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Listening:
The Culture of Coffee
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Section 1
All about Coffee
Curriculum Head-ELI Resources-
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Introduction:
Step 1: You will listen to an article about coffee, specifically its history
and health benefits. The article is a little more than 4 minutes long.
Listen only, and don't worry about understanding everything.
Step 2: Listen and arrange the paragraphs in the correct order
Early imbibers believed that coffee cured a variety of illnesses, most
likely because of the caffeine content. It soothed the stomach and
cleared the head, for example. Recent research suggests that coffee
does have some beneficial properties. Coffee may lower the risk of
diabetes and liver damage, as well as even combat certain types of
cancer. What's more, people who regularly drink coffee demonstrate
improved ability on cognitive tests, with their short-term memory and
IQ both receiving a boost.
Although knowledge of the plant must surely be far older, the first
documented record of coffee comes from the ninth century. The beans
were eaten rather than ground and brewed into a drink, though, and the
practice was generally unknown outside of Ethiopia. Not until Arab
trade began to spread through Africa and the Middle East did coffee
then fan outwards, carried on the backs of camels. But religious leaders
didn't meet the beverage with fanfare as it spread through the Arab
world, and it was briefly outlawed as an immoral drug. The populace
largely ignored the ban, and coffee eventually spread northwards in the
Arab world, to Mecca and Medina. As other metropolises began to
grow, brew, and drink coffee, too, it then spread into Europe via
Venice. The word first entered the English language at the end of the
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sixteenth century from the Italian, café. The first coffeehouse opened
in London at roughly the same time.
People drink coffee all around the world, and do so in vast quantities.
Take the United States and Europe for instance, where one third of all
tap water goes to brew coffee. And as for caffeine consumption, it
accounts for 71% of Americans' total intake, followed by soft drinks
and tea.
Coffee has almost always been considered a social drink, with people
going to coffeehouses to discuss business and exchange news. In the
past, people of all levels of society flocked there, and so the
establishments were considered bastions of equality. Lloyd's of
London, the world-famous insurance house, began as a coffeehouse
where sailors and merchants met to discuss risk and the necessary
insurance for overseas ventures. And the London Stock Exchange
began humbly as Jonathan's Coffee House, where they listed stock and
commodity prices. Even today, coffeehouses serve as a meeting point
among friends of all classes and races, and business yet gets regularly
conducted over a cup as well. And with the recent proliferation of
coffee chains around the globe, it appears as though coffee will have a
long and prosperous future.
Historians know with some degree of certainty when and where the
plant was first cultivated, but no one really knows the origins of coffee
as a drink. Some scholars believe Ethiopians first brewed it, while
others attribute the process to a traveling mystic. As the story goes, the
mystic accidentally stumbled across the plant when he observed a herd
of goats with an unusual amount of energy. The animals had fed on the
plant's berries. There exists yet another, similar story that relates how
Ethiopian goat herders first developed the berry into a beverage.
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Section 2
Make Perfect Coffee at Home
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky_CqULnZmw
Listen and choose the correct coffee recipe as suggested by the speaker.
(a) (b) (c)
1. Add 3 spoons 11.Add 2 spoons 21.Add 2 spoons
of coffee of coffee of coffee
2. Add 1 12.Add 2 22.Add 2
tablespoon of tablespoons of tablespoons of
sugar sugar sugar
3. Add 3 drops of 13.Add 3 drops of 23.Add drops of
water water water
4. Mix it very well 14.Mix it very well 24.Mix it very well
5. Add 2 cups of 15.Add 2 cups of 25.Add 3 cups of
water for 3 cups water for 2 cups water for 2 cups
of coffee of coffee of coffee
6. Boil the water 16.Boil the water 26.Boil the water
7. Add the coffee 17.Add the coffee 27.Add the coffee
sugar paste to sugar paste to sugar paste to
the boiling the boiling the boiling
water water water
8. Stir it 18.Stir it 28.Stir it
9. Add a cup of 19.Add 1/2 a cup 29.Add 2 cups of
milk of milk milk
10. Boil it 20. Boil it 30. Boil it
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Section 3: NOTE-TAKING
The Story behind Coffee
https//:m.youtube.com/watch?v=NKhGhHHaFxU
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