Integrated Task: Bread or Beer?

[Kana33]

Hi professor, the 2nd essay of mine, please kindly review, thanks so much ^__^

Warm Regrads,
Kana
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The reading and the listening are about the first grain food of humanity. The author claims that the first grain-based food was bread. The professor however asserts that it was beer rather than bread by illustrating an alternative hypothesis regarding the origin of beer.

Firstly, the author states that early people firstly crushed the wheat to make it easy to eat and grinded wheat eventually become the basic element of making bread. Nevertheless, the professor of listening says that people can just only keep the wheat in moist environment and let it be naturally soften without any crush. At this point, she raise a question ‘Which do you think happened first?’ to convince and draw listeners’ conclusion in the way that beer comes first.

Secondly, the passage asserts that the bread requires no technology but fire to bake and this is the simplest way to make the grain more favorable to eat and to extend the storing period. On the other hand, professor claims that beer requires nothing even fire. The effortless process of making beer make her statement sound that beer can actually be the first grain food human ate and undoubtedly cast questioned on reading statement.

Finally, the reading indicates that the bread can be lighter in texture and easier to eat by natural fermentation process, only if people leave the paste in open air. As a matter of fact, the professor states that not only natural fermentation beer can be made by, it also begins to ferment and form the foam as soon as it is stored. This is where the early people can easiest tasted beer. Moreover, she disbelieve that ancient people would think of fire only to make the food better to eat.

In conclusion, the argument above clearly illustrates that the professor is in the different point of view against the author. She believes that beer is the first grain-based food of human societies rather than bread.

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