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外研版高中英语Book 8 Module 3 Foreign Food Part One

Teaching DesignPeriod 1 Reading

Goals

● To learn about the variety of foreign food all across the globe

● Take advantage of the contexts in this module to first learn some practical words.

Meanwhile, develop the students’ cultural abilities.

● As to the goal of this module, students should fold their thoughts about foods in

the world and the influence of foods on people. If possible, describe some Chinese

typical dish and offer some health suggestions.

▇ Procedures

Step 1: Warming up by learning about “food” and learning to talk about food:

Hello, class! Before we begin our reading of Module 3, let’s try to understand some

famous quotations about food and their reactions to these sayings:

☆ Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

☆ Eat little, sleep well.

☆ What is food to one man may be poison to another.

☆ Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art.

☆ If you’re going to America, bring your own food.

☆ You should eat to live, not live to eat.

☆ a piece of cake 小菜一碟

☆ hot potato 烫手的山芋

☆ put all eggs in one basket 把所有鸡蛋放在一篮子里(比喻风险很大)

☆ bread and butter 面包和黄油(比喻谋生的手段)

☆ apple of one’s eyes 掌上明珠(比喻某人最喜欢的)

Warming up by thinking of the names of foreign food:

Boys and girls, can you think of as many as the names of food?

pie, meat, beef, vegetable, apple, tomato, egg, fish, rice, chicken, duck

Step 2: Before you read

Please introduce the words for this module, paying attention to the pronunciation of

the words, the relationship between their pronunciation and spelling.

Practice for words study:

Ok, we are to have a spelling quiz. Read every sentence and fill the blanks with

proper forms of the words in this module.

obsessed, infamous, tongue, banquet, appetizing

1) We use our____to speak and taste different smells.

2) The kings will hold a large state____for foreign guests.

3) Many high school students are____ with cyber games.

4) Before a meal, foreign people would like to drink some____ wine.

5) The Japanese invaders are____ enough in the world.

Keys: tongue banquet obsessed appetizing infamous

Step 3: While you read

1. Pre-reading

1) What kind of food is your favourite?

2) Can you tell the main difference between foreign and Chinese food?

3) Which do you prefer, foreign food or Chinese food? Why?

2. A diagram of the reading

Passage 1 Part 1(Para.1-2) The writer first experienced one aspect of Chinese “food

culture” at a banquet during a trip to Beijing in 1998.

Part 2(Para.3-4) Another aspect of “food culture” is that the Chinese seem

to eat almost every part of every animal.

Part 3(Para.5)

Passage 2 Part 1(Para.1)

It takes the writer longer to accept some kinds of foods.

The writer leaned the British easy and graceful manner

when he ate British food for the first time.

Part 2(Para.2-3) The writer also learned the English like to mix food

before serving it at the table and the names of kinds of

English food are difficult to remember.

3. Complete the articles with one word in each blank

(1)I think the Chinese people are o_ with food. I could know from the following e_ in

f_ meal consisted of many dishes. Plates are placed dangerously b_ one on

top of another. I thought the first w_ of food was the t_ number to be served. I was

wrong. Everyone else just t_ a bit of each dish and waited for more. I thought this

amount could f_ an army. Besides, the Chinese seemed to like every part of animal,

including ears, t_, tail and lungs. In the end, the b_ ended up with everyone full

enough after eating so many Chinese d__.

Keys: obsessed experience fabulous balanced wave total tasted

feed tongue banquet delicacies

(2)The next experience was in the c_ of a London publisher. I was a_ at the people’s

graceful m_ while I stood feeling very c_. The waiter was serving food according to

their r__. They were eating the cold l__ for the Chinese, for cold food represented p__.

Once I o__ something strange. The things inside sandwiches and baked potatoes are

also v__ kinds of mashed food. To me, I would never mash food into an u__ shape.

Anyway, one thing I do a__ is the polite manner in which British eat, even if it is just

a potato.

Keys: canteen amazed manner confused requirements leftovers

poverty ordered various unrecognizable admire

Step 4: After you read

1. Copy all the useful expressions into your Expression Book and make your own

sentences with them.

Useful Expressions of The Steamboat

think a lot about, in fact, be obsessed with, Chinese culture, at a banquet, during a trip

to, seem to do, fill the table, with…balanced, on top of, eat greedily, a bit of, put

down, to one’s surprise, feed an army, no wonder, fellow guests, much to the horror of

sb., be likely to do, end up, the first time, a three-year-old kid, that sort of, on a recent

trip to, feel like, at the counter, pull at one’s ears, get used to, as…as, be amazed at,

graceful manner, feel confused by, make out, according to, taste bad, make sb. feel

cold inside, be made from, before doing, be prepared, a fixed phrase, at the table,

order…in a restaurant, be cooked with, mashed food, go against, the sense of beauty,

at the Chinese table, have a nice appearance, mash…into, what’s more, be hard to

remember, admire sth., even if/though

Step 5: comprehension of the articles --- Do Activity 6 on Page 32

1. Pair the students to answer the questions, and then ask them to check their answers

with another pair.

2. Call back the answers from the whole class, having one student read a question and

another answer it.

For reference

1. He thought the first course was the whole meal and ate too much.

2. The quantity of food served. 3. Choudoufu was colourful.

5. It made her feel cold inside. 6. It was very polite.

Step 6: Intensive reading: Read the passage carefully and do activity 5 in pairs.

1. Ask the students to do this on their own, then check with a partner.

2. Call back the answers from the whole class, having a student read out the sentences

then explain the difference in meaning.

For reference

In passage 1 tasted means that they just tried a little of each dish, whereas in Passage

2 taste means what flavour it had in the person’s mouth.

In Passage 1 served means brought to the table by the waiters; in Passage 2 prepared

means got ready before eating.

Step 7: Revision of the words learned

1. Read through the words in activity4. Ask the students to match the words

individually and then check with their partners.

2. Call back the answers from the class. Pay attention to their pronunciation while

reading these key words. If possible, explain them in great detail.

For reference

Passage 1: 1(e) 2(c) 3(d) 4(a) 5(f) 6(h) 7(b) 8(g)

Passage 2: 1(g) 2(e) 3(h) 4(a) 5(f) 6(d) 7(c) 8(b)

Step 8: Do Activity 7 on Page 32 (summary of the reading part)

1. Classify the class into groups of four to discuss the questions. Appoint a delegate to

present their views afterwards.

2. Call back the answers from the delegates for the class, and open the points up for

class discussion widely.

For reference

1. The America n food is strange to them.

Step 9: Post-reading

1) Do you think it is a waste of money for Chinese people to hold a big banquet?

2) Is it crucial for Chinese people to eat almost every part of every animal? Why or

why not?

3) How will you get used to British food if you go to England for further study?

Step 10: Closing down by learning about foreign food

Everyone knows that cows give milk, and apples grow on trees. But where do other

favorite foods come from? America’s favorite food has a foreign name. Hamburgers

are named for the German city of Hamburg. Traveling merchants from Hamburg

tasted raw ground meat flavored with salt, pepper, and onion juice when they traveled

in northern Russia. They took the idea back to Germany, where their wives cooked the

meat, and named it “Hamburg steak”. Hamburgers came to the United States around

1830, with German immigrants who traveled to Ohio and the Midwest. Around 1900,

someone put a hamburger on a bun, and backyard barbecues were born. Today,

hamburgers are the world’s most popular fast food. McDonald’s sells one billion

burgers every three months around the world. People in Hamburg, Germany, have a

McDonald's, too.

An English nobleman, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, loved to gamble. In fact, he

enjoyed playing cards so much that he did not want to stop playing at dinner time. So

he told his servants to put pieces of cooked meat between two slices of bread. That

way, he could eat with one hand and play cards with the other. Other card players

began to copy the Earl. When they were hungry, they asked for “one like Sandwich’s”

or just “a Sandwich”. Soon everybody was using the Earl’s noble name for a simple

snack food.

Chocolate comes from the cacao tree, a small, evergreen tree that grows in Central

and South America. Old Indian stories say that about nine thousand years ago the

Toltec Indians of Mexico learned to grow cacao trees, roast the beans, and grind them

into a fine powder. They mixed the powder with red pepper and spices and made a

delicious chocolate drink-the world’s first hot coca! But only the king and noblemen

had the right to drink or eat chocolate—women never could. The first American

chocolate bars were made around 1910, but chocolate in bars really became popular

during World War II, when the army gave them to soldiers to carry in their backpacks.

After the war, chocolate companies started to sell them in candy stores and movies

theatres.

In 1519, Hernando Cortes, the Spanish explorer, visited Emperor Montezuma at

his palace. There, drinking from a gold cup, he tasted Montezuma’s favorite drink,

spiced chocolate. Cortes thought it was delicious! He shipped some cacao beans back

to the king and queen in Spain. Soon people all through Europe were drinking

chocolate every morning for breakfast.