MAPA - LET - LÍNGUA INGLESA II - 51_2025
| Connecting Food, Earth, Culture, and Language in the Classroom
by Bernadette Musetti, Iliana Chen | 20 Nov 2024
Language and food connect us universally, while also being place and culture specific, which makes food an ideal topic for both language and ecoliteracy study. Food is important culturally and holds special meaning for families, religions, nations, and celebrations of all kinds.
Classroom Activities to Connect Food and Earth Study
Here are a few fun ways to begin discussing food with your multilingual learners of English:
Talk about special food: ask each student to name and describe a special dish from their culture and where the main ingredient is grown. Is it grown locally? Is it possibly imported from another region or country? (Ideally the actual dishes could be shared as part of a class or school celebration).
Create a recipe book: have your class compile a recipe book of all of the students’ favorite dishes, with each student receiving a copy of the booklet. This gets students thinking about the importance of food to them and their traditions. From there, students can begin to understand some of the issues surrounding food, which include challenges regarding growing, transporting, accessing, and consuming food.
Engage in word study: do word study with your students by dissecting and analyzing relevant words. In this case, with the plan to extend food discussion into ecoliteracy exploration, word study might include words like compost, vermicompost, metacrisis, and monoculture. You can complete the word study in advance of the lesson(s) in order to frontload the knowledge.
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Activate prior knowledge: you can introduce some food-related ecoliteracy topics using a set of true/false statements, where students work in pairs to predict the answers. Through further class study and discussion, they’ll ultimately understand the “correct” responses.
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Adaptado de: https://www.tesol.org/blog/posts/connecting-food-earth-culture-and-language-in-the-classroom/. Acesso em 2 de jan. 2025.
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Considering information from the text, explain the connection between English language teaching and learning process with food. After that, suggest an activity that you could develop with your (future) students in English classroom focusing on this connection (English teaching and learning with food). Some examples are provided in the text; you can use its ideas to inspire you, but your activity must be different from the ones mentioned in the text. Write your text in English. It must have from 150 – 200 words.
