British Food.

Carlos Solar Contreras.

Activity:

Food and cooking in UK.British population’s tendency towards

food and cooking.Stundents’ own preferencies.

Unidad: English and culture 1.

Topic: Modern British cooking and restaurants; the popularity of celebrity chefs

Obectives: To learn or revise vocabulary relating to food,

restaurants, tastes and textures. To develop reading and comprehension skills. To develop speaking skills/ discussing

preferences and attitudes towards food and restaurants.

Introduction.

This lesson consists of a series of activities to help students discuss food and cooking.

The main focus of the lesson is a text based on a recent survey in the UK indicating that British people are becoming more adventurous and experimental in their cooking and eating habits due to the growing popularity of cooking programmes.

Parameters:

Expeted hability: - reading comprehension.- writing production.- oral production.

Type-text:- investigation text- reviews.

Lexical content: class chefs, recipe books, adventurous, cookery programmes,

culinary knowledge, traditional diet, mediocre cuisine, culinary excellence.

Sintactic content: And, also, than, much more. Arragement of simple sentences. Present continuous. Present perfect.

Extention:- 512- 608

Stimated time:

- 4 hours.

Pre-activity.

Brainstorming: National Dishes

And then…

Alternative task…

Survey:

Food vocabulary exercise.

Students try to guest what food/dish is being described…

The teacher must encourage students to write some clues of their own !!!

Computers, an exelent tool for this activity…

Surfing for answers…

Reading activity N° 1.

The teacher gives students time to read the article.

And then …

Following on from the previous exercise…

Reading activity N° 2.

The teacher asks students to read the article and underline any new vocabulary wich it could be useful to describe restaurants.

After reading…

Additional task:

With higher levels.Their own review.

Post activity.

Proverbs…

Sources:

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/lesson-plans/cooking-britain-today#attachments

http://www.curriculum-mineduc.cl/docs/fichas/8b08_ingles.pdf