Unit 3.

What we
eat
Summarize activities
5th grade
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 Food customs
Around the world
 Clearing your plate
In China, clearing your plate
means that you think the host
In England, India and didn’t give you enough food
Japan, it is considered to eat.
good manners to clear
your plate to show you’ve
enjoyed and appreciated
the meal.
 Eating with
your hands
In Chile, you must
In some middle eastern countries, use cutlery when
eating with your hands is perfectly you are eating
acceptable.

The right hand is used for handling

food. Picking up food with the left
hand is believed to be an insult to
the host.
 Respect your elders
In South Korea, families have
to wait for the eldest
member of the family to
take a bite before anyone
else is allowed to start
eating.
 Slurping noodles is a sign you are
Slurping! really enjoying your food.

You might have been told that

slurping your food is Drinking from a
rude… soup bowl is also
but not in Japan! acceptable.
 People only use forks to
Cutlery and push food onto a spoon

courses
In Thailand, it is rude to
use a fork to pick up
food from your plate.

The spoon is then put

into the mouth.
Chopsticks You can’t:

• stick them upright in your bowl

Be very careful when of rice
• cross them
using chopsticks as • tap them on the bowl
you could easily
offend your host! • wave them at someone
• rest them on the table pointing at
someone
• pass food with them
 Fish There is a superstition that
If you are served fish in turning over the fish
capsizes
China, you must never a boat somewhere!
flip it over.
 Cheese You shouldn’t add it
to pizza and it’s even
In Italy, you must never worse to add it to
ask for cheese seafood!
toppings unless it is
offered.
Salt and pepper

In Egypt and Portugal,

asking for salt and
pepper to add to your
meal is deeply offensive
to the cook.

More Food Customs
In some parts of Thailand,
Cambodia and the Philippines,
fried spider is a delicacy.
In some parts of Africa, people
drink animal blood. It is believed
to give strength and stamina.
In Greenland and Iceland, shark meat is
buried under sand for months. Once it is
rotten, it is hung up to dry for a few
more months before it is eaten.
Food customs matching games

On the next slide, match the custom to the country.

 Japan Portugal India Thailand China

Clearing your plate Slurping your

Only use a Flipping your
is seen as good food is
fork to push fish over on your
manners. It’s rude to ask encouraged
food onto a plate is seen as
It shows the host for salt or because it
spoon. Never unlucky.
you’ve enjoyed pepper. shows you are
use it to pick It is like
and appreciated the enjoying your
the food up. capsizing a boat.
meal. food.
Brainstorm
Talk with your classmates
Can you think of
any chilean
custom? What is your
favorite Chilean
meal/food?
Which one was
your favorite?
Why?
 Writing activity.

Describe your favorite food. Consider the following aspects:

Origin
Taste
How is it like?
When do you eat it?
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