Food! Food! Food!

Saturday at the Farmers' Market

Video by Sandy Peters

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the video full-screen.

Eugene Farmers' Market

Slideshow by Sandy Peters

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the video full-screen.

Eat in Australia

Three friends travel through Australia. They eat
lots of food. Do you know the names of some of
the food they eat? Which of the foods you see
do you like?

EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

 

What's your favorite sandwich?

This is a gilled fish sandwich. What else is in the
sandwich? What kind of sandwiches do you like?
Form a small group and talk about the kinds of
sandwiches you like.

CC Flickr photo shared by Kate Hopkins

Homework assignment: Make one of your favorite
sandwiches at home. Take a photo of it with your cell
phone or a camera. In class, share the photo with
classmates. Explain how you made the sandwich.
(If you can't make one at home, you can take a
photo of a sandwich you are eating in a cafe and
tell what is in it!)

 

Read a cooking story.

Do this!
Read the story, Dan's Kitchen, on Lauri's ESL Website.
In this story, Dan is making a cake for his son.

Do this!
After you finish reading it, take the quiz Lauri provides.
Then check your answers.

Story and Quiz from Lauri's ESL website

Let's make breakfast!

Watch a role play on this video. Two girls love to cook.

This video was made for students in Japan who are learning English
Video by Purple Mary.

 

Let's make a salad

Do this!

• Watch the chefs prepare a salad in
  12 easy steps.
  
  
• Listen for 12 food preparation verbs:
  wash - tear - peel - chop - slice - dice
  cut - grate - add - pour - toss - eat

Let's Make a Salad is an educational video produced for Linguistics 480:
Computer Assisted Language Learning, with Dr. Trude Heift, Spring 2012
@ Simon Fraser University. Group Members: Andrea Puckova,
Lauren Hartley, Beverly Wu


Watch a simple slide show: How to make a green salad.


Slideshow by Sandy Peters

Assignment: Take 4 or 5 photos of foods you would
put in a fruit or vegetable salad. Make a PhotoPeach
slideshow to share in class.

Stanley's international restaurant

Stanley is a chef. He makes international food in his
restaurant. He serves food from  a different country
each night. Watch the video. Listen to the use of
the simple present tense.

 
Video from Language Planet Toluca - Side by Side
Grammar: simple present tense

 

My favorite food is paella

My favorite food is paella. It's a popular food in Spain.
Watch this food preparation video with a partner to see
what you need to make paella.

• Make a list of ingredients.
• Then talk about how you prepare the food.
• Use some of the food preparation verbs we learned in class: cut, slice, chop, fry, mix, stir...
  

paella from socarrat on Vimeo

What's your favorite food?

Read about some people's
favorite foods.

Ask each other:
What's your favorite food?

Padlet wall by Sandy Peters: What's your favorite food? 

Go to this padlet wall and post about your favorite food.

 

Listen to a vegetable rap.

Listen to this vegetable rap. Listen for these vocabulary words:

   a vegetable rap

   potato, celery stick, zucchini

   a crunchy, yummy, snack

   a vegetable shake

VEGETABLE RAP from Beau Cassidy on Vimeo.

 
Assignment:
With a partner, write your own short food rap. (4-6 sentences.) 
Share your rap in class tomorrow.

How to make a fruit smoothie

Watch a video to learn how to make a tasty fruit smoothie.

Video by SmoothieRecipe TV

Work in groups of three. Choose the fruits you would put in
a fruit smoothie. Then write 4 to 5 instructions for making
your smoothie.

 

Sarah makes a fruit salad.

Sarah is from New Zealand. She makes a delicious
fruit salad. What fruits does she put into her fruit salad?

Go to The Daily English Show to read the transcript
of this video. (#888 Fruit Salad)

Credit: The Daily English Show by Sarah