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Promociones de Cafam

As I prepared and brainstormed review activities to use with my Spanish 4 students, I ran across a big flyer from the Colombian supermarket Cafam filled with food and toiletry items. I have a few ideas on how to use the food items in this flyer, and I wanted to share a Flickr album with you. I'm sure many of you will be able to use the photos as you review food. The photos include an image and the vocabulary word paired with a price. Please stop by and tell me what you did/plan to do with the images. 

Comparing food & eating habits across three cultures

As I mentioned in my previous blog post, I am taking a couple of graduate classes in conjunction with the Educator tour to China.  Another assignment for my class was to create a curriculum unit that would benefit my students in my Spanish class.  I had many ideas, but I didn't want to stray too far from my curriculum, so I created a lesson that compared foods across three cultures: Spain, China and the United States. I wanted to create a unit that allowed for some choice, but that was focused enough so students would not be overwhelmed.  

The lesson's objectives are the following: 

Using the target language (TL) students will be able to investigate, compare, contrast and analyze food in three cultures: Spain, China and the United States. Students will use the TL to discuss the relationship of food to a country’s culture.

Here is a PDF of the lesson I will be submitting to EF. Download Food Comparison Lesson Plan

I will be collecting resources for the classroom wiki mentioned in the lesson plan, and I will be happy to post when I have a variety of links to share.  If you have any interesting links that would work well with this project, I would appreciate learning about them.  

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