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课件网) CULTURE AND CUISINE Emma Food cooked in a certain way A Bite of China Lead in Do you know how many kinds of cuisines in China What are they Lead-in CULTURE AND CUISINE 1、To gain some knowledge about culture and cuisine 2、To understand the passage by using different reading skills Culture And Cuisine What do you think the text is about Maybe it is about different kinds of Chinese food and the culture each food represents. Scanning and skimming Task 1: How many places are mentioned in the passage and what is the typical dish of these places Places Dish Task 1: How many places are mentioned in the passage and what is the typical dish of these places America Beijing Shandong Xinjiang Guangdong Henan Places Dish General Tso's chicken Sichuan Peppercorn Boiled dumplings Lamb kebab Dim sum Stewed noodles Spicy food Dim sum Stewed Noodles Lamb kebab Pancake rolls with onions General Tso's chicken 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 referring to our personality, character and culture. 1. Find out the key sentence of paragraph 1. Paragraph 1 2. The first paragraph has a quote: “You are what you eat.” In pairs, discuss what you think this saying means. Careful reading The saying means that the kind of food we eat tells something about our personality, character, and culture. Main idea: You are what you eat. Spicy food Dim sum Lamb kebab Pancake rolls with onions bold quick-tempered simple easy-going elegant gentle energetic adventurous Junk food fatter healthy food slimmer 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. 3. What does the underlined phrase mean in the paragraph 4. What does General Tso's chicken consist of And what can the dish tell us about Americans Paragraph 2 a good example Main idea: Chinese food in America. 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, h ... ...
