Do Now: Use the following vocabulary words to complete the paragraph:

staple food, climate, regions, land, mountainous

China is a very large country with several important ____________. In the northeast, the _____________ is very cold. The ____________ is flat. People there eat a lot of wheat bread. The south of China is hot and humid. Some parts are ____________. Rice is the _____________ there.

Vocabulary wordsWheatOatsMilletSoybeansLentilsYuccaYams

WheatA kind of grass that originated from the

Fertile Crescent.

Sentence: Many people use wheat to make bread.

OatsA cereal grass.

Oatmeal comes from oats.

MilletA cereal grass from Europe.

Many people in Europe use millet to make bread.

Soybeans

A kind of bean

Some people eat soybeans with every meal.

LentilsA small red, green and brown colored bean

My mother makes delicious lentil soup.

YuccaA green plant with edible (we can eat) roots

Many Hispanic cultures eat yucca.

YamsSweet potatoes, edible roots

Baked yams are delicious.

Classwork:Turn to page 8. Work on Exercise A. 1-6.

Which stable foods do you eat everyday?

Grammar Past Tense:Today we are learning about different foods.

Fall

Eat

Go

See

Drink

Take

Give

Yesterday we learned about different countries.

Fell

Page 9 Exercise A.Mary: Tell me about yourself, Pedro.Pedro: Well, I love to travel. Last year I

____________ to Greece.Mary: Wow! You ____________ to Greece?Pedro: Yes, and I ____________ my friend

Vasilys and his family there. They __________ me around Athens and ___________ me to many new foods.

Mary: That sounds like fun.Pedro: It was. I __________ seafood and lamb,

and I __________ a dish made from rice and grape leaves. It ____________ delicious!

Homework #8:5 sentences using vocabulary words in the

PAST tense.