Level: pre-intermediate, intermediate
Objectives: to develop pupils’ speaking, listening, reading, writing skills;
to develop English linguistic skills;
to develop pupils’ quick reaction and ability to select necessary information;
to broaden pupils’ knowledge on the topic “Food”;
to develop pupils’ interest in learning English
Equipment: book “Opportunity British”, book “Gateway A2”, video, cards, diagrams, pictures
Introduction:
Teacher: Today, we’re going to speak about Food, Cooking and Health.
Welcome to Rosemary Shredder’s “School for Cook”. First of all, let me introduce
two groups of participants. The first group is some young people from Ukraine and an-
other one is my countrymen from Yorkshire.
Now, we aren’t cooking we are going to discuss your national cuisine, recipesof your
favorite meals, the advantages of healthy food. OK! Let’s start our Food – talk show.
At the beginning of our meeting we’re going to speak about Cooking.
You know, cooking is not only done out of necessity, but also for pleasure. It’s both a
Science and Art. Each country has its own traditions cookingis based on. There are so
many different styles of cooking that there is no dominant style.
Well, now your task is during 2 – 3 minutes you should present your national cooking.
Listen carefully, perhaps you’ll have some questions to your friends.
Main part of the lesson
Speaking:
Pupil 1 from Ukraine:
Our national cuisine reflects the richness of traditions and folkways of Ukrainian people. The most popular and well-known Ukrainian dish is surely, borsch an aromatic and appetizing cabbage soup of many ingredients. It is served as the main course with pampushky, soft rolls soaked in garlic.
Pupil 2 from Ukraine: Traditionally there are varenyk y with the various fillings: cheese, potato, meat, cherries. And of course, holubtsy – cabbage rolls stuffed with minced meat.
Besides, the proud of Ukrainian people is wheat bread, sweet-smelling and light.
Pupil 3 from Ukraine: I ‘d like to add something, if you have an occasion to visit the Ukrainian home, you’ll be
charmed by the sincere warmth of hosts and of course home-made food.
Discussion:
Teacher: Thank you. Have you got any questions to our guests?
Pupil 1 from Britain: What are the main ingredients of Ukrainian borsch?
Pupil from Ukraine: Oh, it may be cooked with beef, chicken, pork, baked beets, beans, mushrooms. It’s incredibly delicious!
Pupil from Britain: What are the varenyky made of?
Pupil from Ukraine: They are the type of boiled dumplings with different fillings. They are
especially tasty with cream.
Teacher: How delicious. We may lick our lips! Now. This group of young people
it’s your turn. What can you say about our traditional British food?
Pupil 1 from Britain: British food has traditionally been based on beef, lamb, chicken and
fish. Generally it is served with potatoes, pasta and different vegetables. The
most common and typical foods eaten in Britain include the sandwich, fish
and chips, pies like the Cornish pasta, trifle and roast dinners.
Pupil 2 from Britain: Besides, in recent years foreign foods have become regular part of our
British meal. Indian and Chinese dishes are popular for evening meals.
Teacher: It’s true. Our British cuisine nowadays is international. Friends, are there any
questions to your rivals?
Pupil from Ukraine: I’ve heard a lot about “Fish & Chips”meal. What’s this?
Pupil from Britain: Yes, it’s the traditional British take away is eaten with salt and and served in an old newspaper.
Pupil from Ukraine: Really? Great! You are from Yorkshire. What is your traditional meal?
Pupil from Britain: Our favorite dish is Yorkshire pudding, it’s very delicious, made offlour, eggs and milk. It’s traditionally eaten with roast beef.
Teacher: We don’t live on with pudding. We’re fond of eating. Which national dish is better we may ask question. I think Ukrainian and British food is nice but it’s quitedifferent. Now let’s see how have you remembered the traditional famous dishes? Your task is to cook a virtual national meal of your foreign friends. Don’t worry, you will read a recipe but unfortunately the sequen-ce of cooking is mixed, you should find in my magic basket all necessary ingredients and put in the right order the recipe. The first group to have got all the ingredients necessary for its recipe will be the winner.
Warming up:
Pudding
For Ukrainian pupils:
- Then add 3 cups of chopped apples to the mixture.
- Cream together a cup of sugar and a cup of margarine.
- Pour into a greased tin and bake 40 minutes.
- Add 2 cups of flour, a tablespoon of soda, 2 tablespoons of cinnamon and a teaspoon of salt. Beat thoroughly!
- Beat 3 eggs and mix them with sugar and margarine.
( Keys: 2,5, 4, 1, 3; ingredients: eggs, soda, salt, flour, cinnamon, apples, sugar )
Borsch
For British pupils:
- Add salt, sugar and pepper to taste.
- Simmer meat in a large saucepan for about 40 minutes.
- Stir the mix into the saucepan .
- Add potatoes, cabbage and simmer for about 10-15 minutes.
- Brown for about 5 minutes onion, beetroot, carrot in a frying pan, add tomato sauce or tomatoes.
( Keys: 2, 4, 5, 3, 1; ingredients: meat, cabbage, potatoes, onion, tomatoes, carrot, salt)
Teacher:
OK! Bon appetite! Will you read the recipes and what ingredients you have used to cook these traditional dishes. “Your cooking takes the cake.” I’m sure it’s necessary to follow well-balanced diet. Now we’re going to speak about …I don’t say the next point of our discussion. Let’s remember some proverbs devoted food. Your task is to find a word in proverbs with necessary letters.
F. e.: Hunger is my cousin.
There are 10 letters left, 2 teams in turn should find necessary letters for our crossword. Which team will be the first and the most correct? Name these chosen words from the proverb and write them on the board.
Teacher:
Well, you are perfectly right. The topic of our next discussion is Healthy Food. What does it mean ?
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11h / e / a / l / t / h / y / f / o / o / d
u / a / f / i / o / i / o / r / u / v / r
n / t / t / v / o / s / u / u / t / e / y
Proverbs:
After supper walk a mile. 4. Man doesn’t live by bread alone. 5. Too many cooks spoil the broth. 6. His bread is buttered on both sides. 7. Too lengthen your life, lessen your meals. 8. Forbidden fruit is sweet. 9. Out of the frying pan into the fire. 10. There is no use crying over the spilt milk. 11. Dry bread at home is better than the roast meat abroad.
( Keys: hunger; eat; after; live; too; your; fruit; out; over; dry )
Discussion:
Teacher:
Well, you’re perfectly right. The topic of our next discussion is “Healthy Food”,
What does it mean “to follow the well-balanced diet”? Everybody knows, it’s food which contains: proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals! What is useful for your organism?
Pupil 1:
I’m sure food which is rich in vitamins, minerals, proteins is very necessary for us.
Teacher:
I’m fully agree with you, now your task is allocate these products into three main groups and prove why you think so.
( in the basket pupils take some products )
FOOD
Teacher:
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating” Why have you done it in such a way?
Pupil 1:
We know that the fish, for example, meat, oil, cheese are rich in proteins and they are necessary for growing organism.
Pupil 2:
Fats, oil, carbohydrates give us energy but they should be used in small quantities.
Teacher:
What do you eat in order to stay healthy?
Pupil from Britain: As for me I always think about what I eat. In order to stay healthy I have a
living guide. He helps me how to follow the balanced diet.
Pupil from Ukraine:
I completely agree with you, it’s very important to choose a balanced diet, to eat more organic food, it is fuel and our minds and bodies depend on it. To be strong and healthy I try to eat regularly three times a day, go in for my favorite kind of sport. And on weekends I with my friends take rucksacks and walk somewhere into the country, swim in summer, ski, sledge in winter. It’s great!
Teacher:
I can’t but agree with you, as J. K. Jerome said “We are the slaves of stomach. Food influen-ces our mind and our behavior”. What do you think about it?
Pupil:
It’s a pity but there are many bad habits. As for me I can’t lose the habit of snacking or skipping regular meals. I’m always short in time.
Pupil:
Oh, it’s too bad. Such rapid life leads to stomach diseases. As for me, I’ve got three meals a day, I eat lots of vegetables and fruit.
Pupil:
But I adore of sandwiches, burgers and fast-food. When I haven’t got a time for meal I eat crisps and chocolate.
Pupil:
It isn’t good for your health, I know eating too much sweets, high fat food lead to obesity and teeth disease.
Pupil:
I try, but sometimes I can’t lose my habits. What should I do? Sometimes I have a snack after 6 p. m. I know it isn’t useful for organism, but I do it …
Pupil:
It is good that you know you have really bad habits, everybody should think about his health.
Pupil:
What measures must be taken against these bad health habits?
Teacher:
Well, there are some good advices, popular ways to lose weight and avoid gaining it. Read them and say how many people support these advices.
Reading :
Teacher:
Your time is up. Summarize your ideas and say what advices you support and why.
Pupil:
We believe that it’s necessary to follow a diet ( f. e.: 7 of us think about it )
We agree to use low-calorie foods ( it’s (im)possible to count calories \ it’s useful, we should do it)
Popular ways to lose the weight and avoid gaining it:
- Follow a diet. 2. Use low-calorie foods. 3. Eat less red meat. 4. Count calories. 5. Eat more fruit and vegetables. 6. Don’t eat at night. 7. Cut down on fat. 8. Exercise more.
9. Eat less of everything. 10. Cut out snacks and desserts.
Watching video:
Teacher:
Let’s watch the video without sound … ( “Opportunities in Britain” p.20 )
Teacher:
Do you think eating a lot of sandwiches and convenience food is useful for people?
Pupil:
I’m sure that the best food is home-made food which includes three main meals.
Pupil:
And we should follow the previous advices.
Pupil;
I think we must eat a lot of vegetables and fruit, I believe that An apple a day keeps a doctor away!
Teacher:
You are right, now I want you to read a short text where you get some information about your favorite food. Read them briefly and say if there are any negative sides in eating.
Reading ( “A teenage diet” )
Teacher:
Are these favorite foods contain only necessary calories, vitamins or perhaps there is anything negative things in them.
Pupil:
I like to eat meat, it’s full of proteins, vitamin B, essential minerals and etc. But a high intake of red meat can lead to cancer, it is dangerous.
Pupil:
As for me I adore of chocolate, it’s rich in a lot of useful minerals and vitamins but a high quantity of fat and calories can interrupt my sleep if eaten in the evening.
Pupil:
It’s unexpected to know that sugar for breakfast can improve concentration and memory in the morning, it’s great, cause, I’m always sleepy I the morning and it’s difficult to get up and go to school in such early time.
Teacher:
Now, let’s summarize in few sentences our talk and formulate rules of eating. You can find some ideas in the materials which you are provided with.
Pupil: Every cuisine is good when we eat healthy food. We should eat a lot of vitamins, low-fat food and more fiber.
Pupil: It’s necessary to follow a well-balanced diet, do physical exercises, drink 5 – 6 glasses of water per day.
Teacher: Thank you for your active participation in Food-talk Show. I’m very pleased with your work, will your take these prizes for memory of our interesting discussion.
Додаток: “A teenage diet”
I wouldn’t say I’m a fussy eater and the only thing I really don’t like is fish – I’m always scared I’ll swallow a bone! I try to eat a balanced diet and I always have breakfast , lunch and tea which are quite healthy because I have them at home.
Sometimes I’m not so good between meals and eat crisps and chocolate, and there’s a McDonald’s near my house, so it’s really easy to go in there and buy a burger! I never used to eat vegetables but I’m starting to eat more of them now. I try to eat fruit fairly often too, but looking at what I’ve eaten all week, there doesn’t seem to be much fruit..!
By the way, this is my diary of what I eat, isn’t it a healthy diet?
Saturday / Sunday / MondayBr.: Rice Kris pies & toast / Porridge, toast & jam / Porridge & toast
Lunch: Chicken soup / 2 bread rolls with sausages / Apple
Mid-afternoon: Cheese & onion crisps / Stick of rock / Chicken soup
Tea: Lasagna, chips, garlic bread / Roast beef, potatoes, broccoli, apple / Ham salad, pasta, roast potatoes
In between: 2 Kit Kats / Sandwich , Kit Kat / Tomato flavoured crisps
Supper: Packet of crisps , toast / Cornflakes, cheese, onion crisps / Crunchy Nut Cornflakes