Learning Aims
1. To talk about different food and food cultures.
2. To read and understand the passage.
3. To get the detailed information of the
passage.
4. To grasp the important words, phrases and
sentence structures of this part.
1. _________ n. 枫树,槭树
2. _________ n. 布丁
3. _________ n. (正餐以外的) 小吃,点心
4. _________ n. 烹饪(法)
5. _______ adj. (食物)加有香料的
6. _______ modal verb 胆敢,敢于
7. _________ n. 婚姻
8. _________ n. 婚礼
maple
pudding
snack
cuisine
words
spicy
dare
marriage
wedding
9. _________ n. 种,类
10. _________ n. 肉贩
11. _________ adj. 极好的,了不起的
12. _________ n. (通常切成薄片的)咸猪肉
13. _________ n. 香肠
14. _________ n. 烤面包(片)
15. _________ n. 黄油,牛油
16. _________ adj. 典型的,有代表性的
sort
butcher
super
bacon
words
sausage
toast
butter
typical
17. _________ n. 大块烤肉 adj. 烤好的,烤制的
18. _________ v. (身体或精神上) 受苦 → _________ n. 苦难
19. _________ adj. 难闻的,有臭味的
20. _________ adj. 糟糕的
21. _______ v. 聚集
22. _________ v. 咬→ ________ p.t. → __________ p.p.
23. _________ n. 奶酪,干酪
24. _________ adv. 有朝一日,将来会有一天
roast
suffer suffering
stinky
words
horrible
gather
bite bit bitten
cheese
someday
Starting out &
Understanding ideas
UNIT 1
Food for Thought
Guessing
Read the passage and talk about your understanding of the title.
1.What are the two cuisines?
2.Why is he “a child of two cuisines”?
3.Read the passage and choose the main idea.
A. How the family stays healthy by eating Chinese food.
B. What the family has done to promote Chinese food.
C. How the family cooks both Chinese and English food.
D. How the family combines food from two cultures.
D
1.Which of the following is not true about the writer?
A. He grows up in England. B. He enjoys Chinese food.
C. He doesn't like stinky tofu at all. D. He also enjoys western food.
2. What kind of Chinese food is Dad's favorite?
A. Stinky tofu. B. Chicken feet C. Hot pot D. Chinese oolong tea.
3. Which of the following is TRUE about Mum?
A. She is British and lives in England
B. She is Chinese and often cooks spicy dishes.
C. She doesn't enjoy a “ full English breakfast”.
D. She advises the writer to try stinky tofu.
4. Where does this passage probably come from?
A. A TV interview B. A food advertisement C. A heath report D. A book review
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Read the passage and choose the best answer
Chinese food British food
A Child of Two Cuisines
Dad's attitude Son's attitude Mom's attitude
hot pot
animals parts
stinky tofu
full English
breakfast
Sunday roast
roast beef and
vegetables
love
dare not try
be surprised
be shocked
doesn't
easily take
to
love enjoy
horrible
not so bad
may fall in love
had better
not eat too
much,
make us
suffer
from heat
food and attitude
What does the author mean by saying “one
man's meat is another man's poison”?
It means that something that one person likes
may not be liked by someone else.
after reading the passage, please fill in the
following blanks
My mother is a Chinese1 ________ home town is in Sichuan
and she often 2 _______ (cook) spicy dishes. Thanks to that, Dad,
who is British 3 _________ (come) to love hot pot. But he was 4
_____(shock) at what Chinese ate like chicken feet. What's more,
he can cook 5________ super “full English breakfast” so that
Mum and I like finding a way 6________ (get) him into the
kitchen. We all love his 7_______ (type) Sunday roast. As for me,
8________ (grow) up in English, I enjoy food from both countries.
I think I can deal 9________ all Chinese food. There's nothing
10_______ (good) than a cross-cultural afternoon tea.
whose
shocked
better
with
growing
typical
to get
a
has come
cooks