cannot exist without its people.
国以民为本，民以食为天。
——陈寿
Each country has its typical food. Watch the video and finish the following exercises.
Check your answers!
fat golden
all shapes
and sizes
corn
eggs
P1
Watch the video again and fill in the blanks.
Fish and chips
Sushi
Tacos
Pasta
Country
Made up of/ Made from
Served with
Ways of serving
Reason for popularity
The UK
Japan
Mexico
Italy
deep-fired fish and fat golden chips
a corn or wheat pancake rolled around a filling
flour, water and sometimes eggs
Not mentioned
Not mentioned
Not mentioned
It's fresh, convenient and healthy
Check your answers!
sticky rice
salt and vinegar, or sauces
seafood, eggs and vegetables
beef,chicken, seafood, vegetables and cheese
meat, seafood, onions, tomatoes mushrooms
traditionally wrapped in newspaper; now in clean white paper or a small paper box
served in a “roll” of seaweed
They are easy to hold and relatively quick to eat.
There are plenty of inventive ways to prepare pasta.
Try to describe the four countries' typical foods in your own words based on the table.
For example:
Fish and chips is a popular takeaway meal in the UK, which is made up of deep-fried fish and fat golden chips, usually served with salt, vinegar or sauces. In the past, it was wrapped in newspaper, but now it is often served in clean whitepaper or a small paper box.
Energy-giving Food
Body-building Food
Protective Food
Food can keep us healthy and energetic.
It can also do more than that.
Pre-reading
What’s the function of the food
The article below, from a food magazine, discusses the idea of comfort food.
What is comfort food in your opinion
I think that comfort food is a type of food that can make us feel comfortable.
And what foods can have an impact on your feeling What do you think the article will talk about according to
the title
Let’s read the article and finish the following tasks.
P2
While reading
Read and finish the tasks as quickly as possible.
Para. 2: _____________________________________
____________________________________________
Comfort food has the unique power to make us feel better.
Task
1
Read the article and complete the chart below with the main idea of each paragraph.
Para. 1: Rice pudding cheers me up whenever I feel unhappy.
Para. 3: ______________ _____________________
__________________________________________
Para. 4:_______________ ______________________
____________________________________________
Para. 5: ___________________________________
Our comfort foods are highly individual, depending on our own unique experiences.
Comfort food gives the “taste of home” to people who feel homesick when they move to a new country.
Comfort food is food for the soul.
P4 A1
Read para. 1 and answer the following question.
Task
2
What does the author compare the flavour of the rice pudding to in the first paragraph
A time machine that transports the author back to her sunny childhood.
P4 A2
Read para. 2 and answer the following questions.
1.What is the definition of comfort food
2. How is the definition of comfort food given in Para.2 Why does the author give the definition in this way
Check your answers!
1
What is the definition of comfort food
2
How is the definition of comfort food given Why does the author give the definition in this way
The author's definition of comfort food is given in both its broadest sense, “any food that makes us feel better”, and in a narrower sense, “a particular type of comfort food”. The author focuses on the narrower definition in the article because comfort food is a complex topic. By defining comfort food in this way, the author makes us aware of the wide range of the subject, but then draws our attention to the aspect of comfort food that he/she will be discussing in this article.
Read para. 3 and answer the following question.
According to the third paragraph, 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.
Read para. 4-para. 5 and answer the following questions.
1. For people who move away from their home country, what largely determines their comfort food
2. How do you understand the sentence of this article “It’s food for the soul.”
Where they come from.
We usually associate food with something our bodies need—it relieves our hunger and satisfies our appetite. However, comfort food not only serves that purpose, but also makes us feel comfortable mentally and emotionally. Since comfort food is closely connected with positive personal experiences and happy memories, eating it can lift one's spirits. Therefore, comfort food is considered to be food for the soul.
Discuss the questions with your classmates.
Task
3
1. How does the author introduce the topic of comfort food What do you think of the technique
2. What is the author's purpose for writing this article
Possible answers:
1. The author introduces the topic with a personal experience from her childhood that illustrates comfort food has the power to lift our spirits, before continuing with a more detailed description of exactly how comfort food does that. This technique is quite effective, as it attracts the reader's attention and inspires interest in the topic of discussion.
2. The author wants to point out that food is not only useful for keeping us alive and healthy, but in the form of comfort food, it also benefits us emotionally by lifting our spirits and soothing our soul.
After reading
Work in groups. Discuss the questions with your classmates. Then share your opinions before the class.
1. What foods can remind you of your happy memories Describe the memories they recall.
2. In your opinion, is there any difference between one's comfort food and favourite food Give your reasons.
Think and share
P4 A3
1. For me, childhood is inseparably connected with the taste of tanghulu, a snack of sugar-coated hawthorn berries on a bamboo stick. My dad used to bring me all sorts of snacks when he came back home from work, but tanghulu is by far my favourite. Even now, the mere taste of this treat recalls the warmth of his bear hugs. Whenever I miss home, I treat myself to a stick of tanghulu. It's my secret cure for homesickness and it works every time.
2. I think people's favourite food and comfort food are different in two ways. First, people's favourite food can come and go, while their comfort food often remains the same. Second, people's favourite food often connects with satisfying their hunger, while comfort food usually connects with memories from their childhood.
Possible answers:
1. Finish Parts A and B on P57.
2. Finish the exercises in 课时作业
H

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