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" when it rains, it pours ". When it rains, it pours ① describes how after there has been no rain for a long time, it suddenly rains a lot all at once.
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When it rains, it pours①describes how after there has been no rain for a long time, it suddenly rains a lot all at once. Example: "It hadn't rained for over two months. Now it has started raining and it has been raining for a week straight." Reply: "When it rains, it pours."②that once something happens after a long pause, it happens in large amounts. Example: "It looks like everyone in our department is sick again, and all at the same time." Reply: "When it rains, it pours."Example: "Sometimes we have no customers for two or three hours, then suddenly we get 20 people all at once." Reply: "It never rains, but it pours "= When it rains, it pours.
Unit Nine Chinese FOOD
Lesson Outline • 1. Cultural background information • 2. Brainstorming • 3. Chinese Cuisine • 4. Text explanation • 5. Exercises
Formal meals may take hours in some cultures or households, while in other’s people may eat hastily while traveling to their next destination on foot or by car. • Food is a basic necessity, so every culture has important norms and customs related to it. Most cultures have food preferences and food taboos, (e.g. Hindus don’t eat beef, Muslims don’t eat pork,…)
The biggest recent change in eating habits and food-related lifestyles is the advent of fast food. This permits many people to eat away from home, or to bring food home to eat without having no prepare it. The famous fast foods are, for example, McDonald’s hamburgers and KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken).
In China, foods are given particular meanings, so that in certain occasion a type of food, can only be eaten by some specific individuals, or must be eaten in specific occasion. Usually, an honored guest will be served a snapper's head or shell to hail him and show warmly welcome in some districts. Food Symbolism
Fish is always served to symbolize accumulations of prosperity and wealth with the New Year's Eve meals. There are other foods and snacks, which symbolize good wishes under special circumstances. These include duck, chicken and melon seeds.
Long noodle is the symbol of longevity in China, so that youngsters or seniors all will have a bowl of Long Life Noodle in the expectation of a healthy life.
In Central China, if a baby is born, his father will send Red Boiled Eggs to announce the news. An even number, usually six or eight Red Boiled Eggs with a black point dotted on one end will be delivered for a boy and an odd number, usually five or seven without black point for a girl.
What did people say about… food One should eat to live,not live to eat. Molière (1622 - 1673) French playwright We are what we eat. 吃什么东西，就长什么样子。 Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826) French politician, and writer. Well fed, well bred. 衣食足，而后知礼节。 He that eats least eat most. 食量少，能长寿。
Food idioms and vocabulary • Your eyes are bigger than your stomach. • -- You want to eat a lot, but you just can not. • I am so hungry I could eat a horse. • --I can eat a lot. • It’s as easy as pie.--it’s a piece of cake. • Greasy spoon • --small restaurant that serves good but cheap food • Ma and Pop restaurant --family restaurant • Take out --take the food away to eat elsewhere • Organic-- naturally-grown food, without any pesticide,etc. • Vegetarian--people who don’t eat any kind of meat • Vegan --people who don’t use anything from animals, • e.g. they won’t eat milk, eggs, meat, and won’t • wear fur coats and leather shoes
Brainstorming Directions: work with your partner to think of as many words /phrases/expressions as possible regarding the following topics. 1.verbs for ways of cooking: steam, boil, fry, roast, stew, bake, braise,… 蒸，煮，炸, 煎，烹， 烤，焖
2. expressions for types of food: hot pot, jiaozi/dumplings, rice, noodle, Chinese sandwich, staining tofu, rice with fried vegetables • 火锅，饺子，米线，肉夹馍，臭豆腐，米饭菜，… what are the English versions for these food you eat everyday?
Direction: work in groups to compete the following four category.the group that has the longest list can get the cake on the right. vegetables fruits beverages meat Bean sprout Celery Eggplant, Green pepper Lettuce Spinach Cauliflower Mushroom Onion Cherry Grape Kiwi Pineapple Coconut Mango Peach Lemon Plum Litchi Coca-cola Pepsi Orange juice Lemonade Soft drinks Spirits Mineral water Milk shake Pork Beef Lamb Chicken Mutton Sausage Turkey Steak Bacon ham
Chinese Food Quotations and Proverbs • "Talk doesn't cook rice." (Chinese Proverb) • "Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it." (Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher) • "To the ruler, the people are heaven; to the people, food is heaven." (ancient Chinese proverb)
An old saying indicates how highly the cuisine of the Guangzhou (Canton) area is regarded “To be born in Suzhou To live in Hangzhou To eat in Guangzhou And to die Liuzhou”
Cantonese woman believe that “to win a man’s heart, she must first learn how to cook a good pot of soup ”“Fashion is in Europe, living is in America, but eating is in China”
Famous saying by famous people • "My momma always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get." (Forrest Gump) • One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. (Virginia Woolf) • Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time , and sometimes you weep. (Car Sandburg)
Do you know how many kinds of famous cuisine in China? Question: • Which do you prefer? Why?
Chinese food recipes: • Chinese Beef and Lamb Recipes: • Chinese Egg Recipes: • Chinese Fish Recipes: • Chinese Noodle Recipes: • Chinese Pork Recipes: • Chinese Poultry Recipes: • Chinese Rice Recipes: • Chinese Seafood Recipes: • Chinese Tofu Recipes: • Chinese Vegetables Recipes:
Roasting: Boiling: Shallow frying: Stewing Red-cooking Stir Frying Deep frying Salting Pickling Steeping Drying Splashing Rinsing smoking Chinese Cooking Methods:
Expressions of being healthy: • stay in good shape, • have a clean bill of health, • a sound mind in a sound body, • keep fit and be healthy, • physically fit, • rosy-cheeked
Expressions of being ill: • be ill • feeble, • frail, • feeling out of sorts, • break out with, • on one’s back (卧床不起); • have/ run a temperature; • have a fever
Expressions of treatment: • take medicine; • have an operation; • therapeutic healing; • injection; • medical check-up, • medical test; • antibiotic treatment; • painkiller
Expressions of keeping fit: • do aerobics; • stay positive; • do yoga; • practise martial arts; • do soft boxing, • practise Qi-gong
Topic for discussion: • Do you prefer Chinese food or Western food? • What is your favorite food? What’s the name of the dish? • Do you think that different food can reflect different cultures? Why?
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is often depicted as a pyramid consisting of five levels: the four lower levels are grouped together as deficit needs; the top level is referred to as being needs. While deficit needs can be met, being needs are a continuing driving force. The basic idea of this hierarchy is, that higher needs come into focus only after all needs lower in the pyramid are met. Growth forces result in upward movement on the hierarchy, whereas regressive forces push proponent needs down in the hierarchy.
The implications of the theory are: • Students who are very hungry or in physical danger will have little psychological energy to put into learning. Therefore food is the primary source of all happiness, a conclusion consistent to Confucian theory. • Students who do not feel that they are loved and that they are capable are unlikely to have a strong motivation to achieve the higher-level growth objectives. • Students who are at ease and feel accepted and respected as individuals are more likely to become eager to learn for the sake of learning and willing to risk being creative and open to new ideas.
Questions: • What did you have for dinner last night? • Please make a list of three Chinese dishes and one Western dish. 3. Do you agree that cuisine represents the cultural characteristics of a people? Why or why not?
Some differences between Chinese and Western cuisine: • Food is an essential part of Chinese Etiquette, which is regarded as the center of Chinese culture. In many Western countries, food just is considered as a source of the nutrition or energy for survival. • Chinese cuisine and table manners represent their collectivism while Western table manners reflect their individualism. Chinese generally share one dish and Americans would have individual portions. • Some key words: delicious taste and smell; colorful shape/appearance, motley combination of colors, assortment of ingredients; aroma, smell, fragrance; reminiscent of home/family atmosphere, be entertained/ treated/ regaled with
北京烤鸭 roast Beijing duck 宫保鸡丁 spicy diced chicken with peanuts 古老肉 sweet and sour pork 荷叶蒸肉 steamed pork wrapped in lotus leaf 家常豆腐 home style bean curd 麻婆豆腐 Mabo tofu (Bean curd with mince and chili oil, Ma Po′s bean curd） 糖醋里脊 sweet and sour fillet 糖醋鲤鱼 fried carp with sweet and sour sauce 糖醋排骨 sweet and sour spareribs 鱼香肉丝 shredded pork with garlic sauce 走油扣肉 steamed fried pork 叫花鸡beggars chicken 龙井虾仁 shrimp with Longjin tea leaves 宋嫂鱼羹 sister song’s fish soup 馄饨 won ton 水饺 dumpling 馒头 steamed bun 包子 stuffed bun 月饼 moon cake Some English expressions for common Chinese dishes:
sandwich mashed potato salad hamburger French fries spaghetti意大利式细面条 macaroni 通心面 pizza steak pudding apple pie omelet煎蛋卷 Russian soup (borsch) Broth (肉汤) bacon bread Some common western food:
Activity • It is reported that the following four factors influence one’s health, namely, environment, habit, medical care, genetics. Directions: You are expected to argue that one of them is the most important factor. Draft your reasons and be ready to debate. • Group A: environment • Group B: habit • Group C: medical care • Group D: genetics
Comprehension work • Do you believe that food will determine one’s physical strength and ultimately one’s spiritual and moral fibre and well-being? • Do you agree that food to us Chinese means first happiness but not so to Westerners?
1. Few things in life are as positive as food, or are taken as intimately and completely by the individual. (Line 1, preface,p161) • Translation: • 生活中很少有什么东西像食物一样真切实在,或者说那么彻底地为个人接纳吸收.
2. One may attend to matters of business,… • A. join • B. give one’s care or attention to • C. go to • D. be present at • See more “attend”
attend (to): 1)give care or thought to 注意，用心，照顾 Eg. attend to one’s work; attend to what sb is saying Are you being attended to?= (Is anyone serving you?) You are not attending.= (You are not listening.) 2) attend on /upon: serve, look after,伺候，看护，照料 Eg. He had the honor of attending on the Prince.
3) go to; 参加 attend school ; attend church 4）be present at; 到场 5) accompany（正式）伴随 Eg. A method that is attended by some risk. Our plan were attended with great difficulties. attendance n. In ~ Now that the patient is out of danger, the doctor is no longer in attendance. [C,U] time of being present, at school (opposite: absence) Let’s practise!
