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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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Olichka9p

Olichka9p

Ukraine

I love Tea)))It’s really nice and comforting. If you want something relaxing maybe even to help with sleep, chamomile does the trick. It has sweet notes of apple and chamomile flowers and it tastes kind of earthly but it’s delicious, you don’t even need sugar with it because it’s already sweet. If you drink 2 hot cups in a row, it’ll just make you sink and feel warm, mhmm :) lol..i wanna tea right now =)))

08:30 AM Jun 21 2013 |

drallon

drallon

China

I love tea among various duriking ,especially love green tea,such as Dragon’s Well and Tie Guanyin,theirs smell are so delicious and the colour is so beautiful. I enjoy looking the moving of tea-leaf in water.But, I love green tea more than black tea.

08:28 AM Jun 21 2013 |

dreadslayer

Turkey

After i wake up in the morning i prefer to drink coffee cos it keeps me up.if i go to work i grab a cup of tea after i finish my bfast.i like drinking tea during daytime.but coffee helps me when i’m exhausted or sleepy.


i’d rather drink black tea with earl grey.i have teapot i make tea with it which makes tea tasty.i’d drank british tea before they always put some milk into it which i didnt like at all.

08:14 AM Jun 21 2013 |

MESS

MESS

Turkey

I am a coffee person without doubt. I love the taste but not the extremely bitter taste, even though I drink it with no sugar. 


Tea is a social ritual in my city, and in my family, too, because we have tea fields here, and there is even a huge tea garden right opposite of my house. My mother, aunts, and uncles love tea. It is like a “I-can’t-live-without-this” tradition in their family. And they drink dark brown tea. Unlike them, I drink only a glass of light sugarless tea a day, generally either at breakfast or around 5-6 pm. with some biscuits. But in terms of tea as a herbal healer, I drink green tea every single day. It is my everyday tradition. It speeds up metabolism so it helps lose weight. 


When people hang out, they prefer mainly 3 beverages in my culture : tea, coffee or beer. I prefer coffee. Most of my friends prefer coffee, as well. We are health nerds. :) However, there are ongoing debates on coffee : is coffee a health benefit or a health risk? No matter what, the taste is good. :)


Speaking of tea, I was enjoying a cup of coffee right now composing this post. The cup is empty now, so I will go brush my teeth. :)

07:34 AM Jun 21 2013 |

zarbazan

Belarus

It’s so nice to drink tea when meeting your friend. We can drink a lot of tea and discuss our problems.I prefer green tea, she likes black.Tea is a good tradition.


 

07:23 AM Jun 21 2013 |

merllan

merllan

Bulgaria

I drink tea only when I am ill. I don’t like it at all. I know that tea is healthy but I also know that tea and coffee make teeth look yellow. I always want to have white teeth.

06:44 AM Jun 21 2013 |

hot-cabbage

China

Exactly,Tea is perfect beverage around us,i am used to enjoy black tea in summer and green tea in winter.

06:08 AM Jun 21 2013 |

modaher

modaher

Iraq

Yes tea. Became something important after any meal Risah. Upon our visit to our relatives and we can not do without it.

04:40 AM Jun 21 2013 |

soozzan

soozzan

Saudi Arabia

notwithstanding tea benefit except I don’t drink it.

03:24 AM Jun 21 2013 |

ola33

ola33

Japan

The more I’m into tea culture, the more I’m falling in love with this magic drink. Though I still drink coffee in the morning by habit, i’m definitely go for tea when I’m deadly tired and in a mood of meditation and during the rest of the day after morning. With this, I have so many teas at home, it’s not bragging, I just love it. It’s a real gift for me and a’ real friend’ that calms my mind that energizes me that takes all my worries away. My love to tea is justified probably by my love to nature where I always feel peace and tranquility of the mind and the same feeling is brought to me by tea.


 Now, writing a comment, I’m drinking tea, the one that my collegue brought to me from China when she was on vacation. It’s one of the prestigious tea in China that grows on the Lion’s Peak, in the village of Long Jing near Hangzhou and tea’s name is Dragon’s Well. Its name goes back to a year of 250 where not far from Hangzhou, there was a devastating drought and peasants were praying day and night for the rain to come but nothing happened until one monk found a dragon hiding not far from that area and he suggested the villages to come to a dragon and ask for his help. And dragon helped them. The rain started pouring. The villages were so happy that they named tea Dragon’s Well, to remember that amazing event.


 


 

knuschu

knuschu

Germany

Tea is healthy, tasty and a good thirst quencher at hot days. If I have to get up early, I prefer tea instead of coffee, it’s a good start in the day.


Regarding to our lesson from yesterday “People have been drinking tea for thousands of years”, well,  tea has stood the test of time ;-)

12:49 AM Jun 21 2013 |

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