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Eating Extremes
Do you like spicy
food?
Course Contents
Unit 1 Lesson 1 A Mysterious Visitor
Mysteries
Lesson 2 The Lost City of Atlantis
Unit 2 Lesson 3 The World of Speed Eating
Eating Extremes
Lesson 4 The Hottest Chilies
Unit 3 Lesson 5 Digging for the Past
Cool Jobs
Lesson 6 Getting the Shot
Unit 4 Lesson 7 I’ve Found the Titanic!
Shipwrecks
Lesson 8 My Descent to the Titanic
Unit 5 Lesson 9 The Disease Detective
Science Investigators
Lesson 10 At the Scene of a Crime
Unit 6 Lesson 11 Planting for the Planet
Plants and Trees
Lesson 12 Fatal Attraction
What is the hottest (spiciest) food you’ve ever eaten?
Did You Know That "Spicy" is Not a Taste?
There are only five basic tastes and they are: saltiness, sourness, sweetness and bitterness and
umami. All the other tastes are a combination of the above five basic tastes.
But here is the thing: spiciness is not produced as a result of the combination of the basic tastes.
TRUE OR FALSE:
The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion is hotter than the Dorset Naga. T F
A chili pepper that measures 5,000 SHU is very hot. T F
Tabasco peppers are hotter than jalapenos. T F
Sweet bell peppers have a very high SHU level. T F
d
c can
Where
you find
a the
answer?
b
C. Match each pepper with its correct name.
1. 2. 3. 4.
Pronoun Reference
Pronoun Reference
mouth
capsaicin
Tamuly
Do you think she means cold or chilies?
Plants We Eat
What is your favorite vegetables or fruits?
Which part of the
plants do we eat?
beets
Fruit Flower Root
Seed
Fruit Leave
Stem Fruit Leave
Can we eat this
plant?
Leave Stem Seed
Fruit Seed Tuber
plants
health
Your sentence:
dishes
painful
contains
memory
cut
lesson
d b
c d
a a
Your sentence:
Homework:
Think of four famous spicy food. List them.
Would you like to eat more spicy food?
What spicy foods would you like to try?