Урок про національну англійську їжу. В розробці подано текст для читання, завдання для роботи в парах, граматичні вправи на вживання інфінітива та герундія.
Theme: In Search of Good English Food
Objectives: practical: to develop pupils’ speaking and reading skills; educative: to develop pupils’ readiness for taking part in the process of English communication;
developing: to incorporate pair work; to teach pupils to express their opinions; to develop a creative way of thinking and the ability to think logically;
cultural: to teach children to respect the traditions of other country
Materials: Cards for pair work (HO1), Text “In Search of Good English Food”(HO2), Comprehension check (HO3); Assessment cards (HO4)
Procedure
I .STARTING THE LESSON
Greeting. Motivation
II. INTRODUCTION THE THEME AND EXPECTED RESULTS
T: Look at the blackboard. There is a sentence here. But all the words in it are written together. Try to divide these words and read the sentence.
Onemen’smeatisanotherman’spoison
(One man’s meat is another man’s poison.)
Do you agree with the English proverb?
T; So, today we’ll have a discussion about national meals from different countries. By the end of the lesson you’ll learn to express your own opinion about English food.
III. WARMING UP.
Work in pairs.
(HO1)
France |
Turkey |
Italy |
England |
India |
Spain |
Mexico |
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Switzerland |
America |
Greece |
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What do you think influences a country’s food? What influences the food in your country?
IV. Reading “In Search of Good English Food”
T: Look at the blackboard. Read these quotations about English food. Do all the people have the same opinion about English food?
'It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast— even the English can't do it!'
J K Galbraith, economist
'On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.'
George Mikes, writer and humorist
'If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything!'
George Bernard Shaw, writer
'Even today, well-brought up English girls are taught to boil all vegetables for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests comes without his teeth!'
Calvin Trillin, American writer
'English cooking? You just put things into boiling water and then take them out again after a long while!'
An anonymous French chef
Read the text quickly. (HO2)
Match a paragraph 1-5 with a summary below.
In Search of Good English Food
(by Verona Paul and Jason Winner)
2 It is not only in restaurants that foreign dishes are replacing traditional British food. In every supermarket, sales of pasta, pizza and poppadoms are booming. Why has this happened? What is wrong with the cooks of Britain that they prefer cooking pasta to potatoes? Why do the British choose to eat lasagna instead of shepherd's pie? Why do they now like cooking in wine and olive oil? But perhaps it is a good thing.
After all, this is the end of the 20th century and we can get ingredients from all over the world in just a few hours. Anyway, wasn't English food always disgusting and tasteless? Wasn’t it always boiled to death and swimming in fat? The answer to these questions is a resounding 'No', but to understand this, we have to go back to before World War II.
|3. The British have in fact always imported food from abroad. From the time of the Roman invasion foreign trade was a major influence on British cooking. English kitchens, like the English language, absorbed ingredients from all over the world—chickens, rabbits, apples, and tea. All of these and more were successfully incorporated into British dishes. Another important influence on British cooking was of course the weather. The good old British rain gives us rich soil and green grass, and means that we are able to produce some of the finest varieties of meat, fruit and vegetables, which don't need fancy sauces or complicated recipes to disguise their taste.
4 However, World War II changed everything. Wartime women had to forget 600 years of British cooking, learn to do without foreign imports, and ration their use of home-grown food. The Ministry of Food published cheap, boring recipes. The joke of the war was a dish called Woolton Pie (named after the Minister for Food!). This consisted of a mixture of boiled vegetables covered in white sauce with mashed potato on the top. Britain never managed to recover from the wartime attitude to food. We were| left with a loss of confidence in our cooking skills and after years of Ministry recipes we began to believe that British food was boring, and we searched the world for sophisticated, new dishes which gave hope of a better future. The British people became tourists at their own dining tables and in the restaurants of their land! This is a tragedy! Surely food is as much a part of our culture as our landscape, our language, and our literature. Nowadays, cooking British food is like speaking a dead language. It is almost as bizarre as having a conversation in Anglo-Saxon English!
5. However, there is still one small ray of hope. British pubs are often the best places to eat well and cheaply in Britain, and they also increasingly try to serve tasty British food. Can we recommend to you our two favourite places to eat in Britain? The Shepherd's Inn in Melmerby, Cumbria, and the Dolphin Inn in Kingston, Devon. Their steak and mushroom pie, Lancashire hotpot, and bread and butter pudding are three of the gastronomic wonders of the world!
(HO3)
Read the article more carefully. Choose the best answer, a, b or c.
1 The writers believe that British cooking ...
2 They say that the British ...
3 They say that the British weather ...
4 They say that World War II had a great influence on British cooking because ...
5 They say that ...
6 The writers' final conclusion about British cooking is that ...
V. Discussion
Some useful tips for students:
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VI. Language work
Work in pairs. Study the text and find the following.
VII. Summing-up. Reflection.
T: Now you know more about English food and you can express your opinion about it.
What information was new for you at the lesson?
What information don’t you agree with?
What information do you consider to be the most useful for you?
VII. Evaluation
T: So our lesson is coming to an end. Thank you very much for your work, enthusiasm and original ideas. Your marks are the total marks according to your opinion, your partner’s opinion and my opinion. Let’s fill this form.
(HO4)
Assessment card
Name, surname |
Marks |
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Self-assessment |
Partner’s assessment |
Teacher’s assessment |
Total assessment |
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VIII. Homework
T: Your hometask is to prepare the information about Ukrainian traditional food. Try to find some quotations