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Date: Oct 19 2015

Themes: Family, Food, Friend

Grammar: Simple Present Tense

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Except for water, tea is consumed more than any other beverage in the world. People have been drinking tea for thousands of years as part of social rituals and for its medicinal effects. Tea is a drink with a long, rich tradition.

Not much has changed in today’s world. When hosting guests, we offer them coffee or tea. Friends meet for tea to study and catch up. Teas are used to treat anything from stomach pain to insomnia to even cancer. Tea is definitely here to stay.

Read on to learn what tea means to Greta and Lily in this English lesson about an internationally beloved beverage.

除了饮用水以外,茶是全球饮用最多的饮料。人们饮茶已有几千年的历史,茶不仅是社交仪式的组成部分,还具有药用功效。饮茶已经成为一种历史悠久的传统。

这一传统在当今社会也并未发生太大的改变。我们通常用咖啡或茶招待客人。以茶会友,相互学习,相互促进。茶可用于治疗任何身体不适,包括胃痛、失眠,甚至癌症。茶文化还一定会继续流行下去。

在本节以全球备受喜爱的饮料为话题的英语课上,阅读了解茶对格里塔和莉莉的意义。

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Greta

Greta

Lily

Lily

Greta:  Lily, are you a coffee or a tea person?

Lily:  Totally tea. How about you?

Greta:  You know, I’m both, but if it’s after 10am, it’s tea.

Lily:  Yeah, tea is a good staple to have in your beverage repertoire. Yes, exactly! Because it doesn’t get you all hyped-up like coffee does.

Greta:  And I appreciate all the tradition around it. The “high teas”, and having tea and a biscuit, and teapots. There’s just so much more tradition surrounding it than coffee. The beautiful teapots and teacups, and the tiny little sugar cubes and all of that… it’s more fun.

Lily:  And there are so many different varieties, too. No matter what, you can always find something that suits you, right?

Greta:  That’s true. I wonder if that’s where the saying “It’s not my cup of tea” comes from. So, my favorite black tea is orange spice, and I also really like Lady Grey.

Lily:  Lady Grey is good. I like chai a lot.

Greta:  I also love the herbal teas, especially in the evening. I’m a big fan of Lemon Zinger, and peppermint is kind of my go-to, I-don’t-feel-good tea.

Lily:  And chamomile is good if you want to get to sleep.

Greta:  Yeah.

 

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Lily and Greta are discussing what they like about tea. Lily appreciates all of the varieties of tea that she can drink. Greta enjoys some of the traditions of tea, like British “high teas” and using fancy teapots and teacups.

Greta drinks different teas at certain times of the day. She prefers herbal teas at night, for example. Lily points out that chamomile is helpful when you want to fall asleep. Their conversation shows some of the ways and reasons that people drink tea.

Is drinking tea a tradition in your family? Why do you drink tea? For your health, for the taste, or perhaps for other reasons?

 

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12348765

12348765

Turkey

I don’t like tea. I don’t drink it. I think it is harmful to health. 

01:26 PM Jul 01 2013 |

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trucluanSuper Member!

Viet Nam

Tea is really good for our health. It helps to anti aging. It always presents at meals, party, other event,... Tea is an important thing in F&B culture. 

12:25 PM Jul 01 2013 |

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shaerwan

shaerwan

Syrian Arab Republic

yes


we love drinking tea


and its a part of our kurdish folklore

08:01 PM Jun 28 2013 |

MAHSA1995

MAHSA1995

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

Atra,i was wondering what would you tell about me then! :)


your neighber drinks 10 cups but for me,it some times gets more than 15 cups a day!and i have just started drinking zafraan tea,it is much more effective

07:57 AM Jun 27 2013 |

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Atra_A

Atra_A

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

in my country drinking tea is so usual and i saw people who drink it more 10 times a day(our neighbor)!!!!!


i myself don’t like 2 drink; but when i am too tired  to make coffee i drink it.


and the first time i tested tea i was 17!!!!!l 2 years ago.

08:15 PM Jun 26 2013 |

1 person likes this

princessanika

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

in my country many many people loves Tea an drink it twice aday or more than this. many people drink it at morning for breakfast and afternoon or evening or drink when they’r going to park or like this.

07:46 PM Jun 26 2013 |

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hoosan

United States

Would you send yourself to space ? 


http://youtu.be/1K2ZA5VIFgM

01:58 PM Jun 25 2013 |

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amy19890909

China

I like dring tea ya.

04:32 AM Jun 25 2013 |

TranceSoul

TranceSoul

Poland

In Poland drinking tea is a traditionan but it’s also considered a very healthy drink. I drink tea since I can remember. I like it very much. I can’t imagine my day without even one cup of hot tea. Lately I drink it without sugar because I drink more coffe and it must be sweet,so I’ve reduced the amount of sugar not adding it to my tea :p I have only one reason-taste :)

08:43 PM Jun 24 2013 |

✰Nikki✰

✰Nikki✰

United States

The first contact I had with tea was around the age of six, when brown wooden boxes would appear in our home with the mysterious word ‘FBOP’ printed on the sides. I was just old enough to have learned the alphabet but could not make any sense of this. In the end, my father explained that the letters were short for ‘flowery broken orange pekoe’, a type of tea. It sounded wonderfully exotic and was the start of my lifelong love of tea.


Tea, to misquote Oprah Winfrey, is my drug of choice. I have been drinking black tea since I was 10 years old. I avoid the green version and any of those horrible health teas flavored with bits of flowers and dead insects. I did once have a brief flirtation with fennel tea, though, but that was more out of desperation.


To me, tea is both, fuel and comfort-giver. And as many studies suggest drinking black tea may speed up your recovery from the daily stresses in life. A traditional good-quality black tea will, even today, have been picked by hand. It is extremely time-consuming as it takes a tea picker thousands of the short, sharp picking movements to collect about 2 pounds of tea leaves. The downside of this process, a tea picker in Sri Lanka earns around 3 Dollars a day.


05:05 PM Jun 23 2013 |

kenlin16

kenlin16

Taiwan

I used to be a tea fan. But I don’t drink as much as I did anymore. Basically it’s because some of tea like green tea make me feel more thristy. It may have something to do with quality. I don’t know. But like I say ,I don’t drink it as  mcuh as before. Now I only drink home-made juice.

04:35 PM Jun 23 2013 |

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sushmithakuppam

India

Drinking tea is not a tradition but the people make a tradition for many reasons in life such as tensions…... so it become a mandatory

04:03 PM Jun 23 2013 |

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elizabethzarchi

Myanmar

I  like  to  drink  tea. Because, it’s  good  for  health. And  also, it’s  Myanmartraditional. It’s  plentyful  of  Myanmar.

03:56 PM Jun 23 2013 |

kareem_10

kareem_10

Egypt

In Egypt tea is not only a common drink..we call it “people’s drink” it’s cheap, easy to make and tasty so people like to have some when they wake up or when they’re extremly stressed …I’m not that tea person..I may drink some coffee not because I like it..it makes me concentrate..but my mother is..she can’t pass a day without drinking one or two cups of tea..it just cheers her up!!!

12:15 PM Jun 23 2013 |

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nghaderian62

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

tea is wonder ful for me.Every morning iI press the ketel bottom  with sleepy eyes

07:40 AM Jun 23 2013 |

nghaderian62

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

tea is wonder ful for me.Every morning iI press the ketel bottom  with sleepy eyes

07:40 AM Jun 23 2013 |

nghaderian62

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

tea is wonder ful for me.Every morning iI press the ketel bottom  with sleepy eyes

07:40 AM Jun 23 2013 |

farooq ahmed

Pakistan

i like drinking tea alot, every time when i m studying or doing any thing i need it, lol 

02:14 AM Jun 23 2013 |

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Egypt

i like drinking tea especially at the midnight and listening to fayrouz ..the best feeling eveeeer.

01:25 AM Jun 23 2013 |

BeautifulGirlHa

Algeria

 drinking tea is  a tradition in my  family and i prefer tea because


 it Relieves fatigue and It many benefits For my  health.

08:03 PM Jun 22 2013 |

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