How to write a recipe in English?

Introduction

Task

Process

Evaluation

Conclusion

Teacher notes

Introduction

Cooking is what we do everyday. Sometimes we just cook familiar dishes; sometimes we need to read recipes to cook more sophisticated ones.

Cooking recipes play an undeniably important role in giving us the detailed and precise instructions so that we can follow the right steps and use proper amounts of ingredients.

Recipes are so helpful, but have you ever thought of writing a recipe to share with your friends, especially an English recipe of one of your country’s specialties to share with your international friends? In one week, you are going to know exactly how to do this!

Task:How to write a mouth-watering

recipe?

You will know about the layout of a recipe, in other words, what parts should be included in a recipe. You will also have the opportunity to identify how to write each part properly. After that, you will choose one specific dish to write a recipe of, following the guideline. The last task which may be quite challenging but also interesting to do is to present your recipe in front of the whole class.

Process

First, your class will be divided into small groups. Because the class has about 12 students, it will be divided into four three-member groups. Each group will be given some samples of recipes and discuss about the parts that a recipe should have.

Some examples of recipes:

http://alldownunder.com/australian-food/damper-recipe.htmhttp://alldownunder.com/australian-food/hamburger-recipe.htm

http://alldownunder.com/australian-food/pikelets-recipe.htmhttp://alldownunder.com/australian-food/lamingtons-recipe.htm

http://www.ehow.com/how_2354249_pho-vietnamese-beef-noodle-soup.htmlhttp://www.ehow.com/how_4483752_vietnamese-summer-roll-oriental-food.htmlhttp://www.ehow.com/how_5223546_make-vietnamese-spring-rolls.html

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Kimchi

http://www.maangchi.com/recipe/bibimbap

http://www.ehow.com/how_2060_make-lasagna.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_2032266_make-sushi.html

http://www.japanfoodaddict.com/seafood/karei-no-nitsuke/

http://chinesefood.about.com/od/pork/r/sweet-sour-pork-recipes.htm

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/he-jia-tuan-yuan-tofu-ball-soup-for-lunar-chinese-new-year/detail.aspx

http://thaifood.about.com/od/quickeasythairecipes/ss/Thaiyellowcurry.htmhttp://thaifood.about.com/od/thaicurrydishes/r/thaishrimpcurry.htmhttp://rasamalaysia.com/mee-goreng-spicy-fried-noodles/2/

When your groups have known the parts a recipe should include, it’s time to understand how to write each part correctly. Below are some useful links about how to write each part of a recipe perfectly:

http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Recipehttp://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-write-a-recipe-58522http://www.ehow.com/how_2057715_write-recipe.htmlhttp://www.bbcgoodfood.com/blog/630-how-to-write-a-recipe/

This link specially focuses on how to write the list of ingredients:

http://www.reading.ac.uk/foodlaw/label/a-3.htm

Now you have understood all the guidelines, it’s time to start writing your own recipes! In your groups of three, please discuss to choose one dish of which you want to write the recipe, look back at the guidelines and start writing!

To help your writing become easier, you may refer to the lists of vocabulary below:

List of cooking ingredients:http://www.food.com/library/all.zspList of cooking utensils:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_preparation_utensilsList of cooking measurements:http://www.dutchovendude.com/cooking-measurement.shtml

After your groups have completed the recipes, don’t forget to prepare for the presentation in front of the whole class. Do you have trouble with how to make your recipe sound lively? This may help you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfhcQet-6M

It will be wonderful if your class can go to a kitchen and all the groups have the chance to cook their own dish following their own recipes and have a delicious meal with the whole class!

Beginning 1 Developing 2

Qualified 3 Exemplary 4

Score

Identifying the parts of a recipe

Cannot recognize the parts of a recipe after reading the sample recipes

Has a lot of difficulties in recognizing the parts of a recipe after reading the sample recipes

Has some difficulties in recognizing the parts of a recipe after reading the sample recipes

Recognizes the parts of a recipe easily after reading the sample recipes

Evaluation

This is how your work will be evaluated:

Beginning 1 Developing 2 Qualified 3 Exemplary 4 Score

Writing their own recipes

Has a lot of vocabulary misuses in writing the ingredients, utensils and measurements, has unclear layout and confusing instructions

Has some vocabulary mistakes in writing the ingredients, utensils and measurements; however, the layout and instructions are intelligible

Has a few vocabulary mistakes in writing the ingredients, utensils and measurements; however, the layout and instructions are quite easy to understand and follow

Has no vocabulary mistakes in writing the ingredients, utensils and measurements; and the layout and instructions are very clear and easy to follow

Beginning 1

Developing 2

Qualified 3 Exemplary 4 Score

Presenting their recipes in front of the whole class

Does not list enough ingredients, utensils and measurements compared to the written recipe and presents the recipe unintelligibly because of the lack of visual aids

Lists enough ingredients, utensils and measurements compared to the written recipe; had enough visual aids; the presentation is intelligible although there is still confusion

Lists enough ingredients, utensils and measurements compared to the written recipe; has beautiful visual aids and the presentation is intelligible

Lists enough ingredients, utensils and measurements compared to the written recipe; has vivid visual aids and the presentation is intelligible and interesting enough to make the listeners want to try making the dish immediately

Now you have known the essential parts of a recipe, how to write each part correctly and you have also had the chance to share your recipe with the whole class. One more thing to be noted is that you have gained a lot more vocabulary about cooking. Hopefully from now on you will be able to write your own recipes that make the readers or listeners desire to taste that dish right away!

Conclusion

Teacher notes

Introduction

Learners

Standards

Process

Resources

Introduction

Welcome to the ‘How to write a recipe in English’ Webquest. This Webquest was designed to help English learners know how to write a recipe in English because while students may be very familiar with the recipes in their own languages, they may still have difficulties in comprehending the English recipes and following them to cook the right dishes, let alone writing an English recipe on their own. The activities in this Webquest will make students be exposed to different countries’ cuisine, which is very helpful in their English learning in terms of not only the vocabulary gaining but also their speaking and cultural exchanges in English.

This Webquest was designed for a class of tenth-grade English learners coming from different language backgrounds to help them be able to write recipes in English. The students will have opportunities to read sample recipes to identify the essential parts that a recipe must have, learn about how the parts are organized and see how cooking ingredients, utensils and measurements are written. They will also be provided with careful guidelines on how to write the parts of a recipe properly and practice writing their own recipes. Another task that makes the lesson more interesting and may make the students feel prouder about their work is to make a presentation to share their recipes with the whole class.

Learners

At the end of this Webquest students will be able to:

• Analyze and synthesize information from recipe samples to draw some the conclusion about the essential parts of a recipe.• Understand how to write each part of a recipe properly and professionally. • Gain knowledge about cooking vocabulary. • Work collaboratively in groups to choose a dish to write recipe of and deliver group presentation.

Standards

The activities in this Webquest take about one week (five school days) to finish and about one hour per day is needed. On the first day, the students will read the samples recipes carefully to find out how many parts a recipe has, try to get familiar with the way the information in written and may recognize the differences between how a recipe is written in English and in their first languages; for example, the ingredients measurements or the preparation methods. The teacher may ask them to talk about those differences. The second and third day will be devoted for helping the students to understand how to write each part of a recipe correctly. They may need a lot of time because the recipe languages may be unfamiliar to them, especially when they have to read and write recipes in English. On the fourth of the week, the students will revise what they have gained from the first three days and start writing a recipe in their groups. On the fifth day, they will deliver group presentations about their recipes and try to make them as fascinating as possible with the help of visual aids like pictures, videos or real cooking materials like ingredients or utensils. If time and resources allow, the class may go to a kitchen and cook their own dishes to share with their friends.

Process

http://alldownunder.com/australian-food/damper-recipe.htmhttp://alldownunder.com/australian-food/hamburger-recipe.htmhttp://alldownunder.com/australian-food/pikelets-recipe.htmhttp://alldownunder.com/australian-food/lamingtons-recipe.htmhttp://www.ehow.com/how_2354249_pho-vietnamese-beef-noodle-soup.htmlhttp://www.ehow.com/how_4483752_vietnamese-summer-roll-oriental-food.htmlhttp://www.ehow.com/how_5223546_make-vietnamese-spring-rolls.htmlhttp://www.wikihow.com/Make-Kimchihttp://www.maangchi.com/recipe/bibimbap

Resources

http://www.ehow.com/how_2060_make-lasagna.htmlhttp://www.ehow.com/how_2032266_make-sushi.htmlhttp://www.japanfoodaddict.com/seafood/karei-no-nitsuke/http://chinesefood.about.com/od/pork/r/sweet-sour-pork-recipes.htmhttp://allrecipes.com/recipe/he-jia-tuan-yuan-tofu-ball-soup-for-lunar-chinese-new-year/detail.aspxhttp://thaifood.about.com/od/quickeasythairecipes/ss/Thaiyellowcurry.htmhttp://thaifood.about.com/od/thaicurrydishes/r/thaishrimpcurry.htmhttp://rasamalaysia.com/mee-goreng-spicy-fried-noodles/2/http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Recipehttp://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-write-a-recipe-58522http://www.ehow.com/how_2057715_write-recipe.htmlhttp://www.bbcgoodfood.com/blog/630-how-to-write-a-recipe/http://www.reading.ac.uk/foodlaw/label/a-3.htmhttp://www.food.com/library/all.zsphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_food_preparation_utensilshttp://www.dutchovendude.com/cooking-measurement.shtmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfhcQet-6M