Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Unit 1: More food (and some listening practice)

Would you like to visit a British market? Click on the following picture:



More information about Borough Market in http://www.boroughmarket.org.uk/index.php

Can't you name the things you saw? Some help here:

http://www.susancanthony.com/Resources/ESL/4vocfoo.html

You know the names but how do you say more things about food? (vvvvvery useful vocabulary):

http://esl.about.com/library/vocabulary/blwordgroups_food.htm

Further practice (based on classroom work):

In our class book (New File Intermediate), we read and heard about "Frederick's", a British restaurant in Santiago (Chile) opened by a Briton, Kevin Poulter. This is not just a story, this is real and both the restaurant and the person exist.

Task 1 (further reading)

Surf the net and find more information about Frederick's. You can also find some recipes by Kevin Poulter in
http://canelakitchen.blogspot.com/ (they are in English and Spanish) if you search properly.

In class, we also heard a podcast of an interview with Paul Freedman, author and editor of "Food: The History Of Taste". The podcast was released by the University of Yale.

Task 2 (further listening)

Find the podcast and listen to the interview (you might need iTunes software). You can write your comments about it in this entry. Would you buy the book after listening to the interview? Why or why not?