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Chopped, Stirred and Blended Activity

The document explores the concept of culture through the lens of food, emphasizing how it reflects customs, traditions, and personal preferences. It includes a cloze activity to engage learners in understanding the intersection of food and culture, as well as vocabulary related to handmade items, culture, preferences, and connection. The essential question prompts reflection on the ingredients of culture and how they differ across regions.

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Chopped, Stirred and Blended Activity

The document explores the concept of culture through the lens of food, emphasizing how it reflects customs, traditions, and personal preferences. It includes a cloze activity to engage learners in understanding the intersection of food and culture, as well as vocabulary related to handmade items, culture, preferences, and connection. The essential question prompts reflection on the ingredients of culture and how they differ across regions.

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Unit Title: Chopped, Stirred, and Blended

Essential Question: What are the ingredients of culture?


Literary Focus: Cross-cultural Texts
Genre Focus: Poetry

Cloze Activity
Fill in the blanks with these words:
food unique memories preferences culture

Every __________ is a stew of the customs, traditions, arts, languages, and


institutions of its people. As a result, each culture is __________ in its own way.
But because everybody needs to eat, __________ is one place where cultures
intersect. Culture has a big impact on what, where, when, and how we eat.

Why do people feel strongly about the food they eat? Are we sometimes eating
__________ of long-ago meals rather than the actual food on the plate in front of
us? What can our food choices and __________ tell us about ourselves and our
cultures?

Tell me about things that represent the culture of your hometown or country. Or how it is different from
the USA.

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Chopped, Stirred and Blended Vocabulary

1) Handmade- Something made with your own hands

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Sentence: My Mom bought me a handmade purple sweater for winter.
Translation- Hecho a mano
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2)Culture- Culture is the art, food and music and other ways people express themselves.

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Sentence- American culture (food, arts, music and lifestyle) is different from Peruvian culture.
Translation- cultura

3) Preference- the quality of looking for an alternative for one thing over another
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Sentence- My preference is Coke over Pepsi! My preference is painting over drawing.
Translation- preferencia

4) Connect- joined or being part of something


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