(
课件网) Birthday Food Around the World Unit 10 Section B reading Prediction The passage is about_____ A. birthday party B. birthday food. 2. What can you get from the picture Reading skill: The title and the picture can help us to get the main idea of a passage. Read and match the main ideas. Birthday food in many countries. Different foods, the same idea. People eat differently on their birthday. Birthday food in China. Reading skills: How to find the main idea of a paragraph The first or the last sentence is usually the main idea Para 1. 1. How does the writer begin the passage A. By telling a story. B. By asking a question. C. By giving an example. D. By showing numbers. 2.In which part of the newspaper can we find the passage A. Sports. B. Culture. C. Art D. Time. Birthday food in many countries Para 2 in many countries in the UK People eat birthday cakes_____ People put a _____ in a cake _____is the person’s age. _____candles makes a wish_____ The child with the candy is _____. with candles candy The number of candles Blowing out lucky come true Find the information you are interested in and ask questions about it. What How Why ... Birthday food in China Para 3 Ask and answer questions in pairs. 1. What does “They”refer to It refers to _____. 2. What is the same idea Birthday foods Bring good luck to us Para 4 Post-reading 1. What is the structure of the passage 2. What is the purpose of the passage A. To tell people the birthday food in the UK. B. To ask people to eat long noodles on their birthdays. C. To tell people birthday foods have special meanings. D. To tell people to have cakes with candles. A. ① ②③④ B. ① ② ③ ④ C. ①②③ ④ D. ① ② ③ ④ Food and culture 送张送张盥赴举诗 唐·刘禹锡 尔生始悬弧，我作座上宾。 引箸举汤饼，祝词天麒麟。 催宗文树鸡栅 唐·杜甫 吾衰怯行迈，旅次展崩迫。 愈风传乌鸡，秋卵方漫吃。 noodles eggs Other traditional Chinese food Supplementary reading Birthday Customs Around the World Read and underline the birthday custom(习俗) of each country. Birthday Customs Around the World People in every country celebrate their birthdays. And they celebrate them in many different ways. In Brazil, the special birthday food isn’t cake. People eat special food like candles. In Argentina, parents and friends will put on the birthday person’s ears several times. If you are seven years old, they pull on your ears seven times. In Holland, children not only give gifts, but also give things out. They give cakes, cookies and candles to their classmates and teachers on their birthdays. In Mexico, it’s good luck to give birthday greetings early in the day. So, it’s usual for the birthday child to be woken up at midnight by friends singing birthday songs. In Israel, on the child’s birthday, parents will throw the children in the air and then catch him on her. In Thailand, two tall candles are lighted the night before the birthday. One is as tall as the birthday perso ... ...
