英语高级视听说 答案 Unit 8 The Star of Starbucks英语高级视听说 答案 Unit 8 The Star of Starbucks.ppt

Audio-Visual Classes Unit: 8 The Star of Starbucks Background Notes Coffee : Coffee is a popular beverage prepared from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant. It can be served hot or with ice. It is the 2nd commonly traded commodity in the world as a source of foreign exchange to developing countries, and in total, more 7 million tones of coffee are produced each year. Coffee has its history as far back to as the 9th century, it is thought that coffee has been originated in the highlands of Ethiopia and spread out to the rest of the world via Egypt and Europe Howard Schultz: He is an American businessman who is widely known as chief global strategist and chairman of Starbucks. Schultz was born on July 19th, 1953 in Brooklyn, NYC. In 1975, he became the first of his family to graduate from college. Later, he joined Seattles Starbucks(1982), which sold only coffee beans at the time. Inspired by Italian espresso bars, he resolved to create a similar experience in the United States. Moby Dick it is a novel written by Herman Melville. It describes the ill-fated voyage of the whaling ship Paquod which has to find and destroy the white whale. The language used in this novel is much symbolic and many themes run throughout the work. How ever, Moby Dick is considered now as one of the greatest novels in the English language Starbuck Starbuck is a thoughtful and intellectual Quaker, and he is the young first mate of the Paquod ship in the novel Moby Dick. Espresso it is a flavorful coffee beverage made by forcing very hot but not boiling water under high pressure through extremely fine ground coffee. It was invented and has undergone in Italy since the beginning of the 20th century. As a result of the high pressure process, all of the flavors and chemicals are concentrated in a typical cup of coffee. Also , because of its intense and highly- concentrated ingredients, there are several types of coffee such as Latte, Cappuccino, Macchiato, and