Reading activity

Reading activity

BOGOTA FOLKLORE FOOD: MANY THINGS FOR ALL PEOPLE

When you think in Colombian gastronomy, you can see many options with some food that only you can find in this South America country. But, today we can talk about the Bogota food because if you visit this city, you can find many Colombian foods, but you need to know the representative things about this topic in this place.

Bogota it’s really known for the Ajiaco soup, it’s a combination with chicken, cream, yellow potato (small and yellow potato many know in Colombia), some plants and yellow color. The people only eat like a lunch; because of their combination will makes feel without hungry the consumer.

By other way, Bogota it’s known for Monserrate, a small mountain that you can visit walking or using a small train. There you can find a church and near, many options for discovering the local food. The most popular are: Aguapanela a hot and sweet drink, almojabana it’s a salt and soft cake, canelazo it’s the aguapanela with some alcoholic drink like aguardiente (Anis alcoholic drink very famous in Colombia), cheese and hot chocolate with milk.

 If you are walking near to Monserrate, before up the mountain, you can find an important place: Chorro de Quevedo. It’s the exact point where Bogota was founded in 1538. Here you can find the most popular alcoholic and autochthonous drink in the city: Chicha. The chicha it’s an alcoholic drink, their preparation includes natural corn, sugar and a big crock pot. Please drink soft because you can feel lost easily and your stomach will be sick.

 Ending, you can find some popular deserts. The fruit salad includes tropical fruits cut in regular squares, mixed with cream, up the preparation the preparation contains cheese, coconut, honey and in some cases, ice cream.

The “brevas con Arequipe”, a really sweet combination with breva’s syrup and milk soft candy. The “postre de natas” its preparated with the cream that expand the milk when you boil the milk, includes some sugar, alcohol drink and cinnamon.

 

Please, don’t forget to eat all when you visit this Colombian city.

See you.

GENERAL QUESTIONS

1.     This text has a commune structure, what do you think it’s the text type?

2.    The author given a general travel around the food folklore in food things in Bogota. What do you think it’s the author intention with this text?

3.    If you wrote the text, which information you can include it? Please explain minimum 3 points.

4.    The authors given a general idea with the text title, I propose to you change it and explain your selection.

5.   You can see a structure for this text, please can you describe in each paragraph the general idea

6.    Why it’s the meaning the word “Folklore” in the title

7.    Please change the next words with synonymous: local food, expand.

8.     Later that you read the text, what local food do you want to eat? Why?

9.     The text give to you some recommendations for discover the Bogota local food, but one health recommendation too. Do you can identify with which food?

10.  What do you think about this text?