Hi everyone, welcome to my class. Today we are going to talk about Book 5, Unit 3, food and cultural video time. It's a video about a new cuisine on the Australian table. By the end of the lesson, you will be able to figure out the new cuisine appearing in the video, infer people's attitudes towards new cuisine, develop critical thinking about different preferences for food, and express your viewpoints on attitudes towards different preferences for food.
First, let's do a small survey. There are several options for you. Please choose the one you like most and also tell me your least favorite choice. Excellent. I see river snails and rice noodles rank first, but almost no one chooses insects. Have you ever tried insects? My friend Alan from Australia also did the same survey in his class. Are you curious about the food that students in Australia like? My friend made a video and sent it to me. So today we are going to watch the video.
What are you eating in Australia? Let's look at the picture and the introduction part. I have several questions for you. Question No. 1: Based on this man's facial expression, how do you think the man feels? What food is the man looking at? Question No. 2: What kind of food do Australians love? For the first question, we can see the man wears a serious look. He feels hesitant, so he might be looking at some food that he's never tasted before. For Question No. 2, Australians love new and exotic food. But what does "exotic" mean? Please keep this question in mind, and later you will find the answer. In this video, we are going to see a new cuisine that has become popular in Australia. Before we watch the video, let's read some sentences which can help us predict what the new cuisine is. Do you know these words?
I will explain these words to help you complete the sentences. First one, "crawl". When you crawl, you move forward on your hands and knees. When an insect crawls, it moves forward on its legs. For example, there is a spider crawling up your leg. "Cricket", a small brown jumping insect that makes a loud high sound by rubbing its wings together.
Next, "trendy eatery". "Trendy" means very fashionable. We can use "trendy" to describe clothes, an "eatery", a restaurant or other place that serves food. So "trendy eatery" means a fashionable restaurant.
Now it's your time to complete the sentences. Okay, let's have a check. There is an unfamiliar cuisine crawling onto menus. It's challenging the bravest of diners. A twist of wine and a dash of salt has these crickets flying out of the kitchen. Insects remain a hard sell, but bug by bug, that could be starting to change. The unique treat is proving popular at farmers' markets in trendy eateries.
So based on these five sentences, can you predict what the new cuisine is? Yes, from these words, we can guess it might be insects. So now we can figure out the meaning of "exotic food". It means unusual. Australians love new and unusual food.
Now we are going to watch the video to check whether our prediction is correct. When you watch the video, please keep these four questions in mind and choose the best words to complete the sentences.
Australians love food, whether an exotic twist on traditional fare or an untested flavor, they are not afraid to experiment. But there's an unfamiliar cuisine crawling onto menus down under, challenging the bravest of diners, bugs. At upmarket restaurants like this one in Sydney, a twist of lime and a dash of salt has these crickets flying out of the kitchen.
When customers come for the first time, they have to, they're very much like, they want to know what it is. They come to the pass, they're asking for it. Yeah, it's very famous here.
Iron, protein and cheaper and more sustainable than traditional food like beef. More than 2 billion people worldwide eat bugs. They are common in diets across parts of Asia, Latin America and Africa. And it's catching on here.
Normally you get two different kinds of people when it comes to eating insects. The first kind of people are completely grossed out and you really can't change their mind. They just kind of want to come and have a look and don't want to try it really. But then we get the second kind of people that really want to learn more. Some of them will try edible insects and some of them won't, but they'll go away and talk about eating insects, and they'll spread the word about what they've seen that day.
Sky, an entomologist, runs the only commercial insect farm in Australia, producing a wide range of delicacies from savory crickets to dehydrated ants and even roasted cockroaches. Insects remain a hard sell, but bug by bug, that could be starting to change.