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Spaghetti came to us from Italy.
Came from Italy.
Came from Italy.
Pizza came to us from Italy.
And spaghetti too.
Activity 2a Work in pairs. Look and match the words and pictures. 5 min
Objectives: to introduce the topic and prepare for reading; to pronounce
the new words correctly and establish their meaning
STEP 1: Introduce the new words. Ask the pupils which words they
recognise. Ask why they could recognise some of the new words.
Elicit
that these words came from different countries and are popular not only
in Uzbekistan but in the whole world.
STEP 2: The pupils match the words and pictures.
Answer key: 1) h; 2) e; 3) d; 4) f; 5) c; 6) b; 7) g; 8) i; 9) a
Culture note: All the food represented here is international. It
means that ingredients come from many places. But some food has
history of origination.
The history of
pizza begins, when various ancient cultures produced
flatbreads with toppings. The flat bread known to the Romans was
focaccia, to which toppings were then added.
Modern
pizza developed
in Naples in the late 18th century.
The term “burger” is associated with many different types of
sandwiches, similar to a
hamburger, but made of different meats
such as kangaroo, turkey, fish or veggie burgers. Adding cheese to
hamburgers became popular in the 1920s. Lionel
Sternberger is reputed
to have introduced the
cheeseburger in 1926 at the age of 16 when he
was working at his father’s sandwich shop in California.
As with most foods which are popular and which have spread
throughout the world the history of
pasta has been romanticized
through legend and myth. A story about Marco
Polo bringing pasta back
to Italy on his return from China was given credence for many years.
Bread was central to the formation of early human societies. In the
western half of Asia, wheat was domesticated and then spread north
and west, to Europe and North Africa.
Chocolate is made from the cocoa beans. The chocolate drink
originally came to Europe from Mexico. It had been brought by Hernan
Cortes, a Spanish soldier in the first half of the 16th century.
A
hot dog is also known as a
frankfurter.
This type of sausage
was culturally imported from Frankfurt city in Germany to the United
States, where it became very popular. The hot dog became closely
associated with baseball and American culture.
Fish and Chips is a kind of food that originally came from the
United Kingdom. It is a popular kind of fast food in some parts of the
world. They are common in British cities.
The first Fish and Chips
were found in London in the 19th century.
Coffee plants grew in Africa in the 10th century.