Mini Burgers

Posted: September 8, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: lesson plan | Tags: , , , , | 1 Comment
Photo taken from http://flickr.com/eltpicsby Dace Praulins, used under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

Photo taken from http://flickr.com/eltpicsby Dace Praulins, used under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/”

After a long summer, which has seen us working on two different continents, All at C are back with a lesson-plan courtesy of Japanese technology. It’s real and apparently it’s edible, but you and your students will have to judge for yourselves…

MAIN AIMS using food preparation and instruction-giving vocabulary, practising speaking and writing
SUITABLE FOR teens and adults, pre-intermediate (A2) and above

Click here for the Teacher’s Notes

A five-step lesson plan for (almost) any cooking video

Posted: July 22, 2015 | Author: | Filed under: How To, lesson plan | Tags: , , , , | 8 Comments
Photos taken from http://flickr.com/eltpics by @ij64, @SerraRoseli, @ij64 and @purple_steph used under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

Photos taken from http://flickr.com/eltpics by @ij64, @SerraRoseli, @ij64 and @purple_steph used under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

MAIN AIMS using food and cooking vocabulary, preparing a short presentation

SUITABLE FOR teens and adults, pre-intermediate (A2) and above

Click here for the Teacher’s Notes

How to Boil an Egg

Posted: April 1, 2014 | Author: | Filed under: lesson plan | Tags: , , , , , , | 2 Comments

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As egg lovers, we were delighted to read recently that eggs have been taken off the nutritional blacklist. So we’ve come up with this egg-themed lesson to pay tribute to one of the most nourishing foods you can eat. We begin by looking at vocabulary related to describing and preparing eggs. We then go back to cooking basics and watch Britain’s bestselling cookery writer, Delia Smith, making soft and hard-boiled eggs. Throughout the lesson, there are lots of opportunities for students to talk about their experiences of eggs, or should we say eggsperiences?

Click here for the video.

Click here for the Teacher’s Notes

 

Hong Kong Honey

Posted: October 27, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: lesson plan, Short Film | Tags: , , , , , | 2 Comments

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In this lesson students watch a beautifully-filmed video about Hong Kong’s first urban beekeeper. The accompanying activities include a CAE-style multiple choice cloze, work on pronunciation, and discussion about food provenance. Click here for the Teacher’s Notes.

You can find out more about Hong Kong Honey here.

Be Wonderful and Wise

Posted: October 2, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Advert, lesson plan, Song | Tags: , , , , , | 9 Comments

 Our first post of the autumn term is based on an advert containing an assortment of food and cooking vocabulary, ranging from the familiar to the almost certainly unknown, unless students have spent hours in front of the TV watching Masterchef in English. Activities include observing, listening, vocabulary development, speaking, and to finish off, a song – if you haven’t had enough of it by then. All together now – chop, chop,chop,chop, chopping…….

Click here for the Teacher’s Notes

Chicken or the Egg

Posted: July 8, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Animation, lesson plan, Short Film | Tags: , , , , , | 4 Comments

Image made using photos taken from http://flickr.com/eltpics by @gemmateaches, @KerrCarolyn, @eltpics, @sandymillin, @aClilToClimb, @YTatLE, @SerraRosali used under a CC Attribution Non-Commercial license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/“

In this lesson students attempt to answer the age-old question about the chicken and the egg before watching a video which has quite a different take on a chicken and egg situation.

Click here for the Teacher’s Notes.

The film was made by Christine Kim and Elaine Wu and you can find out more about it on the Chicken or the Egg Facebook page.

Food for Thought at TESOL Spain 2013

Posted: March 10, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: Talk | Tags: , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Thank you to the TESOL Spain team for organizing a great conference. As usual, I wish I could have split myself into two or more parts to get to all the talks I wanted to….

Here’s the handout for my talk. Thanks to everyone who came – I hope you enjoy using the activities.

Beef Wellington

Posted: December 18, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: lesson plan, TV series | Tags: , , , , , , | 2 Comments

This lesson is based on a clip from the Gordon Ramsay TV show The F Word.

About a year ago, Jamie Keddie of the excellent Lessonstream pointed me in the direction of this clip when he was writing for the TeachingEnglish website. As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to use it in class; it just seemed made for exploiting in the ELT classroom. Have a look and see if you agree.

Since this programme was broadcast, Gordon Ramsay has updated the Beef Wellington recipe for Christmas. For homework, ask students to watch and note down the differences between the original and the Christmas version, and make one of them themselves. And that’s all from us for 2011. Enjoy the holidays and check back in the new year for the next update.

Beef Wellington Teacher’s Notes

Meet the Parents

Posted: November 22, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: Film clip, lesson plan | Tags: , , , , | 3 Comments

What do a cat, an urn and a tall story have in common? They all feature in one of my favourite scenes from Meet the Parents, the highly entertaining, occasionally cringe inducing, sometimes laugh out loud funny story of a man who tries too hard to please his future parents-in-law.

This activity begins with a vocabulary game, leads on to some watching and listening, and finishes off with some pronunciation and prediction. And hopefully it will raise one or two laughs along the way.

photo by IITA Image Library on Flickr

Meet the Parents Teacher’s Notes

Meet the parents vocab

Meet the parents script

My Blackberry Is Not Working

Posted: November 3, 2011 | Author: | Filed under: lesson plan | Tags: , , , , , | 6 Comments

As a “mature” EFL teacher, I have fond memories of the classic comedy show “The Two Ronnies” on the BBC. Among their most famous sketches was one which took place in a hardware shop and is known simply as Four Candles. It was based entirely on complicated but very clever puns or double meanings. This week’s post is an updated version of that sketch starring the survivor of the original duo, Ronnie Corbett, but this time set in a fruit shop. It’s a little piece of scriptwriting genius, and I think I can guarantee that all students will get it from the brilliant opening exchange……


My Blackberry Is Not Working Teacher’s Notes

My Blackberry is Not Working Student Worksheet

 

I met Sophie Pietrucci, a teacher in Paris at  TESOL France at the beginning of November. She had also spotted the classroom potential of My Blackberry Is Not Working and made a worksheet, which you can find here:

My Blackberry Is Not Working by Sophie

Check out the space she has set up on nicenet (username and password: tesolswapshop) for teachers to share materials and links.

Thanks, Sophie!

 

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