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Students arrived and began cooking one of two recipes, either cajeta de coco o plátanos fritos. Cooking took the entire class and students tried both recipes when they were done.
Tarea: research and write down 8 basic facts about Costa Rica (what the flag looks like, who is the president, what Costa Ricans are called in Spanish).
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Students took test related to our cooking unit. If your student was absent please have them take the test (attached) and bring it in Tuesday.
Tarea: draw a person and label body parts for our next unit. Also, make sure your book section is complete as you will be presenting your portion next class.
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Students defined following words we learned last week in our taste test:
* delicioso
* rico
* bueno
* salado
* dulce
* líquido
* hojaldrado
* duro
* blando
* espeso
* interesante
We talked about the characteristics of Mexican food (which they had researched for homework). Introduced concept of aguas frescas, drinks typically made in Mexico featuring fresh fruits and vegetables, sometimes (often) sweetened with honey or sugar. Students were split into new groups and had a recipe and ingredients to make a different type of agua fresca. Students cleaned up and tasted their drinks.
Tarea: invent recipe for a salsa. Students chose what type of salsa they are going to make. One group chose tomato, another pineapple, mango, and peach. Using their key ingredient, students need to write out a list of ingredients for their recipe and the steps to make it. We are going to be making salsas next week.
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Students defined following cooking verbs:
¿Qué quiere decir?
1.Cocinar ________________
2.mezclar ________________
3.calentar ________________
4.añadir ________________
5.hornear ________________
6.abrir ǂ cerrar ________________
7.tapar ________________
8.batir ________________
9.poner ________________
10.prender ǂ apagar ________________
In groups, students read the attached text about Latin American Cuisine and answered questions on second page. Anything they didn't finish in the given time is homework.
Most recipes are written using commands (cook over low heat, put in the oven, add flour). I presented conjugation for usted commands in Spanish:
Step 1: conjugate the infinitive verb to yo conjugation
Step 2: drop the o ending
Step 3: add -e for ar verbs or -a for er/ir verbs
ej. cocine, mezcle, añada, ponga
Tarea: students need to rewrite their two final recipes (medialunas and dulce de leche) in their own words using the verbs above. They will need to simplify their recipe as much as possible so that everyone in class understands the steps.
