1 Food from the Earth sl ° a } KG mn “ - a tf —% -— a ty < ba a - _ ae Heirloom carrots sold in a farmer's Dey rs1. Contrast general and current actions Re rue nT OE DlWs VOTH), Ve RACAL CSCC ROL aA AOL Vocabulary GQ Read part of a travel blog. This is my first visit to Turkey. It's a wondorful placo! Tho pooplo aro frlondly ‘and the meals are doliclous. Farmors hore grow many difforont crops, including many kinds of frult. They also grow a lot of wheat, and the broad in | Turkey is really good. Of course, the geography and climate In differant parts, of Turkey affect the kind of food farmers can produce In ach region, In Central Anatolia, the land is almost flat, and the weather Is usually warm and dry, It's ‘a.good place to grow crops and to raise animals such as cattlo and shoop. High up in the mountains of eastern Turkey, farmers also keep animals since they can't grow crops. Today I'm visiting the coast of the Meditorrangan Sea in ‘southern Turkey. The weather here is hot and humid, but the fish and seafood are excellent! Armenian church on Akdamar island, Turkey ©) write the words in blue next to the correct meaning, people who produce food ‘an area of a country or of the world plants grown for food very high parts of the land describes air with a lot of water in it land near the ocean describes land without mountains features of a place, such as rivers breakfast, lunch, and dinner 10, ___normal weather in a certain place Grammar: Simple present vs. present continuous tens Siocon | Present continuous tense | eat rice V'm eating rice | She cooks fish every | She's cooking fish a They bake bread They're baking bread ms ‘We have fruit for breakfast ‘We're having mangos for breakfast “Use the simple present tense to talk about habits and things tal are generally tru *Use the present continuous tense to talk about actions and events tha are happening now. 4 Unit4G3 Complete each sentence with the simple present or present continuous form of the verb in parentheses, 1. My mother and |___a meal together every afternoon. (cook) 2. In Mexico, most people a big meal in the afternoon. (eat) 3. Right now, my mother and | a dish called enchiladas. (make) 4, | really lke enchiladas. Sometimes |_____ them for breakfast! (have) 5. Now my mother __ the whole family to come to the table. (tell) 6, We___at least one meal together every day. (enjoy) Take turns with a partner doing the following. 1. Tell your partner what you usually eat for breakfast and lunch. (Use the simple present tense.) 2. Tell your partner three things people you know are doing right now. (Use the present continuous tense.) Conversation EDD Close your book and listen to the conversation. What do Julie's cousins usually eat? ‘What are you doing? I'm looking at pictures from my vacation. Oh, can | see? Where did you go? | visited my cousins in the south. It’s very flat there—no mountains or hills, and it’s pretty dry for most of the year. Tom: What about food? What do your cousins usually eat? Julie: Meals are very simple there. It's basically meat and potatoes and a lot of vegetables. But they grow wheat everywhere, so pasta is becoming popular. Tom: That sounds good. Julie: Yes, | really like the food there. & Enchiladas with rice ABQ Practice the conversation with a partner. Switch roles and practice it again. : ? Jusually wear glasses, GB How is the geography and food in your part of the world similar to or bin tokiy Pavaearing different from the place Julie describes? Work in small groups and share iran your answers to the question. CRATER Contrast generat and current actions | ‘andl usally carry may Complete this sentence three times. Two of the sentences should be true, but one should be untrue: / usually, but today I'm ___. Peone 2 ca ou ‘ today I'mletting my Read your sentences to your partner in any order. Your partner will guess sister use my phone. which sentence is false. Food from the Earth 51. What are important foods that everyone in your country eats? 2, Where in the world do farmers grow rice? 3. Why do they grow it there? (CAEDB Listen to the interview. Circle the correct letter. 1. Who is the interviewer talking to? a. a restaurant owner b. arice farmer c. a news reporter 2. What is happening in the rice paddy today? People are... . a. planting rice plants. b. planting seeds. —_—_e. letting water into | A People working ina the paddy, rice paddy. pay. 3. What kind of climate does rice need? Ee a, hotand dry b. warm and wet ¢. cool and humid Farmers raise crops or (GREDB) Listen again and answer the questions. ‘grow crops. —___——_—_ 1. Why doesn't the rice farmer plant seeds like other farmers? 2. How is the rainfall this year? 3, What happens to the water in the rice paddy after the rice plants grow? 4. What happens to the rice plants after they're dry? Communication (QED Talk with a partner about two different regions in your country. Describe the land, the climate, and the food. Do you think farmers and scientists need to find ways to increase food production? Why? Gea CABS cet together with another pair of students. Describe your two region have the other students guess the names of the regions. 6 Unit1ee rakes the sand to eet eeePronunciation: Linking words together ‘When a word ends ina consonant sound, and the next word starts with a vowel sound, the words are linked together. We cut the rice plants and clean them. We grow alot of rice. CQEDY) Listen to the sentences. Notice the pronunciation of the linked words. Listen again and repeat the sentences. 1. usually like a tomato with breakfast. 2. Staple foods are the most important foods. 3. We're gating dinner now. 4. Paul and | don't like fish very much. 5. Farmers work on weekends and holidays. 6. Rain falls in all regions of the world Underline the sounds that link together. Then read the sentences toa partner. 4. Hal enjoys pizza. 2. Wheat bread is very popular. 3. Corn grows well in Mexico. 4, Aham and cheese sandwich is my favorite lunch. 5, My friend is eating sushi. 6. Dry grasslands are good places to raise animals. GALWAY Describe geography, climate, and food Tella partner about your ideal place. It can be a real or imagined place. Describe the geography and climate there as well as the food people usually eat. Food from the Earth 7SCribe Favorite Dishes Language Expansion: Staple food crops EQ What do you know about staple food crops? Circle T for true or F for false, 1. Potatoes are originally from South America. T . India is one of the world’s largest producers of wheat. T }. Lentils are a kind of legume. T . Soy sauce is made from soybeans. T . Yucca grows in (under) the ground. T 1. China is the world’s largest consumer of rice. T 7am an Discuss the questions with a partner. |. In what parts of the world do people eat these staple foods? ». What other staple foods do you know about? }. What staple foods do you usually eat? People eataa lot of soybeans in Asian countries. Right, or they eat foods made from soybeans, like tofu and miso. Ei A Grammar: Simple past tense With the simple past, we A OnE aC often use: We learned how to make pizza yesterday. yesterday/the day before Too much rain fell last November. yesterday | ate sushi for the first time in 2006. dayshveeks/years/months ago “Some vers are regular inthe simple past | “Some verbs are iegular in the simple past last week/monthvyear tense. They have an -ed ending. tense. They have many different forms. tearn-—leamed want — wanted see-saw take Took artive—arrived need ~needed eat - ate fall — fell play — played help — helped drink—drank —try—tried ask—asked —_show—showed go-went meet —met travel - traveled send — sent be-was/were give gave White sentences about your own life in a notebook. Use the simple past and words from the grammar chart, for example: | ate sushi at a party fast month, and | liked it! 8 UnitiQ Complete the conversation. Use the simple past tense of the verbs in parentheses, Mary: — Tell me about yourself, Pedro. Pedro: Well, | love to travel. Last year |__________ (travel) to Greeco, Mary: Wow! You____ (go) to Greece? Pedro: Yes, and|_____ (meet) my friend Vasilys and his family there, They _______ (show) me around Athens and (introduce) me to many new foods. Mary: — That sounds like fun. Pedro: Itwas,!______(eat) seafood and lamb, and | (try) a dish made from rice and grape leaves, It ___ (be) delicious! © Complete these sentences about the past. Use your own information. EZ Yesterday, | ate When wo say something Is madi from othar things, wa're On the first day of this class, | learned —___ talking about ils Ingredients, Last week, | went Last month, In 2012, Ten years ago, Pr Preys Conversation EQEDB Close your book and listen to the conversation. What is Albert eating? What is it made from? Albert: You should try this! My aunt made it. Mary: Mmmm... . Delicious! What is it? Albert: It's called couscous. It's made from wheat. Mary: And what's this on top of the couscous? Albert: Mostly vegetables and some kind of sauce. Mary: How did your aunt learn to cook it? ‘Albert: Her great-uncle married a woman from North Africa. That's where ‘couscous is from. They always ate it on special occasions. Mary: — What an interesting family history! Albert: Yeah, and a great family recipe. & North African couscous a Practice the conversation. Switch roles and practice it again. Tell your partner about some foods you like that come from other parts of the world [really like Indian biryani. W’sa rice dish GEAR Describe tavorite dishes with vegetables and Look at the staple foods on page 8. Tell your partner about dishes you like to eat that are made with these staple foods. When was the last time you ate each dish? spices. |ateit last month at a restaurant. Food from the Earth 9‘Over time, pizza began to look more like the food we know today. When European explorers arrived in the Americas, they saw Native Amer When they brought tomatoes back to Europe, however, people there wouldn't eat them. They thought eating tomatoes could make them ill, Slowly, however, Europeans discovered that tomatoes were delicious and safe to eat. Cooks in Naples, an Italian, city, began putting tomatoes on their flat bread. The world’s first true pizza shop opened in Naples in 1830. People there ate pizza for lunch and dinner. They even ate it for breakfast! -an people eating tomatoes. In the late 1800s, many Italians moved to the United States. They brought pizza with them. The first American pizzeria, or pizza restaurant, was Lombardi’s in New York City. It opened its doors in 1905. Now pizza is one of the three most popular foods in the USA, but Americans are not the only pizza lovers. People now eat around five billion pizzas a year, and everyone has their favorite kind. Brazilians love green peas on their pizza. Russians like fish and onions. People in India use lamb and tofu. The Japanese think seafood on pizza is good, Some pizzas truly sound strange, yet all of them share two things. Each begins with bread. And each isa slice of history. Food from the Earth 11D)) GOAL 4: Describe a Favorite Food es ZA eR eu Uy came iu icy OE Writing 6) Read the email and write a response. Be sure to answer all the questions. From: Ronald Ferguson ‘Subject: Help! My students have some questions for you. Hi there, How is everything there? I hope you're doing well, and | hope you can answer some questions from my students. Our class vill visit your country next month, and the students are asking me about the food. Here are some of their questions: What do people usually eat for breakfast there? Is there a staple food that peop! day? Do you have pizza and hamburger restaurants? What are some gocd things ta What are some traditional dishes we can try? dinner? Thank you very much! | look forward to our visit next month, Maybe you can join us for a goad meal. Your friend, Ronald Communication CABQ Share your e-mail with a partner. Did your partner answer all of Ror Ferguson's questions? Did you and your partner ans questions differently? CEAEAIA| Descrite a tavorite tood Discuss the questions with a partner. 1. What foods from your country are now popular in other places? 2. Why do you think people like these foods? 12. Unit1EM Before You Watch NEB Discuss the following questions with a partner. Use the adjectives in the box. 4. What are some foods that have a very strong smell? 2, After you prepare food with a strong smell in your home, how can you get rid of the odor? While You Watch CAD) watch the video Forbidden Fruit. Match the people to the actions. 1. Hotel staff 2, Hotel guests. 3. Hotel cleaning staff a. ‘ry to bring durian fruit into hotel rooms. b. use a special machine in smelly hotel rooms. . watch for people bringing in durian fruit. ID watch the video again and write the correct answer. 1. How old are durian trees when they begin to produce fruit? 2. How many American dollars can one durian fruit cost? 3. Where do hotel owners want people to eat durian fruit? After You Watch / Communication CABD write a guide for tourists visiting your country. Describe three foods that are popular in your culture, but that people from other cultures might find disgusting or intolerable. Give reasons why tourists should try those foods. (CABS You are a group of hotel owners in Malaysian Borneo. Brainstorm a list of ways to prevent people from bringing durian fruit into their hotel rooms. Food from the Earth 13