The workshop presented by Professor Beatriz Pucci was really worth and relevant in all senses. As far as I´m concerned, all the structures reviewed in this event were important and very well focused. Because all of them have great importance related to English Languange Teaching/Learning.
Each of the activities can be adapted according to the different groups and/or multiple intelligences we find inside a classroom and are all suitable for teaching. Teachers must be aware of which activity is suitable for each individual student or groups. The most different activities you can give them, the more they can take advantage of the explanations and put them into practice.
People use to say: you learn more when you practice it.
SUGAR
Sugar comes from sugar cane and sugar beet. Sugar cane grows in tropical countries such as the islands of the Caribbean, Bazil and India. Sugar beet grows in temperate areas such as Britain. The process used to extract sugar is similar for both cane and beet, and the refined white sugar made from each is exactly the same. This sugar is ground to give finer sugars such as castor and icing sugars. it is also compressed into sugar cubes. Some refined white sugar is coloured with molasses to make soft brown sugar. Some sugar-cane-growing countries make brown sugars such as muscovado, Barbados and demerara from unrefined raw cane sugar. These sugars have more flavour than ordinary soft brown sugar. Mosasses and black treacle are by-products of the cane-sugar refining process.
Sugar is pure sucrose, which is a carbohydrate. it provides energy and flavour, lowever it does not provide any body-building foods. Sugar is used to sweeten foods and to make sweets and chocolate. Most experts agree that sugar is partly to blame for tooth decay.
THE HISTORY
Sugar cane was cultivated in India in prehistoric times. The Indians discovered how to extract sugar crystals from it. Sugar was known in Europe in the Roman period but was rare and expensive for many centuries. Christopher Columbus took the plant with him to the West Indies in 1493. It grew so well there that huge plantatios were set up by europeans. jThe ploantations were worked by African slaves, and the owners made so much money taht sugar was known as the 'white gold'. During the napoleonic wars the supply from the Caribbean to Europe was cut, therefore more and more sugar beet was grown and sugar was extracted from the beet.
HOW SUGAR IS MADE
The sugar cane is cut and crushed. Sugar beet is slicded up. The strips are soaked and a sugary liquid is extracted. This liquid is boiled and condensed by evaporation. Sugar crystals separate from the liquid in centrifugal machines.
There are some sugars which occur naturally:
-Fructose if found in honey and some fruit.
-Glucose is found in most starchy foods.
-Lactose is found in milk.
-Maltose is found in barley and malt.
-Sucrose is found in sugar cane and beet and in maple syrup.
Honey was used as a sweetener before sugar became common.
(source (Adapt.): Oxford Children's Encyclopedia, v. 5, p. 85)
A- O texto trouxe alguma informação nova para você? Qual?
B- É possível dizer que estamos ingerindo açúcar quando comemos uma macarronada? Por quê?
C- Por que o açúcar era conhecido como 'o ouro branco'?
D- Quem foi responsável por trazer a cana de açúcar para as Américas?
E- O que substituiu a matéria prima na indústria do açúcar na Europa no período das guerras de Napoleão?
F- Encontre no texto 5 palavras cognatas.
G- Retire do texto 5 conectores e diga o que denotam.
H- Há palavras com afixos no texto? Retire-as, salientando o afixo e diga que transformação ocorreu na palavra.
I- Faça um 'concep map' sobrea as idéias do texto.
J- Explique os vários tipos de açúcar apresentados no texto e faça uma comparação com o uso do açúcar no Brasil.
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