Lectura Comprensiva
Centro: IES COLONIAL (Fuente Palmera) Curso: 1º ESO Área o materia: Inglés Nº Sesiones: 2
World Food Pre-Reading Activities 1 -Think about your favourite food. Is it healthy or unhealthy for you? 2 -Try to think about a typical dish in our country. What ingredients do you think it´s made? 3 -Finally, do you know any other typical dishes or food from another countries? 4 - Complete the following table: What type of food do you like most? LOVE
LIKE
DON´T LIKE
HATE
Italian food Japanese food Chinese food Moroccan food American food
Now let´s read the following text: WORLD FOOD Lasagna comes from Italy. It is made of pasta, meat, tomato sauce and cheese. Sometimes, people add eggplant. Omelet is popular in the UK. You can mix ham, onions, leeks and asparagus into the egg to make a delicious omelet. Sweet and sour pork is from China. In this dish, there are small pieces of pork, mixed with sugar, onion, garlic, pineapple and soy sauce. The sauce tastes very sweet. Curry comes from India and Thailand. You can use different meats and vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower.
While-Reading Activities 1-Make a list of all the food you can find in the text. 2-Make another list with all the countries you can find in the text. 3-Answer these questions 1. Where does lasagna come from?_____________________________________ 2. What is it made of? _______________________________________________ 3. Where is omelet popular? ___________________________________________ 4. What can you mix to make a delicious omelet?___________________________ 5. Where is sweet and sour pork from?__________________________________ 6. What is the dish made of? __________________________________________
7. Where does curry come from? _______________________________________ 8. What different things can you put in curry? _____________________________
Post-Reading activities 1. Make a role play Imagine you are a tourist in our country and you are in a typical Spanish food restaurant. Prepare a brief dialogue in which one student will act as a waiter and another student will act as a tourist. The waiter has to explain three different typical dishes to the tourist talking about what type of ingredients have every dish. The tourist must ask about the dishes and choose one of these dishes. You can follow this writing guide to help you: At the Restaurant Waiter: Good evening sir, welcome to Stanley House, can I help you? Tourist: Can we have a table for two please. Waiter: Please come this way please. Ordering food Waiter: What would you like to eat? Tourist: What would you recommend?. Waiter: You can have ‘salmorejo’ and_______________ or ____________for example. Tourist: Ok What is______________ and_______________ made of? Waiter: It´s made of _________________, _______________ and,____________. Tourist: Ok can I have________________________ please? Waitress: Would you like anything to drink with your meal? Jason: a glass of white wine please. After the Meal Waitress: Would you like to see the dessert menu Jason: No thanks, can we have the bill please.
Act out the dialogue. 2. Give your opinion about this question: Do you think typical food and dishes from a country can define its culture? Why? Why not?