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International food
Unit aims
Students learn about food around the
world. This includes:
•
learning vocabulary
for famous dishes from
different countries
•
talking about likes and dislikes and offering food
•
using
wants
(someone)
to do
(something) (e.g.,
My
family wants me to cook dinner every night
)
•
using the infinitive of purpose to describe intentions
in the past, e.g.,
I went to the supermarket to buy
some rice
•
planning a cooking competition
•
learning about the importance of drinking water
Background information
The photograph
shows
a chef cooking
teppanyaki
food in a Japanese
restaurant. The word
teppanyaki
is used to describe
a kind of Japanese cuisine cooked on an iron griddle
(in Japanese,
teppa
means “iron plate” and
yaki
means “grilled”). Chefs often
cook this kind of food in
front of the guests at a restaurant.
Introduction to the unit
•
Read the title of the unit and ask students to look at the
photograph. Then ask
What’s Unit 3 about?
(
Foods from
different countries
).
Check the meaning of
international
.
•
Point to the person we can see at the back of the
photograph (seen more clearly in the Student’s Book)
and ask
What’s this person doing
? (
Cooking
.)
What food
can you see
? Write suggestions on the board,
e.g.,
bananas, lemon, noodles
.
•
Ask
Which country do you think this food comes from?
Elicit ideas and encourage students to give their reasons,
e.g.,
I think it comes from the Caribbean because there
are bananas in the photograph.
Tell students that the
food is from Japan (see
Background information
above).
If you have a map or globe, ask students to find and
point to Japan.
•
Then ask
What food is traditional or popular in
our country?
Elicit the names of dishes and provide
translations if appropriate. Do a short class survey about
traditional dishes, asking, e.g.,
Who likes
(
tortillas
)
?
Students raise their hands.
•
If you wish to extend the discussion, ask students if
they’ve tried food from other countries (either in a
restaurant in their own country or abroad).
Volunteers
can describe dishes that they’ve tried to the rest of the
class. Write some useful phrases on the board, e.g.,
It’s called …
The ingredients are …
It tastes like …
I liked / didn’t like it because …
Why don’t you try fish and chips?
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