jamie's tea book
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Jamie's Tea BookTRANSCRIPT
What is Tea? :Page 3
Tea Production :Page 4
Interesting Facts about Tea :Page 7
Different Types of Tea :Page 8
Tea Quiz :Page 9
Matching Game :Page 10
Answers :Page 11
References :Page 12
Glossary :Page 13
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• "Tea" refers to the aromatic beverage prepared by
combining cured leaves with hot or boiling water.
• After water, tea is the most widely consumed
beverage in the world.
• Tea-plant, also known as Camellia sinensis, is an
evergreen plant that grows mainly in tropical and
sub-tropical climates.
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• A new tea-plant must grow for five years before its
leaves can be picked.
• The trunk of the old plant must be cut off to force
new stems to grow out in the coming year.
• All types of tea, white, green, oolong, and black,
come from the same plant, the Camellia sinensis.
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• After skilled workers pick the tea leaves, they must
be parched in tea-cauldrons.
• The tea-cauldrons are heated electrically to a
temperature of about 250C or 740F.
• It takes four pounds of fresh leaves to produce one
pound of parched tea.
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• Once the tea leaves are fully dried, they are ready
to be chopped into very small pieces.
• The chopped tea leaves are then packaged in
various different ways to be sold to customers.
• Some of the tea are produced for export market,
but a lot is kept for local market.
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1. Tea drinking is believed to have originated in China when tea
leaves, blown by the wind, accidentally fell into a Chinese
Herbalist's pot of hot water in 2700 BC.
2. There are four main types of tea: white, green, oolong, and
black. Depending on the culture, these four types can turn
into thousands of varieties.
3. The tea bag was invented in the early 20th century by a tea
merchant named Thomas Sullivan.
4. The Camellia sinensis tea plant can produce tea for 50 years.
5. Iced tea was invented in America, and is the most consumed
"prepared tea type" in America.
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1. Black Tea: Once picked, the black tea leaves are rolled until they
start to darken and turn red; the darkened leaves are spread out
and opened to air for 2 to 3 days.
2. Oolong Tea: Tea leaves sit for about 45 minutes in the sun, turned
frequently for air to reach all of the leaves. After the sun time,
the leaves are moved to sit in the shade for a few hours at room
temperature.
3. Green Tea: Once picked, the green tea leaves are dried slightly in
the cool shade for a few hours. After they have cooled, the green
tea leaves are quickly steamed or roasted for a couple minutes.
4. White Tea: White tea leaves are picked before they open fully,
when the flower buds are still covered by thin white hairs, giving
this tea its name. White teas are scarcer than any other tea, and
more expensive.
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1. How long does a tea leaf need to grow before
it can be picked?
2. What is the second most widely consumed
beverage in the world?
3. What are the four types of tea?
4. How many pounds of fresh leaves does it take
to produce one pound of parched tea?
5. What equipment is used to parch the tea
leaves?
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Place the following pictures in the correct order of tea production.
1 2 3
4 5 6
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1. How long does a tea leaf need to grow before it can be picked?
5yrs
2. What is the second most widely consumed beverage in the world?
Tea
3. What are the four types of tea?
Black, Oolong, Green, White
4. How many pounds of fresh leaves does it take to produce one
pound of parched tea?
4 pounds
5. What equipment is used to parch the tea leaves?
Tea-cauldrons
3 4 6 1 2 5
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Websites used: • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea
• http://www.wtea.com/about-tea_growth.aspx
• http://www.fmltea.com/Teainfo/tea-production.htm
• http://dictionary.reference.com
• http://www.planet-tea.com/teas_origin.html
• http://www.the-color-of-tea.com/tea-facts.html
• http://www.coffeeteawarehouse.com/tea-types.html
Images used: • Google Images
• Yahoo Images
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1. Aromatic: having an aroma; fragrant or sweet-scented
2. Cured: to prepare (meat, plant, etc.) for preservation by drying
3. Consumed: to take in as food; eat or drink up
4. Camellia sinensis: a tropical evergreen tree cultivated in China,
Japan and India; source of tea leaves
5. Tropical climates: usually located closer to the equator; have
steady, warm temperatures that support the growth of tropical
plants
6. Sub-tropical climates: non tropical climates with relatively warm
Winters, but not as hot as the summer season
7. Parched: to make extremely dry, especially by exposure to heat
8. Tea-cauldrons: large metal pot used for drying tea leaves
9. Herbalist: one skilled in the harvesting and collection of medicinal
plants
10. Scarce: not plentiful or abundant
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