17th May 2013

|Episode 98|

Drinks War: Tea or Coffee?

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2013 | Ep. 98| Drinks War: Tea or Coffee?

Contents Pages

Part 1 | Warm Ups

Odd-One-Out Page 3

Brainstorm Page 3

Types of Drink Page 3 & 4

Quiz | Tea, Coffee & India Page 4

Part 2 | Before Listening / Reading

Jumbled Sentences Page 5

True or False Page 5

Vocabulary |Synonyms Page 5

Part 3 | Listening / Reading

The News Story |349 Words Page 6

What Do You Think..? Page 6

Part 4 | After Listening / Reading

Q & A Page 7

A & Q Page 7

Part 5 | Extra Stuff

Extra English I Page 8

7 to Chinwag Page 8

Writing Activity Page 9

And Finally….

Did You Know? Page 9

TV Links Page 10

The Answers Pages 10-12

| A1 This symbol = Listening activity in the podcast.

| A1 ポッドキャストに含まれているリスニング演習。

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[201304-04] India Drink Wars: Tea or Coffee? | May 17th 2013

| PART 1 | Warm Ups |

Warm Up | 1 Odd 1 Out

Look at the four words below, which word is different from the other three?

Write your reason in the box underneath. Check your answer later.

a) Pick-Me-Up b) Quencher c) Beverage d) Soda

My Reason… _____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

Warm Up | 2 Brainstorm

How many different words can you connect to the word in the box?

Can you think of at least 10 words? Why do you think this?

|Drinks|

Warm Up | 3 National Drinks

Read the list of drinks below: Are they alcoholic [A] or non-alcoholic [NA]?

Then match them with their correct country of origin!

1: Caipirinha 6: Coca-Cola

2: Sangria 7: Mate

3: Tea 8: Pálinka

4: Kava 9: Ouzo

5: Chicha 10: Mojito

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Types of Drink | Which Country?

Match the correct country with the correct drink on page

Country Number Country Number

A: Cuba F: India B: Argentina G: Spain C: Hungary H: Greece D: Venezuela I: Fiji E: Brazil J: United States 6

Warm Up | 4 | A1 Quiz

Read the questions about this week’s news story –

Remember if you don’t know – use the internet to help or GUESS!

1: Which country grows the most coffee in the world? a: USA b: Colombia c: Brazil

2: 96% of tea is served in tea-bags. Which country had the first tea-bag? a: UK b: USA c: Japan

3: Tea growing is India’s 2nd biggest industry, what is its biggest? a: Electronics b: Coffee c: Tea

4: What kind of tea is called ‘the Champagne of tea’? a: Oolong b: Darjeeling c: Green

5: Which country was drinking coffee first tried in? a: USA b: Mexico c: Ethiopia

6: How many cups of coffee would you need to drink before you would die? a: 50 b: 100 c: 150

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

E1: What is the population of India? a: 900 million b: 1.2 billion c: 2.1 billion

E2: How much is the most expensive cup of coffee at Starbucks? a: ￥1,400 2: ￥1.900 c: ￥2,400

E3: Look at the photographs below – which one is coffee and which one is tea?

a: b:

END OF PART 1

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| PART 2 | Before Listening |

Pre-Listening / Reading | 1 Jumbled Sentences

The sentences below are from a paragraph in the news story. The word order has been mixed-up. Put the sentences into the correct order.

Indians Over What is National Drink!

A Why?

B Well as the Indian economy grows many more Indians are visiting coffee

shops and café-latte has become the popular drink of the urban middle-

classes

C However, modern Indians are drinking less and less tea.

D If you travelled to India you might think tea would be their national

drink, after all India is the 2nd largest tea producer in the world behind

China.

Correct Order: _______________________________

Pre-Listening / Reading | 2 | A2 True or False

Read the headline of News Story ~ Indians Fight Over Tea or Coffee!

Look at the 5 statements. Guess if you think 1 – 5 are True or False!

1: India is the biggest producer of tea in the world? [T] [F]

2: Indians took tea to the UK in the 1830s. [T] [F]

3: Coffee drinking has increased in India 80% since 2008. [T] [F]

4: India’s population is just under 1 billion people. [T] [F]

5: Mojito is the national drink of Cuba. [T] [F]

Pre-Listening / Reading | 3 Synonyms

A synonym is a word with a similar meaning. Match the 10 words on the left with their synonyms on the right. All the synonyms in black are from the News Story.

1: Type 6: Competing A: Metropolitan F: Sultry

2: Tropical 7: Association B: Promoted G: Group

3: Fewer 8: Popularised C: Decide H: Less

4: Urban 9: Busy D: Rival I: Bustling

5: Decided 10: Choose E: Style J: Adopted

END OF PART 2

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| PART 3 | Listening |

Listening / Reading | | Listening Indians Fight Over Tea or Coffee!

Gap Fill? | Help

Listen / Read the news story below and check your understanding. Write the correct word in each missing space.

98 Indians Fight Over Tea or Coffee!

1

Many of our 1: _______ come from countries where one famous type of drink is

considered to be the national drink. In Japan it would be rice wine or Sake, in

Scotland whiskey is their national 2: ________ and if you were to travel to Cuba –

an ice-cold mojito would be offered to cool you down on a hot tropical day.

5

If you travelled to India you might think tea would be their national drink, after

all India is the 2nd largest tea 3: ________ in the world behind China. However,

modern Indians are drinking fewer cups of tea. Why? Well as the Indian

4: _________ grows many more Indians are visiting coffee shops and café-latte

has become the popular drink of the urban middle-classes.

10 The popularity of coffee drinking in India has divided this huge country into two

parts, north and south. The north is where most of the tea grown in India is

produced whilst coffee has become very popular in the south. Although

5: _________ tea has been considered the national drink, as more Indians

6: _________ to coffee a big argument has started over what drink is now India’s

favourite.

15

20

The Indian government has decided that this is one argument that it does not

want to get involved in. Arnard Sharma the Indian 7: ________ Minister said, “tea

and coffee are competing drinks and a declaration that either is the national drink is

controversial”. However, tea officials disagree, with the 8: ________ of the North

Eastern Tea Association Mr Barkakoty arguing, “People did not stop eating bananas

because mango was declared the national fruit!”

21

25

Tea was first popularised in India by the 9: _________ in the 1830s and it has

since become the 2nd biggest industry in India. However recent data shows that

coffee drinking has increased in India by 80% in the last five years as more and

more coffee shops open in India’s busy cities. So will India become a coffee-

country? Or will tea still remain the most drank? Well with a 10: _________ of

over 1 billion people, India can very easily choose both coffee and tea.

[349 Words]

What Do You Think? | Hot Beverages! Which beverage do you drink more; tea or coffee? Why?

________________________________________________

END OF PART 3

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| PART 4 | After Listening |

Post-Listening / Reading | 1 | A3 Q & A

How much can you remember from News Story?

Read / Listen to the questions below and choose the correct answer.

If you can’t remember any answers, guess!

1: Which part of India drinks more coffee? 2: Which part of India drinks more tea?

__________________________ 3: What is the national drink of Scotland?

_ 4: What is Sake made from? ________ 5: Which country produces the most tea in the world? __________________________ 6: What is the national fruit of India? __________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

E1: What job does Arnard Sharma have? ___________________________

E2: How many countries are named in the News Article? ________________ _____

Post-Reading | 2 A & Q

How much can you remember from the news story?

Read the answers below and write the correct question.

There is more than one possible correct question for each one!

A1 1 billion ______________________________________________?

A2 Mr Barkakoty ______________________________________________?

A3 80% Increase ______________________________________________?

A4 The British. ______________________________________________?

A5 Tea. ______________________________________________?

END OF PART 4

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| PART 5 | Extra Stuff |

English Extra I English Phrases with Drinks!

The English language has many everyday expressions that use phrases

with tea, coffee & other drinks to explain a situation or event.

Examples: Not my cup of tea = Something you don’t like.

Match the English expression in blue with their correct meaning in pink.

One has been completed for you!

A: Just one’s cup of tea.

B: Not my cup of tea. C: Not for all the tea in China

D: Tea and sympathy

E: Like a Coffee and Danish F: Coffee-table book

G: Wake up & Smell the

coffee

H: That and 50 cents will

buy you a cup of coffee.

I: Decaffeinated coffee is like

kissing your sister

1 Something that looks good, but isn’t enjoyable to read. __ 2 Something that is creepy, or not enjoyable. __ 3 Something you don’t like to do very much. __ 4 Explaining to someone that they must believe what you are telling them! __ 5 An item that is very cheap, or worthless. __ 6 Being very kind to someone who is very upset. __ 7 Something you would never do, not for any amount of money! __ 8 It is a cheap, quick and (probably) unhealthy breakfast __ 9 Something that is perfect for you. __

7 to Chinwag Tea or Coffee

ENW Podcast Topic | Indians Fight Over Tea or Coffee! Ask / Answer the questions below on this week’s ENW Podcast Topic!

1 What did you think when you read this week’s topic title?

2 What is your favourite type of beverage? Why?

3 Do you like to drink ice-tea / iced-coffee? When?

4 What do you know about India?

5 Which drink do you think is better; tea or coffee?

6 In your country which do you think is more popular; tea or coffee?

7 What is the national fruit of your country? Why?

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Writing Drinks

In your opinion what is the best kind of drink to gulp down on a very hot

day? Why? What does the drink taste like?

In your opinion what is the best kind of drink to sip on a very cold,

freezing day? Why? Will it really warm you up? How would you make it?

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

END OF PART 5

And Finally | X & Z | A4 Did You Know…?

That even though India and x: _______ produce the most tea in the world, other countries drink far more cups of tea. It is estimate that Irish people drink between 4-6 cups of a tea every day, and around 2 kilograms of tea leaves every year! In comparison Indians only drink around 800 grams per year of tea. However they still drink far more tea than coffee – Indians only consume around 85 kg of z: _______ per year!

The End

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Visual | TV Links

History Channel | (USA) 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxE6CVhJ-IQ [10:29]

History of Tea

SoZo | (USA) 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0te4jZmf3w [2:33] History of Coffee

You Tube | (USA) 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KagbGg2iVjY [3:15]

Tea is Better than Coffee

Podcast | Key

| A1 These activities are audio and can be listened to on the podcast.

Answers | Part 1 Warm Up 1-4

Warm Up 1 | Odd-1-Out

B – Quenching A/ C / D – Are all words that mean = drinks or beverages.

Warm Up 3 | Modes of Transport

1 – A [E] 2 – A [G] 3 – NA [F] 4 – NA [I] 5 – A [D]

6 – NA [J] 7 – NA [B] 8 – NA [C] 9 – A [H] 10 – A [A]

Warm Up 4 | Quiz

1 – C 2 – B 3 – A 4 – B 5 – C 6 - B

E1 – B E2 – C E3 – A: COFFEE / B: TEA

Answers | Part 2 Pre Listening / Reading

Jumbled Sentences

D-C-A-B

True or False

1 – F 2 – F 3 –T 4 – F 5 – T

Synonyms

1 – E 2 – F 3 – H 4 – A 5 – J

6 – D 7 – G 8 – B 9 – I 10 – C

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Answers | Part 3 Listening

98 Indians Fight to Decide National Drink!

1

Many of our 1: podcasters come from countries where one famous type of drink is considered to

be the national drink. In Japan it would be rice wine or Sake, in Scotland whiskey is their

national 2: beverage and if you were to travel to Cuba – an ice-cold mojito would be offered to

cool you down on a hot tropical day.

2

If you travelled to India you might think tea would be their national drink, after all India is the

2nd largest tea 3: producer in the world behind China. However, modern Indians are drinking

fewer cups of tea. Why? Well as the Indian 4: economy grows many more Indians are visiting

coffee shops and café-latte has become the popular drink of the urban middle-classes.

3 The popularity of coffee drinking in India has divided this huge country into two parts, north

and south. The north is where most of the tea grown in India is produced whilst coffee has

become very popular in the south. Although 5: traditionally tea has been considered the

national drink, as more Indians 6: switch to coffee a big argument has started over what drink is

now India’s favourite.

4

The Indian government has decided that this is one argument that it does not want to get

involved in. Arnard Sharma the Indian 7: Commerce Minister said, “tea and coffee are competing

drinks and a declaration that either is the national drink is controversial”. However, tea officials

disagree, with the 8: chairman of the North Eastern Tea Association Mr Barkakoty arguing,

“People did not stop eating bananas because mango was declared the national fruit!”

5

Tea was first popularised in India by the 9: British in the 1830s and it has since become the 2nd

biggest industry in India. However recent data shows that coffee drinking has increased in India

by 80% in the last five years as more and more coffee shops open in India’s busy cities. So will

India become a coffee-country? Or will tea still remain the most drank? Well with a

10: population of over 1 billion people, India can very easily choose both coffee and tea.

[349 Words]

Answers | Part 4 Post-Listening / Reading

Q & A

1 – South of India 5 – China 2 – North of India 6 – Mango 3 – Whiskey E1 – Indian Commercial Minister 4 – Rice Wine E2 – 6 countries

A & Q | Example Questions

A1 – What is the population of India? A2 – Who is chairman of the North Indian Tea Association. A3 – How much coffee have Indians been drinking? A4 – Who popularised tea in India? A5 – What is the news article about?

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English Extra

1 F

2 I

3 B

4 G

5 H

6 D

7 C

8 E

9 A

And Finally X & Z

X – China / Z – coffee

Extra Bit

Tea vs. Coffee

References Episode 98

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