AN INTEGRATED ENGLISH COURSE

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AN INTEGRATED ENGLISH COURSE

• Gao Yufen
• English Department R-406Nancy5815_at_sina.com847244
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Unit 3

• Text 1 Chinese Food

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Teaching Points

• I. Pre-reading discussion and presentation
• II. Introduction
• III. Text Analysis
• IV. Questions
• V. Structural analysis and Rhetorical features
• VI. Discussion about Text II

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I. Pre-reading discussion

• 1. What kind of food do you like best, why?
• 2. What are the characteristics of Chinese
  cuisine?

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Presentation from students
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Presentation from students
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II. Introduction

• About the text
• The difference between Chinese food and western
  food
• The cultural connotation of food in different
  countries

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III. Text Analysis

• Paragraphs 1-4
• With a quotation to begin his essay, the writer
  goes on to discuss the contrast between the
  Chinese attitude and the Western attitude toward
  food.

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Language work

• 1. attend to to take care of, look after, deal
  with
• His company helps employees attend to their
  elderly relatives.
• His self-blame gave her some hope that he would
  attend to her opinion.
• 2. indifferent without interest or concern
• She was utterly indifferent to his irritation.
• He is indifferent to praise or blame, about
  success or failure.

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• 3. profoundly extremely
• Having strangers criticize us is
  profoundly offensive to us.
• He could hardly calm down after that
  profoundly disturbing experience.
• 4. derive from to come from a source or origin
• The word "deduct" derives from Latin.
• The story derives from a very common folktale.

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• 5. ecstasy sudden intense feeling or excitement
• He is in an ecstasy of joy.
• They went into ecstasies over the view.
• 6. smother to cover closely or thickly
• The cook smothered a steak with mushrooms.
• The pasta was smothered with a creamy sauce.

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Paragraphs 5-6

• In this part, the writer explains how Chinese
  food has become an international food.

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Language work

• 7. marked striking conspicuous
• John worked really hard. He showed marked
  improvements in all the tests.
• There is a marked increase in economy.
• 8. assert to declare strongly
• He asserted boldly that he was innocent of the
  crime.
• It is nonsense to assert that smoking does not
  affect people's health.
• 9. ubiquitous seeming to be everywhere
• His ubiquitous influence was felt by the whole
  family.
• Earth's ubiquitous atmosphere is essential for
  life.
• 10. bedeck to decorate to hang ornaments or
  decorations on
• He led us into a room bedecked with tinsel.
• The hall was bedecked with flowers.

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• 11. infamous deserving of or causing an evil
  reputation
• He is infamous for saying that cheating is the
  way the game is played.
• The medical council disqualified him for infamous
  misconduct.
• 12. crucial of highest, greatest, or most
  critical importance
• The behavior of the oceans is a crucial aspect of
  global warming.
• Water is crucial to our survival.
• 13. part and parcel an essential part that must
  not be ignored
• Unemployment is part and parcel of the bigger
  problema sagging economy
• It's best to accept that some inconveniences are
  part and parcel of travel.

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• 14. average typical, common, ordinary
• People of average intelligence can read novels
  appreciatively.
• The goods are of average quality.
• 15. inherent existing as a natural and
  permanent quality
• The drug has certain inherent side effects.
• Dance is an inherent part of the culture.
• 16. phenomenal very remarkable, amazing
  
• He enjoyed phenomenal success as a race car
  driver.
• She has a phenomenal memory.

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Paragraphs 7-9 Analysis

• The writer discusses the nature of Chinese food
  in this part.

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Language work

• 17. fastidiously with excessive care or
  delicacy
• She stared fastidiously at the dirty table.
• He fastidiously copied every word of his notes
  onto clean paper.
• 18. chore a hard or unpleasant task a small
  job that someone has to do regularly
• It is a real chore to stand in line to buy
  food every day.
• As a child, one of my chores was to feed the
  animals.
• 19. contrive to make or invent something in a
  skillful way
• In 1862, a technique was contrived to take
  a series of photographs showing stages of
  movement.
• He contrived a swing from hanging vines.

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• 20. alter to change
• Her schedule has altered drastically.
• The coat was too long, so I took it back to the
  store to have it altered.
• 21. conform to to act in accordance with to
  comply with
• Her clothes are conformed to fashion.
• Though educated, we still conform to some
  old customs.
• 22. palate the sense of taste
• We'll have a dinner to delight the
  palate.
• I let my palate dictate what I eat.

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• 23. elusive hard to express or define
• He tried to recall the elusive thought
  he had had months before.
• The meaning of the poem was somewhat
  elusive.
• 24. piquant having a pleasantly sharp or strong
  taste
• With that piquant tomato sauce, the
  dish tastes much better.
• We ordered a crisp mixed salad with an
  unusually piquant dressing

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IV. Questions

• 1. In the life of an individual, how, according
  to Kenneth Lo, is food different from music, a
  lecture or conversation, or matters of business?
• 2. Why, according to the writer, do the
  Westerners find it difficult to answer Lo's
  questions?
• 3. What is the Chinese attitude toward food?
• 4. What does "to eat with a capital E" mean?

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• 5. What has helped the spread of Chinese food to
  the rest of the world?
• 6. How does the writer explain that the
  traditional high-quality Chinese meal is a
  serious matter?
• 7. Why is a Chinese meal compared to a religious
  ceremony?

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V. Structural analysis

• The three parts of the text
• Part I (paragraph 1-2)
• Part II (paragraph 3-6)
• Part III (paragraph 7)
• Concluding statement All this being said, I
  believe that the key to realizing the potential
  of the Internet is in achieving balance in our
  lives.

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Rhetorical features

• Antonyms the use of all these pairs of antonyms
  helps to reinforce the seeming self-contradiction
  that the Internet can lead to globalization on
  the one hand and cause the alienation of the user
  from the people around him on the other.

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VI. Discussion about Text II

• Say No to Western Fast Food