Name of Food  English  Local Language

Group members 

(five‐six in a group) 

Photo of Food

History of Food 

(In this section, in which 

country the food is eaten, 

the food appeared, why the 

food was made, and how 

people eat the food should 

be introduced. At least 10 

sentences need to be 

written to introduce the 

food’s history.) 

Where to find the food: (country) 

When to appear: 

Why it was made: 

EXOTIC    FOODS 

 

 

How to make it: 

 

 

 

Ingredients 

(ppt: keywords, photos) 

 

What is contained in the 

food should be mentioned 

in detail here. 

 

How did you feel about the food or the beverage?       

 

 

 

 

 

Survey 

(Ask 3 of your classmates the following question after you invite them to eat it.) 

Name of your 

classmate 

  How did they feel about the food? 

(at least two sentences) 

Ex. Fortuna    She felt the food tasted a little sweet and sour. She liked it! 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

Introduce Exotic Food

The kinds of exotic food:

(1) sushi (Japan), (2) pickled vegetable (Korea), (3) pizza (Italy), (4) hamburger (America),         

(5) fried chicken steak (Taiwan), (6) coconut milk (Thailand), (7) pearl milk tea (Taiwan), 

(8) black tea (England) 

Remember to remind your classmates of taking their own dishes, cups, forks or bows to class on the day

we do the activity of introducing exotic food.   

Each group will have at most five minutes to introduce the food you are assigned to report and the food

should be prepared for your classmates to eat or drink 

Posters with the pictures and introduction of the food should be presented during your speech.

Your classmates who can get some of your food must ask your group at least one question about the

food in English. For example, some related questions are provided as follows.   

(1) How much did they cost you? 

(2) Where did you find or buy the ingredients, the food or the beverage in the neighborhood? 

(3) Who made the food or the beverage? 

(4) Who brought the food or the beverage to school? 

(5) Who bought them? 

(6) How do you like the food or the beverage? 

After you give the food or the beverage to your classmate, you have to ask four of your classmate how

they feel after tasting your food or beverage.

You can surf the Internet to search for the relevant websites introducing food in every country. The link

http://www.foodbycountry.com/ is offered for you to check.

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BIZARRE FOOD

LESSON TITLE: Bizarre Food around the World

TIME CLASS: 120 min

LEVEL OF PROFICIENCY: Intermediate to advance

MAIN OBJECTIVE: Students will identify some bizarre foods around the world.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

Students will recognize some vocabulary and dishes regarding bizarre food from theworksheet

Students will discover some bizarre food in our country through a search on internet.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES:

Warm-up: Do you remember what you ate yesterday? Describe a typical meal for you. Do you have any favorite recipe? List any other food you like / dislike. (5 min)

Task 1: Ask students for names of foreign food (as many as they can) and arrange them by countries of origin. Use the blackboard. (5 min)

Task 2: Introduce unusual food; ask students about what unusual foods they know. (10 min)

Task 3: (Class can be arranged into groups or individually). Ask students to read the different recipes on the “Most Bizarre Foods” worksheet. Each student/group chooses one unusual food to describe: what it’s made with, how, would they try it, taste etc... (50 min)

Task 4: Check on internet for unusual and bizarre food in our country, then discuss about the findings. (40 min)

CLASSROOM RESOURCES AND MATERIALS:

“Most Bizarre Foods” Worksheet Blackboard Dictionary PC (internet connection required)

BIZARRE FOOD

LESSON TITLE: Bizarre Foods – The Show

TIME CLASS: 120 min

LEVEL OF PROFICIENCY: Intermediate to advance

MAIN OBJECTIVE: Students will increase their familiarity with bizarre foods by watching the Bizarre Foods show.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

Students will recognize the Bizarre Foods show. Students will identify new dishes, ingredients and adjectives regarding bizarre food.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES:

Warm-up: Do you imagine yourselves traveling across the world just to taste these bizarre foods? What kind of food would you find? Would you try it? Have you ever seen a show called Bizarre Foods? Introduce the show. (10 min)

Task 1: Ask students to read “About the show: Bizarre Foods” worksheet. Ask students to provide details and summarize what the worksheet says. (Extra questions are up to the teacher) (20 min)

Task 2: Ask students to watch some videos of the show “bizarre food”. Ask them to take note of the dishes presented on the episodes. Additionally ask them to take note of the ingredients and the adjectives used to talk about the food (Show the videos twice or depend on students’ level). Then discuss about what they have just seen. (60 min)

Task 3: Ask students for reasons why people resort to bizarre food? (Possible answers: virility, health, power, cure diseases, because of the flavor). (20 min)

CLASSROOM RESOURCES AND MATERIALS:

“About the Show: Bizarre Foods” Worksheet Blackboard Dictionary PC (internet connection required)

 

BIZARRE FOOD

LESSON TITLE: Cooking Bizarre Food

TIME CLASS: 120 min

LEVEL OF PROFICIENCY: Intermediate to advance

MAIN OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how to give instructions to prepare a bizarre recipe.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

Students will be able to give instructions accurately. Students will comprehend and produce necessary vocabulary for this topic.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES:

Warm-up: Have you ever cooked? What did you cook? (Copy them at the blackboard) Are you good at it? Have you cooked for somebody? For whom? Have you ever tried to cook something unusual? Introduce cooking. (5 min)

Task 1: Ask students to read “How to Consider the Factors when Planning Meals” worksheet. Ask them to read each advice and say what they have to take into account to prepare a meal. (5 min)

Task 2: Ask students to prepare their own bizarre recipe. Students can pick the ingredients they want (everything is allowed). Students have to explain the recipe and the process to cook it step by step and then share the recipe with their classmates. Students have to write their recipes in the “My Favorite Bizarre Recipe” worksheet and deliver it to the teacher. Ask students to take a look of the “Cooking Vocabulary” worksheet to gain some useful vocabulary. (100 min)

ASSESSMENT:

Students will achieve the objectives by presenting the recipe to the class and delivering the recipe written in the provided format (page 9). Use the rubrics for the written format (page 10) and rubric for the oral presentation (page 11) as criteria to assess.

CLASSROOM RESOURCES AND MATERIALS:

“Cooking Vocabulary” Worksheet “My Favorite Bizarre Recipe” Worksheet Blackboard Dictionary PC (internet connection required)

 

Most Bizarre Foods: 8 Dishes you have to see to Believe Snake Wine, Vietnam

Fancy some wine with a difference? A bouquet of snake with some snake blood notes perhaps? Snake wine is a bottle of rice wine with a venomous snake inside and has ‘medicinal purposes’, but is probably more useful for display purposes than to drink. The snake is left to steep in the rice wine for many months to let the poison dissolve in the wine. The ethanol makes the venom inactive so it is not dangerous, and snake wine supposedly has many health benefits. It has a slightly pink color like a nice rose because of the snake blood in there.

Kimchi, Korea

This spicy garnish is a traditional Korean favorite. You may be familiar with the popular side dish. You may even be wondering why this dish made the top ten most bizarre Asian foods. What you don't know about kimchi is that the spicy cabbage you're eating carries with it a unique zesty quality due in part to long periods of fermentation. That's right, kimchi is rotten cabbage. And any rotting dish that has managed to become as popular as kimchi makes our list.

Kopi Luwak, Indonesia

Kopi Luwak is the rarest, most expensive gourmet coffee in the world. Sounds divine right? It’s actually made from the excrements of an Indonesian cat-like creature called the Luwak. The Luwak eats only the ripest coffee cherries but its stomach can’t digest beans inside them, so they come out whole. The coffee that results from this process is said to be like no other, and the stomach acids and enzymes that perform the fermentation of the beans give the coffee a special aroma. Price? US$120 to $300 per pound.

Live Octopus, Korea

In Korea Sannakji is a raw dish consisting of live octopus. The octopus is cut into pieces whilst still alive, lightly seasoned with sesame oil and served immediately whilst the tentacles can still be seen squirming on the plate. Eating live octopus is a challenge not only mentally trying to get your head round eating something that’s still alive, but physically, as the tentacles stick to any surface they touch (the suction cups stick to your mouth or throat)

 

Casu Marzu, Sardinia (Italy)

This Sardinian cheese is a cheese with a difference; it’s riddled with insect larvae. “Casu Marzu” means ‘rotten cheese’ and is most commonly referred to as “maggot cheese”. The sheep’s milk cheese is basically Pecorino, which has had the larvae of the cheese fly on it. Fermentation occurs as the larvae digest the cheese fats, and the texture becomes very soft with some liquid seeping out. The cheese has to be eaten when the maggots are still alive because when they are dead it is considered to be toxic.

Balut, Philippines

A bit like with a Kinder Surprise, you certainly will be surprised to open these eggs, though not in the same pleasant way as finding a toy inside. You get to eat your chicken and your egg at the same time with Balut. In other words, chicken’s fetus!. These eggs are cooked when the fetus is anywhere from 17 days to 21 days depending on your preference, although when the egg is older the fetus begins to have a beak, claws, bones and feathers.

Fried Tarantulas, Cambodia

if you suffer from arachnophobia you probably don’t want to try eating these eight legged monsters. They’re not tiny little house spiders, they’re great big tarantulas and you can buy them in the streets of Skuon, Cambodia. They’re fried whole – legs, fangs and all. They cost only a few cents and supposedly taste delicious, as they are best plucked straight from the burrow and pan fried with a bit of garlic and salt. They’re supposed to taste a bit like crickets or scrawny chickens and are crispy on the outside with a gooey body on the inside.

Birds Nest Soup, China

You wouldn’t necessarily think a birds nest would be edible, but the Chinese use Swifts’ nests to make this soup, known as the ‘Caviar of the East’. Right now you’re probably imagining a nest made out of twigs and leaves, but Swiftlets make their nests predominantly out of saliva. It’s something in the saliva of the bird that makes it have this unique gelatinous, rubbery texture and it’s one of the most expensive animal products consumed by humans. A bowl of soup can cost around US$30 to $100 per bowl, whilst a kilo of nest can cost between US$2,000 and $10,000.

 

About the Show

Bizarre Foods

Chef, writer and culinary explorer Andrew Zimmern is back for another season of exotic food adventures. Bizarre Foods With Andrew Zimmern gives us a taste of the world's different cultures by serving up what the locals eat. Viewers this season get an even greater treat as Andrew experiences unusual food practices even he never knew existed.

In season 4, Andrew steps out of his comfort zone and truly tests his own limits. He really gets involved, sourcing and preparing his food while encountering extreme climates, rough terrain and off-the-beaten-path locations. Andrew finds meaningful connections to people and their cuisine, from the most remote corners of the earth to locations right in his own backyard. Even though he's exposed to strange and sometimes outrageous experiences, Andrew always appreciates the warmth and hospitality he receives from the people he meets. This season, Andrew visits San Francisco where he joins foragers for a locally sourced meal. He goes dumpster-diving with the "freegans," an alternative group that rescues unspoiled food, cooks it and serves it to the homeless. Far across the globe, Andrew travels to Syria, a country few Americans have seen, where he seeks out unusual foods and herbal remedies going back to biblical times. Whether it's brain tacos in Baja or bull penis soup in Bangkok, every place on the planet has its own unique cuisines to share. It's the balance between entertainment, reality and information that make Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern a show for everyone. Andrew's unique perspective and enthusiasm to try any type of food make it easy for the viewer to explore new worlds through his eyes. Whether he's drinking fermented mare's milk in Mongolia or eating pig innards in Tokyo, Andrew dives right in and encourages everyone else to do the same by sharing his favorite advice: "If it looks good, eat it!"

(Taken from http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Bizarre_Foods/About_The_Show/Bizarre_Foods)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cooking Vocabulary

Kitchen equipment Ways of cooking food Other things you do to food

cooking chopsticks dishwasher

measuring cup cooker/ stove potato peeler bottle opener

spatula, rolling pin egg timer

can opener bread knife

sieve, mixing bowl freezer, kitchen roll

fish slice spoon

cling film kitchen knife

measuring spoon oven, microwave

fridge aluminum foil

corkscrew wooden spoon chopping board

whisk colander

food processor frying pan

kitchen scales cheese grater

saucepan, apron serving spoon

oven glove, tongs pepper grinder coffee grinder

poach grill

bake roast

fry boil

steam toast stew

mix squeeze

slice separate

chop grind whisk dice peel grate

spread mash wash pickle stir fry crush press smoke wrap roll stir

Food Adjectives

baked boiled

blended caked

crunchy creamy covered exquisite

exotic fried

greasy mouth-watering

rancid salty

 

(Adapted from http://www.usingenglish.com/files/pdf/food-vocabulary-brainstorming-game.pdf and http://www.monroecc.edu/depts/library/foodadjectives.htm)

 

 

 

 

 

How to Consider the Factors when Planning Meals

Planning food ensures a balanced diet and saves time and money.  If  you  have  no  inkling of planning  food, read up  the article which will expound  the  factors of food planning.   Take  into consideration Nutritional needs  ‐ children, teenagers and elderly people have different dietary needs  and  thus  require  special  diets.  Nutritional needs  vary  with  age,  gender,  size,  lifestyle  habits, occupation and health.  

Consider  the Appeal  ‐ when planning a meal,  it  is good  to  include a variety of colors, shapes, flavors and textures. Using a range of ingredients and cooking methods will make the food more appealing.  Examine your Time constraints  ‐ When planning what dishes to cook, we should consider how much time we can afford to spend in preparing and cooking the dishes.  Watch the Budget ‐ We don't need to spend a fortune to have a tasty and nutritious meal. Take your cooking skills into account ‐ Not all of us are master chefs, so we should cook dishes we can easily manage on our own. If we try to cook a dish that  is too difficult, we may become livid when we are unable to follow the recipe. As such, the dish may not turn out right.  Note if the meal is for an Occasion ‐ choosing dishes to suit an occasion is important. There are also practical  reasons  for considering  the occasion. Preparing  food  that cannot  stay  fresh  is not ideal  for a picnic. Choosing  the wrong  food can even be dangerous  to health  if  it  is not packed properly. It may turn bad and cause stomach upsets.  Know the number of Guests ‐ Factors such as age or occupation influence the types of food that a person needs. It is also important to take note of any special diet that our guests have.  Consider  the  availability  of  ingredients  ‐  Some  ingredients  are  difficult  to  obtain  in  certain countries. When  planning meals,  choose  dishes with  ingredients  that  are  easily  obtainable.  In addition, ensure that the ingredients are in seasons. Not only will they be easier to find, they will also be cheaper and tastier. If a particular recipe uses ingredients that are rare or unavailable, we can substitute them with commonly available ones. 

(Taken from http://www.wikihow.com/Consider-the-Factors-when-Planning-Meals)

 

 

 

 

My Favorite Bizarre Recipe

Hi Students! Today is a very good time to try out a new tasty treat. Here you are supposed to explain the required steps to prepare your better recipe. The ingredients are up to you, so be creative, but REMEMBER! This is a bizarre recipe; therefore, you will need to push your culinary skills in order to come up with a mouthwatering recipe. Good Luck!

(Designed by Luis Fernando Cuartas)

Name of the Chef: Name of the recipe: Ingredients: Steps: Options to accompany:

 

Rubric for the written format (10%)

Grade Vocabulary Coherence/Cohesion Proficiency lang. Bizarreness TOTAL5  Excellent use of 

the appropriate vocabulary 

Excellent coherence and cohesion with the steps and the indications 

Excellent use of the language. No mistakes 

Excellent creativity with the recipe 

4  Very good use of the appropriate vocabulary 

Very good coherenceand cohesion with the 

steps and the indications 

Very good use of the language. Few 

mistakes. Reading not affected 

Very good creativity with the recipe 

3  Good use of the appropriate vocabulary 

Good coherence andcohesion with the steps and the indications 

Good use of the language. Some mistakes. Reading 

not affected 

Good creativity with the recipe 

2  Fair use of the appropriate vocabulary 

Fair coherence and cohesion with the steps and the indications 

Fair use of the language. Some mistakes. Reading 

affected 

Fair creativity with the recipe 

1  Poor use of the appropriate vocabulary 

Poor coherence and cohesion with the steps and the indications 

Poor use of the language. Many mistakes. Reading 

affected 

Poor creativity with the recipe 

0  Any use of vocabulary 

Any coherence nor cohesion with the steps and the indications 

Any use of the language 

Any creativity with the recipe 

  

 

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Comments:

            

 

Rubric for the oral presentation (10%)

Grade Vocabulary Coherence Proficiency lang. Bizarreness TOTAL 5  Excellent use of 

the appropriate vocabulary 

Excellent coherence with the steps and the indications 

Excellent use of the language 

Excellent creativity with the recipe 

4  Very good use of the appropriate vocabulary 

Very good coherence with the steps and the indications 

Very good use of the language 

Very good creativity with the recipe 

3  Good use of the appropriate vocabulary 

Good coherence with the steps and the 

indications 

Good use of the language 

Good creativity with the recipe 

2  Fair use of the appropriate vocabulary 

Fair coherence with the steps and the 

indications 

Fair use of the language 

Fair creativity with the recipe 

1  Poor use of the appropriate vocabulary 

Poor coherence with the steps and the 

indications 

Poor use of the language 

Poor creativity with the recipe 

0  Any use of the appropriate vocabulary 

Any coherence with the steps and the 

indications 

Any use of the language 

Any creativity with the recipe 

  

  

Comments:

             

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