APIEReading: Tea Around the World
Tea around the world
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🍵 Tea: Small Leaves, Big History
Learn about real tea, where it comes from, and who grows it around the world.
How to use this lesson
• Take 2 minutes to introduce the topic and guide learners through the short passage.
• Use the remaining 10 minutes for students to complete 8 interactive questions and check immediate feedback.
• Read the short passage carefully first and notice key facts from FAO.
• Answer the 8 questions below from easy to hard and check your evidence for each answer.
Tea Around the World
FAO is the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, a group working on food and farming. FAO says that real tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant. It says that herbal tea comes from other plants and is not real tea. FAO says that tea is the world's most drunk drink after water. It says evidence shows people drank tea in China 5,000 years ago. It says tea first grew in northeast India, north Myanmar and southwest China, but nobody knows the exact place. It says, on a 2022 page, that small farmers grow 60% of all tea in countries like China, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam.
Hard Words Explained
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, a group that works on food and farming.
The exact plant that real tea comes from.
A drink made from other plants, not real tea.
Facts or signs that show something is true.
People who grow plants on small pieces of land, not on very big farms.
✏️ Interactive Exercises (1–8)
Easy to HardReal tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant.
Herbal tea is a type of real tea.
According to FAO, what is the world's most drunk drink after water?
When is there evidence that people first drank tea in China?
Match each country/region to the direction where tea first grew:
Match each term or number to its correct meaning according to the text:
How much of the world's tea do small farmers grow according to FAO's 2022 page?
Name the three countries where small farmers grow tea mentioned in the text:
🎉 Well done! You finished the reading lesson.
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