人教版 (2019)选择性必修 第二册Unit 3 Food and Culture教学设计

Unit 3 Food and Culture

 Period1 Reading and thinking 教学设计

The discourse explores the link between food and culture from a foreign’s perspective and  it records some authentic Chinese food and illustrates the cultural meaning, gerography features and historic tradition that the food reflects. It is aimed to lead students to understand and think about the connection between food and culture. While teaching, the teacher should instruct students to find out the writing order and the writer’s experieces and feelings towards Chinese food and culture.

1.Guide the students to read the text, sort out the information and dig out the topic.

2.Understand the cultural connotation, regional characteristics and historical tradition of Chinese cuisine

3.Understand and explore the relationship between food and people's personality

4.Guide the students to use the cohesive words in the text

5.Lead students to accurately grasp the real meaning of the information and improve the overall understanding ability by understanding the implied meaning behind the text.

1.  Enable the Ss to understand the structure and the writing style of the passage well.

2. Lead the Ss to understand and think further about the connection between food and geography and local character traits.

Step1:  Prediction before reading.

Before you read, look at the title, and the picture. What do you think this article is about?

keys:

It is about various culture and cuisine about a place or some countries.

Step2: Read the text and find out the answers to the following questions.

1.What does the dish General Tso’s chicken tell about Americans?

It tells people that Americans love bold, simple flavors and are not afraid to try new foods.

2.What impressed the writer most while in Beijing?

The friendship offered by people

3.What did the writer find is important to people in China while he was in Shandong?

family

4.Why did people in Xinjiang enjoy cooking over an open fire?

They traditionally wandered the open range on horses

5.What does elegant dim sum mean?

Small servings of food in bamboo steamers

6.What does the food local people consume tell the writer?

It tells us what people grow in their region and what kinds of lives they lead, what they like or dislike.

Step 3: Use the information from the text to take notes.

Place             Kind of Chinese food        Typical dish    

America  

Beijing  

Shandong  

Northwest China  

South China  

Central China  

Step 4: Read the text again and Match the causes to the effects.

Cause

1.The flavor 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.

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.

keys：1. C 2. A 3.B

Learning tip

Step 5: Understanding its main idea and structures

Read and find out the main idea of each paragraph.

keys:

Para1: you are what you eat.

Para2: Chinese food in America has changed to suit American flavor.

Para3: my experience of authentic Chinese food in Beijing.

Para4: what I learn about in Chinese food culture in Shandong Province.

Para5: cuisine in Xinjiang

Para6: cuisine in South China

Para7: what can various kinds of food tell us.

Step 6: Deeper thinking

Do you think “Culture and cuisine go hand in hand? Give your reasons.

Personally, culture and cuisine go hand in hand. Reasons are as follows:

Cuisine in certain place can tell us what the local people like to eat, grow or dislike.

The food flavors they eat the food features they cook also well demonstrate the personality, characters or culture of the local people.