Unit 4 Food(饮食)--- A Food Tour of the United States
Task 1: Discussion
1.Do you know some information about regional feature of Chinese food and some specialties
in each region?
2.Do you know what the features of American food are? Do you know how many distinct
regions are there in U.S? What are they? (the Northeast; the South; the Mountain States; the Southwest states; and ?)
3.* Why American food is regional in character? (The U.S has a large area. Each place
has their unique geographical and climatic condition, so it produces unique food materials, such as the Northeast which borders sea, river and lake is rich in seafood and the Mountain states produce wild games. The similar rule can also be applied in self-cultivation, running a company and governing a country: to find out our own unique talent, our strength; the more loca/nationall, the more international.)
Reading- skill questions about the text:
1.What’s text-type? (narration, description, exposition, or
argumentation)
2.What’s th e topic and main idea of the text? (Reading skill: distinguish /obtain main idea
and discourse topic quickly and efficiently)
Topic: food
Main idea: American cooking is regional in character./ one feature of American cooking is variety.
3.Which is the topic sentence in Para.1, sentence 1 or sentence 2? Why?
4.Para2.: guess the meaning of the unfamiliar word “ hearty” in “Mixed in an iron pot
and …….”
(hearty: [attrib]large; eg. eat a hearty breakfast 丰盛的；have a hearty appetite 胃口很好) Task 2
1.Analyzing different types of reading comprehension questions:
Q1: testing skimming skills--- to obtain main idea quickly and efficiently
Reading strategy/solution: 文体判断为说明文，顾第一段为重要
Q2-8: testing scanning skills--- to find some key words or phrases; figures, percentages quickly
Homework: discussion
Why do many people want to go into business for themselves rather than work for an already existing organization? What’s the attraction? To be a manager or leader of a company, what are some of the qualities do you think he or she should have?
Reading skill testing:
1．He put his milk in a pouch made from a sheep stomach and set off across the desert. What is the meaning of the word “Pouch”? (C)
A. milk
B. desert
C. a container
D. a stomach
2．The movement of his camel, the desert heat, and the chemicals in the pouch made the milk separate into curd and whey. The thick part, or curd , was the first cheese. What is the meaning of the word “curd”?
A. the camel
B. the thick part of the milk
C. desert heat
D. milk。