Do Now: Use the following vocabulary words to complete the paragraph:

staple food, climate, regions, land, mountainous China is a very large country with several important ____________. In the northeast, the _____________ is very cold. The ____________ is flat. People there eat a lot of wheat bread. The south of China is hot and humid. Some parts are ____________. Rice is the _____________ there.

Vocabulary words
Wheat
Oats Millet Soybeans Lentils Yucca Yams

Wheat
A kind of grass that originated from the Fertile Crescent.

Sentence: Many people use wheat to make bread.

Oats
A cereal grass.

Oatmeal comes from oats.

Millet
A cereal grass from Europe.

Many people in Europe use millet to make bread.

Soybeans

A kind of bean

Some people eat soybeans with every meal.

 A small red, green and brown colored bean

Lentils

My mother makes delicious lentil soup.

Yucca
A green plant with edible (we can eat) roots

Many Hispanic cultures eat yucca.

Yams
Sweet potatoes, edible roots

Baked yams are delicious.

Classwork:
Turn to page 8. Work on Exercise A. 1-6.
Which stable foods do you eat everyday?

Grammar Past Tense:

Today we are learning about different foods. Yesterday we learned about different countries. Fell

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Page 9 Exercise A.
Mary: Tell me about yourself, Pedro. Pedro: Well, I love to travel. Last year I ____________ to Greece. Mary: Wow! You ____________ to Greece? Pedro: Yes, and I ____________ my friend Vasilys and his family there. They __________ me around Athens and ___________ me to many new foods. Mary: That sounds like fun. Pedro: It was. I __________ seafood and lamb, and I __________ a dish made from rice and grape leaves. It ____________ delicious!

Homework #8:
5 sentences using vocabulary words in the PAST tense.