Unit 10

PLEASE PASS
THE BIRD
BRAINS
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True
Stories
 WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

YOU GO TO THE HOSPITAL. THE DOCTOR TELLS YOU

THAT YOU HAVE AN ILLNESS. IT CAN'T BE CURED.
YOU ONLY HAVE 1 YEAR TO LIVE.

Give up and enjoy Go to another Try alternative

life doctor medicine
Spell the words the
teacher will read.
CHECK YOUR ANSWER.

1. ground
2. strange
3. spices
4. centuries
5. digestion
6. serves
7. information
8. weighing
CHECK THE MEANING.

1. ground - crushed or powdered

2. strange - not common, not usual
3. spices - flavoring, herbs, seasonings
4. centuries - hundreds of years
5. digestion - process of breaking down food
6. serves - present food or drink
7. information - fact learned about something
8. weighing - finding out how heavy something is
CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD TO
FILL IN THE BLANKS.

The ____ spices will be

used in making a Kebab.

A. Grind
B. Ground
C. Grinding
He said that the _____
object he saw was a
UFO.

A. strange
B. stanger
C. strangers
Do you love eating ____
peppers?

A. spices
B. spiced
C. spicy
The war lasted for more
than a ______.

A. centuries
B. century
C. centinnial
I have problems with my
____ so I always have a
stomachache.

A. digestive
B. digestion
C. digesting
The waiter is _____
their best wine.

A. serve
B. serves
C. serving
Don't believe all _____
you get from the
internet.

A. inform
B. information
C. informative
Stop _____ yourself.
The result will not
change after 1 second.

A. weigh
B. weight
C. weighing
ANSWER THE EXERCISE BELOW.
Do you have a headache? Eat some bird brains for dinner, and your
headache will go away. Do you want beautiful skin? Put a spoonful
of ground pearls into your soup. Your skin will be beautiful. Is
your hair turning gray? Eat black rice every day, and you won't
have gray hair.

"Eat bird brains, pearls, and black rice?" some people ask. "How
strange!" But for many Chinese people, bird brains, pearls, and
black rice are not strange things to eat; they are good things to
eat. They are good medicines, too."

BIRD BRAINS, PEARLS, AND BLACK

RICE -- WHAT ARE THEY?
Many Chinese believe that food can be medicine. They believe
that eating bird brains, for example, stops headaches, soup
with ground pearls is good for the skin, and black rice stops
hair from turning gray.

WHAT CAN BIRD BRAINS, PEARLS,

AND BLACK RICE CURE?
Food that is medicine is called medicinal food. The Chinese
have eaten medicinal food and spices for centuries. Ginger, for
example, is a common spice in Chinese cooking. Ginger gives
food a nice flavor. The Chinese began to use ginger many years
ago. They used ginger because it was medicinal. Ginger, they
thought was good for the digestion. It also helped people who
had colds. Pepper and garlic, too, were probably medicines a
long time ago.

WHAT ARE EXAMPLES OF MEDICINAL

FOOD?
Some people don't believe that food and spices are good medicines.
They want to buy their medicine in drugstores, not in
supermarkets. Other people want to try medicinal food. They say,
"Maybe medicinal food can't help me. But it can't hurt me,
either."

WHY DO SOME PEOPLE TRY

MEDICINAL FOOD EVEN IF IT'S
STRANGE?
People can try medicinal food at a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco,
California. The restaurant serves only medicinal food. The menus at the
restaurant have a list of dinners. Next to each dinner, there is
information about the food. The information helps people order.
"Queen's Secret," for example, is one dinner at the restaurant. Meat
from a chicken with black skin is in the dinner. It is for women who
want to look young. "Lover's Soup" is for people whose marriages are
unhappy. The soup has dinosaur bones in it, and it helps people's love
lives. Even the drinks at  the restaurant are medicinal. One drink is
deer tail wine. It gives people more energy.

WHAT ARE SOME FOOD SERVED IN A

RESTAURANT IN SF? WHAT ARE
THEIR USES?
Alan Lau is the owner of the restaurant. Mr. Lau says, "Some
people try medicinal food one time and then they say, 'It
didn't work.' But think about this: When your doctor prescribes
medicine, you take the medicine for five days, or ten days, or
maybe for weeks. It's the same with medicinal food. You have to
eat the food many times before it begins to help." Mr.Lau
believes that medicinal food works; he eats medicinally every
day.

WHAT DOES ALAN LAU THINK ABOUT

MEDICINAL FOOD?
Mr.Lau also owns a store that sells medicinal food. The store is
next to the restaurant. People who want to cook medicinal food at
home can buy it at the store. Mr.Lau is working at his store. He
is weighing something for a customer. Is it a spice? Is it
medicine? Or is it both?

MR. LAU IS A BUSINESS OWNER.

WHAT BUSINESSES DOES HE OWN?
ANSWER THE EXERCISE BELOW.
ANSWER THE EXERCISE BELOW.
ANSWER THE EXERCISE BELOW.
IF YOU CAN CREATE A
MEDICINE FOR ONE
ILLNESS IN THIS WORLD,
WHAT MEDICINE WILL YOU
MAKE?