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Unit 3
FOOD AND CULTURE
Reading and Thinking：
Culture and Cuisine
Learning objectives
In this lesson, you are expected to:
1. explore the link between food and culture.
2. figure out the structure of the passage and find out the topic
3. identify the cause-and -effect relationship between culture and cuisine.
Warm up
Activity 1 Look at the picture and answer the following questions.
1. What are the people doing
2. Why do you think they are
gathering together
Warm up
Activity 1 Look at the picture and answer the following questions.
1. What are the people doing
The guests are sitting at the tables sharing the food. There are other people waking on the street.
Warm up
Activity 1 Look at the picture and answer the following questions.
2. Why do you think they are
gathering together
They are probably celebrating a festival.
The photo is of a 1000-Person-Long-Table Banquet in the Miao Stockade Village（苗寨） of One Thousand Households in Leishan, Guizhou. This festival has a tradition dating back over 1,000 years and is usually held for marriage celebrations and festivals.
While traditionally it is a local family affair, in modern times this feast has sometimes been held on national holidays so that tourists can take part and enjoy the Miao culture.
Warm up
Prediction
General Tso’s chicken
dim sum
Culture and Cuisine
food cooked in a certain way
It’s about the link between culture and cuisine
Boiled dumplings
Lamb kebab
Stewed noodles
Dim sum
Sichuan Cuisine
Sichuan Cuisine
Sichuan cuisine is hot from chillies(辣椒） and from Sichuan peppercorns.
peppercorns
Boiled dumplings
Lamb kebab
Stewed noodles
Dim sum
Pancake rolls
Sichuan Cuisine
Read paragraph 4 and think over the questions.
1. What was the author's favourite dish there
2. What's the most famous food in Shandong
3. Why did boiled dumplings become a favourite dish of the people in North China
4. What is important to the people there
Boiled dumplings served with vinegar.
Pancake rolls stuffed with sliced Chinese green onions.
Making dumplings has always been a family affair with everyone--from the youngest to the oldest--- joining in to help.
Family is important to the people there.
Read paragraph 5 and think over the questions.
1. What are the traditional foods in northern Xinjiang
2. Why do people in northwest China cook traditional foods over an open fire
Their traditional foods are what you can cook over an open fire— boiled or roasted meat, such as lamb kebab.
Because people there traditionally wandered the open range on horses.
Beijing
Shandong
Guangdong
Henan
northern Xinjiang
Read paragraph 6 and think over the questions.
1. What 're the typical dishes in Guangdong and Henan
2. Do people living in different places eat the same food
3. Do people eating different foods share the same culture
4. Do they have something in common
Elegant dim sum and exceptional stewed noodles.
No,everywhere, the food was as varied as the people.
No.
Chinese people everywhere show friendship and kindness.
Read paragraph 7 and think over the questions.
1. What can the kinds of foods local people consume tell us
2. How to understand “culture and cuisine go hand in hand”
Cuisine in certain place can tell us what the local people like to eat, grow or dislike.
The food flavor they eat the food features they cook also well demonstrate the personality, characters or culture of the local people.
Place Kind of Chinese food Typical dish People or culture
America
Beijing
Shandong
Northwest China
South China
Central China Chinese food changed to suit American tastes
General Tso’s chicken
Americans love bold and simple flavours, and are not afraid to try new foods.
Sichuan cuisine
dish with Sichuan peppercorns
People there offered them good friendship
Shandong cuisine
Xinjiang cuisine
Guangdong cuisine
Henan cuisine
boiled dumplings served with vinegar;
pancake rolls stuffed with sliced Chinese green onions
Family is important to the people there.
boiled or roasted meat, such as lamb kebab
People traditionally wandered the open range on horses.
dim sum
Through food, Chinese people everywhere show friendship and kindness.
stewed noodles
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.
Understand cause and effect
Match the causes to the effects below.
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.
Understand cause and effect
Sometimes 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 direct. For example, “ It was raining, so I took my umbrella.” However, some cause-and-effect relationships are not direct, and some may also have more than one cause or effect.
Signal words used to identify causes and effects:
because, as, since, so, therefore, consequently, as a result, and due to...
1.What is the writer's purpose in writing this text
Pragmatic Analysis
To share with readers his viewpoint: Culture and cuisine go hand in hand.
2.Who do you think is the intended audience
Everyone who is interested in Chinese cuisines.
Discuss the questions. Work in pairs.
1.What's the writer's opinion about culture and cuisine
Post-reading
They go hand in hand.
2.What is the writer's reason
In America, Chinese food has been changed to suit American tastes, and it tells us much about the character of Americans. In China, people in different places have different kinds of traditional food, which reflect different traditional cultures. As a result, the writer thinks that culture and cuisine go hand in hand, and if you do not experience one, you can never really know the other.
The writer believes that culture and cuisine go hand in hand. Do you agree with the writer What's your own opinion With the impact of globalisation, do you think food can still reflect diferent cultures
Critical thinking
Agreement
People living in different
places eat different kinds of
food. For example,...
Chinese cuisine is different
from Western cuisine because
of different cultures. For
example,...
A Bite of China is not just a
documentary about food.
More importantly, it is a show
of Chinese culture.
...
Disagreement
Food from different places is
available everywhere.
The combination of Chinese
and Western food is common
now.
In this fast-changing world,
everything is changing,
including cuisines.
...
Prior to coming to China, my only experience with Chinese cooking was in America, with Chinese food that ___________________(change) to suit American tastes.
Later, I had a chance to experience authentic Chinese food by _______ ( come) to China. A Sichuan restaurant had been recommended to me and my family by a friend.______(tire), hungry,and not knowing a word of Chinese, we had no idea how to order , so the chef just began filling our table _______ the best food we had ever eaten. With this, we had the pleasure of experiencing an __________( entire )new taste: Sichuan peppercorns. The food was wonderful and different, but _________was even more important was the friendship _______ (offer) us. In northern Xinjiang, the traditional foods are what you can cook over _____open fire -usually boiled or roasted meat.
From south to central China, in each place we experienced wonderful local_______ ( dish), from Guangdong's elegant dim sum 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____________(kind).
had been changed
coming
Tired
with
entirely
what
offered
an
dishes
kindness
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