This lesson plan is based on a idea from Teaching Adults Second Language Learners by McKay and Tom
Aim - To help refugees use cooking vocabulary, write recipes
Materials - Cooking equipment and ingredients, access to a kitchen, photocopies (see below)
Level - Elementary/intermediate.
1 - Ask students what verbs/words we use to talk about cooking. write some on the board and mime them to ensure understanding. Otherwise ask students to use smart phones for translation.
2 - Elicit words and write them on the board, use mime to ensure understanding.
3 - Hand out this photocopy from Englishwsheets.com
7 - Read the recipe aloud and have students fill in the missing gaps.
8 - When you have finished reading have students take turns in completing the dictation on the board or in groups of 3-4
9 - Now get students to use this as a template for their own recipes, encourage them to use their smart phones to find ingredients and names of cooking equipment
10 Tell students that next lesson we will be cooking together in Oikopolis's kitchen, ask students to say who would like to cook something simple for the class, e;g salads, dips etc that take less than an hour to make. Take students on a tour of the kitchen to check that it has all the equipment they need.,
Aim - To help refugees use cooking vocabulary, write recipes
Materials - Cooking equipment and ingredients, access to a kitchen, photocopies (see below)
Level - Elementary/intermediate.
1 - Ask students what verbs/words we use to talk about cooking. write some on the board and mime them to ensure understanding. Otherwise ask students to use smart phones for translation.
2 - Elicit words and write them on the board, use mime to ensure understanding.
3 - Hand out this photocopy from Englishwsheets.com
4 - Students copy down any words they didn't know, check comprehension.
5 - In pairs, student mime words from the photocopy and the other s have to guess them.
6 - Now explain that you are going to give them a recipe (or write it on the board) and that they have to copy them into their notebooks but some words and/or numbers will be missing. (Just choose numbers for beginner students).
7 - Read the recipe aloud and have students fill in the missing gaps.
8 - When you have finished reading have students take turns in completing the dictation on the board or in groups of 3-4
9 - Now get students to use this as a template for their own recipes, encourage them to use their smart phones to find ingredients and names of cooking equipment
10 Tell students that next lesson we will be cooking together in Oikopolis's kitchen, ask students to say who would like to cook something simple for the class, e;g salads, dips etc that take less than an hour to make. Take students on a tour of the kitchen to check that it has all the equipment they need.,