The sorbet and marmalade story
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Written by students from Paolo Borsellino School Mazara Class 2nd D
Paolo Agrusa Wasim Alaya Giorgia Arone Giulia Castiglione Aya Chatti Antonio Davoli Marco Diliberti Laura Fanella Antonio Giacalone Gabriele Gianformaggio Sara Indelicato Giovanni La Paola Valentina Lamia Virna Molinari Alice Mondonuovo Salvatore Orofino Giada Parrinello Miriam Russo Ivan Sinacori Story created and Illustrated by English teacher Rocco Spanò
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Anna and her mother After reading exercise: crossword
Anna’s father After reading exercise: answer the questions
Trapani After reading exercise: crossword
The history of sorbet After reading exercise: complete the exercise
Anna meets a boy After reading exercise: complete the exercise
Anna makes mulberries sorbet After reading exercise: complete the exercise Giuseppe goes to Vilanova de la sal Vilanova de la sal Giuseppe and Lorencio
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Anna and her mother
Anna is a beautiful girl; she lives in Trapani with her mother and father. She is15 years old. She has long blond hair. She has very beautiful green eyes and a beautiful bright pink mouth. She does not have many friends, but she is very friendly and sociable. She is always with his mother and helps her in the housework. She likes cooking and particularly she likes making sweets. Her mother’s name is Carmela. She is 38 years old. She has dark long hair and black eyes. She is not tall, but she is a good wife. She likes cooking and that’s why her daughter likes cooking, too. They like making rice balls and couscous. They cook cous-cous with meat, fish and with vegetables. Anna is making marmalade. Now they can make it because they can buy sugar and there are many types of fruit in the countryside. 4
After reading exercise
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Anna’s father
Giuseppe is Anna’s father, he is 42 years old. He is not very tall, but he is well built. He works in the saltpans and he is a good worker. He likes working there even if in summer it is very hot and in winter too windy. Every day he gets up very early and he goes on foot to work but it is not far from his house. In the afternoon, his wife and his daughter cook lunch for him because he does not have lunch at home. All workers have a lunch break during the day. They sometimes share their lunch. They drink a lot of water and eat a lot of fruit especially oranges.
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After reading exercise
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Trapani
The Arabs called Trapani Itrabinis,Tarabanis,Trapanesch and deeply marked the city with their presence, architecture, agriculture, art, language and culture. Arabs expanded the seaport, built new districts and they introduced the small property. The Arabs also introduced new productions, built hydraulic system, new fishing techniques and brought the seaport to its former glory. Muslims probably imported from Turkey technology "wind machines", those mills that for centuries characterize the coast of Trapani. Trapani became an important trading center. Trapani ships began to trade with the maritime cities of Pisa, Genoa and Amalfi and other towns of the Mediterranean Arab as Seville and Malta. Arabs had naval control of the Mediterranean western center. Sicily produced a remarkable economic and civil growth. Sicilians began to grow different products. The Arabs built many small villages that still preserve the Arab name “bagghi� farmhouses. Thanks to these technical measures, agriculture science made great advances in the quality and quantity. 8
The irrigation system favored the cultivation of vegetables and expansion of orchards, such as citrus fruits, dates, apricots, mulberries, prickly pear and pistachio. The Arabs also brought the sugar cane. The exploitation of the coastal area between Trapani and Marsala dates from the time of the Phoenicians who planted tanks to extract the salt, and then they exported the salt throughout the Mediterranean basin. The land is watered by shallow and often characterized by high temperatures and climatic conditions (above all the wind that promotes evaporation) especially designed to extract this precious element, essential to human life. Salt was, of course, a hugely important commodity for the preservation of food and so the west coast of Sicily soon had a fundamental role to play in the daily life of thousands of people around the Mediterranean and in Europe.
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The history of sorbet
Sorbet represents one of the most important ice cream types in their long and varied history. Initially closely connected with the availability of ice and expensive storage technologies, sorbet slowly became one of the most popular frozen desserts in Sicily. Sorbet is a frozen dessert that is made from sweetened water flavored by fruit and flower. The word sorbet comes from the Arab word "sherbet" fresh drink. Arabs introduced in Sicily the knowledge on how to make sorbets. In Medieval time, people needed snow to prepare the sorbet. People preserved the snow in draw and they covered it with straw. In the East, people discovered that the juice is thickened and cooled when mixed in a container covered externally with snow; then people also understood that the melting of the ice was slowed down by the addition of salt.
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Anna meets a boy
In a hot summer day Anna and her mother go along the sea for a walk. While they are walking, Anna sees a boy sitting in a bench and drinking something from a glass with a red straw. Anna is very curious and start the conversation. Anna: Sorry. Can you tell me what is it, please? Boy: orange sorbet. Anna: How do you make it? Boy: First, you need to collect some snow in winter. Anna: Where can I find snow in summer? Boy: I show you where we save it. It is not far from here.
Boy: Here it is. If you like, you can take a bowl of snow. Anna: Thank you. You are a very kind boy. 13
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Anna makes mulberries sorbet The day after Anna goes to the country and picks up a few mulberries. She starts making the sorbet before her father arrives home from work. She tastes it. It is delicious. Her mother is not in, so it will be a surprise also for her.
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GIUSEPPE GOES TO VILANOVA DE LA SAL
One day, Asab ibn al-FurĂ goes to Trapani and meets Giuseppe in the saltpans. Asab ibn al-FurĂ asks Giuseppe to go to Vilanova de la sal, not far from Lleida because he is a good worker and he can teach how to build a windmill. The next day Giuseppe leave from Trapani by ship and first he stops to Barcelona. During the trip, Giuseppe meets the captain of the boat, his name is Biel and he is very nice, Biel and Giuseppe are friends now. They speak about their traditions, Biel is Catalan and he is very pry and he wants know about Sicilian traditions. The next day he goes on foot to Vilanova de la sal where he meets Lorencio. He is playing dice.
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Vilanova de la sal
Vilanova originated in a medieval village founded in the mid twelfth century by the Count of Urgell. In the mid-fourteenth century, the population began to settle on land easier to cultivate, making the core of Vilanova private and ended in ruins. They take the salt out of the change of name of the municipality.
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GIUSEPPE AND LORENCIO
Giuseppe and Lorencio speak about their work and about their traditions. Giuseppe would like to build a windmill in the saltpans like in Trapani because it is a new technique. So the next day they go to the saltpans and start to build a windmill.
They start working very hard and in a few weeks, the windmill is ready.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY http://digilander.libero.it/craltrapani.mps/STORIA%20TRAPANI.htm http://www.salinenatura.it/?page_id=569 Giovan Francesco Pugnatore, Istoria di Trapani Mario Serraino, Storia di Trapani Salvatore Costanza, Tra Sicilia e Africa: Trapani, storia di una cittĂ mediterranea, Trapani,
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