Addictively tasty
Introductory information
Key competencies
Worksheets
1. A delicious ingredient
Notes for the teacher
This first task is an introduction. Students discover chocolate in different
languages. The teacher provides worksheet 1 for every student.
2. Europe
Notes for the teacher
The teacher provides worksheet 1 for every student. When there’s a map
of Europe on the wall in the class, students can point to the countries they
know. If not, they use an atlas instead.
3. Word search
Notes for the teacher
For students with a light mental handicap it’s not so easy to
concentrate for longer periods of times. Therefore it’s important to
include some of the shorter and easier activities between the longer
activities. This word search allows them to relax and work by themselves.
The words they have to look for are the same as in worksheet 1. They are
hidden in the frame horizontally, vertically and diagonally in all
directions. The teacher provides worksheet 1 for every student.
4. The origin of chocolate
Notes for the teacher
The students read the text out loud, every student a paragraph. The teacher
doesn’t say in advance that it’s a multilingual text. It will be
a surprise for the students to discover new words in languages they might
not know and still understand the text. They can also discover new letters
and sounds. The teacher provides worksheet 1 for every student. They fill
out the questions in pairs.
- Interact in English (improve listening and speaking)
- Improve reading and writing in English
- Learn about similarities and differences between languages
- Value the diversity of languages
- Use different strategies to understand foreign languages
- Compare different writing systems
5. Quartet game
Notes for the teacher
Game
There are 10 quartets so 40 cards all in all. Every quartet contains one
ingredient in 4 different languages. The students can pronounce the word or
just ask for the language e.g. Ask if you can have the “leche”
or the “Spanish milk”.
Rules
The students play in groups of 3 to 5. Each group receives a complete set of
cards (40 cards). One player shuffles the cards and divide them equally.
Every player takes the cards in his hands and doesn’t show them to the
others. The first player asks another player to give him a card he
doesn’t have, belonging to a quartet he has at least one card of. He
names the quartet and then the card he wants e.g. “Do you have milk,
leche?” or “Do you have milk, the Spanish milk?” If the
player has it, he has to give it and the first player can continue asking
him or another player. If he doesn’t have it, the turn goes to the
last player he asked a card from. If a player gets a set of 4 cards, he says
“quartet” and lays the 4 cards on the table. The winner is the
one with the most quartets.
- Which languages resemble each other?
- Which desserts can you make with these ingredients?
- Do you know any other recipe you can make with these ingredients?
- Do you notice any difference in writing systems?
As an additional task, they can prepare one of the desserts in the cooking
class.
6. Alphabet game
Notes for the teacher
For students with a light mental handicap it’s not so easy to
concentrate for longer periods of times. Therefore it’s important to
include some of the shorter and easier activities between longer activities.
This alphabet exercise allows them to relax and work by themselves. They
look for words that have something to do with this lesson. They write them
first in English, then in their mother tongue and then in any other language
they might know. Only in English do the words have to start with the letters
from the alphabet. The teacher provides worksheet 1 for every student.
7. Word cloud
Notes for the teacher
The students go to the computer class and make a word cloud on
http://www.wordle.net/ with all the words they associate with chocolate.
They can do this in different languages. They create a nice lay-out using
different colours, print their work of art and hang it on the wall of the
classroom.
References
Quartet images