LESSON PLAN: PANCAKE DAY
CULTURAL TOPIC: Pancake Day
ENGLISH LEVEL: A2
LINGUISTIC TOPIC: Imperative
TIME: 2 hours
TEACHERS: Laura Pineda, Mauricio Ospina and Lilibeth
Montilla
GOAL:
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The students will be aware of the
importance of cultural values through the celebration of the English festival
of Pancake Day.
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Student
will be able to use imperatives to describe the procedure to make pancakes.
RESOURCES
´Pan’
worksheets, marker pens, ‘Vocab’ sheet, projector, ingredients (flour, eggs,
milk, butter, salt), cooking utensils (bowl, sieve, spoon, scales, whisk, pan,
spatula, plates, cutlery), ‘Ingredients’ sheets, ‘translation’ sheets.
OBJECTIVES (Communicative / Cultural)
1. To be
aware of the origin and celebration of Pancake Day.
2. To know
the procedure in order to make a traditional pancake.
3. To
recognize the names of basic ingredients, cooking methods and utensils.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT (Teacher’s Plan)
TIME
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ACTIVITY
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RESOURCES
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7.00-7.15 Warming
up – groups<6
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Each group has a
‘pan’ on their worksheet. They must write all the ingredients in English they
think they need to make a pancake.
They can draw if they don’t know the word. Group discuss at the end.
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worksheet
1
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7.15-7.45 Pancake Video & Worksheet – All,
individually
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Video – Pancakes for your face.
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worksheet
2:
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7.45-8.10 Activity 1
Origins of Pancake Day
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By teams the
students watch the “Pancake race video” and create a comic describing the
origins of pancake and the pancake race.
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8.10-8.35 Activity
2
RecipeActivity
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The students work
to put the recipe instructions in the correct order. Stickingintotherecipebook.
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8.35-9.00 Activity
3
MakingPancakes
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The teams work
with the ‘cook’ teacher to create a new version of pancakes adding a
colombian ingredient.
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Worksheet 1: Pancake day
Name: _______________________________________________________
Activity: What ingredients do we need in order to make a
pancake? Write or draw them
in these pancakes pans.
Worksheet 2: Pancakes for your face
Name:
________________________________________________________________
Draw or write
some of the ingredients you saw on the video.
Worksheet 3: Origin of Pancake Day and the Great Pancake Race
Name:
_______________________________________________________
Activity:
Watch the “Pancake race video” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlo3yuhOSlI
and create a comic describing the origins of pancake and the pancake race.
Script
Location:
Brick Lane, East London
Date: 24 February 2009
Occasion: Pancake Day
Shrove Tuesday is a huge
traditional celebration
here in England
For hundreds of years
Christians have celebrated
the Tuesday before Lent
by making and feasting on pancakes.
‘Shrove’ comes from the old
English word ‘shrive’
which means to ‘confess all sins’.
Now, what do pancakes have anything to do with all
this? People gave up stuff like milk,
butter and eggs for Lent so some smart guy came up with a way to use up all
these ingredients and….voila!
Pancakes!
Many centuries on, here in northern London the
tradition lives on. I´m not sure who
fasts for Lent anymore, but people sure do celebrate!
Pancake races are held all over the country and the
greatest of them is here in East London.
All sorts of people take part.
Few know what the rules are.
Everyone just comes along to have fun.
All the teams have got great names. The winning team is the one which runs the
fastest relay and flips the pancakes without dropping them. And then we all go off and eat some more
pancakes, even if some of us still don’t really know what Pancake Day is all
about
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Worksheet 4: Recipe Activity
Name:
_______________________________________________________
Activity:
Put the recipe instructions in the correct order and stick into the recipe
book.
● Sift the flour into a
large mixing bowl.
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● Make a well in the
centre of the flour and break the eggs into it.
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● Begin whisking the eggs
and add small quantities of the milk, (and butter and salt if you want) still
whisking.
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● Whisk until all the
milk has been added and the batter has the consistency of cream.
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● Melt the butter in a
pan.
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Pour some
batter into the pan the batter into the pan and tip it around from side to
side to get the base evenly coated.
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● After about 30 seconds,
flip the pancake over.
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● Cook the other side for
a few seconds.
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● Slide the pancake out
of the pan onto a plate.
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● Serve with lemon juice
and sugar.
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