Practicing reading skills is so important for learning a language and I love giving my students time to read books in my lesson. I love when they are reading comic books, or magazines too to improve their language skills. But I also love changing up what they read sometimes, so that they can get acquainted with many different text types. One such text types is: recipes!
There's so much language to be found in recipes. I teach about layout, conventions, imperatives, vocabulary for ingredients, and the cooking verbs. But the most important thing is that students can learn how to actually make their favorite food! Some active learning has to done here.
I made a lesson series out of recipes, and one feature is finding a recipe for a meal they love. They come back with such a variety of dishes! Some want to learn how to make brownies, others prefer spaghetti bolognese. The beauty in teaching this is that students can do something useful with what they learn in my lesson.
Provide them with your choice of recipes first. Get them to identify the language, and the layout and conventions. Teach the cooking verbs and vocab for ingredients. Get them to bring their own choice of recipe (found online for example) and identify the language in this piece of text. Finally, get them to cook the dish themselves and show the class the result!
Now that I wrote this down, I can't wait to teach it again this year! I hope you'll love it too!
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Would you like some ideas on using other text types, like Menus, Magazines, Newspapers, or Brochures in your lessons? Check the links to find my blog posts on them as well!
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