Type
of the lesson: English practice.
Age
of students: 21-22 (4th-year students).
General
topic of the unit: Food.
Topic
of the class: Cooking.
Goals
of the class: develop listening and speaking skills,
and the ability to express personal view of the topic, learning new words.
Goals
of the activity: reading and listening comprehension.
2. Do you think the term "weird" could be used to describe food?
2. Look through the definitions of the words below.
Takes
the cake (Informal American English) you can say that something takes
the
cake about something that you think is very surprising or annoying.
Junk
food strange and unusual food, disgusting in some way.
Sharp
Sharp is a word to describe the strong taste of certain foods, such as
cheese. Cheeses range from sharp (strong) to mild (not strong).
Dull
1.not
foolish; 2. not piquant.
Blunt fool.
Patty
a
cutlet.
Key key (adjective)
means very important.
Glazed
donut A glazed donut is a type of fried pastry covered with a thin coat (a
glaze) of sugary icing.
Artery-clogging obstruction
of arteries with fat
Apparently doubtless.
Horrendous
terrible, horrible, extremely unpleasant
Come
up with To come up with something means to invent it or think of
it.
Savory
Food that is savory is salty, meaty, or spicy, not sweet.
In British English it's spelled savoury.
Peanutty with the peanut flavor.
Aberration
An aberration is something that differs from the norm, particularly
the normal moral standards.
Gammon
Gammon is also called ham. It is meat from the back leg of a pig,
usually preserved with smoke or salt or both.
Loony
loony is an informal word for crazy, stupid, or foolish
Frame of reference to have an idea.
Ix-nay
Lori
is using "Pig Latin" to play with the word nix. Nix means no,
nothing.3. Now listen to the dialogue.
http://hw.libsyn.com/p/1/f/d/1fdd2026ed020b37/weird_food.mp3?sid=3965770fece2dbf19d57869343f64043&l_sid=23550&l_eid=&l_mid=2134485&expiration=1327851335&hwt=3705f1ede182c1c07de004704b1c30f4
4. Listen again and fill in the gaps.
Conversation Transcript
Lori: When I was over in the States recently, I was reading one of my
mom's
magazines. And in
that magazine I read about a new hamburger.
Michael: OK.
Lori: That...it really_________, this new hamburger. You know, we've
talked about _____food before, but this is amazing. It's a big beef burger, and
they put ______cheddar cheese and two slices of bacon...
Michael: What... Can I just stop you there? What is sharp cheddar cheese?
Lori: Sharp cheddar cheese? A sharp cheese is a cheese that has a
strong flavor.
Michael: Ooh, OK.
Lori: So cheese can be mild or sharp.
Michael: Right.
Lori: You'd think that the opposite would be "_______," but
you don't talk about a dull
cheese.
Michael: Or "________" cheese.
Lori: Yeah, a blunt cheese, right, exactly. Exactly. So sharp cheddar
cheese. But
anyway, back to the
burger, it's got...yeah, a big beef________, sharp cheddar cheese
and two slices of
bacon. And now here is the_______.
Michael: Mmm, the bacon sounds good.
Lori: Yeah, but the key ingredient...the bun is actually a Krispy Kreme___________.
Michael: Uh huh.
Lori: Can you believe that? And it's actually a baseball team, I think,
the Gateway Grizzlies, it's what they're calling "Baseball's Best
Burger," and they're serving it at their baseball games.
Michael: Baseball's weirdest burger, maybe!
Lori: Baseball's most __________________burger.
Michael: So you said that it was, the burger bun is a donut,
Lori: Mmm hmm. A donut, yes.
Michael: Is that, um, I mean, donuts are sweet though, aren't they?
Lori: Yeah, it's a glazed donut so it would be sweet. And ___________they
cut it in half and toast it and use that as the bun on this burger.
Michael: That sounds_______________.
Lori: It..I couldn't...I thought it was a joke when I first read about
it. I thought it must be a joke but apparently it's true.
Michael: It really makes me wonder, you know, they have this, um this kind
of, stereotype of American people being fat.
Lori: Right.
Michael: And I guess if, you know, they're eating things like that whilst
sitting down at the baseball game.
Lori: Yeah, sitting down watching other people do sports.
Michael: Exactly...that's what I'm thinking, yeah!
Lori: Right. I just wonder, how would someone even ______________that,
the idea of using a donut as a hamburger bun.
Michael: Well, there is something that you can, I mean, being an American
you can tell me if this is true or not, I remember hearing about sandwiches
that Americans like, and it's peanut butter and jelly.
Lori: Well, that's, yeah, that's a classic kid's sandwich. Peanut
butter and jelly or even peanut butter and honey, you can have...
Michael: Well, what you call jelly, isn't that what we [British English
speakers] would call jam?
Lori: Yeah, jam.
Michael: So peanut butter and jam. So it's the ________peanut
butter, salty, ________tasting butter and something like sweet strawberry jam.
Lori: Yeah, but I guess it's kind of like putting pineapple on your
pizza. You know, some people think that's just an_____________. But
there's something about the sweet, tart pineapple combined with the salty,
savory ingredients of a pizza that is actually...I like it.
Michael: Well, I guess it's like having _________and pineapple, you
know, the thick cut of ham which is also salty.
Lori: Yeah, or pork chops and applesauce.
Michael: Ah, right. OK.
Michael: I'm thinking, if you can combine something like peanut butter and
jam, then combining a hamburger with a donut doesn't seem so strange.
Lori: I'm sorry! I know what you're trying to say, but just, even
hearing you say that, just sounds so funny, "combining a hamburger with a
donut."
Michael: Well, yeah, it's pretty____________.
Lori: Yeah, loony. I couldn't believe that when I read that story in my
mom's magazine. But I went on the Internet and had a look, and there were
people saying that it sounds disgusting and looks disgusting, but actually they
were quite tasty, so what do I know?
Michael: I can't even begin to imagine what it would taste like. You know,
I have no ________________. My taste buds cannot picture it, you know, I
have an image of a donut in my head and an image of a nice juicy hamburger with
a couple strips of bacon on. And forget the cheese because I hate cheese as you
know, but the hamburger with bacon, that's something that...in fact we should
cut this podcast short right now because I want to go to the store and get some
bacon and some bacon and some hamburger because I'm getting hungry now.
Lori: Sounds like a plan, but let's ___________on the donuts.
Michael: Right, yeah, Hold the donuts!
2. What dishes and in what cuisines do you know which could be seem unusual or even disgusting to your point of view?
6. Home assignment.
1. Write about one of the unusual dishes from Asian cuisine.
2. What the following videos and compare the procedure of cooking Beef Bourguignon.
3. Find out what "Pig Latin" is.
4. Read the recipe and try to cook it at home. (At pleasure).
Beef Bourguignon Recipe
Cook Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Ingredients:
2
tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 to 1 1/4 pounds lean stew beef
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1/2 cup sliced carrots
1/2 cup dry red or burgundy wine
1 1/2 cups beef broth
8 ounces fresh mushrooms, sliced (about 2 cups)
1 clove garlic, minced
1 jar (14 to 16 ounces) whole onions, drained, or 1 1/2 cups frozen
12 ounces egg noodles, uncooked
Preparation:
Directions for Beef Burgundy with Noodles.
Combine flour, salt, and pepper in a shallow bowl. If desired, cut stew
beef into smaller pieces; dredge in the seasoned flour, coating all sides
thoroughly. Melt butter and oil in a Dutch oven; add half of the meat. Cook
over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until meat is browned. Repeat
with remaining meat.
Return
all meat to the Dutch oven; add carrots, wine, bouillon, mushrooms, and garlic.
Bring to a boil; reduce heat to low. Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, for
about 1 hour, or until meat is tender. Add onions and continue cooking until
heated through. Cook noodles according to package directions; drain well. To
serve, arrange meat mixture over noodles on a large platter or in individual
shallow bowls.
Beef Burgundy Recipe
serves 4.
Mouth is watered ;)) Boeuf Bouriguignon ;)) an how it was sizzling on the frying pan =))
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Great!!! Food)))this lesson will be very exciting for students. Marina combines many resources in her lesson: audio and video. I think this lesson will be the good example of the lesson of differentiated studying.I put her 5.
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Really,Marina has chosen a very enjoyable topic and done great presentation! I think students will enjoy the variety of tasks. The structure of the lesson lets students to fresh up and speak English in the beginning of the class. The offered list of new words and their definitions lets students to be aware of the new vocabulary used during the class and to practice it at the same time. The class combines both video and audio materials, so the students will be able to do different kinds of tasks. Marina has done great job! I put mark "5". =)
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ReplyDeleteNow I see why you liked my topic that much))
ReplyDeleteGlossary offered for learning is really great. There are words useful for everyday use, so students won’t forget it just after the topic will be done. Home assignment is interesting and does not require extra-explanations. Now this crazy idea of cooking Beef Bourguignon is haunting me)) 5 points!