Level 1 Student’s Worksheet

Unit 9A Favorite Dishes

Follow the instructions.
1 Check (✓) the correct ingredients in the What you have section.
2 Ask other students for the ingredients you need.
A: Do you have any chicken?
B: Yes, I do. Do you have any cheese sauce?
A: No, I don’t.
B: Do you have any garlic?
A: Yes, I do. Can we swap?
B: Yes.
3 When you get an ingredient you need, check it off the list and cross out the ingredient you
swapped for it. Continue until you have all the ingredients you need.
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Lasagna Crêpes Suzette
What you have: What you need: What you have: What you need:
ground beef cheese sauce cheese sauce salt
eggs tomato sauce sugar milk
pasta garlic butter flour
rice peas orange juice
onions garlic
chicken onions
peas chicken
salt eggs
seafood

Paella Chicken Fried Rice

What you have: What you need: What you have: What you need:
milk onions flour peas
tomatoes seafood onion soy sauce
flour chicken tomato sauce eggs
eggs rice
garlic chicken
cheese sauce seafood
soy sauce orange juice
rice milk
ground beef garlic

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 Level 1 Unit 9A Notes
Teacher’s Teacher’s Notes

Favorite Dishes
Objective: to swap ingredients to make various dishes
Time: 40–45 minutes
Skills: speaking—asking for ingredients; discussing dishes
Vocabulary: food
Grammar: questions with any
Preparation: hand out one copy per group of 4 (cut out)

●● Have the students circulate to do the activity, sitting

Lead-in»
On the board, write lasagna, crêpes suzette, paella, and
chicken fried rice, leaving space under each one to write six
main ingredients. Ask the students which countries these
dishes come from (e.g., Italy, France, Spain, and China/
Asia). Tell the students you like to cook these dishes. Ask
them which six main ingredients they think you use and write
correct guesses under the name of the dish. If the students
cannot say all the ingredients you use (which is likely), teach
any missing ingredients one by one and then have them tell
you which dish they think you use them in. Continue until the
lists are complete.
Answers
down as they complete it. Monitor to check that they
are following the rules and note down any mistakes
for error correction later. If, at the end, there are any
students who cannot complete the activity, have them
ask you for what they need and tell them you will
supply it, so that they can sit down, too.
Follow-up
●● Dictate the following questions (or write them on the
board):
Which of these dishes do you prefer?
What is your favorite dish? Do you know the
ingredients?
Which country do you think has the best dishes?
●● Put the students into small groups and have them

Lasagna: ground beef, tomato sauce, cheese sauce,
onions, pasta, garlic
Crêpes Suzette: flour, eggs, butter, sugar, milk, salt,
orange juice
Paella: rice, chicken, seafood, tomatoes, garlic,
onions
Chicken Fried Rice: rice, chicken, eggs, onion, peas,
soy sauce
●● Tell the students that they are going to cook one of
these dishes for dinner tonight, but they do not have
all the ingredients that they need.
●● Hand out the cards, one recipe list each, and enough
discuss the questions. Elicit answers from the groups,
writing any interesting ideas on the board.
Web homework
Have the students use the Internet to choose a dish
they want to try, make a list of the five or more main
ingredients, and bring this list to the next class. Tell
them to check any new vocabulary with a dictionary
(e.g., www.macmillandictionary.com) so that they can
explain it to their group.

instructions for every four students. Direct the

students’ attention to the What you have section on
the recipe. Ask them if they need all the ingredients
that they have. Have them check the ones they need
to make that recipe. Now direct their attention to
the What you need section. Tell them they need to
get the other ingredients from other students in the
class by exchanging ingredients. Direct them to the
instructions. Choose a student and act out the model
conversation. Make it clear that they can only swap
one ingredient with each student.

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