Teacher Information

CAPÍTULO 9
Recetas hispanas

• Introduce students to the cuisine of the Spanish-speaking world

   

• Familiarize students with the metric system

Notes

• In this activity the students find recipes for a three-course meal. If students use the Latin American site, they may have to select recipes from different countries for some of the courses.

• When dealing with food vocabulary, students are likely to find terms that they are not familiar with. Tell them that the names of certain foods, especially fruits and vegetables, vary greatly from country to country. For example, an avocado is un aguacate in Mexico but una palta in Chile. The word for "hot pepper" is el chile in Mexico and el ají in many South American countries.

• Once the students have selected their recipes, have them download them and print them out. They can then finish the activity off-line. They can also use the printed recipes to prepare an oral step-by-step presentation to the class on how to make the dishes they have chosen.

• Encourage students to use their dictionaries to look up unfamiliar words.

Expansion

• Have students prepare a three-course meal using the recipes they downloaded from the Internet. Divide the class into three groups and assign a course to each group. Have students pool their recipes and choose the best one for their course. Ask each group to translate the instructions for its recipe, prepare the dish at home, and bring it in to share with the class or with other Spanish classes.

• If there is a Spanish market in your community, organize a field trip with your class to shop for the ingredients for the recipes.