Everyone needs to eat! But when and where and what? All these things differ with different cultures. Learn how to talk about meals and how to prepare them.
Beginning Learners:
Learn vocabulary associated with cooking and eating foods at home
Possible Vocabulary:
- Breakfast
- Breakfast foods
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Snacks
- Names of various dishes commonly eaten at each meal
- Names of kitchen appliances: fire, stove, oven, refrigerator, sink, counter, etc.
- Names of cooking implements: pots, pans, spoon, spatula, ladle
- Different ways to prepare things: wash, slice, chop, stir
- Different ways to cook things: boil, bake, fry, steam etc.
- Verbs: cook, serve
Suggested Activities:
Activity 1: Use Look and Listen and Do techniques to learn all these words. Your LH can say things like “Slice the onion.” You act out slicing with a real onion or a picture of one. Your LH could give you instructions one by one on how to make a simple dish.
Activity 2: After you’ve done Activity 1 and are quite familiar with the vocabulary, ask your LH to tell how you to make that dish in a simple paragraph. You might not be able to understand it all until you are a bit more advanced, but since you will have learned a lot of the words, it helps you to understand the connectors, such as “and then,” “next,” etc.)
Intermediate Learners:
Activity 1: This is the stage at which you can really use the Series technique to learn how to make various common dishes served in people’s homes. Take pictures of each step, as you make the dish with a friend. Then get a LH to describe each picture. Record and listen. Ask the LH to describe the whole process in single recording.
Activity 2: Make a PowerPoint® slideshow from the pictures of the different steps in your Series. Link the associated recordings with each slide. Now watch the whole slideshow and listen.
