Area of Interest: Intergenerational communication
Skills: Listening, Reading, Speaking, and Writing
Competences: Social competence
Age Bracket: 11 – 15
Time Commitment: 30 – 60 minutes
Affordability:
Materials:
– Writing materials (in a group – A4 sheet and writing material for each; individually – notes or a sheet if the teacher wants to collect them)
– A cookery recipe book in a minority or regional language
– Access to the internet (individual option)
Expert recommendations:
For this activity, the students are encouraged to communicate with family members about family recipes in [the minority/ regional language]. They will learn words and phrases they can use outside the classroom in conversations at the market or while grocery shopping and practise their speaking skills in a dialogue role play.
Step 1: Finding the recipe
Interview your grandparents or parents and write down the recipe, taking into account the particularities of writing down a culinary recipe. If this is not possible, find it in a minority/regional language cookery recipe book.
Step 2: Divide roles to work in pairs or groups
One group does vocabulary research work, finding out the obscure words. The other calculates how much it would cost to make the recipe for 1 and a certain number of people. A third group cooks the dish according to the recipe given. The fourth group finds out when and in what way (ritual) this food is offered.
Step 3: Tasting, serving
All groups present their work.
What specific lexis appeared in the recipe (old words, regional words, terms, etc.)?
What is the cost per person according to the prices of the products? What is the cost, in product prices, of a recipe for 15 people?
What are the characteristics of a recipe record? Are there any changes to the recipe after it has been prepared that can be recommended to others?
When is this meal prepared? Is there a special ritual or celebration where it is used? Perhaps there is a proverb or phraseology associated with this food?
