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Cooking

Activity type: this activity introduces verbs associated with cooking.


Level: Elementary students


Teacher's notes:

  1. Begin by asking the students what their favorite food is. Show them a picture of your favorite food. Ask the students to tell you what the food consists of. Make the food easy to identify!
  2. Put the students into pairs and ask them to discuss:

    1. Food that they love
    2. Food that they hate
    3. Food that they eat for special occasions
    4. Food that is a specialty of their countries

  3. Monitor and correct when necessary.
  4. When they have done this, ask a few pairs to tell you which food they talked about. Ask them to try to tell you how to make the food. Try to elicit a few cooking verbs.
  5. Show them a picture of a sandwich. Tell them that you are going to tell them how to make this sandwich. Have ready, pictures of the each individual food ingredient that makes the sandwich. The sandwich is made of butter, bread, cheese and onions.
  6. Show the students via mime how you begin to make the sandwich i.e. first spread the butter onto the bread, chop some onions and dice them, grate some cheese and put it onto the bread.
  7. Ask the students to mime with you, as you are doing so say the verbs which are needed i.e. spread, chop, dice and grate.
  8. Once you have said each verb, ask the students to repeat it. You need to use imperatives and so you can put the verbs into complete sentences e.g. spread the butter onto the bread. You will need to highlight the imperative use at some point in the lesson.
  9. Make sure that the meaning of each verb via miming is very clear. You may want to write the verbs on the board and introduce the imperative use here.
  10. Than add the other verbs; mime them as you do so.
  11. You may need to have other pictures of food so that the students can understand the meaning of each verb.

    A loaf of bread for slice
    An orange for peel
    A bowl for mix/stir
    Milk for pour and so on
  12. Each time mime the verbs, say them and get the students to repeat them. Highlight any tricky phonemes during the pronunciation correction stage.
  13. Put the students into pairs again. Nominate one student the mime artist and the other student the instruction giver. Write: a cup of coffee on the board.
  14. Tell the instruction giver to give instructions on how to make coffee. The other student has to do what the instruction giver tells him/her to do.
  15. Switch roles and pairs and tell them to make a sandwich; whichever type they want. Keep switching pairs and changing the food items so that the students get a lot of practice using the verbs.
  16. At the end of this activity, hand out the matching activity below between pairs. This should consolidate what the students have understood.
  17. Note that there are multiple answers for the verbs i.e. you can chop an onion and dice it. The worksheet should however, illustrate if the students have understood the verbs or not.



Answers:

  1. Chop a carrot
  2. Slice bread
  3. Dice an onion
  4. Peel a potato
  5. Carve meat
  6. Grate cheese
  7. Stir sugar into coffee
  8. Mix flour and sugar
  9. Pour beer
  10. Add an egg
  11. Spread margarine
  12. Sprinkle salt










/ For easy printing, Word List is placed on the following page /

















WORD LIST


Match the verb to a food:


1. Chop _______________________ Potato
2. Slice _______________________ Cheese
3. Dice _______________________ Margarine
4. Peel _______________________ Onion
5. Carve ______________________ Sugar into coffee
6. Grate ______________________ Beer
7. Stir ________________________ Meat
8. Mix ________________________ An egg
9. Pour _______________________ Bread
10. Add _______________________ Flour and sugar
11. Spread _____________________ A carrot
12. Sprinkle _____________________ Salt














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