Coffee
Introductory information
Key competences
Worksheets
Preparing a cup of coffee
Notes for the teacher
Depending of the cultural background of the learners in the class, this set
of activities may generate very different results. It is supposed, however,
that coffee will be part of everyday life and routine in most families.
Pre-activitiy 1 might be extended with some internet research learners do by
themselves on ways of preparing coffee. An an introduction to the whole set
of activities, you might also use the website www.netzkaffee.de in order to
show a way of preparing coffee to the class and simultaneously comment on
it.
Children and teenagers drinking coffee
Notes for the teacher
You might like to introduce the task with reference to yourself: Tell the
class if you like coffee, when and how much you usually drink, and at what
age you have begun to drink coffee.
Apparently, there are cultural differences regarding the views parents have
on children drinking coffee. Hopefully, there will be interesting and varied
information in your class. Moreover, it can also be expected that different
families might have their own coffee habits for children.
Kahwa – Kahveh – COFFEE
Notes for the teacher
The activity on the basis of the information from the etymological
dictionary is intended to show how different languages and cultures have
contributed to what coffee culture is today. Depending on the cultural
backgrounds in the class, there might be the option of extending this topic.
One main objective of activities 3 and 4 is to familiarise learners with
language tools available online, and the wealth of languages accessible
(while it has often been mentioned that the Internet might promote English
only).
Through the text in Indonesian students learn that even a text in a language
they might feel very remote from is accessible. While the text translated by
specialised software is understandable, its grammatical structure is
incorrect. This helps learners to concentrate on tailoring a message into a
grammatically acceptable form on the basis of context and vocabulary which
are readily available.