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UNIT N.-3Reading Activities

There is There are

TOPIC: Ingredients foods of Ecuador´s coast

Traditional foods of Ecuador's costa or coast region

Typical dishes in the costa make use of local ingredients of Ecuador´s costa these are: plantain (savoury banana), yucca (a type of yam), coconut and rice.  There are also a wide variety of subtropical and tropical fruits (papaya, pineapple, starfruit and many more) though these do not often appear on restaurant menus other than as fresh juices.

Plantain is a staple in the costa and appears in many forms, most of them very enjoyable. Patacones are thick chunks of plantain, fried, bashed with a stone, fried again and served with salt (and a cold beer, if you can arrange it.

Chifles are thin deep-fried slices of plantain, rather like crisps. Maduro con queso is a whole, barbequed ripe plantain split open and filled with cheese, at its delicious best from the stall on the corner at the Zapotal t-junction. Unripe or green plantains are usually just denoted to as Verde (green), which can be confusing. Bolones de Verde are balls of unripe plantain mashed with cheese - perhaps the best that can be said is that they fill you up

ACTIVITIES

This reading has three activities, understand and answer the

questions.

Read the article and underline the ingredients of Ecuador´s coast

BOLONES

STARFRUIT

BANANA

PLANTAIN

CHIFLE

CHEESE

APPLE

YUCCA

PEAR

PAPAYA

POTATOES

Read and complete the sentences with there is / there are

a.- In the Ecuador´s costa

c.- In the coast region

d.- delicious coconut juice in the coast region

b. also a wide variety of subtropical and tropical fruits.

a lot of typical food

Pineapples, bananas, yuccas.

Read the ingredients foods of Ecuador's coast. Check ( X) True or False for each statement.

statement True

False

1.- There are also a wide variety of subtropical and tropicalFruits papaya, pineapple, starfruit.2.-There is delicious coconut juice in the coast region.3.-In the Ecuador´s costa there are some oranges.4.- In the Ecuador´s costa there is a lot of typical food.

5.-  Patacones are thick chunks of plantain, fried, bashed with a stone fried again and served with salt and a cold beer.