A Turkish proverb says “Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death and sweet as love” and that summarizes quite well what Turkish coffee should be like. For the Turks, coffee is not simply a beverage; it has its own history, rituals and rules of when and how to drink it. Just as the Irish meet friends at a pub and chat over a pint of beer, the Turks also meet at the hundreds of thousands of coffee houses spread over the cities and socialize over a cup of coffee.
If you want to taste some Turkish coffee, here are the directions:
ü Pour 1 ½ cups of cold water in the coffee pot for each cup of coffee
that you make.
ü Add one teaspoon of ground Turkish coffee per cup and stir. Add sugar if
necessary.
ü Heat the pot as slowly as you can. The slower the heat, the better.
ü When the water boils, pour some of the coffee into cups, filling about a
quarter of each cup to make sure that everybody gets a share of the foam.
ü Continue heating the coffee until it boils again, and then pour the rest
of the coffee into the cups.
ü Wait for the coffee grounds to settle at the bottom of the cup and enjoy
your delicious Turkish coffee.
Mark
the statements true (T) or false (F) according to what you read.
1. ( ) The Turks don’t give much importance to coffee
2. ( ) There are no special places for drinking coffee in Turkey.
3. ( ) Coffee is for the Turks what beer is for the Irish.
4. ( ) Turkish coffee shouldn’t be made in a hurry
5. ( ) It is best to drink Turkish coffee as soon as it is ready.
Coffee
reading is a tradition that has developed around coffee drinking Turkey.
1. Listen to the explanation and number the pictures according to the sequence.
2. Listen to some rules about the positions and symbols and label the picture below.
3. What is in the store for the person who drank the coffee in the cup above? In pairs, study the meanings of the symbols and try to find it out. After you have come to a conclusion, share your views with the rest of the class
|
angel |
good
news and happiness |
knife |
danger |
|
beans |
financial
difficulties |
line |
straight:
progress |
|
bee |
new
friends |
wavy:
difficult progress |
|
|
candle |
help
from someone; knowledge and learning |
owl |
scandal |
|
cat |
a
quarrel |
spider |
unexpected
money |
|
egg |
wealth
and success |
sword |
fall
of enemy |
|
eye |
envy
and jealousy |
triangle
pointing up |
good
change |
|
hand |
friendship
and family |
triangle
pointing down |
bad
change |
