Atividade de Inglês - O que é Maple Syrup? / Lección de Inglés - ¿Qué es Maple Syrup?

What's the Maple Syrup? Do you know the answer? I don't! That's why I am going to do these wonderful activities that Teacher Manuela has prepared for us! The activities are for intermediate/advanced English students. We will practise listening and reading and we will learn a lot of new vocabulary words! Let's start now!

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¿Qué es el “Maple Syrup”? ¿Sabes la respuesta? ¡Yo no! ¡Es por eso que voy a hacer estas actividades maravillosas que la profesora Manuela ha preparado para nosotros! Las actividades son para estudiantes de inglés intermedio/avanzado. ¡Practicaremos escucha y lectura y además, aprenderemos muchas palabras nuevas de vocabulario! ¡Comencemos ahora!

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O que é o “Maple Syrup? Você sabe a resposta? Eu não! É por isso que vou fazer estas atividades maravilhosas que a Professora Manuela preparou para nós! As atividades são para estudantes de inglês de nível intermediário/avançado. Vamos praticar a escuta e a leitura e aprenderemos muitas palavras novas! Vamos começar agora!

Maple Syrup: The Sticky Truth

From a)_______ breakfast tables across North America, to its prominent place on Canada’s national flag, maple has long held a beloved place in Canadian culture. In Quebec, maple syrup is a major export, with the Canadian province b)_______ for three-quarters (¾) of the world’s production. (...)

 

A Brief History of Maple Syrup

Maple syrup has a very long history, first c)_______ in recipes by indigenous peoples in North America long before Europeans arrived. (...) The French explorer Jacques Cartier, who first d)_______ what is now Canada for France, noted the maple tree during his explorations in the mid-1500s. (...) During the 17th and 18th centuries, maple water – and later, syrup – was consumed for health and vitality. It was favored as an alternative to e)_______ cane sugar, which had to be imported from the West Indies. (what’s the cost)

 

Maple Syrup Mania

During the mid-1800s, (...) syrup producers switched from f)_____ iron kettles to flat sheet metal pans for boiling the sap. This proved a much more efficient means of production,(...). Simultaneously, cane sugar prices dropped and became the continent’s g)_______ of choice. Syrup faced something of a crisis, and a h)_______ marketing drive saw maple syrup popularity surge. While it has never become a mainstream sweetener to compete with sugar, maple syrup quality and scarcity ensures its reputation as a desirable and authentic product across the world.

1) Complete the blank spaces on the text above with the options below. Mind that for each line there are three options but only one is correct.

1. graced ( ) gracing ( ) gracious ( )
2. accounting ( ) accounts ( ) accounted ( )
3. appeared ( ) appearing ( ) appears ( )
4. claimed ( ) claims ( ) claiming ( )
5. costing ( ) costed ( ) costly ( )
6. red ( ) clean ( ) heavy ( )
7. candy ( ) sweetener ( ) sweeting ( )
8. subsequent ( ) continuous ( ) expensive ( )

2) Now that the text is complete, read it again and mark the correct option concerning the earlier uses of maple sap:

1. Jacques Cartier, in the late 1800s, sold the idea of economically exploiting maple ( )
2. Maple Syrup became such a famous sweetener that it exports more worldwide than sugar ( )
3. Indigenous peoples did not care about maple sap until Jacques Cartier taught them how to make syrup from the sap. ( )
4. Maple syrup was already used by indigenous peoples long before Europeans arrived in what’s now Canada ( )

3) Mark the questions below as True (T) or false (F) based on the information provided by the text:

1. Maple syrup scarcity ensures its high price across the world. ( )
2. People in Canada rather consume maple syrup than regular sugar because is better for the body health  ( )
3. One of the reasons for maple’s popularity nowadays is due to its relevance within Canadian national history ( )
4. When sugarcane prices dropped maple syrup production suffered an irreversible crisis and Canada no longer produces it. ( )
5. Back in the 17th-century maple syrup was the sweetener of choice in Canada because sugarcane was expensive to import ( )
6. Jacques Cartier was a French explorer who first thought about the economic value of maple syrup ( )

Watch the video below and answer the questions:

4) According to the video, why 100% pure maple syrup bottles have a handle:

1. because it helps to pour the syrup ( )
2. because is fashionable for expensive products ( )
3. because is to resemble old traditional jars in which maple was sold ( )
4. because they are made of glass ( )

5) The video presents the handles of maple syrup jar as a skeuomorph -

“an object or feature which imitates the design of a similar artifact made from another material.”

According to this logic, which of the following selection of objects/images can be considered a  skeuomorphism?

1. electric candles, Saving Files, inherited piece of jewelry ( )

2. music synthesizers, Deleting Files, vinyl LPs ( )

3. analog cameras, wooden cash register, ivory cane ( )

4. saving Files, electric candles, music synthesizers ( )