Food Can Be Fun
If you are not hungry at the moment, take the chance to dive into this unit which starts with the topic ‘breakfast’ and ends with a running dinner!
Enjoy your unit first, your meal later!
Warm up
Share with your buddy what you usually eat for breakfast:
what, when, and how?
Have you discovered anything in common? Have you got any new ideas for your future breakfasts?
Learn
To have breakfast, lunch or dinner can be merely satisfying a biological need or can be experienced as a social event, a moment in which people living together also come together!
How is it for you?
Do you have any of these meals in the company of others? In the company of media (television, smartphone, radio…)?
Where do you usually eat (around a table, on the couch…)? Who prepares the food you eat?
Dive in 1
Share your answers, ask each other questions, also in order to understand:
- whether your buddy likes the way it is
- whether your buddy has experienced other ways of having meals in the past
Dive in 2
Time to enhance your culinary knowledge!
- What is your favourite food?
- And what food do you like that you think your buddy doesn’t know?
Share your answers and when you have found a food that the other doesn’t know, describe it to each other: what ingredients it is made of, how it looks like, how it smells, what temperature it has, where it originally comes from…
Dive in 3
Inspired by this exchange… each of you writes down a recipe of a food you know how to prepare or of a fantasy food.
You can help each other, if you are unsure about terms.
Consider that recipes usually start with the list of the ingredients and their quantities and an indication about the time needed.
Afterwards the actions are described, one after the other, in the order as they should be performed. Make sure to use the correct terms.
Give the sheet to your buddy: can your buddy understand everything and would know what to do?
If you feel adventurous: each of you cooks the recipe of the other! That is the best test to know if you made any small or big mistakes!
… But yes, sure you can also cook together, that will certainly be fun!
Create 1
Imagine that you are business partners
and that you are about to open a restaurant.
What kind of a restaurant would it be?
What is your “unique selling proposition”, that is: why should people come to eat there instead of going to others? What do they find in your restaurant that they don’t find somewhere else?
Give your restaurant a name and prepare its menu together:
- Create a nice design.
- List the main dishes you would offer.
- Estimate a price for each of them.
- Consider inserting authentic images or illustrations.
When you are done, show it to other buddy-teams: would they come to eat at your new restaurant? What suggestions do they have?
Create 2
Organise a buddies-dinner!
If other buddy teams are starting to feel like cooking and eating, you could organise a “buddies-dinner” or a “running-dinner”.
Every buddy team prepares an appetiser, a main dish, or a dessert.
BUDDIES-Dinner: you eat all together in one place.
RUNNING-Dinner: you move from one house to the other to get your appetiser, main dish, and dessert!
Depending on how many people you are, you will either move all together from place to place or you will meet new buddy-teams at every stop. At the end you can all meet together!
Reflect
Write on a sheet of paper the word food and create a word cloud around it, that is, write down and/or draw what you associate with it.
When you are done… What are the most exciting associations for each of you?
Make a postcard and share it on this page!
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