Module 3 Foreign Food
Part One Teaching Design
Period 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)
It takes the writer longer to accept some kinds of foods.
Passage 2
Part 1(Para.1)
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 1998.This 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 peo
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