Birthday Food Around the World What would people

Birthday Food Around the World What would people like to eat on their birthday? The answer would be different in different countries.

There’re 9 candles and I’m nine years old. In many countries, people have birthday cakes with candles. The number of the candles is the person’s age.

The birthday person must make a wish and blow out the candles. If he or she blows out all the candles in one go, the wish will come true.

In the UK, people sometimes put a candy in a birthday cake. The child with the candy is lucky. In China, it is getting popular to have cake on your birthday.

But many people still eat very long noodles for their birthday. They never cut up the noodles because the long noodles are a symbol of long life. In some places, Chinese people also eat eggs on their birthday. They are a symbol of life and good luck.

Fill in the blanks in the ad with 3 a the words in the box. order bowl kinds strawberry specials The Ice-cream and Pancake House Would you like to eat ice-cream or pancakes? At our restaurant, we have some great _______.

We have different _______ of fruit ice-cream, like ____, banana or orange. Would you like a big ______ for four yuan or a small one for just two yuan? You can also _______ our delicious pancakes. They are only five yuan.

The Ice-cream and Pancake House Would you like to eat ice-cream or pancakes? At our restaurant, we have specials We have different some great _______ kinds of fruit ice-cream, like ______, strawberry banana or orange.

Would you like a big ______ bowl for four yuan or a small one for just two yuan? order our delicious You can also _______ pancakes. They are only five yuan.

Imagine you have a restaurant. 3 b Write the foods and their prices. Foods Prices beef carrot soup six yuan a medium bowl mutton tomato soup seven yuan a medium bowl cabbage meat noodles eight yuan a large bowl dumplings ten yuan for twenty tomato egg rice four yuan a small bowl

3 c Write an ad for your restaurant. These sentence structures may help you. 1. Would you like …? 2. We have … for … 3. … is very good/delicious. __________________________________________

Welcome to Xinyue Fast Restaurant. Would you like soup? We have beef and carrot soup for only six yuan a medium bowl. We have mutton and tomato soup for seven yuan a medium bowl. Our tomato egg noodles are eight yuan a large bowl. They’re ten yuan for twenty. The tomato and egg rice is really delicious.

1 Put the words you learned in different groups. Food Meat Vegetable Fruit Drink Other beef carrot apple tea cake mutton tomato orange water rice dumplings banana milk chicken potato onion strawberry orange hamburger juice noodles cabbage

Complete the sentences with the 2 correct forms of there be structure. 1. Customer: Excuse me. ______ a fly (苍蝇) in my porridge. Waiter: Don’t worry (别急), sir. That spider (蜘蛛) on your bread will soon get him.

2. Customer: ______ two flies in my fish soup. Waiter: I know. But we are short of fish. 3. Customer: We ordered mutton noodles, but ______ any mutton in the noodles. Waiter: Put on your glasses and you can see the mutton.

3 Write a conversation with the help of the clues. In a restaurant: Waiter: Ask for the order. Customer: Ask about what is in the food. Waiter: Ask for the size of the order. Customer: Thank the waiter.

May I take your order, please? Waiter: _______________ Are there any vegetables in the Customer: ______________ egg rice? _________ Waiter: _______________ Yes. There are some tomatoes. OK. Can we have two bowls Customer: ______________ of egg rice then? ______________ Waiter: _______________ Sure. What size would you like? Large, please. Thank you! Customer: ______________ Waiter: You’re welcome.

4. 这个博物馆里有许多来自世界各地的 精美艺术品。 There are many wonderful works of art from ________ around ____ the world in this museum. 5. 鸽子是和平的象征。 a symbol _______ of The dove is ________ peace.

Ⅱ. 根据短文内容及所给首字母提示，补全 所缺单词，使短文完整、通顺。 Hello, everyone! I’m Jim. Today is my sister Millie’s eeighth (1) birthday. My family will have a birthday party for her. Look! There are different d (2) kinds of food on the table. They are mutton, beef, fish, cabbage, porridge and pancakes. What are those? Oh, they’re ddumplings(3).

Millie likes mutton dumplings best. There is also a birthday cake c (4) at the center of the table. Millie is eight this year, so there are eight candles on the cake. She’ll blow out the candles and share (分享) the cake with w (5) us later. I think we will have a good time at the party.

1. Review the new words and phrases of this unit. 2. Your uncle has a noodle restaurant. He asks you to help write ad for his English. restaurant in