Chinese food

Unit Three

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Lead-in questionsWhen you dine out, which will be your first choice, Chinese food or western food?What do you think of Chinese cuisine?How many regional Chinese cuisine are there in China? What are they? (Shang dong/ Guan dong/ Sichuan/ Fujian/ Jiangsu/ Zhejiang/ Hunan/ Anhui) Can you describe your favorite dish?

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Global readingWhat does the author want to tell us in this article?How does the author illustrate his points?Why the author quotes the words of Kenneth Lo? (s) Why is Chinese food so important to Chinese? (s)Whats the authors attitude towards Chinese food? (s)What do you think of the development of Chinese food in west? (s)

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Part one: paragraph 1-4Paragraph oneWords and phrases positive be taken intimately attend to matters of in the matter of remain indifferent to physical strength spiritual and moral fibre and well-being

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Part one: paragraph 1-4Detailed understanding (s):Line 1: Few things in life areby the individual line 2: enter in one ear enter one's body (line 8),how to decide when we should add in after enter and when we should not ?line 4: Translate the sentence one may attend to may be altogether elsewhereLine 8: How can one remain indifferent to something which will determine ones physical strength and ultimately ones spiritual and moral fiber and well-being?Line10: What is the meaning of moral fibre

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Part one: paragraph 1-4Questions:Why does the author quote Kenneth Los speech as the first paragraph?What have you known from this part? Do you agree? Why or why not?Do you care what you eat everyday?What does the question at the end of this paragraph mean to you? How can food be related to t spiritual and moral fibre and well-being? (s)

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Part one: paragraph 1-4Paragraph twoWords and phrasesfind it difficult to answer Scattered among them is be indifferent to regardas have effect on contributeto

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Part one: paragraph 1-4Detailed understanding (s):Line 3: but scattered among them also is a number of people scattered/scattered line 5: How , they might ask, could eating sinner?

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Part one: paragraph 1-4Questions:Why might it be difficult for a westerner to answer the question?Can youanswerthequestionthefirst sentencereferred to? Whatdo mostWesterners thinkfoodis?According to this paragraph, whatis the difference betweenChineseand Westernersin attitude towards food?

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Part one: paragraph 1-4Paragraph threeWords and phrasesprofoundly derive from restaurateur quote no lessthan with regard to primal ecstasy to be thought about in advance to be smothered with lavishon

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Part one: paragraph 1-4Detailed understanding (s): line 25:("The London restaurateurimportance of food") What's the meaning ?line5 ---8: Food to my ..pleasure of eating. Line 5: Fu Tong said But nowadays more and more people are indifferent to the importance of eating. Young people like to eat fast food more than traditional food, food is quite simply a fuel. How to explain this problem?line 6: to be thought about in advanceto be

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Part one: paragraph 1-4Questions:According to this paragraph, whatis the totally different Chineseview about food?

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Part one: paragraph 1-4Paragraph fourWords and phrasesobserves that ask for be entertained socially incidentally come off proceed (with) honorable whole-hearted

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Part one: paragraph 1-4Detailed understanding (s): What is the meaning of to eat with a capital EDoes capital E have a literary quotation?

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Part one: paragraph 1-4Questions: What does a good position mean to Chinese and Westerners? What does it imply?

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Part two: paragraph 5-6Paragraph fiveWords and phrasesmarked difference in attitudes There is no doubt that come to regard assert with some justice ubiquitous exoticaspring up

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Part two: paragraph 5-6Detailed understanding (s):line1-3:Despite such a marked difference in attitudes towards what one customers, there is no doubt that

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Part two: paragraph 5-6Questions:Is Chinese cuisine accepted by the westerners at last?Why is the Chinese food the only trulyinternational food?What's your definition of the "truly international food"?

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Part two: paragraph 5-6Paragraph sixWords and phrasescome about work on such things as settle on famous/infamous inferior consider that seek their fortune in He adds that detect sensuality morethan part and parcel of desire for freedom from age-bound combinewith inherent quick to at the root of phenomenal the length and breadth of

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Part two: paragraph 5-6Detailed understanding (s):line4 with theircooking (meaning) / Why the author said chop suey joints is famous--or infamous? Whats his attitude to this chop suey joints?/ Why the chop suey joints can grow up Line 6 What does this kind of food stand for? According to Lo, why does this kind of food spread throughout the Western world?

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Part two: paragraph 5-6Detailed understanding (s):Line 9 that this could not have happened if the world had not been interested in what the Chinese had to cook and sell Why does the author use had to here, and does it have any special meaning?line 12 all these have become muchever been.Line 13 It is this increased sensuality and the desire for

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Part two: paragraph 5-6Questions:What are the reasons for the popularity of Chinese food?

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Part three: paragraph 7-9Paragraph sevenWords and phrasesThere is no doubt that fastidiously There are many possibilities to choose from

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Part three: paragraph 7-9Detailed understanding (s):Line 2: What does the fastidiously in the sentence mean?/ What is the meaning of the bringing together and initial cutting up and organizing of the materials, Line 5: There are varied methods of heating food, but why does the cooking account for only about 10%? While this 10% is not a simple matter?

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Part three: paragraph 7-9Questions:Why is traditional Chinese meal called a serious matter?

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Part three: paragraph 7-9Paragraph eightWords and phrasesmatch (be matched by) proceed/procession chore challengewith

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Part three: paragraph 7-9Detailed understanding (s):Line 1: What does the author mean and why does the author say "the enjoyment must therefore match it"?Line 3: What does this sentence imply about a Chinese meal?

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Part three: paragraph 7-9Questions:What is a proper Chinese meal like?

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Part three: paragraph 7-9Paragraph nineWords and phrasesalter (be altered to do) conform to be presented as (presentation) individual portions notbut a question of harmonious (harmony)

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Part three: paragraph 7-9Words and phrases be pleased linkwith elusive have a great appreciation of morality (moral) there is excellence in in reality be separate from contrast (in) an expression of assumption about (assume)

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Part three: paragraph 7-9Detailed understanding (s): line 6: if not ,then elusive concept Tao. missingand line 7: "an element that Tao what does this sentence mean? line 10-14 whats the meaning of this sentence? Line12: "they may be chopped up others whats the meaning of this sentence?

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Part three: paragraph 7-9Questions:What is offered in a Chinese meal while what is the Western ideas of eating?How is harmony embodies in Chinese cooking?How to understand Emilys view on Chinese food?

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