A Tasty Film

Language level: Elementary (A1) - Advanced (C1)

Learner type: Teens and adults

Time: 110 minutes

Topic: Food and drinks

Skills: Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing

Materials: Love Sarah (scenes where baking takes place), Around the world in 80 bakes

Steps: 

• Step 1: Watch the film with advanced students. If your students are intermediate or lower, focus on scenes where baking is happening or use Spanish subtitles if you want them to watch the whole film. Ask them to focus on the baking and cakes, the ingredients, where the cakes come from, and to pay special attention to ‘Around the world in 80 bakes’.

• Step 2: Next, each student chooses one of the cakes or pastries that Love Sarah sells, searches for the ingredients and as many details as possible, and writes the version of the recipe. You can use the link above for inspiration.

• Step 3: ask students to swap recipes so that each one ends up with a recipe that has not been created by themselves. Next it is their turn to bake. Give them these instructions:

• Give your classmates a taste of the world by baking the recipe you have received from your partner and which is inspired by the film. In 10 minutes or less, show yourself creating the cake/pastry while talking about the story. Have fun & use your imagination!

• Take into account these tips for successful baking and recording, too!

Before recording:

Think of how you can demonstrate your baking easily & safely.

Plan to record your video in a kitchen.

Check with an adult before cooking.(for under age students)

Remember your time limit is 10 minutes.

Practise with a timer before recording.

Get all the ingredients out & have them handy.

While recording your video:

Introduce yourself & the dish you will be making.

Say the original author of the recipe, that is, your partner.

Talk about the film.

Pause the video when you need to, such as while mixing ingredients or while baking in the oven. Remember, you only have 10 minutes!

End your video by tasting your awesome dessert.

Don’t

Skip the preparation! The more you plan out your video and practice, the better it will be!

Forget to say what you liked about the film and who else might enjoy it.

Forget to cook or bake only with an adult's permission if you are under age.

Profiles

 

Language level: Elementary (A1-A2)

Learner type: Teens and adults

Time: 30 minutes

Topic: Profiles

Skills: Reading, speaking and writing

Materials:

  

 

 

Steps:

• Step 1: Create more cards like the one above and give them out to your students.

• Step 2: Ask your students to choose a character from the film and complete his/her profile.

• Step 3: Pair students up and ask them to exchange profiles, making sure that each person in each pair has different profiles.

• Step 4: Ask students to tell each other about their character.

• Step 5: Finally each student writes a paragraph with the information provided in the profile.

Who is who?

Language level: Elementary (A1-A2) - Intermediate (B1)

Learner type: Teens and adults

Time: 50 minutes

Topic: Describing people

Skills: Speaking and writing

Materials:

Steps:

• Step 1: Show the picture above on your whiteboard or give a copy of the picture to each student.

• Step 2: Ask each student to choose one character and describe him/her physically, personality, clothes, age, and so forth. They should not tell anybody who they are describing.

• Step 3: When they are ready, take it in turns for students to share their descriptions with the rest of their peers, without telling the name of their chosen character. The class must guess who their mates are describing. The first who guesses is the next to share his/her description.