Section B
Period 1 (1a-2c)
Unit 10
I’d like some noodles.
tomatoes
cabbage
What would you like?
What kind of vegetables / meat would you like?
I’d like some …
Look and learn
beef
mutton
What kind of noodles would I like?
I’d like tomato noodles.
beef and tomato noodles.
chicken and cabbage noodles.
mutton and potato noodles.
Guessing game
a small
a medium
a large
What size bowl of noodles would I like?
bowl of noodles
bowl of noodles
bowl of noodles
Guessing game
I’d like a small bowl of noodles because I’m not very hungry.
Do you know the food and drinks below?
dumplings
meat
onions
soup
fish
green tea
pancakes
porridge
orange juice
1a Match the words with the pictures.
____ meat 4. ____ green tea 7. ____ onions
2. ____ dumplings 5. ____ orange juice 8. ____ fish
3. ____ porridge 6. _____ soup 9. ____ pancakes
b
g
a
h
c
e
i
d
f
1b Circle the things you like in 1a. Put an × next to the things you don’t like. Then tell your partner what you like and don’t like.
A: What do you like ?
B: I like …, … and … /
I don’t like …, …or….
green tea
dumplings
soup
fish
rice
porridge
orange juice
Ask and answer
pancakes
meat
I like dumplings, fish and orange juice.
I don’t like onions, green tea or porridge.
1c Listen and complete the food order form.
15 North Street
398-2845
chicken cabbage
carrot
tomato soup
green tea two
orange
1d Listen again. Check your answers in 1c.
Task
Come on! Show yourself! (about all kinds of food)
You are the owner of a restaurant. Your partner wants to order some food from you. (dumplings, rice, drinks, etc.)
2a What do you do or eat on your birthday?
2b Read the article about food traditions and complete the chart.
birthday cake
Blowing out candles on a cake makes a wish come true. It is lucky to find a candy in a cake.
long noodles, eggs
Long noodles mean long life. Eggs mean life and good luck.
2c Read the article again and answer the questions.
How can a person make his or her birthday wish come true?
What do people in the UK sometimes put in a birthday cake?
Why do people never cut up birthday noodles in China?
Why do people eat special foods on their birthday?
How can a person make his or her birthday wish come true?
What do people in the UK sometimes put in a birthday cake?
He or she can blow out all of the birthday candles in one blow.
They put a candy in a birthday cake.
3. Why do people never cut up birthday noodles in China?
4. Why do people eat special foods on their birthday?
Because long noodles mean long life.
They eat special foods for good luck.
Traditional birthday foods / traditions from around the world
• Australia - Birthdays are often celebrated by sharing a decorated birthday cake with lit candles, which the person celebrating the birthday blows out while making a wish.
• Ghana - The child’s birthday breakfast is a fried patty made from mashed sweet potato and eggs. Traditional birthday party fare includes a dish made from fried plantain (a kind of banana).
• Western Russia - The birthday boy or girl is given a fruit pie instead of a cake.
• Korea - For their first birthday, the child is dressed and sat before a range of objects including fruit, rice, calligraphy brushes and money. Whichever item the child picks up predicts their future; for example, picking up the rice indicates material wealth. After this ceremony, the guests eat rice cakes.
• Brazil - Birthday children receive candies shaped like fruits and vegetables. A pull on the earlobe is good luck for the coming year.
• Japan - The birthday boy or girl is given an entirely new set of clothes.
• Germany - Candles are lit in the morning and burn all the way to the evening.
• Mexico - Piñatas are filled with goodies and cracked open by the birthday girl or boy.
• India - Colorful clothes and chocolate.
Language points
1. If he or she blows out all the candles in one go, the wish will come true.
如果他（她）一口气把蜡烛全部吹灭的话，许的愿望便会成真。
1) in one go 相当于汉语中的“同一次”，“一次性地”，其中的介词还可用at, 即 at on go。例如：
You can’t do the work all in one go.
你不可能一次把工作都干完。
2) come true 表示愿望，梦想等的“实现”或“成为现实”。例如：
Make a wish, and it can really come true.
许个愿，它一定会实现的。
Keep on working and your dream will come true.
不断干下去， 你的梦想会实现的。
2. All of these birthday foods may be different, but …
（虽然）所有这些生日食品可能会有所不同，但是……
1) food 表示“食物”时，一般为不可数名词。例如：
baby food 婴儿食品；
cat food 猫粮
当food 用作可数名词时，表示食品的种类。 此处 birthday foods 表示“各种各样的生日食品。”例如：
Doctors always say eating fatty foods is an unhealthy habit.
大夫们总是会说吃各种油腻食品是一个不健康的习惯。
2) 情态动词 may 表示“可能；也许”。 例如：
He may come, or he may not.
他或许来， 或许不来。
I may be late, so don’t wait for me.
我可能会迟到，所以别等我。
单项填空

--Is John coming by train?
--He should, but he ______ not. He likes driving his car.
A. must B. can C. need D. may
D