Teaching & Learning English
I’m sure that many people have tasted preserved eggs or 皮蛋(Pí Dàn). I find it very common for them to appear on the meals of Chinese people and many of them like the taste of it, including me. Pi Dan(I’ll call it this from now on) is made from duck eggs and basic substances. After … Read more
Regarding the topic of exotic food, I have to admit that I always ensure I eat ordinary food, so there aren’t many types of exotic food for me to talk about. However, around three years ago, while visiting my grandparents in Zheng Jiang, we went to a hot pot place. This is where my curiosity … Read more
Chinese people are known for eating weird foods, such as eggs baked out of children’s pee, scorpions, fried spider, chicken eggs that are hatched halfway, duck heads, tofu that smells like diarrhea, monkey brains, and even cows’ and sheep’s wiener. Chinese people are decomposers of animals. Me being a person that does not try … Read more
I’m not really a student. This is just an example 🙂 Having travelled widely, there are many exotic foods I could describe. In China alone, I have had the pleasure of eating barbecued scorpions, rabbit head hot pot, stewed dog, horse’s stomach, some unidentifiable green splat and the parts of a male sheep not shared … Read more
Two years ago, when I went to New York, few friends of mine and I were strolling through the bustling street, when a seemingly inconspicuous restaurant appears in our sight. There we discovered this mysterious dish. The restaurant didn’t have things I was expecting like burgers, pizza and fried chicken, instead the dish we found … Read more
The British Empire was very big. At its peak, it included a quarter of the world’s population. What was it like for children who lived in the British Empire? This page shares some interesting facts about the terrible jobs children did in those days. The following pages are from Sir Tony Robinson’s book The … Read more
The teacher who made this website was interviewed about some of the components of the culture wheel. Click on the buttons below to open the audio files. Listen to his responses and make notes. His answers cover the time period 1980s to present.