he USA. What do they eat
everywhere? ……. . and popcorn.
4) Look at the blackboard and try to guess the meaning of these words.
Popcorn-попкорн
Ear-початок
Settle-заселиться
Kernel-зерно
Damaged kernels-повреждённые зёрна
Shell-скорлупа,оболочка
Discover-обнаружить
Liquid food-жидкая пища
Explorer-исследователь
Harvest-урожай
Listen to the tape about popcorn, I give you the tasks, circle true or false. Look
through the tasks.
Задание на аудирование. (7 минут) Им заранее раздаются листы с
заданиями-True-False.
Americans love popcorn. They eat it at home, at sports events and in movie
theatres. Popcorn has smaller pieces or kernels-than other kinds of corn. The
kernels have a hard outside shell and a soft center. When the kernels are heated, the
outside shells burst. The soft centers expand and become fill with air. The resulting
popcorn looks like small white balls of cotton.
Corn grows on the parts of the plant commonly called ears. Corn, including
popcorn, was developed in North and South America thousands of years ago. The
oldest ears of popcorn were discovered in the American state of New Mexico.
They were reported to be more than 5. 000 years old. In Peru scientists discovered
one-thousand-year-old popcorn kernels in a human barrial area. Early explorers to
the Americas were the first Europians to see popcorn.
Four hundred years ago French explorers saw members of the Iroquois native
American tribe make popcorn with heated sand in a clay container. They said the
Iroquois used popcorn to make a liquid food or soup. The Europeans who settled in
North America loved popcorn. Some colonial families ate popcorn with suga
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