FINGER IN THE PIE: DISCRIMINATING AND TALKING ABOUT SENSES IN FOOD

 

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Activity created by Petrina Moir:

6. A FINGER IN THE PIE

Food items of your selection will be distributed in small paper glasses on four trays for this sense testing. 

Learners will have a fixed time to complete the 1. chart below with the appropriate adjective which best defines these senses: smell,touch-texture. 

Find posters with adjectives and sayings related to these senses below.

Sounds related to food will also be defined in a different activity also described in the chart and with alternative activites shown below.

1. Table to register the food identification and descriptive adjectives

2. SIGHT

3. SMELL

4. TOUCH

5. TASTE

Click here to listen to "People who can taste words"

6. SOUND

Students could implement modals to speculate or they can create their own to tell a story:

Ex: They might be setting the table

6.1. Silently cooking: great video which shows images of kitchen activities and how they sound.

https://youtu.be/jt5LytgPzMM

6.2. Sound effects in the kitchen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMAyBWT8-Ss