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This week the ‘Thinking in English’ Community is talking about tea and its history!
Tea has a fascinating and very old history. Drinking hot water flavoured with different plants is an ancient human behaviour, and the tea plant is one of our favourites.
Around the world today, billions of people drink tea and other hot drinks every single day. Are you a tea drinker? What do you know about the history of this drink?
Here are 10 conversation questions to get you talking about Tea and its history!
Conversation Questions: Tea and its History!
1. Do you drink tea? How do you like your tea?
2. What do you know about the history of tea? Do you think it is interesting?
3. Is tea drinking popular in your country?
4. Do you often drink other hot drinks?
5. What do you think of tea ceremonies? What about ceremonies for other drinks or food?
6. Do you think it is important to learn about the history of our favourite foods and drinks?
7. What kind of tea or other hot drink would you most like to try for the first time?
8. Can we call something ‘tea’, if it isn’t made from the ‘tea’ plant? Are there other examples of this?
9. Tea drinking begins with a Chinese myth. Do other foods or drinks have origin myths?
10. “No matter what is happening in your life, you always offer tea.”
– Clemantine Wamariya
What do you think of this quote?
Vocabulary List:
- Tea
- (a drink made by pouring hot water onto) dried and cut leaves and sometimes flowers, especially the leaves of the tea plant
- Popular
- liked, enjoyed, or supported by many people
- Ceremony
- (a set of) formal acts, often fixed and traditional, performed on important social or religious occasions
- Myth
- an ancient story or set of stories, especially explaining the early history of a group of people or about natural events and facts
- Origin
- an ancient story or set of stories, especially explaining the early history of a group of people or about natural events and facts
- Offer
- to ask someone if they would like to have something or if they would like you to do something
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Model Answers:
B1 (Intermediate) Model Answers
Vocabulary:
B2 (Upper Intermediate) Model Answers
C1 (Advanced Level) Model Answers
See you all at this week’s conversation club!
