When using video content in our posts or blogs, we must be able to select certain videos correctly. Videos contain interesting vocabulary, phrases, etc.
Let's work with a cartoon fragment, learn the vocabulary and find out how to understand the content of the video by completing certain tasks.
Objectives
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
🟢Enhance vocabulary related to food and restaurants.
🟢Analyze and discuss video content from cartoons, focusing on how food and dining scenes are portrayed.
🟢Improve listening and comprehension skills by watching and discussing video material, identifying key vocabulary and expressions in context.
🟢Participate in a group discussion, expressing opinions and using new vocabulary.
Task 1.
📍Watch and guess what video we will watch today and what it will be about?
Task 2.
📍Discuss the following questions in groups of four; then share your opinion with the whole class.
Do you like cooking? If yes, what do you usually prefer to cook and eat?
Do you prefer to eat homemade food or food from a cafe or restaurant? Why?
Have you ever seen animals that can cook?
Do you know how to behave in a cafe or restaurant if you are in another country? Maybe you know some special phrases. Can you call any special phrases that are usually heard in restaurants and so on?
Task 3.
📍Match the words in italics with the definitions.
Task 4.
📍Find the words and give definitions.
Task 5.
📍Read the following questions, then watch the video and answer them. You can share your answers with a partner:
Where do these actions take place? Who are the main characters of the video? Do you know their names?
Why did the waiter get nervous?
How did the chef react to the waiter's request? What were his emotions?
What is the name of the dish that the chef asked Linguini to cook?
What did one of the cooks call this recipe and why?
What ingredients were in the recipe that Colette and Linguini got?
Describe the emotions of the others cooks in the kitchen on the behaviour of Linguini during cooking?
How does the head chef feel about Linguini, judging by this video?
Task 6.
📍Watch the video again. Follow the script as you are watching and fill in the gaps:
Task 7.
📍Put the sentences in the correct order.
Task 8.
📍Retell this part of the video using the learned words (group work). Everyone says a certain moment from the video and the others take turns to continue the retelling.
Task 9.
📍Read the statements below and determine whether they are true or false. If statements are false, correct them.
📍Using information from the video and video vocabulary write a short story about the approximate reaction of visitors to Linguine's dish and draw a small illustration of their emotions.