1. LEARNING ENGLISH BY COOKING. CLASSROOM PROJECT and ACTIVITIES

1. LEARNING ENGLISH BY COOKING. CLASSROOM PROJECT and ACTIVITIES

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jueves, 26 de mayo de 2022

WELCOME TO ROBERT BURNS' SUPPER


Shared by Mónica Cordero:

 

SCHOOL YEAR:                               B2 level form the Official Language School                                              

TOPIC:                                            Food, culture, literature, language

Estimated TIME/SESSIONS:           2 sessions. This activity is designed to be made around the 25th January, the actual date Scottish people celebrate Robert Burns’ Night/Supper.

 

 

LESSON OBJECTIVE:

-To know Scottish culture (literature, music and gastronomy)

-To learn food and cuisine vocabulary

CONTENTS/SKILLS:

During these sessions the students will work all the skills they are going to face during their certification exams in June (reading, listening, mediation, writing and speaking) but in a different order.



DESCRIPTION:

 Invitation: The first activity will be a writing: each student has to write an invitation for the party. The task has to have around 120 words and should include a brief history of Robert Burns and Robert Burns’ Night (in this part of the writing they will practice written mediation), and the properly invitation. Every guest should be invited to wear tartan the following day.

The second day will be the one most of the activities will be developed:

Starter: They start the day doing an oral mediation. The activity will be done in pairs. Each student is going to be given a recipe (student A Cullen Skink and student B Easy Cock-a- leekie soup). They will have 5 minutes in order to prepare the mediation (as in the June exam) and then they will have three minutes to talk, using synonyms, opposites and structures (passive voice, conditional, reported speech,…)

Main course: Following, students should do an individual task. They should fill the gaps in the text “vegetarian haggis stuffed mushrooms” (a reading activity). They have 15 minutes to do it.

Dessert: In the next activity students should cook the dessert, in this case shortbread. Students will be divided in groups and while they are baking these special biscuits they must communicate among them in English (it is the speaking task).

Farewell: The last activity will be a listening. The students should fill the gaps in the song Auld Lang Syne.

Click here to go to the activities.


 



 

RECIPE/s:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/cock-a-leekie_soup_03663

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/cullenskink_92467

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/vegetarian_haggis_12104

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/shortbread_1290  (shortbread)

 

 

VOCABULARY (if specific vocabulary is needed for the activity):

 Adjectives: snugly, tender, thick, smoked, crusty, stuffed, toasted, grated, soften, melted, chopped, sliced, buttery, smooth

Ingredients: bay leaves, leek, celery, prune, drumstick, stock (cubes), fennel, haddock, shallots, parsley, nutmeg, breadcrumbs, pine nuts, caster sugar, plain flour

Materials: (sauce)pan, blender, skewer, bakin sheet,  rolling pin, knife

Verbs: blend, season, chop, boil, pip, pour, strin, simmer, (pre)heat, beat, stir, drizzle, sprinkle, chill, bake


 

 

MATERIALS:

 

Worksheets with the different activities.

Ingredients for the shortbread recipe (butter, caster sugar, plain flour)

Kitchen tools and equipment: Oven, bowl, rolling pin, knife, baking tray, fridge, wire rack.    

 

 

 

NOTES/ PIECES OF ADVICE:

 -Decorate the class with a picture of our host (Robert Burns) and his poems (To a mouse; Address to Haggis;, A red, red rose,…)

 -It is better to do the activity in January. To do it later means to lose some of the charm of doing it in a special date.

 Another reason to develop it in January is to do it without the teacher’s stress of fulfilling the curriculum and the anxiety most students have in May due to the nearness of June (and certification) exams. This was the challenge I faced. So I decided to adapt the activity to A2 students. 

They only did three of the activities (the reading, but in an easiest way, putting in order the vegetarian haggis recipe), the listening and a description of a selection of British sweets (This is a piece of cake template).

 

CREDITS -Links and resources:

https://www.nts.org.uk/visit/places/robert-burns-birthplace-museum

https://www.scotland.org/events/burns-night

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/how-throw-burns-night-supper

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/occasions/burns_night

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/collections/scottish_recipes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_eoiRvdp-A  (Auld Lang Syne song)


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