Transcript 经贸知识英语

Unit 6
Learning Objectives
1. To learn about different cultures on table manners.
2. To discuss the kinds of food that people need for
a balanced diet
3. To talk about the advantages and disadvantages
of fast food.
I. Warming Up:
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Tell your classmates the Chinese
table manners.
2.Tell your classmates your eating
habits.
The main difference between Chinese and western eating
habits is that unlike the Western, where everyone has
their own plate of food, in China the dishes are placed
on the table and everybody shares. If you are being
treated by a Chinese host, just be prepared for a ton of
food. Chinese are very proud of their culture of cuisine
（菜系） and will do their best to show their
hospitality(好客）.
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sometimes the Chinese host use their
chopsticks to put food in your bowl or plate. This
is a sign of politeness. The appropriate thing to
do would be to eat the whatever-it-is and say
how yummy（好吃） it is. If you feel
uncomfortable with this, you can just say a polite
“thank you”and leave the food there .
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stick your chopsticks upright in the rice bowl.
Instead, lay them on your dish. The reason for this
is that when somebody dies, the shrine（神龛） to
them contains a bowl of sand or rice with two sticks
of incense（烧香） stuck upright in it. So if you
stick your chopsticks in the rice bowl, it looks like this
shrine and is equivalent to（相当于） wishing
death upon a person at the table!
Make sure the spout（壶嘴） of the teapot is not
facing anyone. It is impolite to set the teapot down where
the spout is facing towards somebody. The spout should
always be directed to where nobody is sitting, usually
just outward from the table.
 Don‘t tap on your bowl with your chopsticks. Beggars
（乞丐） tap on their bowls, so this is not polite.
Also, when the food is coming too slow in a restaurant,
people will tap their bowls. If you are at someone's home,
it is like insulting the cook.
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II Reading and Recitation
Ask some students to read the passage.
Help to correct their pronunciation mistakes,
and emphasize the following words and
phrases.
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Food is the sky for the
ordinary people.(民以食为
天）
Birds die for food.（鸟为
食亡）
Vegetarians（素食者）
meat eaters（肉食者）
light food （清淡）
heavy food （油腻）
light-eater （食量小）
heavy-eater（食量大）
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street stalls（摊位）
street vender（小贩）
soft drinks（软饮料）
alcoholic drinks（酒精饮
料）
Recipes（食谱）
Cuisine (菜系)
Liquor (白酒）
Wine （葡萄酒）
III
Dialogues
Practice the dialogues with your partner several times to
learn the useful expressions:
 Let me play the host today.
 Let’s go Dutch.
 It was fabulous.
 Cheers!
 To your health!
IV
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Games
Fruit and vegetables contain a lot of vitamins, which
are good for our health. Divide the class into two
groups. One group choose “Fruit” and the other
“vegetables”. Give as many words as possible that
belong to each category in 5 minutes. The group which
lists out more wins.
Fruit:
Vegetables:
 Apple pear fig（无花果）
 Cabbage carrot eggplant（茄
peach grape pineapple
子） bean onion garlic（蒜）
kiwifruit (猕猴桃） apricot
pepper spinach （菠菜）lettuce
（杏） banana plum（李） (生菜） cucumber（黄瓜）
mango orange mandarin（柑
tomato potato turnip（萝卜）
橘）tangerine(橘子）date
celery（芹菜） mushroom
（枣 ） watermelon lemon
cauliflower（花菜） beancoconut cherry(樱桃）
sprout（豆芽） pumpkin
grapefruit（西柚）
（南瓜） leek（韭菜）
strawberry litchi longan
radish（小萝卜） soybean
（黄豆） ginger （姜）
sugarcane（甘蔗）
persimmon（柿子） loquat
bitter-gourd（苦瓜） green
（枇杷）olive papaya(木
onion（葱） lotus-root（莲
藕）
瓜）
Par V
Role Play
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Inviting friends to dinner at home.
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(Directions: Divide the class into groups of 4 or 5
students each. Play the parts of the host/hostess and
the guests with the help of the following questions in
turn.)
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What will a host/hostess say when he/she meets
his/her guests at the door.
 2 What will a host/hostess say at the dinner table?
 3 What will a guest say at the dinner table?
 4 What will a guest say before he/she leaves?
Part VI
Discussions
Requirements: Divide the class into groups. Try to
discuss one of the questions in your group and give a
report for your discussion.
1.What kind of food do you like most? Why?
2.Where do you prefer to eat, at home or in a restaurant?
Why?
3. What problems might food and drinks bring to people?
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Useful sentences:
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A high-protein, lowcarbohydrate(高蛋白、低碳
水化合物） diet
To one’s taste
To be delicious and nutritious
To have strong and hot taste
To be light and clear
To be good in color, flavor and
taste at the same time
To go on a diet
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To make yourself at home
To take your time and enjoy it
To eat it hot
To be a light eater
To have a good appetite for
How would you like your steak?
Rare, medium or well-done?
Part VII A balanced diet
Scientists have learnt a great deal about the kinds of food
people need. They say that there are several kinds of food
that people should eat every day. What are these classes
of food? They are:
A green vegetables of all kinds, such as string beans, peas,
lettuces, and cabbages.
B fruits, such as apples, peaches and bananas.
C other vegetables, such as beets, onions, carrots, tomatoes.
D meat of all kinds, fish and eggs.
E milk and food made from milk, such as butter, cheese and
ice-cream.
F bread, cereal（麦片）, rice.
People in different countries and different areas of the
world eat different kinds of things. Scientists say that
none of these differences are really important. It doesn’t
matter whether food is eaten raw or cooked , canned or
frozen. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at four
o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night . The
important thing, they say, is that every day a person
should eat something from each of these kinds of food.
Part VIII
 Divide
Debate
the whole class into two groups and
debate whether you prefer fast food to
home-made food or other foods.
I like fast food because:
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Since the service is fast, it can meet the needs of the fast pace of
modern life.
It is very convenient, I can go out eating without washing dishes,
I can even call the restaurant to deliver the food.
It’s more delicious than the food in students’ dining-room.
We can have a big variety of food to choose from and we can find
almost any popular dishes in the fast food restaurants.
It is almost as cheap as the food in a dining-room.
My mother doesn’t have to be busy or tired preparing every meal at
home.
It is a fashion for people to eat in many chain restaurants such as
McDonald’s.
I don’t like fast food because:
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It is less nutritious than home-made food.
It is a waste of resources since fast food is mostly packed into
cardboard and plastic containers which will cause pollution.
The taste is almost the same in every similar fast food restaurants.
It is more expensive than many other snacks.
It makes some youngsters dislike their parents’ cooking. Since
children tend to eat out at fast-food restaurants more frequently,
the families spend much more money on this.
Some popular fast foods, eg, fried chicken, hamburgers, contain
large amount of calorie and fat. It has a negative effect on
youngsters’ health.
Homework:
Listen to the drills and dialogues as much as possible.
 Make a report on how to cook one of the Chinese
dishes.
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