Lesson Coffee

Coffee
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COFFEE
PRE-READING QUESTIONS
1. Do you drink coffee? If so, how many cups of coffee do you drink everyday?
2. Where do you think coffee originated?
3. When do you think people first started to drink coffee?
4. What country do you think is the largest coffee producer in the world?
5. In what kind of climate is coffee produced?
ESL Lesson Plans - Famous Things - Coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a drink made from the beans of the arabica tree, a small tree that grows in tropical climates. The beans
are harvested from its fruit.
The arabica tree grows wild in Ethiopia. About 1,000 years ago, monks noticed that after eating its berries, they
stayed awake longer and had more energy. Other Africans made wine from the berries or mixed them with fat
and ate them.
Sometime later, seeds of the tree arrived in the Arabian Peninsula, where the plants have been grown ever since.
Arabians discovered how to take the beans out of the berries, roast them over high heat, grind them up, and boil
them in water to make kahweh (coffee).
Coffee became very important to Muslim people. Their religion forbids them to drink alcohol, but they could
drink coffee with their friends. By the 1300s, Arab traders and Muslims traveling to the holy shrine of Mecca
were telling other Muslims about kahweh. Coffee made its way to Turkey in the 1500s and to Italy in the
1600s. A trader from Venice introduced it to northern Europe, where coffeehouses became very fashionable.
Coffee was not grown outside of Africa or Arabia until the late 1600s. The Arabians tried to control its
production, but in 1616, some Dutch adventurers stole an arabica tree. The Dutch used it to start coffee
plantations in their colonies in Indonesia and the South Pacific.
In 1723, a French naval officer managed to get a tree to Martinique, a French colony in the Caribbean. Fifty
years later, coffee trees were growing throughout Central America.
In 1727, a military aide to the Emperor of Brazil snuck a tree branch out of French Guiana. By 1906, Brazil was
the worlds largest coffee producer and still is.
Today, about 50 countries produce coffee for world markets.
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
A. True or False. Read the statements below. If the statement is true, write T beside the sentence. If it is
false, write F. If it is false, correct the information.
1. Coffee beans are harvested in tropical climates.
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2. Africans made wine from the bark of the arabica tree.
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3. Coffee was first made in Arabia.
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4. Muslim people are not allowed to drink coffee.
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5. Brazil has been the worlds largest coffee producer for over a hundred years.
_________
B. Practice asking and answering the following questions with your partner. Then write the answers in
complete sentences.
1. What effect did the berries of the arabica tree have on the ancient Africans who ate them? _______________
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2. How did Arabians first make coffee? _________________________________________________________
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3. Why did coffee become important to Muslim people? ____________________________________________
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4. How did people in Europe eventually learn about coffee? _________________________________________
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5. Why was coffee not grown outside of Africa and Arabia until the late 1600s? _________________________
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6. How were the Dutch able to start coffee plantations in their colonies? _______________________________
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7. How was Brazil able to start to produce coffee? ________________________________________________
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VOCABULARY REVIEW
A. Match the words on the left with the correct meaning on the right.
_____ 1. tropical
a) religious
_____ 2. harvest
b) went secretly, took secretly
_____ 3. roast
c) a large area of land for growing crops
_____ 4. grind
d) cut and gather crops from the land
_____ 5. forbid
e) an assistant, helper
_____ 6. shrine
f) a religious place or monument
_____ 7. holy
g) a country or territory controlled by another country
_____ 8. fashionable
h) crush into powder
_____ 9. adventurer
i) someone who likes exciting travel
_____ 10. plantation
j) not permit, not allow
_____ 11. colony
k) cook in a hot oven or fire
_____ 12. aide
l) related to an area that is near the equator and very hot
_____ 13. snuck
m) in style
(sneak-present tense)
B. Choose the right word from the left column above to complete the following sentences. (You may have
to change the verb form or pluralize a noun.)
1. I like to ______________________ potatoes with garlic and onions. Theyre delicious.
2. You cant see the company president today, but his ______________________ can help you.
3. Many former British ______________________ are now independent countries.
4. Roberts wife ______________________ him to smoke in the house. If he wants to smoke, he must go
outside.
5. She comes from a ______________________ climate, so she cant get used to our cold weather.
6. Her clothes are always very ______________________ .
7. He didnt want his parents to know that he got home late, so he ______________________ into the house
very quietly and went right to bed.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. Why do you think so many people like to socialize over a cup of coffee?
2. What is de-caffeinated coffee? Is it popular in your country?
3. Do you think the people who harvest coffee beans are well paid for their work?
4. Many coffee shops now sell fair trade coffee. What do you think this means?
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ANSWER KEY
PRE-READING QUESTIONS
1 - 5. individual answers
COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
A. True or False
1. T
2. F
3. T
4. F
5. T
B. Written Answers
1. They stayed awake longer and had more energy after eating the berries.
2. They took the beans out of the berries of the arabica tree, roasted them, ground them up, and boiled them in water.
3. Muslims were not allowed to drink alcohol, but coffee was something they could drink with their friends.
4. Traders to Arabia and Muslims traveling to Mecca talked about coffee and it eventually made its way to Turkey, Italy,
and northern Europe.
5. The Arabians wanted to control the production of coffee.
6. Some Dutch adventurers stole an arabica tree from Arabia, so the Dutch were able to use it to start coffee plantations in
their colonies.
7. Brazil was able to start coffee production after a military aide to the Emperor of Brazil took an Arabica tree branch out
of French Guiana and brought it back to Brazil.
VOCABULARY REVIEW
A. Matching
1. l
2. d
3. k
4. h
5. j
6. f
9. i
10. c
11. g
12. e
13. b
7. a
B. Choose the correct word

1. roast 2. aide
3. colonies
4. forbids
5. tropical
6. fashionable
7. snuck
8. m

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2. Africans made wine from the bark of the arabica tree.

3. Coffee was first made in Arabia.

4. Muslim people are not allowed to drink coffee.

ESL Lesson Plans - Famous Things - Coffee

b) went secretly, took secretly

c) a large area of land for growing crops

d) cut and gather crops from the land

f) a religious place or monument

g) a country or territory controlled by another country

h) crush into powder

i) someone who likes exciting travel

_____ 10. plantation

j) not permit, not allow

_____ 11. colony

k) cook in a hot oven or fire

_____ 12. aide

l) related to an area that is near the equator and very hot

_____ 13. snuck

ESL Lesson Plans - Famous Things - Coffee

ESL Lesson Plans - Famous Things - Coffee

B. Choose the correct word

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