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Reading about otheR cultuReS                                  Practice 8

                                 Ludic and literary environment
               Specific PracticeS:   Read brief essays to compare cultural traditions.

                                                 Essays extracts

                                                       sketchy

              A Nice Cup of Tea                        teapot
                                                       tasteless
                                                        pages 93 and 94
              By George Orwell (1946)                   Glossary on
              If you look up 'tea' in the first cookery book that
              comes to hand, you will probably find that it        mainstay (n.):
                                                                   pilar
              is unmentioned; or at most you will find a few       outstanding
                                                                   (adj.): notable
              lines of sketchy instructions which give no ruling   acutely (adj.):
              on several of the most important points.             extremadamente

              This is curious, not only because tea is one of the mainstays
              of civilization in this country, as well as in Eire, Australia and
              New Zealand, but because the best manner of making it is
              the subject of violent disputes.

              When I look through my own recipe for the perfect cup of tea,
              I find no fewer than eleven outstanding points. On perhaps
              two of them, there would be pretty general agreement, but at
              least four others are acutely controversial. Here are my own
              eleven rules, every one of which I regard as golden:





















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