Week of Dec. 1/25

Following a recipe: Making Christmas shortbread

Teach your beginner ESL students basic recipe vocabulary, using the example of Christmas shortbread.

This lesson plan offers warm-up activities (including a short video) as well as skill-building and assessment tasks.

Students will learn some cooking verbs and ingredients, follow recipe instructions, and learn about the mix of measurements used in Canada.

Finally, students can share festive recipes from their own cultures.


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ESL teacher, movie buff, constant reader, and former editor and communications pro. Now a graduate of the Teaching English as a Second Language program at the University of Manitoba and a volunteer ESL teacher in Edmonton, Alberta.

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