Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Listening task: Cultural eating differences


Hi everybody, Welcome to your first listening task of the course. During the last two classes we have discussed food trends and cultural differences. This time you are to visit a site in which you will listen to an interview about food differences and manners among cultures. The interview answers seven questions which are displayed along it. You are to take notes and once you have watched the complete interview put together a comprenhensive answer for each of the questions.
The link is:
www.videojug.com/interview/table-manners-across-cultures-2

Have fun.


P.S. The video might take some minutes to be downloaded so in the meantime I would like you to take a survey about favorite food and blog your comments on how your results are compared to the rest of the people. The survey will show you graphs based on your answers.

www.quibblo.com/quiz/1B122j/What-Are-Your-Favorite-Foods

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

The survey was good i agree whith other people in some 5 questions ... and the others is like;
Do you usually eat the bread at your table in a restaurant?

and i say not really because i dont like ...thats all and others similars..

margie said...
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margie said...

hi, different to other people I like veggies, in the other part I have the same answers than everybody. There are a lot of questions that I couldnt answer because I use to eat diferent things for example I don't drink anything when I eat.

miguel said...

Usually i like drink soda with the dinner however i like a lot drink wine to finish the eat.

Anonymous said...

I think I´m not really diferent to the other people how answered because most of them were similar to my preferences... like for example people prefer chicken more than beef and it seems they love soda and all of those things. Of course it´s not all similar, for example i prefer to drink water for dinner and most of the people prefer soda. Nice excersice.

jacobo said...

I realize that I'm not quite different to other people that have made the survey. The only think I'm different to others, is that I prefer beer with dinner, while they prefer soda, wather or wine. I think the exercise was nice.

Anonymous said...

hellooooo a like more the beef because at home we usually eat only meet thats the only reason lol

Anonymous said...

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gloria said...

the results of the survey were unexpeting, because most of the answers were similar to another people. So the idea that i had is incorrect. I supossed my preferences were differents.

i liked the survey, but in a one of the questions were impossible no answer the question. I had to select it.

kro sarria said...

hello
the survey was great. i almost agree with all of u but really i hate the sea food and I'm allergic to shrimps

Willy S said...

Hi kiddos,

I read your comments and I want to congratulate you all for your hard work in the computer room. I saw all of you were focused. Get your answers ready for today so we can share what you learned about table manners and customs.

take care