Language is Served

Аннотация

Because it is essential to our lives, food makes a good subject for classroom activities. It is familiar to everyone. Everyone has something to say about it. It can arouse strong feelings. It is part of our daily lives, yet it also plays an important role in special events, like birthday parties, camping trips, wedding receptions, and Fourth of July barbecues. We all have opinions about food and just about everything related to it. There is cooking—our own and the cooking of others. There is fast food, gourmet food, health food, junk food, and ethnic food. There is school cafeteria food, restaurant food, airplane food, and the “food” you buy to snack on at the movie theater. There are important questions to settle, like what exactly should go on a good hot dog, and should you ever, ever put salt on a cantaloupe or refrigerate a tomato? In Language Is Served, food plays a prominent role in some activities. In others, it plays only a minor role. The activities are quite varied, with topics appearing in no particular order. (English teachers tend to need things in no particular order. One day they may be looking for a quick lesson on verbs, the next for something on vocabulary, and the next for a writing topic. Some days, only a word game will fill the bill—something that will wake students up to paying attention to the English language.) To help you find an activity that addresses a certain skill or topic, please see the topic and subtopic index on page 151.