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Eater's Way to TESOL
    FOOD AND DRINKS MENU FOR ESL

       CONVERSATIONAL ACTIVITIES THROUGH FOOD AND DRINKS

      CULTURE AND LANGUAGE TEACHING IN ESL

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This project is a part of TESL II (spring,1999) taught by Dr. Thompson  at the University of Florida.  This site is a compilation of ideas for using WWW resources as a language teaching tool., focusing on Food and Drinks.    Each section consists of the teaching ideas: tips and  links.  This page is created and maintained by Changyong Yang.


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FOOD AND DRINKS MENU FOR ESL
 
 

International Cuisine	Recipes
Student Food Corner	Salad/Vegetables/Raw
Health and  Nutrition	Diet
Vegetarian	Vegetarian
Interesting Cook/Holiday	Coffee and Tea
Wine	Recipes

                                                                                                           

International Cuisine

Tips for teachers:This section is good to introduce students each other by using 'food' topics of their own countries when they meet for the first time.  Furthermore, students can have a chance to talk a little bit about their own favorite food and food-related customs. Students can relax and feel comfortable by talking about what they already know about.

• Cusines : Lots of recipes which come from around the world, esepcially European and Asian countries.
• International Cuisine : This portion is designed for a collection of  foods from all over the world.  Students will be of help to understand the basic eating customs through discussions. The following links take you the food or recipes corner of the conturies which you are interested in.  Click and enjoy.

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Recipes

Tips for teachers : This section will be used for 'individual or group activities'. Students can talk about their own favorite cooking recipe without any feeling of stress.  The teacher can divide students into several groups, ask them to prepare one cooking according to the recipes given here and to explain its cooking  procedure to their classmates.

• African Recipes : Want to taste African way of cooking. Here are some recipes  for Grandmother's southern fried okra, sweet potato fritters, peanut soup, and more.
• African Recipes 2 : A more detailed list of African recipes covering various ways of cooking  from country to country.
• Recipe Archive : Clickable sources of information on all kinds of recipe.
• Recipe-a-day : Want the simple pleasure of cooking a variety of delicious foods and baked goods. Need some recipes each day. This is a practical site offering daily recipes with a seasonal and regional focus.  You can also share your recipes across the web.
• Breadrecipes : Looking for some bread that makes your dinner a little healthier. This site includes from Traditional recipes to Bread machine recipes.
• Student Recipes : There is nothing to eat.  Don't worry.  This site is full of simple but energetic food recipes for students.  Soup, Desserts, Vegetables, Dressing, Sandwiches, Salad, etc.
  Travelers' Recipes : A large collection of recipes from the hotels, inns, in the US and Canada. One of my favorite recipe cites.

Student Food Corner

Tips for teachers : The ways or habits of eating everyday can be a easy topic students can find around them.  In this section, students can find a few simple and easy ways of cooking to fill their hunger. In addition, students can fill their hunger on how to start expressing themselves by talking about their food and cooking.
• Student Recipes : There is nothing to eat.  Don't worry.  This site is full of simple but energetic food recipes for students.  Soup, Desserts, Vegetables, Dressing, Sandwiches, Salad, etc.
• Back to School Recipes : Quick and easy recipes serving both kids and grown-ups alike!
• 10 Tips to Tame Fussy Eaters : Some advice to watch students' weight and some plans to correct your eating habits.
• Breadworld : You need some help for a tasty bready.  Try this site which includes lots of tips, recipes, publications, etc.
• Simple Spaghetti : A good recipe to make the traditional Italian Spaghetti in a simple way.
• Snacks and Sandwiches : Designed for students' hunger relief. The various recipes for the simple snacks and sandwiches.
• Desserts 1 : A brief collection of recipes for desserts popular in Texas.

Salad and Vegetable

Tips for teachers: This section will be used for practice.  Teachers ask students to prepare their favorite and private salad and vegetable and bring them to the classroom and explain to their classmates.  This is a kind of simple but good starting point of expressing themselves in English.
 

Vegetable : Looking for fresh vegetables for your dinner. Looking for some ideas how to keep vegetable always fresh. Click here.  Includes various vegetables.

Salad :  The site includes lots of items available for salads.

Dressings : Want to learn the basic skills on how to make dressings.  Try fresh homemade dressings with some tips given here.

Salad 2 : A list of recipes for salad made in Texas.

West African Vegetables : A list of West African vegetables with a brief description of their
production and common uses.

Fresh Network :  Originally designed for a quarterly magazine for an international network to exchange information, ideas and personal experiences on raw food diet and life-style.

Living Foods.com : Check out some of the highly informative and varied raw food site with many features. Originally from David Klein's Living Nutrition Magazine.

Rawtimes : One of the earliest site on the web for raw foods. Lots of information for raw food.

Raw Food Recipe : A collection of books which include raw food recipes.

Health and Nutrition

Tips for Teachers: Health is our Human beings' first concerns.  The different countries have different (but secret or best) ways of keeping their shape. Ask students to prepare some story which is related to 'health-related myth, legend, and more'.  For example, what do you do (eat or drink) in your countries when you get a cold?  Don't forget the previous enough knowledge and experience makes your students feel comfortable when speaking and talking.

• Health & Beyond : On-line raw food newsletter and lots of tips, strategies, and secrets about building health naturally.
• 7 ways to stay healthy : Want to stay healthy, but you can't.  Click here and get some advice.
• Nutritional Guide : No foods are 'good' or 'bad'.  Good sources of protein, fats, vitamins, minerals, dietary fibre, and water.
• Nutrition Profile : Need some guide for your nutrition.Thee main objective of this nutrition profile is to help you better understand your food choices. You can get some advice for your nutrition.
• Tea and Health : A source of secrets to keep your body healthy and your mind fresh.
• Coffee and Health : Caffeine is good or bad for your health. Click here and see the general information provided by Drs.

Diet

Tips for Teachers: This section will provide endless sources of talking and funny story like numerous internet links on Diet. Different individuals or countries have different and idiosyncratic ways of overcoming unbalanced body or controlling weight.

• Diet-Cancer Connection : A tip for helping prevent cancer provided by Three Blondes and a Brownie Magazine .
• DietSite : Lots of useful information: diet and recipe analysis, diet news, sport nutrition and food planner.
• Obesity.com : Are you worried about the unwanted pounds.  Check this site which includes plenty of tips and healthy information.
• LightLiving : A guide for a healthy life style : diet, excise plan, and a healthy home life.

Vegetarian

Tips for Teacher: The first question will  be 'what is the vegetarian?'.  Then, further questions arise regarding the relation veggie and diet, veggie and health, veggie and study, etc.

• Being a vegetarian : Answer to what is a vegetarian and how to be a vegetarian.
• Health and Veggie: Including the vegetarian health information.
• Animals, People and the Environment : A brief corner of the thinking for ourselves.

• Vegetarianism : The site for Vegetarian Times.  Various information on low fat, vegetarian food, books and more.
• Vegsource : A resource for vegetarians : tips, books, recipes, veggie events, etc.
• FatFree : The site for the information about low fat vegetarian recipes plus low fat vegetarian diets.
• Vegetarian Pages : Vegetarian listings including news, events, recipe, nutrition, health, books and software.
• VivaVegie : Online journal and newsletter, lots of vegie links, vegetarian advocacy.
• International Vegetarian Union :International information on vegetarian activities, internationally different vegetarian customs, and lots more on vegetarian information.
• Filipino Vegetaian Recipes : A colletion of Filipino veg recipes.

Interesting Cooking / Holiday

Tips for Teachers: Special days, special foods.  Along with special explanation on one holiday, students have a chance to provide more taste for that holiday, focusing on 'origin, way of making, etc.'

• Holiday Menu in the US : Specialty Recipes for holidays in the US including various menu for salad, bread, soup, cake, pumpkin pie, turkey and drinks to help make your holiday meal   planning a happy event!
• Party Favorites : Preparing for food and drinks for party. Click here and taste from Mandarin Oodles, Corned Beef, Potato Puff  to Spaghetti.
• Monks' Cookbook : The Cooks saying -/  "We may live without poetry, Music and Art / We may live without conscience and live without heart, /  We may live without friends / We may live without books /  But civilized people cannot live without Cooks." (Taken directly from Monks' Cookbook.)
• African Dining Guide in North America : Includes information on African restaurants, African food with recipes, African food resources on the net.

Coffee and Tea

• Gourmet Coffee and Tea : Looking for something tasty to your mouth. Here is a bunch of flavors and tastes.  Information on products, recipe, holiday special, tea talks, etc.
• Coffee world : More than just a cup of coffee. All information sources for coffee including lots of coffee links, recipes, coffee history, etc.
• Tea world : A good source of information and news on tea, including products, history,  catalog and more.
• Tea Quotes : A thought with a tasteful cup of tea.  Make your life more beautiful.

Wine
• Robin Garr's Wine Lovers' Page : Tips on wine from basic to advanced. Lots of links and activities with relation to wine. If you want to learn more about wine, start by clicking this site.
• Food & Wine :  Lots of articles and tips on matching the right wine with the right food.
• Italian Wines : This site provides us with a list of Italian wines.

Recipes
• Cocktail Recipes : You'll find a load of recipes involving cocktail recipes here - from a B & B to Zombies.
• Coffee Recipes : Trying to find something different to drink? Browse this collection where  you'll find drinks through cakes to roast lamb!
• Tea Recipes : Welcome to beginners or even more advanced. Learn how to enjoy iced, cool, and hot drinks. Learn how to taste your own specialty tea drinks with your favorite teas, fruit juices and syrups.

Conversational activities throuhg Food and Drinks
 
 

Tips for conversation improvement	More activities for conversation
Ideas for Interactions and Acitvities	Teaching helper (speaking and talking)

Tips for converstation improvement

• Did the Cat Get Your Tongue? : A short article including some tips how to improve spoken English.
• Hear Say USA : Ideas, techniques, solutions, to effectively  teach, learn American Spoken English.


More activities for conversation
 

• Healthy Body Quiz : Need some information on maintaining a healthy weight.  This site also includes lots of activity categories for your physical activities.  For example, Rest (e.g. sleeping, napping), Quiet Activites (e.g. reading, eating, working at computer, typing, watching television, etc.), Daily Rituals (e.g. dressing, cooking, driving a car, etc.), light activities that get your body moving (e.g. housework, gardening, etc.)
• Food Quiz : 20 quick questions to check your daily diet.  What is good eating habits?
• Think Fast : This site is designed for some activities through the food  materials.
• Virtual Kitchen : Through the interaction in the virtual kitchen, you have a chance to explore and reveal interesting nutrition facts about the foods you eat.
• Wine Lovers Discussion Group :
            How to introduce a novice to wine?  /  Drinking and driving  / Wines to last 40-50
year? Wine and Health  / Drinking and Pregnancy: Whaddaya think?
•  Wine Tasting Dictionary   :  Simple, plain-English definitions for  hundreds of wine-tasting terms.
• Pronouncing Wine Words : How to say them with confidence in the restaurant, wine shop or winery visit.


Ideas for Interactions and Acitvities:

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Teaching Helper  (with a special reference to speakingand talking)

• Learning English : Provided by BBC world wide services.  Lots of teaching tips and materials. Strongly recommended for the computer-based teaching.
• AwesomeLibrary : Contains various resources for teaching- and learning-related information. Seems to be useful as a teacher guide.
• ESL Idea Page : Looking for the smart ideas how to use your materials such as business English, food, games, math, music, kids materials, etc.  A good place to brainstorm on ways to learn/teach English.

• speaking : Your class is so boring.  Then click this ideaFUL cite which liven up your class.
• Overcoming Speaking Anxiety in Meetings & Presentations : Tips on how to get your students ready to talk without fret.
• Ten Commandments of Client Presentation : Ideas of how to help your students talking.

Culture and Languge Teaching

• Language and Cultures Education in School :
• Languages and Cultures Bibliographic Database :
• Intercultural E-Mail Connections :
• Resources for English Language & Culture :  A useful palce by the Ohio University.  Inclues various links to sites dealing with English learning as well as practical information on life in the United States.
• English Language Teaching Unit : Resources for ELT. ELTU is geared for teaching English language communication to undergraduates at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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