1. British Food. Carlos Solar Contreras.

2. Activity: Food and cooking in UK. British population’s tendency towards food and cooking. Stundents’ own preferencies.

3. Unidad: English and culture 1. Topic: Modern British cooking and restaurants; the popularity of celebrity chefs Obectives: To learn or revise vocabulary relating to food, restaurants, tastes and textures. To develop reading and comprehension skills. To develop speaking skills/ discussing preferences and attitudes towards food and restaurants.

4. Introduction. This lesson consists of a series of activities to help students discuss food and cooking. The main focus of the lesson is a text based on a recent survey in the UK indicating that British people are becoming more adventurous and experimental in their cooking and eating habits due to the growing popularity of cooking programmes.

5. Parameters: Expeted hability: - reading comprehension. - writing production. - oral production. Type-text: - investigation text - reviews. Lexical content:class chefs, recipe books, adventurous, cookery programmes, culinary knowledge, traditional diet, mediocre cuisine, culinary excellence.

6. Sintactic content: And, also, than, much more. Arragement of simple sentences. Present continuous. Present perfect. Extention: - 512 - 608 Stimated time: - 4 hours.

7. Pre-activity. Brainstorming: National Dishes

8. And then…

9. Alternative task… Survey:

10. Food vocabulary exercise.

11. Students try to guest what food/dish is being described… The teacher must encourage students to write some clues of their own !!!

12. Computers, an exelent tool for this activity…

13. Surfing for answers…

14. Reading activity N° 1.  The teacher gives students time to read the article.

15. And then …

16. Following on from the previous exercise…

17. Reading activity N° 2.  The teacher asks students to read the article and underline any new vocabulary wich it could be useful to describe restaurants.

18. After reading…  Additional task: With higher levels. Their own review.

19. Post activity.

20. Proverbs…

21. Sources: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/lesson- plans/cooking-britain-today#attachments http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/lesson- plans/cooking-britain-today#attachments http://www.curriculum- mineduc.cl/docs/fichas/8b08_ingles.pdf http://www.curriculum- mineduc.cl/docs/fichas/8b08_ingles.pdf