Student Worksheet
Name______________
1. Describe Mexican tortillas in as much detail as possible.
2. Describe or guess what a Spanish tortilla is.
3. Make a list of foods or flavors that come to us from a Spanish-speaking
area of the world.
4. In planning to make a recipe, what questions would you want
answered before beginning to cook?
5. You are about to read two recipes; one for a Spanish tortilla
and one for a Mexican tortilla. List some of the cooking terms
you expect to see in these recipes.
1. Visit the following websites:
http://www.almodovarlandia.com/espanyol/tapas/tortilla.htm
and
http://www.alamesa.com/recetas/rec0169.htm
2. Write the name of each dish
3. List the ingredients of each dish under the categories: Española
and Mexicana
4. Write a list of the cooking terms from each dish under the
categories Española and Mexicana
5. Correct the grammatical errors in the recipe for Tortilla Española
6. In the parenthetical comments, the author of each recipe gives
some advice. Translate it. Española and Mexicana
1. Identify the difference between the action words in each recipe.
2. Do you think that tortilla española was named after
tortilla mexicana or vice versa. Why?
3. Re-write "x number" of the action words from each
recipe so that they are now commands in the Ud. Form.
Your teacher may ask you to do one or more of the following.
1. Illustrate, in comic strip form, a summary of the steps of
one of the recipes. Be sure to include written captions. Your
project must contain ten panels and each panel must contain an
illustration and a caption written correctly in your own words,
not copied directly from the recipe.
2. Make a videotape of a cooking show segment in which you summarize
one of the recipes as you prepare it. Your summary must be in
your own words, not copied directly from the recipe.
3. Invent a new "pan-hispanic" dish in which you combine
both tortillas as well as two or more other flavors/ingredients
that come to us from a Spanish speaking area of the world. You
must write up the recipe in Spanish, following general recipe
format. Yes, you may bring some of your recipe in for the class
to sample.
Teacher Lesson Plan
by Valerie Hecht
Level: Second year and above
Objective(s): By reading two recipes, students will differentiate
between Spanish and American tortillas
Materials:
Computer with access to the World Wide Web or Printout of recipes
Student worksheet
Grading: I use a rubric for each of the the sections (pre-reading,
reading, post-reading) and give them from 1-5 points for each
section. I also give a separate grade for the extension activity
and prepare a rubric for each of those activities.
Procedure:
Pre-reading activities: (can be done as an oral brainstorming
activity with the whole class or in pairs as well as individually
on the worksheet)
1. Students describe Mexican tortillas in as much detail as possible.
2. Students describe or guess what a Spanish tortilla is.
3. Students make a list of foods or flavors that come to us from
a Spanish-speaking area of the world.
4. In planning to make a recipe, what questions would you want
answered before beginning to cook?
5. You are about to read two recipes; one for a Spanish tortilla
and one for a Mexican tortilla. List some of the cooking terms
you expect to see in these recipes.
Reading activities:
1. Students visit two websites:
http://www.almodovarlandia.com/espanyol/tapas/tortilla.htm
http://www.alamesa.com/recetas/rec0169.htm
2. Write the name of each dish
3. List the ingredients of each dish under the categories: Española
and Mexicana
4. Write a list of the cooking terms from each dish under the
categories Española and Mexicana
5. Correct the grammatical errors in the recipe for Tortilla Española
6. In the parenthetical comments, the author of each recipe gives
some advice. Translate it. Española and Mexicana
Post-reading activities:
1. Identify the difference between the action words in each recipe.
2. Do you think that tortilla española was named after
tortilla mexicana or vice versa. Why?
3. Re-write "x number" of the action words from each
recipe so that they are now commands in the Ud. Form.
Extension: (students do one or more, as you see fit)
1. Illustrate, in comic strip form, each of the steps of one of
the recipes. Be sure to include written captions.
2. Make a videotape of a cooking show segment in which you summarize
one of the recipes as you prepare it.
3. Invent a new "pan-hispanic" dish in which you combine
both tortillas as well as two or more other flavors/ingredients
that come to us from a Spanish speaking area of the world.
For questions or comments, write to Lewis Johnson at clta@clta.net.