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Learning English Can Be Easy As Pie
This article provides a lot of cultural literacy, and describes how you can incorporate learning habits in any activity you are carrying out.
Date : 27/08/2020
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Uploaded by : Azeh Achou
Uploaded on : 27/08/2020
Subject : English
Learning English Can Be Easy as Pie
Food and conversation go together like love and marriage they are a natural pairing, one that evokes home and comfort.
That is exactly why the Free Library of Philadelphia offers cooking classes to immigrants and refugees. They learn American cooking, but they also learn the English language.The six-week course is called Edible Alphabet. On a recent Thursday, a dozen students from Germany, Taiwan, Indonesia, Russia and France, among others, gathered in the Free Library`s kitchen. This class, the last of the session, focused on pizza. While the name is Italian for pie, pizza has become one of the most popular dishes in Europe. Each week the students are learning English through a recipe, explained John McCarthy, the Free Library`s program director.The course is taught by an English as a Second Language teacher and a chef. James, the English instructor, says she listens in on the conversations and then tries to push them forward, by asking additional questions.The recipes, which are mostly plant-based, are chosen as examples of European cuisine.For example, we choose a lesson on noodles and use that as a springboard to talk about European breakfast tradition, chef James O`Donnell said.After the noodles were made, the students ate it together: food and conversation.To chef O`Donnell, the course goes beyond cooking and speaking English.This resource was uploaded by: Azeh Achou
Food and conversation go together like love and marriage they are a natural pairing, one that evokes home and comfort.
That is exactly why the Free Library of Philadelphia offers cooking classes to immigrants and refugees. They learn American cooking, but they also learn the English language.The six-week course is called Edible Alphabet. On a recent Thursday, a dozen students from Germany, Taiwan, Indonesia, Russia and France, among others, gathered in the Free Library`s kitchen. This class, the last of the session, focused on pizza. While the name is Italian for pie, pizza has become one of the most popular dishes in Europe. Each week the students are learning English through a recipe, explained John McCarthy, the Free Library`s program director.The course is taught by an English as a Second Language teacher and a chef. James, the English instructor, says she listens in on the conversations and then tries to push them forward, by asking additional questions.The recipes, which are mostly plant-based, are chosen as examples of European cuisine.For example, we choose a lesson on noodles and use that as a springboard to talk about European breakfast tradition, chef James O`Donnell said.After the noodles were made, the students ate it together: food and conversation.To chef O`Donnell, the course goes beyond cooking and speaking English.This resource was uploaded by: Azeh Achou