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Culinary Culture

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This Culinary Culture lesson plan also includes:
  • Italian Imperative Worksheet #1
  • Italian Grammar Worksheet #2
  • Italian Quiz #1
  • Italian Quiz #1 Answers
  • Italian Quiz #2
  • Italian Quiz #2 Answers
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Italian culture and italian food go together. Have small groups find out all about food-related culture through research and translation. Class members conduct online research, create glossaries, find and translate recipes for a class cookbook, and as an option, cook meals.

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Additional Tags

italian food, italian culture, Imperative, participle, languages

Instructional Ideas

  • Work on this lesson over the course of a few days and use the provided worksheet as homework
  • Pick vocabulary words from the included materials as the basis for instruction, or use those words in conjunction with vocabulary from your textbook

Classroom Considerations

  • There isn't any specific vocabulary included, since the plan is meant to fit into various levels of Italian

Pros

  • Comes with a worksheet to help students practice the imperative with food-related vocabulary
  • Provides two quizzes (with answer keys) that also relate to food, culture, and the imperative
  • Links are listed within the lesson to help guide research

Cons

  • None

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