Modern Chinese(時代華語)B1- Reading(短文)

¿Te gusta el tequila? ¿Qué sabes sobre esta bebida mexicana?

En este episodio de Español al Oído, hablamos del origen del tequila y la diferencia entre el tequila y otros aguardientes, tambien llamados mezcales.

Después de escuchar, contesta las siguientes preguntas:

1. ¿Qué diferencia hay entre el mezcal y el tequila?
2. ¿Las botellas de tequila tienen un gusado adentro?
3. ¿Qué indica una etiquieta "100% agave" en una botella de tequila?
4. ¿Qué es un caballito?
5. ¿Qué es una margarita?

Español al oído

El tequila

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Please check out the graded reader and exercises I've made here before and after you watch the video: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1TaKuWn9M3Ee6SxF1mlS6Tair6C_IFXYW/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113589681099533691380&rtpof=true&sd=true. I've tried to make it as simple as possible for you to understand one of the most iconic legend in the Vietnamese folklores. Comment or text me if you have any questions or want to get to know more about this story. Thanks for watching and stay tune for my future podcasts!

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[Graded Reader] The legend of Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ

There are many types of dairy alternatives on the market today, often made from things like nuts and soybeans.

But have you heard they're now making butter from air?

A US startup called Savor is working on a range of dairy alternatives made using something that exists all around us: carbon.

Fats are made from chains of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms. Savor's process involves taking carbon — from, say, carbon dioxide — and adding heat and hydrogen to create chains that are combined with oxygen from air.

This results in fat molecules, like the ones found in dairy and other animal products.

Now, regular butter is about 80% fat — the rest is mostly water. So to make butter from its synthetic fat, Savor just adds water, as well as an emulsifier that keeps the liquids from separating, and rosemary oil for flavor and beta carotene for color.

What does it taste like?

"I couldn't believe I wasn't eating real butter," Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wrote in a blog post earlier this year. Gates is one of Savor's investors.

He wrote that "it tastes really good — like the real thing, because chemically it is."

Savor has already run informal taste tests with small groups of people, and is working to get regulatory approval for its product in the US.

But why butter?

A 2021 study estimated that food production makes up about 35% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions — and Savor estimates that about 7% of greenhouse gas emissions are just from producing fat.

But Savor's process, Gates wrote, doesn't release any greenhouse gases. He added that it uses no farmland and "less than a thousandth of the water that traditional agriculture does."

Savor is focusing on butter to start with partly because its high price point makes it easier to compete on cost. But the startup later hopes to develop other products like milk, ice cream, cheese — even meat.





Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

US Startup Makes Butter from Carbon Dioxide

Speaker one: I’ve had many language lessons over the years. My lessons at school were mundane and a waste of time. They involved rote learning which meant we just repeated everything the teacher said, and we had a lot of grammar lessons! However, when I started university, everything changed. The classes were engaging and practical. I remember a grammar lesson about conditionals in my first term. The teacher introduced the language through a funny picture story and included many engaging activities to help us work out the rules for ourselves and practice the language in a meaningful way. Not only was it enjoyable, but it was also effective as I left the class feeling like I’d really learned something.


Speaker two: Honestly, I think my most enjoyable English classes were at primary school. Our teacher, Miss Hinker was wonderful and very musical. She loved singing and taught us new songs all the time. She gave us musical instruments that we could use too. I’ll never forget the time she taught us a new song called ‘There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.’ I must have been around eight at the time. It was a song about a lady who ate many animals, finishing with a horse. It was hilarious. First, she showed us all the actions and then we sang the song many times and played the instruments. We laughed a lot, and I still remember the words to this day. I never wanted those lessons to end.

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