Hi there! The main topic of this activity is about food around the world. As we know, food is an engaging topic for our students, especially if we treat it in a different way instead of learning by heart in vocabulary tasks. We will divide this activity into three different parts, and the activity done with EdPuzzle will be the post-task activity. We will focus on the different flavours of the food and also the cultural heritage of UK and its diversity of places to eat.
PRE-TASK
The first part of the activity will consist of the presentation of the vocabulary, which deals with flavours. Before the presentation, students will perform a brainstorming about different cuisines around the world and also the different flavours we can find in them. Then, we will present the following picture, in which flavours are described. We will select those that we consider more useful for them.
TASK
After presenting the vocabulary, students will elaborate a short text at home describing their favourite food and also how does it taste, as well as using verbs dealing with cooking and taste. There are two examples below.
POST-TASK
The last part of this activity deals with a cultural video about restaurants and food edited with EdPuzzle, in which students will recognize the different flavours and foods around the world. The video is set in Oxford and they will be able to see the wide variety of food and tastes, as well as respecting sociocultural aspects from the UK and its population. Students will do it as an interactive listening task, simulating a quiz contest
Here is the link: https://edpuzzle.com/media/646a6fa201113942e875016f
Why have I chosen this video?
Intercultural awareness and sociocultural aspects are fundamental to learn a language. It is, of course, necessary to learn the four skills properly, but if we do not contextualise and show our students aspects from other English-speaking countries, it would be more difficult for them to become familiar with the English Language. I consider this video very useful to show our students the diversity around the world and the importance of respecting each other.
In terms of learning objectives, we can highlight the following ones:
1) to learn the different flavours from our cuisine and foreign cuisine
2) to describe their favourite food and flavours
3) to know the reality around the world, especially in English-speaking countries
4) to identify dishes from English Speaking Countries.
As we can see, the only flipped part is the writing task. The video will be shown in the classroom as it is an interactive and motivating tool for our students. They want to participate and speak aloud in the classroom in order to choose the correct answers.
Next time, I will prepare more variety of materials, because it can be also useful for grammar tasks or even writing linking words. Such a great tool!
Hi Marine,
ResponderEliminarI am delighted with the activity you have prepared with Edpuzzle. The topic is quite adequate for children. It is something that is part of their daily life and, thanks to the approach you have given them, they can get to know other cultures in a gastronomic way.
I emphasise the idea of adjusting the vocabulary to the level of our students and giving them a model texto to do their writing because as they are beginner, it is helpful to to introduce them to the habit of writing in another foreign language.
Finally, I would like to recommend you to integrate some manipulative activities, in this case, some products could be brought to class to taste and thus classify them into flavours.
Nice work!