What's cooking? - 2. Strawberry jam / A full English breakfast

You are going to

• watch some food recipe videos
• practise the language of cooking
• practise sequencers and time expressions
• practise giving instructions
• do some gap-fill exercises and a food vocabulary crossword
• write a recipe

Discuss

• Do you like cooking?
• Do you know how to cook?
• What's your favourite recipe?
• What are the ingredients?
• How long does it take to prepare and cook?
• Where did you learn to cook it?
• Do you know how to make strawberry jam?
• Do you know how to make a full English breakfast?

List
Write a list of all the cooking words you can think of in 60 seconds

Starter
Watch the strawberry jam recipe

• How do you make strawberry jam?
• What are the ingredients?
• How many words from your list did the presenter use?

B) Watch again. 
Look at this gap-fill exercise and fill in the gaps with one of the words from the list

Main course
Watch "How to make a traditional full English breakfast"
Find out

• What are the ingredients?
• What utensils do you need?

http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-traditional-full-english-breakfast

A) What words do we use to say when or in what order things happen?
eg After that, then... They are called sequencers. Can you think of any more?





B) Look at this gap-fill exercise and fill in the gaps with one of the words from the list

Write

Write a recipe of a food you know how to cook

• List the ingredients
• Write the instructions
• Use some of the sequencers, time expressions and verbs in the exercises

Dessert
Do the cooking crossword. 
Too easy? Try this more difficult crossword here

Printable crosswords here (Int) and here (U.Int)
Printable exercises here





More
Sequencers
http://esl.about.com/od/grammarintermediate/a/sequence.htm
Adverb Clauses with Time Expressions
http://esl.about.com/od/grammaradvanced/a/adverb_clauses.htm


The British breakfast
http://designerlessons.org/2012/07/04/esl-lesson-plan-a-full-english-breakfast/

British Food 
http://istudyabroad.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/exploring-british-food/


Activities
Esolcourses Food and Drink activities

Quiz-Busters - Food Quiz With Pronouns

BBC Lingo - Food and cooking


Recipes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/

http://foodupload.com/text_photo_recipes


Don't eat too much!
http://efllecturer.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/what-is-weight-of-human-race.html

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