NINE FIFTEEN

Exciting ‘English Cooking Demo' inspired to Jamie Oliver's recipes with the young students of IPC Tandoi Corato, class III C! #MenuOfTheDay: Starters: Shrimp Cocktail Main course: Fish and Chips with Mushy Peas Dessert: Blackcurrant Cheescake. Thanks to the excellent young cooks and Prof. Giovanni Lagreca for the supervision.  Stay tuned for the video recipe!

There was an interesting conference on food design yesterday in the school where I currently teach.  The pretext was the presentation of a book titled ‘La cucina di design. Cibo, tendenze, moda’ by a dear colleague and friend of mine, Loredana La Fortuna. The topic was food design, an issue analyzed from the critical lenses of social semiotics, definitely an unusal perspective for the students of a ‘Professionale Alberghiero’.  Food is not just what we eat. It is a language and, as such, it can express several meanings concerning family and national traditions, lifestyle, environment, hierarchies, gender roles, religion, cultural politics and ... Art, as Loredana’s book highlights.  Therefore, studying food means studying culture. I really recommend the reading of this book edited by Progedit (Bari 2016) to all the students and people interested in deconstructing the contemporary trend of ‘foodism’. Thanks a lot to all the participants to yesterday’s school even...

Have you heard the name of Greta Thunberg in the news? Have you heard of her nonviolent struggle against the climate change? Surf this  website  and read this  article  to find information about this cause... Now say if and how you are going to support the 15th March global strike.

On the occasion of this year International Women’s Day, March 8th, I have 3 reading suggestions for you all: 1.  A short history of the day ; 2. The book We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 3. A  list  of some of the reasons why it’s always good to thank a feminist! Enjoy your reading and your day of pride and struggle!

Work in groups: answer the following questions and discuss the results with the class. Then draw differnt graphs in Excel for each question.  1. How often do you eat junk food? 2 How often do you eat out? 3.  What’s your favorite food? 4. Who do you have lunch with? 5. Do you care where the food you eat comes from?  6. What national dishes from your country would you recommend to the world?

Can you think of any times you have felt these feelings? Using  this precious song   as the soundtrack of your activity, write shortly about them.

What better way to practice comparatives and superlatives than learning also about extreme weather? Click  here !