10^th form

Ukrainian cuisine

Objectives:

-        to widen students’ outlook

-        to develop students’ curiosity and interest to the English language

-        to cultivate students’ taste

-        to teach students to love their traditions

-        to involve students into reading, writing, communicative activities

-        to develop students’ thinking

-        to expand students' vocabulary

Procedure

1.                  Introduction

We continue to speak today about food. During our lesson we’ll speak about favourite dishes in Ukraine and about your favourite food. So, the topic of our lesson is “Ukrainian cuisine”. During the lesson we’ll read, speak, listen to speakers, and discuss the problems of food. How do you think it is necessary to speak about it and why.

Students’ ideas: e.g. 

2.                  Warming-up

1)      Speaking in chain “I like to eat…”

2)      A dictation – students see the pictures of different products, write their names; then change the cards with the neighbour and check the answers (see the picture again, name it orally, check with the given inscription), discuss.

3.                  Quotations

•       Hunger is a good kitchen. Hunger is the best sauce. Hunger makes hard beans sweet. Hunger never saw bad bread. Enough is a feast to a hungry man.

•       The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

•       A smiling face is half the meal.

•       Eat to live, not live to eat.

•       Who does not work will not eat.

4.                  Mind Map

Every student says one dish from Ukrainian cuisine. Then they read the words from the board:  borsch, kapustniak, rozsolnyk, solyanka, kulesha, lemishka, shpundra, banosh, mamalyha, pampushky, palianytsia, halushky, varenyky, mlyntsi, nalysnyky, babky, kliotsky, deryny, zrazy, palyushky, pasky, golubtsi, bytky, bigos, kruchenyky, zavyvantsi, salo, uzvar.

            

5.                  Reading

Borshch

Borshch is certainly a national dish of Ukraine. This uniquely Ukrainian soup has many versions served throughout the country. It reflects the individuality of Ukrainians as well as their skills for creating dishes. The beef-based soup can contain as many as 20 different ingredients, depending on season, region, and of course, the personal preferences of the cook. It can be meatless or prepared from a rich meat stock, and either beef or smoked pork.

Varenyky

Varenyky are dumplings made from boiled or fried dough which can be filled with meat, potatoes, cabbage, and/or mushrooms as an entree. Filled with cherries or sweetened cottage cheese and raisins they can be a dessert. Any can be accompanied by butter or sour cream.

Golubtsi

Golubtsi are cabbage rolls stuffed with meat and rice or buckwheat. They are often covered with a thin tomato sauce.

Olivier salad

Salads are often prepared with mayonnaise. The favourite Olivier salad is called “Olivier”; the recipe was created by a French cook living in Russia in the 19^th century. The Olivier salad is made of boiled vegetables, eggs and cold meat seasoned with mayonnaise. It is also a very popular salad in Ukraine. Salads are common, but rather than being a lettuce-based salad, combinations of fresh, cooked, and preserved vegetables mixed with meat, cheese, or fish.

6.                  After-reading task

Say if the sentence is true or false. Why?

-   Borshch is a national dish of Ukraine which has the only version and it is served all over the country.

-   It can contain at least 12 different ingredients.

-   Varenyky are never made by frying filled dough.

-   They can be served as a dessert.

-   Golubtsi are cabbage rolls stuffed with meat and rice and covered with thick tomato sauce.

-   Olivier salad is usually prepared with oil.

-   It is made of fried vegetables, eggs and cold meat.

7.                  Group work

Imagine that you are the participants of a popular in the whole world TV program “Hell’s Kitchen”. You are divided into 4 groups. The task is to write a recipe of every dish. You have a list of necessary words and only 5 minutes to write the recipe of the dish and then present it.

A list of words

potatoes

beet

onion

cabbage

water

sour cream

salt

dough

flour

egg

meat

rise

mayonnaise

carrot

peas

to boil

to fry

to add

to mix

8.                  Rest time

A song “Favourite food” (there is a clip with words like a karaoke, students sing the song together with a clip)

9.                  Discussion

Students say some sentences about their favourite dishes. E.g. My favourite food is... because...  Do you agree with me?

10.              Dialogues

For the home-task students had to prepare some dialogues about food. Act some of them.

Examples:

-          What a delicious chicken salad! Would you like some?

-          Thanks. Shall I pour you some Coke?

-          No, thank you. I’d better drink orange juice.

-          OK. What about a meat pie?

-          No, thank you. Could you pass me some vegetable sandwich?

-          Of course.

-          What tasty borshch! I have never eaten anything better! Do you know how it is cooked?

-          Sure. Every Ukrainian girl is taught how to cook borshch.

-          I know that it is made of beetroots, cabbage and potatoes.

-          Well, the method of cooking is really important. Carrots, onions, and parsley are fried in oil. This is added to boiled vegetables and it’s cooked together for a few minutes. Borshch is usually served with some sour cream and pampushkas.

-          There must be some individual secrets!

-          Of course. I think, the main secret is that you must cook it with light heart.

11.              Quotations

•       What is food to one man may be poison to others. Lucretius

•       There is no love sincerer than the love of food. George Bernard Shaw

•       Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food.  Hippocrates

•       Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. Mark Twain

12.              Summing-up

Now tell me what you learnt on our lesson, what problems we solved. Did we realize our aim?

I want to thank everybody who took an active part in our work. The best of you get the highest marks:… Our work was good and we’ll continue it in our next lessons.

Your home task is to write a composition “My favourite food”.