基础英语(第二册)PPTunit 1.pptVIP

Unit 1　Food and Drinks 食物与饮料 Warm-up A．Match the above pictures with four of the words given below. □ pizza □ hamburger □ coffee □ fruit B．Answer the following questions. What kind of food and drinks do you like? What is your favorite fruit? Which do you like better, Chinese food or Western food? Do you know the relationship between food and health? Do you know vegetarians?  Passage :  History of Pizza Few dishes are as much a part of modern lifestyle as pizza. Americans, for example, eat pizza at the rate of 350 slices every second. Not only Americans but also people all over the world love pizza. They take the basic idea of a pizza (a flat sheet of bread baked with other things on top) and create their own styles. Pizza can be fast food for those on the run or a fine meal shared with friends. But just where does this dish come from? The earliest record of pizza dates from around three thousand years ago, when the word “pizziare”, meaning “to fetch”, was used as a description of a dish. Historians believe that this word was chosen because it referred to fetching the hot pizza pie out of the oven where it was baked. While most historians agree that pizza, as we know it today, is truly an Italian dish, and it actually developed from other dishes that were being eaten before Italy even existed as a country. After baking their flat bread, the Etruscan people flavored it with a variety of toppings. The Greeks developed this idea further by baking the toppings directly on the bread, making the dish even closer to what we now think of as pizza. The Romans enjoyed similar dishes, and it is the Italian that made pizza popular all over the world. Modern pizza finally arrived in 1889 when a bar owner was asked to prepare a special dish to welcome the English queen when she visited Naples. He created a pizza topped with tomatoes and chees