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18. Draw the samovar, the teapot and the other elements used para servir el té
teapot (n.): tetera
at tea-time in Russia.

• Select a beautiful passage in the essays you are working
with and draw it in your notebook.
• Go to your Reader’s Book, page 71 to 74 and read Reader's
Cha-no-yu, Tea Cult of Japan, by Yasunoke Fukukita. Book pages 71 to 74

19. Complete the dialogues about people discussing the cultural aspects
of tea drinking.

• Reread the essays about tea if necessary. session 7
Tea is one of the Really? I thought it was
pillars of civilization in just a time to drink tea.
the United Kingdom.
It is, but it is more complex than that.
Indeed. Just like in Eire, The ceremony involves etiquette, dress,
Australia and New Zealand. arts and crafts, among other things.

Tea is also the national drink in
Russia, despite what people think. So, as you stated, several
countries around the world
drink tea. Main ideas. Explanations. Examples
Oh! I didn’t know that. I
thought it was vodka. Yes. And each one interprets
tea drinking differently.
Yes, the Russian stereotypes are
vodka, bears and cold winters, Yes, for some people it is an
but the first one is not true. informal part of their culture, but
others observe a strict etiquette.

In Japan we perform a tea ceremony. Despite the differences,
It is called Cha-no-yu, which involves we all enjoy drinking tea.
several aspects of the Japanese culture.

• Write a dialogue in your notebook like the Secondly, tea should be made in small
quantities-that is, in a teapot. Tea
one above using the traditions described in
out of an urn is always tasteless,
the essays you selected and perform it. while army tea, made in a cauldron,
20. Read on the paper on the right side the tastes of grease and whitewash. The
small extract from A Nice Cup of Tea. teapot should be made of china or

• Look at the three different types of lines earthenware. Silver or Britanniaware
teapots produce inferior tea and
under the text and discuss. enamel pots are worse; though
• Discuss which sentences express the main curiously enough, a pewter teapot
ideas, which are the explanations and which (a rarity nowadays) is not so bad.
the examples.
whitewash
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