Daily Lessons for Teaching On Food and Cooking

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: ON FOOD AND COOKING is a food-based book written by Harold McGee. Rather than concentrating on recipes the book examines the raw products, their uses and origins. The aim of this lesson is to introduce the book.

1) 1. Class discussion. What do the students already know about Harold McGee? What can they tell from the book by looking at its cover? What do the students expect from...
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