Classwork Activity

What’s the same about these three types of drinks? Name each drink and match it with a
country which is famous for producing it.

Country Drink
A. rusia vodka
B. italia come
C. germany beer

Listen to the audio recording and fill in the gaps:

culture
Alcohol has been a component of human ______________ for thousands of years. From its
alcohol has had countless
prehistoric inception to its many uses in modern times, ______________
effects on our cultures, and our minds. Throughout the course of human history, alcoholic
beverages
______________have flavors
taken on many forms and ______________ around the world. The earliest
nine thousand
known alcoholic beverage dates back to about ______________years ago, in northern China. It
fruit
was a kind of wine made from ______________, honey and rice. About a thousand years later, in
grapes
the Central Asian country of Georgia, the oldest wine made exclusively from ______________
was produced. And around the same time in the Middle East, the earliest beer was being
beverages are produced,
made from barley. No matter where or what types of alcoholic ______________
they all share a similar chemistry. The type of alcohol found in beverages such as beer,
alcoho or ethanol. Ethanol is produced through
wine and spirits is called ethyl ______________l
fermentation bacteria
______________, a process in which microorganisms, usually ______________ or a fungus called
 organic
yeast, cause organic material to decompose. By decomposing, sugars in the ______________
ingredient
material are converted into carbon dioxide and ethanol, the ______________ that makes
alcoholic beverages intoxicating. Alcohol’s intoxicating effects are due to its role on the
human central nervous system. Moderate amounts of alcohol trigger the release of neural
chemicals such as dopamine, serotonin and endorphins in the brain. This decreases
______________
anxiety, increases happiness and depresses the brain’s inhibitory activities. Apart from
several aspects of human
alcohol’s mind-altering effects, it has been credited for ______________
china
culture. Fermented beverages in ancient ______________ may have served as a way to
communicate with gods and deceased ancestors at funerary ceremonies. Grape
right why
______________, similar to those discovered in prehistoric Georgia, is now a component of the
evidence
Christian ritual, the Eucharist. And, in the Middle East, the home of the earliest ______________
have developed
of beer, the earliest form of writing was also discovered, thought to ______________
production of crops, including barley for beer. Through
as a way to account for the ______________
moderate consumption
______________, alcohol may continue to contribute to countless other aspects of
culture
human ______________.