Key Concepts: Popular national foods
often reflect products that are available locally.
Many cultures can be recognized by the unique foods they eat or by their
characteristic ways of cooking or seasoning meals.
Recreation: Leisure
is time to be free from work or duties. Many
people today do not spend every minute of their lives trying to survive. Modern conveniences have given us more time to
relax. Recreation is a means of
refreshing ourselves after work or duties are complete.
Today, people have more time for recreation than they did in the past.
Think About:
Think about how
your world’s habitat and way of life affect what people eat.
Will hunting
tribes eat the same as farming people? Will people living in your world along rivers or
oceans eat the same things as inland people?
Do people benefit
from having leisure time?
Not long ago
people had very little time for recreation. What
things had to be done in the past that doesn’t have to be done today?
Would we be
different if we had no leisure time? How?
Answer the
questions in the space provided:
What foods do
people in your world eat on a daily basis?
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Invent at least
two popular dishes from your world. Write the recipes down.
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What are some of
the things people do in your world for recreation?
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Assignment: Many countries have a sport that is a national
favorite. Invent a sport for your world.